Research

Liu, X. (2025, November). From remote Work to return-to-office: A social media analysis of emotional responses. [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Denver, CO.

Rabby, M., Liu, X., & Scott, C. (2025, November). Linking anonymous organizational communication to key workplace outcomes in Brazil, China, France, and the U.S. [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Denver, CO.

Liu, X., Scott, C., Rabby, M. (2025, October). Secret Societies and Secret Identities: A Cross-National Study of Organizational Secrecy, Image, and Identification in Brazil, China, France, and the U.S. [Poster presentation]. Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Champaign, IL.

Su, R., & Liu X. (2025, October). Understanding How AI Impacts Organizational Communication and Temporal Experience. [Poster presentation]. Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Champaign, IL.

Liu, X. (2025, August). Global voices and local choices: Navigating cultural accommodation in global social media branding. [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.

Liu, X., Rabby, M., & Martin, J. (2024, November). Artificial intelligence in higher education: A thematic analysis of ChatGPT in popular discourse [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.  [Recipient of Instructional Communication Top Student Paper Award]

Liu, X. (2024, September). Exploring global teams: A metatheoretical review through the lens of organizational communication [Poster presentation]. Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Evanston, IL.

Norman, E., Liu, X., Xu, Y., & Stephens, K. K. (2024, September). Discursive and organizing views on community-embedded robotics: A grounded theory of robots as social organizational actors (RSOA) [Poster presentation]. Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Evanston, IL.

Brown-Devlin, N., Tao, J., Imbrogno, C., Butterbaugh, N., Liu, X., Memon, L., Acaf, Y., & Anderson, J. (2024, August). Examining sports media credibility, bias, political identification, and fandom using a repeated cross-sectional survey [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelphia, PA. [Recipient of Sports Communication Top Faculty Paper Award]

Liu, X. (2024, June). Between self-Orientalism and strategic self-image: Navigating discourse from ASEAN tourism advertising videos [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia. [Recipient of Global Communication and Social Change Top Paper Award]

Liu, X. (2024, June). Bridging cultures in virtual workplaces: A review on global virtual teams with an intercultural communication perspective. [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia.

Gong, C., Liu X., & Zhang, X. (2024, June). “Others are more vulnerable to deepfake than I am”: Cognitive differences and third-person perception in deepfake [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia.

Liu, X., & Wang, M. (2024, March). A more feminist Olympics on media? Feminism in sportswomen's media representation in Olympic sports from 2012 to 2020 [Paper presentation]. International Association for Communication and Sport, Los Angeles, CA.

Liu, X. (2023, May 29). “Champion of the country”: National sports game watching and national identity construction for Chinese diasporas [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada.

TIPI Graduate Student Research Fellow ($1,000)

NCA Student Caucus Travel Grant ($200) 

NCA Travel Fund, The University of Texas at Austin ($750)

NCA Top Student Paper Award

AEJMC Top Faculty Paper (first place) Award

ICA Travel Fund, The University of Texas at Austin ($1,050)

ICA GCSC Top Student Paper Award

IACS Summit Travel Fund ($750)

UT Graduate School Decentralized Fellowship ($4,000 per year) (2023 - 2027)

UT Moody/Provost Fellowship ($5,000 per year) (2023 - 2027)

ICA Michael Haley Travel Fund ($500)

All-round Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2018)

Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2016)

Freshman Scholarship, Tsinghua University (2015-2019)