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Visualization based on Inter-organizational alliance network among World Fortune 500 corporations and 421 environmental INGOs (Yang & Liu, 2016).

Interorganizational Alliances and Collaboration

  • Liu, W., Xu. W. W., St John, B. (2021). Organizational disaster communication ecology: Examining inter-agency coordination on social media during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. American Behavioral Scientist. doi: 10.1177/0002764221992823 [PDF]

  • Yang, A., Liu, W., & Wang, R. (2020). Cross-sector alliances in the global refugee crisis: An institutional theory approach. Business Ethics: A European Review, 29(3), 646-660. doi: 10.1111/beer.12288 [PDF]

  • Liu, W., & Shin, J. (2019). Convergence or divergence: Exploring different mechanisms driving children’s rights organizations’ offline versus online interorganizational alliance building. Telematics & Informatics, 42,  101242. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2019.101242. [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., Beacom, M. A., Frank, L. B., Nomachi, J., Vasquez, S., & Galloway-Gilliam, L. (2019). Promoting collaboration: The role of relational multiplexity in an interorganizational health justice network. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 47(3), 303-321. doi: 10.1080/00909882.2019.1620958​ [PDF] 
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  • Yang, A., & Liu, W. (2020). CSR communication in the digital space: The structural features of cross-sectoral hyperlink networks. Business & Society, 59(6), ​1079-1109. doi: 10.1177/0007650318763565 [PDF]
 
  • Yang, A., & Liu, W. (2018). Corporate environmental responsibility and global cross-sector hyperlink alliance network: A cross-national study. Environmental Communication, 12(1), 99-114.  doi: 10.1080/17524032.2016.1249900 [PDF]
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Multiethnic Community Building

  • Liu, W. & Huang, Y (2021). Does relationship matter during a health crisis: Examining the role of local government-public relationship in the public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. Health Communication. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2021.1993586 [PDF]

  • Liu, W., & Ni, L. (2021). Relationship matters: How government organization-public relationship impacts disaster recovery outcomes among multiethnic communities. Public Relations Review. doi: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102047 [PDF] 

  • Huang, Y., & Liu, W. (2021). Promoting COVID-19 vaccination: The interplay of message framing, psychological uncertainty, and public agency as a message source. Science Communication. doi: 10.1177/10755470211048192 [PDF]

  • Tang, L., Liu, W., Thomas, B., Tran, H. T., Zou, W., & Zhang, X., & Zhi, D. (2021). Texas public agencies’ tweets and public engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Natural language processing approach. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. doi: 10.2196/26720 [PDF]

  • Nah, S., Lee, S., & Liu, W. (2021). Community storytelling network, expressive digital media, and civic engagement. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/00936502211019677 [PDF]
 
  • Liu. W. (2020). Disaster communication ecology in multiethnic communities: Understanding disaster coping and community resilience from a communication resource approach. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication,  doi: 10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329[PDF] 
 
  • Liu, W., & Nah, S. (2020). Community attachment, communication mediation, and nonprofit participation: An integrated community communication approach. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. doi: 10.1007/s11266-020-00276-9 [PDF]
 
  • Nah, S., Kwon, H., Liu, W., & McNealy, J. (2021). Communication infrastructure, social media, and civic participation across geographically diverse communities in the United States. Communication Studies.  doi: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1876129 [PDF]
 
  • Xiao, Z., Lee, J., & Liu, W. (2020). Korean and Vietnamese immigrants are not the same: Health literacy, health status, and quality of life. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Online First. doi: 10.1080/10911359.2020.1740852 [PDF]
 
  • Ni, L., Xiao, Z., Liu, W., & Wang., Q. (2019). Relationship management as antecedents to public communication behaviors: Examining community engagement and public health in Asian community. Public Relations Review, 45(5), 101835. doi:  10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101835​ [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., Chen, N.-T. N., Ognyanova, K., Nah, S., Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (2018). Connecting with hyperlocal news website: Cause or effect of civic participation?  American Behavioral Scientist, 62(8), 1022-1041. doi: 10.1177/0002764218764243 [PDF]
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  • Liu, W., Son, M., Wenzel, A., An, Z., Zhao, N. Nah, S., & Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (2018). Bridging mechanism in multiethnic communities: Place-based communication, neighborhood belonging, and intergroup relations. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(1), 58-80. doi: 10.1080/17513057.2017.1384506 [PDF]
 
