Name
LIU, Ling
Degree
Ph.D. (Journalism)
Status
Assistant Professor
Research Topic
INFOTRUST: Understanding the Dynamics of Information Exposure and Processing to Attitude-Disconfirming Political Information across High and Low Media-Trust National Contexts
To foster productive political engagement in contemporary democracies, it is vital to understand how citizens respond to information that challenges their beliefs. Yet relevant research focuses overwhelmingly on the U.S., where public trust in media is uniquely low. INFOTRUST hypothesizes that a major comparative study of low, medium, and high media-trust nations will upend settled assumptions and promote a more robust theoretical framework for understanding public discourse in the Internet age.
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Exploring the Impact of Political Reporting by the Media in Japan
Education and Academic Employment
Education
| 2022 | PhD (Journalism), Waseda University |
| 2014 | MA (Journalism), Waseda University |
| 2012 | BA (Japanese), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China |
Academic Employment
| 2022 | Junior Researcher, Waseda Institute of Political Economy |
| 2019-2021 | Research Associate, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University |
Fields of Research Interests
Political Communication
Academic Publications
- Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia, Liu, Ling, Hino, Airo, Westerwick, Axel, & Johnson, K. Benjamin. (2019). Context impacts on confirmation bias: Evidence from the 2017 Japanese snap election compared with American and German Findings. Human Communication Research. 45, 427- 449. doi:10.1093/hcr/hqz005
- Liu, Ling. (2018). テレビ報道への接触と投票意図の変化：2010年参院選における報道内容と有権者の分析を通して [Effects of watching election news coverage: Television news exposure and changes in vote choice during the 2010 Upper House election in Japan]. Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies. 34, 72-87. doi:10.14854/jaes.34.2_72
- Liu, Ling, Ding, Yan, Kurihara, Ayano, & Sauzier-Uchida Emi. (2016). 首相の靖国神社参拝をめぐる新聞報道の批判的言説分析 [Media representations of Yasukuni Shrine in Japanese news coverage: A critical discourse analysis]. In K. Sunaoka & Y. Muroi (Eds.), Voices from Japan in a multilingual world: Prospects for fostering human resources and global communication (pp.327-359). Asahi Press
Other Interests
Travel, Piano
Affiliated Academic Organizations
International Communication Association
Japanese Association of Electoral Studies
Awards
2022 Dean’s Academic Prize, Waseda University
