Recent Conference Presentations

Oh, Y., Kim, D., Zhang, J. Effects of AI relational communication on enhancing relationship perceptions and persuasive outcomes in a health promotion context (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2026 Conference. Cape Town, South Africa, June 5, 2026.

Xue, H., Zhang, J., & Oxley, B. The attentional mechanism of short videos’ persuasive effects. (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2026 Conference. Cape Town, South Africa, June 6, 2026.

McKinley, E., Oh, Y., Alhumaidy, A., & Zhang, J. AI as humans?: using LLMs to synthesize human responses in persuasive context (Poster presentation). The 11^th International Conference on Computational Social Science. Norrköping, Sweden, July 23, 2025.

Yang, J., Baldwin, J., Grady, S., Zhu, R., Lim, J., Markowitz, D., & Zhang, J. An agenda for generative artificial intelligence in content analysis: navigating opportunities, challenges, and considerations in AI-aided content analysis (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2025 Conference. Denver, CO, June 14, 2025.

Xue, H., & Zhang, J. Message sensation value in short videos enhances message processing and persuasion, especially for young adults (top paper) (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2025 Conference. Denver, CO, June 15, 2025.

Featherstone, J., & Zhang, J. Effects of refuting vaccine misinformation on Twitter: a field experiment (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2024 Conference. Gold Coast, Australia, June 21, 2024.

McKinley, E., Zhang, J., Shen, C., & Sagae, K. Online vaccination disclosures throughout the COVID-19 vaccine rollout (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2024 Conference. Gold Coast, Australia, June 21, 2024.

Xue, H., & Zhang, J. Go viral or neutral? The tension between journalistic objectivity and the dissemination of fact-checking messages on social media (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2023 Conference. Toronto, Canada, May 29, 2023.

Zhang, J., Chen, A., Liao, W., Luo, C., Shen, C., & Feng, B. The dynamics of changing social representations of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese social media in 2020 (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2022 Conference. Paris, France, May 29, 2022.

Liao, W., Oh, Y., Feng, B., & Zhang, J. Ritualistic dynamics of task and social-emotional interactions predict interpersonal influence outcomes in compliance-gaining and advice-giving conversations (top paper) (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2022 Conference. Paris, France, May 29, 2022.

Xue, H., & Zhang, J., Effects of fact-checking labels on credibility judgement and engagement: findings from observational and experiment studies (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2022 Conference. Paris, France, May 27, 2022.

Zhang, J., Chakraborti, M., & Han, Q. Visual and linguistic patterns of anti-vaccine and misinformation posts on Instagram (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2021 Conference. Virtual in May, 2021.

Liao, W., Oh, Y. J., Feng, B., & Zhang, J. Are bots agentic enough? Understanding agentic perceptions and social influence from taking sleep advice with human versus artificial agent (Oral presentation). International Communication Association 2021 Conference. Virtual in May, 2021.

Zhang, J., Oh, Y. J., Lange, P., Yu, Z., & Fukuoka, Y. Artificial intelligence chatbot behavior change model for designing artificial intelligence chatbots to promote physical activity and a healthy diet (Oral presentation). Society of Behavioral Medicine 2021 Conference. Virtual in April, 2021. 

Invited Talks of Dr. Jingwen Zhang

"AI for Persuasion: Navigating the Opportunities and Risks," Communication Science Futures, Michigan State University, May 30, 2024.

"Conversation Series": Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities for Health Care and Health Communication, Health Communication Division, International Communication Association, April 22, 2024.

"AI for Persuasion and Health Promotion: Potentials and Challenges," Ohio State University School of Communication's inaugural computational communication research mini-conference, Ohio State University, April 12, 2024.

“Artificial Intelligence-Driven Communication for Persuasion and Behavior Change” Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin Madison, April 12, 2023.

“Artificial Intelligence-Driven Communication for Persuasion and Behavior Change” Department of Communication, Seoul National University (zoom talk), August 1, 2022. 

“Advantages, Challenges, and Opportunities of Asynchronously Delivered Telehealth” UConn Center for mHealth & Social Media 6th Annual (Virtual) Conference, University of Connecticut, May 20, 2022.

“UC Davis LIVE on Combating Vaccine Misinformation Online” , University of California, Davis, January 25, 2021.

“Researching the Effects of Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intentions: What we know and what we don't know (yet)”, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, January 20, 2021.

“Communication with Impact” , UC Davis Global Affairs, University of California, Davis, November 19, 2021.

“Integrating Twitter Data and Online Experiments for Cervical Cancer Prevention”, Health Data Science Day, University of California, Davis, February 10, 2020.

Invited Discussant, Community Health Series, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, March 5, 2019.

 “Vaccine Misinformation and Correction Strategies on Social Media”, The Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium (PRISM Health Symposium), University of California, San Francisco, December 7, 2018.

“Patient-Doctor Communication”, Bayanihan Clinic, University of California, Davis, October 29, 2018.

“The Spread and Effects of Health Misinformation on Social Media”, Department of Communication, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, June 28, 2018.

“Researching Online Health Information in the Era of Social Media”, Department of Communication, Renmin University, Beijing, China, June 20, 2018.

 “An Online Experimental Approach to Study Networked Social Influence in Offline Behaviors”, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA, April 12, 2018.

“An Online Experimental Approach to Study Networked Social Influence in Offline Behaviors”, Network Dynamics Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2, 2018.

“Keys to Viral Campaigns”, Unearth (Sacramento Digital Public Affairs Agency), Sacramento, CA, January 12, 2018.

“Cervical Cancer Prevention with Twitter”, Invited talk, The 2017 PRISM Health Symposium, University of California, San Francisco, December 8, 2017.

“Social Influence for Behavior Change”, Re-Computing Social Sciences Conference, University of California, Davis, CA, May 19, 2017.

“Networked social influence for behavior change”, Invited talk, International Agricultural Development group, University of California, Davis, CA, February 15, 2017.