  • Villanueva, G., Gonzalez, C., Son, M., Moreno, E., Liu, W., Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (2017): Bringing local voices into community revitalization: Engaged communication research in urban planning. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 45(5), 474-494  doi: 10.1080/00909882.2017.1382711 [PDF]
 
  • Chen, N.-T. N., Liu, W., Ognyanova, K., & Moreno, E. (2018). The Alhambra project: A prototype for using the communication infrastructure theory to construct and evaluate a community news website. In Y-C. Kim, M. Matsaganis, H. Wilkin, & J-Y. Jung (Eds.). The Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities. Peter Lang. [PDF]
 
  • Chen, N.-T. N., Ognyanova, K., Zhao, N., Liu, W., Gerson, D., Ball-Rokeach, S. J., & Park, M. (2013). Communication and socio-demographic forces shaping civic engagement patterns in a multiethnic city. In P. Moy (Ed.). Communication and Community (pp. 213-230). New York: Hampton Press. [PDF]
 
  • Villanueva, G., Ball-Rokeach, S., Gonzalez, C. Moreno, E., Son, M., & Liu, W. (2014). Northeast Los Angeles riverfront collaborative: Lessons learned and community engagement toolkit. [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., & Gastil, J. (2014). Pathways of immigrant political socialization: Examining the role of news media, organizational connections, and community interaction. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 43(3), 1-32. doi: 10.1080/17475759.2014.939214 [PDF]

Social Media, Social Networks, and Collective Action

  • Wang. R., & Liu. W. (2021). Moral framing and information virality in social movements: A case study of #HongKongPoliceBrutality. Communication Monographs. 88(3), 350-370. doi: 10.1080/03637751.2021.1918735 [PDF]

  • Wang, R., & Liu. W. (2021). Different pathways to identify moral framing from media content: A response to Hopp and Weber. Communication Monographs, 88(3), 380–388.  [PDF]
 
  • Yang, A. Shin, J., Zhou, A., Huang-Isherwood, K. M., Lee, E., Dong, C., Kim, H. M., Zhang, Y., Sun, J., Li, Y. Nan, Y., Zhen, L., & Liu, W. (2021). The battleground of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook: Fact checkers vs. misinformation spreaders. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. ​[PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., & Harlow, S. (2020). Tweeting in solidarity: Examining frame diffusion and alignment processes among immigrant-serving NGOs before and after Donald Trump’s travel ban. International Journal of Communication, 14, 6049-6071. [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., Xu, W., Tsai, J. (2020). Developing a multi-level organization-public dialogic communication framework to assess social media-mediated disaster communication and engagement outcomes. Public Relations Review,46(4), 101949. doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101949  [PDF]
 
  • Kim, H., Saffer, A. J., Liu, W., Sun, J., Li, Y., Zhen, L., & Yang, A. (2021). How public health agencies break through COVID-19 conversations: A strategic network approach to public engagement. Health Communication. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2021.1886393 [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., & Xu, W. (2019). Tweeting to (selectively) engage: How government agencies target stakeholders on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey. International Journal of Communication, 13, 4917- 4939. [PDF]
 
  • ​Meadows, C. W., Meadows, C. Z., Tang, L., & Liu, W. (2019). Unraveling public health crises across stages: Understanding emotions and Twitter themes during the California measles outbreak. Communication Studies, 70(4), 453-469.  doi: 10.1080/10510974.2019.1582546 [PDF]
 
  • Meadows, C. Z., Tang, L., & Liu, W. (2019). Twitter message types, health beliefs, and vaccine attitudes during the 2015 measles outbreak in California. American Journal of Infection Control, 47(11), 1314-1318. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.05.007 [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., Lai, C-H., & Xu, W. (2018). Tweeting about emergency: A semantic network analysis of government organizations’ social media crisis response strategies during Hurricane Harvey. Public Relations Review, 44(5), 807-819. [PDF]
 
  • Wang, R., Liu, W., Gao. S. (2016). Hashtags and information virality in networked social movement: Examining hashtag co-occurrence patterns. Online Information Review, 40(7), 850-866. doi: 10.1108/OIR-12-2015-0378  [PDF]
 
  • Liu, W., Sidhu, A., Beacom, A. M., & Valente, T. W. (2017). Social network theory.  In C. Hoffman (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. San Francisco, CA: Wiley-Blackwell. ​[PDF]

  • Liu, W. (2016). How Twitter connects to the information sources network over time in the Occupy Wall Street social movement. Journal of Social Media Studies, 2(2), 111-121. doi: 10.15340/2147336622992