Publications

Peer-reviewed publications and selected working papers.

2025

  1. Automated Quality Assessment for LLM-Based Complex Qualitative Coding: A Confidence-Diversity Framework
    Zhilong Zhao and Yindi Liu
    2025
    posted (arXiv:2508.20462; submitted 2025-08-28; v2 2025-09-30)
    Take-home: A practical way to assess (and calibrate) the reliability of LLM-based complex qualitative coding using a confidence–diversity lens.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  2. Hierarchical Error Correction for Large Language Models: A Systematic Framework for Domain-Specific AI Quality Enhancement
    Zhilong Zhao and Yindi Liu
    2025
    posted (v2 2025-10-24; public notice 2025-10-27)
    Take-home: A systematic, multi-level error-correction workflow that improves the robustness of domain-specific AI/LLM outputs.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  3. “Private Dispute or Public Responsibility?”—Newspaper Framing of Domestic Violence in Four Chinese Regions
    Agnes Iok Fong Lam, Zhilong George Zhao, Ying Li, Le Luo, Hao Li, and Brian J Hall
    Journal of Family Violence, 2025
    published (2025-01-07; Springer; pp. 1–13)
    Take-home: Newspaper framing of domestic violence varies across regions, shaping whether the issue is treated as private conflict or public responsibility.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  4. 代际差异与小型社会中的媒体使用:澳门模式的理论探索及其对媒体生态研究的启示
    Intergenerational Differences and Media Use in a Small Society: A Theoretical Exploration of the Macau Model and Its Implications for Media Ecology Research
    Zhilong Zhao and Agnes Iok Fong Lam
    《澳门研究》, 2025
    accepted (in production / proofing)
    Take-home: A “small-society” Macau case helps theorize how intergenerational media use patterns emerge and how local ecosystems shape them.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  5. Parental Mediation, Digital Media Usage, and Health Literacy: An Exploration Among Chinese Elementary School Students
    Zhilong Zhao, Lin Zhu, Jing Liao, Jiaxin Xia, and Xueya Pu
    Health Communication, 2025
    published (2025-05-12; Vol 40(6):1144–1156)
    Take-home: Parental mediation is meaningfully linked to children’s digital media use and health literacy, with implications for family and school interventions.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  6. Visual Orientalism in the AI Era: From West-East Binaries to English-Language Centrism
    Zhilong Zhao and Yindi Liu
    2025
    posted (arXiv:2511.22931, cs.CY; initial 2025-11-28; replacement public 2025-12-10)
    Take-home: In the AI era, “orientalism” shifts from simple West–East binaries toward a subtler English-language centrism that structures visibility and authority.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  7. A Confidence–Diversity Framework for Calibrating AI Judgement in Accessible Qualitative Coding Tasks
    Zhilong Zhao and Yindi Liu
    2025
    posted (arXiv:2508.02029; submitted 2025-08-04; v2 2025-08-16)
    Take-home: A confidence–diversity framework for calibrating AI judgement in accessible qualitative coding tasks, balancing accuracy with uncertainty awareness.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.
  8. Is Negative Representation More Engaging? The Influence of News Title Framing of Older Adults on Viewer Behavior
    Zhilong Zhao and Jiaxin Xia
    2025
    posted (arXiv:2503.15493, cs.HC; 2025-01-11)
    Take-home: Negative title framing can boost engagement, but it also reinforces skewed representations of older adults with measurable behavioral effects.
    Tip: if you prefer listening, this audio overview offers a concise, two-host explanation of the paper in plain language.

2023

  1. First-Person Influences on Third-Person Perceptions.
    Xinshu Zhao, Xudong Liu, Yue Selene Chen, Wen Aquamarine Jiao, Song Harris AO, Fuyuan Shen, and Zhilong George Zhao
    China Media Research, 2023
    published (2023-10-01; Vol 19(4))

2020

  1. 影响估差:京湘新闻人中的第三者效应和第一者因素
    Influence-Estimation Bias: Third-Person Effects and First-Person Factors Among Journalists in Beijing and Hunan
    彭雪华, 柳旭东, 敖颂, 陈玥, 焦文, 赵志龙, 冼雪畅, and 赵心树
    新闻大学, 2020
    published (2020; issue 6; pp. 63–81)