Anqi Shao
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Mail code: 8204Campus: Tempe
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- Ph.D. in Science Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2025)
- M.S. in Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2019)
- B.S. in Biology, Fudan University, China (2016)
- science communication
- For complex or "wicked" issues that evidence and values are contested and there is no single best answers for them -- how do media content shape/reflect public understandings; how AI is emerging as a science communicator with its merits and risks; how the public react and form groups/factions around topics
- human-computer interaction
- How human perceive AI as a communicator (versus human communicators)
- computational social science
- Statistics; agent-based modeling; social network analysis
Shao, A. (2025). New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
Shao, A., Chen, K., Johnson, B., Miranda, S., & Xing, Q. (2025). Ubiquitous News Coverage and its Varied Effects in Communicating Protective Behaviors to American Adults in Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Evidence from a National Longitudinal Panel Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research
Chen, K., Shao, A., Burapacheep, J., & Li, Y. (2024). Conversational AI and Equity: Assessing GPT-3’s Communication with Diverse Social Groups on Contentious Topics. Scientific Reports.
Chinn, S., Hasell, A., & Shao, A. (2024). What does it mean to “do your own research?” A comparative content analysis of DYOR messages in Instagram and Facebook posts about reproductive health, food, and vaccines. New Media & Society, 14614448241293409.
Duan, Z., Shao, A., Yang, S., Chen, K., Hu, Y., Suh, Y., Kim, J., Lee, H., Liao, X. (2025). Vectionary: A Word-Embedding-Based Optimization Approach to Extracting Moral Appeals from Text. Political Analyais
Middleton, L., Shao, A., Cate, A., Haugen, J., & Li, N. (2024). An Enthusiastic but Uncertain Welcome: Coverage of Risks, Benefits, and Social Contexts of CRISPR Technology in US Agricultural News 2012-2022. Journal of Applied Communications, 108(2), 1.
Chen, K., Jin, Y., & Shao, A. (2022). Science Factionalism: How Group Identity Language Affects Public Engagement with Misinformation and Debunking Narratives on a Popular Q&A Platform in China. Social Media+ Society, 8(1). [all authors have equal contribution]
Wirz, C., Shao, A., Bao, L., Howell, E. L., Monroe, H., & Chen, K. (2021). Media Systems and Attention Cycles: Volume and Topics of News Coverage on COVID-19 in the United States and China. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Ho, P., Chen, K., Shao, A., Bao, L., Ai, A., Tarfa, A., Brossard, D., Brown, L & Brauer, M. (2021). A Mixed Methods Study of Public Perception of Social Distancing: Integrating Qualitative and Computational Analyses for Text Data. Journal of Mixed Methods Research
Meppelink, C., Hendriks, H., Trilling, D., van Weert, J. C., Shao, A., & Smit, E. S. (2021). Reliable or not? An automated classification of webpages about early childhood vaccination using supervised machine learning. Patient Education and Counseling, 104(6), 1460-1466.
Howell, E. L., Kohl, P., Scheufele, D. A., Clifford, S., Shao, A., Xenos, M. A., & Brossard, D. (2020). Enhanced threat or therapeutic benefit? Risk and benefit perceptions of human gene editing by purpose and heritability of edits. Journal of Risk Research, 1-17.
Chen, K., Bao, L., Shao, A., Ho, P., Yang, S., Wirz, C., Brossard, D., Brauer, M., & Diprete Brown, L. (2020). How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical period: communication lessons learnt from the American state of Wisconsin. Journal of Science Communication, 19(5), A11.