Junwen Hu

Junwen Hu

Ph.D. Student

Department
  • Communication
hujunwen@msu.edu

Bio

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Communication, Michigan State University. I study voluntary relationships like romantic relationships and friendships. My studies explore how these relationships develop with AI and algorithms and also how individuals' emotions are regulated within these relationship contexts. My work that examined online dating's impact on contemporary relationships has been reported by science media like PsyPost and Phys.org. I am also a top student paper winner at our top conference (ICA) and have published in high-impact journals such as Computers in Human Behavior (IF = 9.0) as the sole or first author. 

Related Work

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Publications

Hu, J. M., Balow, S., Meng, J., Ellithorpe, M., & Meshi, D. (2024). Social network density mediates the association between problematic social media use and depressive symptoms. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. Advance online publication

Hu, J. M., Zhu, R., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Does online dating make relationships more successful? Replication and extension of a previous study. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Advance Online Publication.

Hu, J. M. (2024). The affective and relational correlates of algorithmic beliefs among US online daters: Extension of two previous studies. Computers in Human Behavior, 108373.

Hu, J., & Zhan, E. S. (2024). Algorithm awareness in online dating: Associations with mate-searching difficulty and future expectancies among U.S. online daters. Behaviour & Information Technology. Advance online publication.

Hu, J., & Rui, J. (2023). The relationship between preference for online social interaction and affective well-being via compulsive dating app use: The moderating role of algorithmic beliefs. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace.

Hu, J., & Wang, R. (2023). Familiarity breeds trust? The relationship between dating app use and trust in dating algorithms via algorithm awareness and critical algorithm perceptions. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Advance online publication.

Hu, J. (2023). Exploring the impact of a ‘confining’ imaginary of user-recommendation systems on platform usage and relationship development among dating app users. Behaviour & Information Technology. Advance online publication.

Hu, J. (2021). What does channel say? Understanding How social media social capital facilitates COVID‐19‐related information‐seeking and opinion‐expression on two types of platforms: User‐oriented versus content‐oriented. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 737-739.

Media Report

Phys.org: Does online dating make relationships more successful? (August 6, 2024)

PsyPost.org: Online dating and relationship success: The potential role of social media sharing.(September 27, 2024)

 

Contact Information

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