Mingxuan Liu (PhD, University of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at University of Macau. Her research investigates how emerging technologies shape user behavior, health, and well-being, with a focus on entertainment media. Her work has been published in flagship peer-reviewed journals in Communication, including Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, Media Psychology, Health Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Mobile Media & Communication, Journalism Studies, among others. Her work has also received several Top Paper Awards at the International Communication Association (ICA) and the National Communication Association (NCA), the two major scholarly associations in the field. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Games and is a member of the editorial board of Global Perspectives in Communication, one of the seven journals published by the International Communication Association.