WEI, Longhan

WEI, Longhan

Ph.D. Student

B.A in Journalism
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

M.A in Journalism and Communication
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Interests

  • Media and Technology Studies
  • Computational Social Science

Refereed Journal Article:

Wei, L., & Yang, T. (2025). Deplatforming Donald Trump influences platform migration between Twitter and alternative sites. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251388993

Lu, S., Wei, L., & Liang, H. (2025). Social media policies as social control in the newsroom: A case study of the New York Times on Twitter. Journalism Studies, 26(5), 568–586. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2452265

Conference Paper Presentation:

Wei, L., Chan, N. K., & Yang, T. (2026, June). Rethinking media ownership in the platform age: How social media ownership shapes platform use and news ecosystem. The 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.

Guo, Y., Wei, L., & Chen, A. (2026, June). How state media shape and respond to linguistic politicization: Decade-long evidence from Chinese social media. The 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.

Chen, H., Dong, X., Su, C. C., Guo, L., Qi, J., & Wei, L. (2026, June). Reinforcing or fluctuating causal dynamics between cross-cutting exposure and polarization? Evidence
from survey and behavioral tracking data from the US. The 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.

Wei, L., & Liang, H. (2025, August). Machine-likeness across societies: The influence of religiosity and AI development. The 108th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), San Francisco, USA. (First-Place Top Faculty Paper Award in the CTEC Division)

Liang, H., Wei, L., Zhang, M. M., Chen, A., & Qi, J. (2025, June). Testing the machine-likeness hypothesis: How humans communicate like intelligent agents. The 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, USA.

Wei, L., & Yang, T. (2024, August). From content moderation to platform migration: An ecological analysis of deplatforming Donald Trump on Twitter. The 107th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Philadelphia, USA.

Wei, L., Lu, S., & Liang, H. (2024, July). Social media policies as social control in the newsroom. The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), London, UK.

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