Dr. Zhe Xu
Welcome!
My name is Zhe Xu, and I’m a political communication researcher in the Department of Media and Communication at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanitzsch and Prof. Dr. Neil Thurman. In 2024, I was awarded a Walter Benjamin grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 2023. While there, I served as a research and teaching assistant in media studies and received training in data science and machine learning from the Center for Data and Simulation Science (CDS) and the Department of Digital Humanities (IDH).
I use social and data science methods with diverse datasets on news corpora and human behavior to answer questions about how (digital) media promote cosmopolitan socialization, including how journalism around the world engages politically and technologically with global humanitarian crises, and how policymaking and public decision-making are shaped as a result.
Please feel free to contact me via email or through my university profile.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
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2023
International Communication Gazette, 2023. Presented at the ICA 2023 conference (Toronto, Canada) and the ECREA 2022 preconference on the ethics of mediated suffering. -
2022
The Communication Review, 2022. Also in P. Reilly and V Salojärvi (Eds), (De)constructing Societal Threats During Times of Deep Mediatization. Presented at the ICA 2022 (Paris, France) and IAMCR 2021 (Virtual) conferences.
University Teaching & Supervision
- MA Journalism, Media & Globalisation, LMU Munich, 2024-2025
- MA Chinese Studies & Media Studies, University of Cologne, 2022-2023
Expert Services
Invited Grant, Report & Conference Reviewing
Czech Science Foundation (GACR) European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) United Nations Network on Migration
Invited Editorial Reviewing
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio) Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier) Acta Psychologica (Elsevier) International Journal of Communication (USC Annenberg Press) Journalism (SAGE Publications) Journalism Practice (Routledge) Communication Quarterly (Routledge) Atlantic Journal of Communication (Routledge)
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