2026
Mapping stakeholder expectations along organizational outcomes: How familiarity and sentiment shape core and peripheral issue priorities
Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 52(1), 102667
2025
The impact of supervisory communication on newcomers' adjustment, well-being, and relationships with their organization: A longitudinal study
Yue, C. A., Xu, S., Tao, W., & Huang, L. V.
Communication Research
2024
How political ideology affects the communication of organizational relations: A social network approach
You, L., Zhao, X., & Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 50(2), 102451
2024
A temporal approach to online discussion during disasters: Applying SIR infectious disease model to predict topic growth and examining effects of temporal distance
Xu, S., Zhao, X., & Chen, J.
Public Relations Review, 50(2), 102430
2024
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes
Zhao, X., Xu, S., & Austin, L. L.
New Media & Society, 26(5), 2492–2513
2024
Connecting issues, CSR, and OPRs: Unpacking identity mediators of the effect of CSR on relationship and the moderating role of intergroup dynamics
Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 50(1), 102421
2024
How information repertoire affects vaccine hesitancy: Processes of information verification and cognitive elaboration
Zhao, X., Ma, Z., Xu, S., & Austin, L. L.
Health Communication, 39(1), 62–72
2023
A personal-communicative evaluation approach to CEO advocacy & employee relations
Cho, M., Xu, S., & Boatwright, B.
Public Relations Review, 49(2), 102295
2023
Issue contention and consumers' reactions to corporate social responsibility: Challenging the dyadic assumptions
Xu, S., & Cho, M.
Public Relations Review, 49(1), 102274
2023
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies
Xu, S., & Yue, C.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 51(2), 204–223
2022
Computer mediation vs. dialogic communication: How media affordances affect organization-public relationship building
Zhou, A., & Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 48(2), 102176
2022
Key players in corporate social responsibility (CSR) institutionalization: An analysis of multinational companies' interorganizational positioning via CSR reports
Xu, S., & Woo, D.
Management Communication Quarterly
2022
Motivated responsibility attribution in a pandemic: Roles of political orientation, perceived severity, and construal level
Zhao, X., Tsang, S. J., & Xu, S.
International Journal of Communication, 16, 2260–2282
2021
Digital public relations through the lens of affordances: A conceptual expansion of the dialogic principles
Zhou, A., & Xu, S.
Journal of Public Relations Research, 33(6), 445–463
★ Top Faculty Paper — ICA
2021
Engaging through stories: Effects of narratives on individuals' skepticism toward corporate social responsibility efforts
Xu, S., & Kochigina, A.
Public Relations Review, 47(5), 102110
2020
Networked publics in #NoDAPL protests: Interactions among activist publics and influence of locality and proximity on socially mediated networks
Xu, S., & Luttman, S.
New Media & Society
2020
Issues, identity salience, and individual sense of connection to organizations: An identity-based approach
Xu, S.
Journal of Public Relations Research, 32(3–4), 120–139
★ Robert Heath Top Paper Award — ICA 2019
2020
Setting socially mediated engagement parameters: A topic modeling and text analytic approach to examining polarized discourses on Gillette's campaign
Xu, S., & Ying, X.
Public Relations Review, 46(5), 101959
2020
Hashtag homophily in twitter network: Examining a controversial cause-related marketing campaign
Xu, S., & Zhou, A.
Computers in Human Behavior, 120, 87–96
2019
Prioritizing relationships: The investment model and relationship maintenance strategies in organizational crises
Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 45(3), 101782
2019
How publics' active and passive communicative behaviors affect their tornado responses: An integration of STOPS and SMCC
Liu, B. F., Xu, S., Lim, J. R., & Egnoto, M.
Public Relations Review
2019
Empowering the future practitioner: Postmodernism in the undergraduate public relations classroom
Madden, S., Brown, K., & Xu, S.
Journal of Public Relations Education, 5(2), 105–131
2018
Discourse of renewal: Developing multiple-item measurement and analyzing effects on relationships
Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 44, 108–119
★ 1st Place Top Student Paper — ICA 2017
2018
Crisis communication within a community: Bonding, coping, and making sense together
Xu, S.
Public Relations Review, 44, 84–97
2018
When individual cultural orientation and mediated portrayal of risk intersect: Effects of individualism-collectivism and media framing on risk perception and attribution of responsibility
Xu, S.
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 26, 499–509
2017
Making a "difference" with digital media? The evaluation perspectives, practices, and challenges of Chinese NGOs
Sommerfeldt, E. J., & Xu, S.
Chinese Journal of Communication, 10, 89–107