科研方面：在Information, Communication & Society, Social Indicators Research, Health Communication, Information development, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Patient Education and Counseling, Profesional de la information, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Chinese Journal of Sociology，《新闻与传播研究》、《传播与社会学刊》、《全球传媒学刊》、《新闻与传播评论》、《清华社会科学》、《清华社会学评论》等国内外重要期刊上发表论文近30篇。学术成果曾获国内外多项最佳论文奖，如ICA人际传播分会最佳论文奖、ANPOR-APCA最佳论文奖等。

教学方面：主讲课程包括《新闻学概论》、《传播伦理与法规》、《社交媒体》。参与授课包括《融合新闻报道》、《融合新闻写作》。

国际交流：在国际社会学会（ISA）、美国社会学会（ASA）、国际传播学会（ICA）、美国政治学会（APSA）、美国传播学会（NCA）、国际媒介与传播学会（IAMCR）、美国新闻与大众传播教育年会（AEJMC）、哈佛大学、耶鲁大学等学术机构与高校主办的年度会议上报告研究论文20余篇。

员工培养：指导员工荣获2025年tyc33455cc太阳集团珞珈本科生创新研究基金项目；指导多名员工参加国际顶尖学术会议。

代表论文：
一、健康传播与人际传播
1.Liu, Z., Zou, W.* (2026). Compliance, Shame, Resentment, and Awakening: A Critical Examination of Women’s Illness Narratives About Cervical Erosion. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2026.2632760. (SSCI)
2.Liu, Z. & Lu, J.* (2025). Body Politics and Alienation: Exploring Chinese Women’s Experiences with Cervical Erosion. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2545607. (SSCI)
3.Liu, Z. & Zou, W.* (2024) From spewing resentment to lingering grief: Metaphorical constructions of IUDs and spousal roles in contemporary China. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,41(1),159-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231212203. (SSCI)
4.Liu, Z., & Zou, W.* (2024) Breaking taboos in women’s reproductive health: The communication strategies used by top OB/GYN influencers in Chinese social media. Health Communication,39(4),685-696. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2181677. (SSCI)
5.Zou, W., Liu, Z.*, & Yang, X. (2025). Post-# MeToo: a sexual script analysis of Chinese young men’s narratives about sexual harassment against women. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2025.2562162. (SSCI)
6.Zou, W., Liu, Z.*, & Yang, X. (2025) Reclaiming power or reinforcing inequities: Exploring egg freezing debates on social media. Health Communication, 40(5), 837-847. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2372949. (SSCI) 
7.Zou, W. & Liu, Z.* (2024) Body politics, reproductive rights within stigmatized contexts, and digital media advocacy: A critical discourse analysis of Weibo discussions on IUDs in modern-day China. Journal of Applied Communication Research,52(1),27-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2282514. (SSCI)
8.Fu, D., Liu, Z.*, & Liu, Y. (2026). Torment, Adaptation, and Transcendence: Exploring Chinese Parents’ Online Narratives of Juvenile Diabetes and Cultural Constraints. Health Communication 41(1), 91–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2490605. (SSCI)
9.Zou, W., Yang, X.* & Liu, Z. (2025). Scientific tool or torture device? A relational dialectics theory approach to the Speculum’s symbolism in China. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,42(9). https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075251340266. (SSCI)
10.Zou, W., Yang, X.* & Liu, Z. (2025) A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within Chinese postfeminist context. International Journal of Cultural Studies. http://doi.org/10.1177/13678779251317625.(SSCI)
11.刘子琨（2024）。社交媒体上议题公众去疾病化的话语策略。全球传媒学刊 11（4），64-81。（CSSCI）

二、社交媒体与智能传播
12.Liu, Z., Zou, W.*, & Lin, C. (2025). Exploring the Influence of Privacy Concerns, AI Literacy, and Perceived Health Stigma on AI Chatbot Use in Healthcare: An Uncertainty Reduction Approach. Patient Education and Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109271. (SSCI)
13.Liu, Z., Zou, W., & Yang, S. * (2025). What Drives Patient Preferences for AI Chatbots Over Doctors? A Survey Study Using the O-S-O-R Model. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2537814. (SSCI)
14.Liu, Z., Luo, C.*, & Lu, J. (2024) Hate speech in the Internet context: Unpacking the roles of Internet penetration, online legal regulation, and online opinion polarization from a transnational perspective. Information development,40(4),533-549. https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669221148487. (SSCI)
15.Zou, W., Liu, Z.*, & Lin, C. (2026). The influence of individuals’ emotional involvement and perceived roles of AI chatbots on emotional self-efficacy. Information, communication & society,29(1), 268–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2508394. (SSCI)
16.Zou, W. & Liu, Z.* (2024) Unraveling public conspiracy theories toward ChatGPT in China: A critical discourse analysis of Weibo posts. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,68(1),1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2023.2275603. (SSCI)
17.Lu, J., Sun, M., & Liu, Z.* (2025) Social media and political polarization: A panel study of 36 countries from 2014 to 2020. Social Indicators Research 178, 1103–1124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03367-y. (SSCI)
18.Lin, C., Zou, W.*, & Liu, Z. (2026) Differentiating Trust Profiles: An Analysis of Users’ Situational Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence and Its Antecedents. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 42(4), 2629–2646. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2530073. (SSCI)
19.Fu, D., Zhou, N.*, & Liu, Z. (2025). Leveraging digital health technology to transform depression literacy in China: evidence from a serious game intervention. Asian Journal of Communication, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2025.2594802 (SSCI)
20.Lu, J., Liu, Z., & Jin, J*. (2022) The Internet, populism, and deliberative democracy: A panel study of 167 countries from 2000 to 2018. Profesional de la information, 31(3), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2022.may.02. (SSCI) 
21.刘子琨、付东晗、韩一铭（2025）。大语言模型在新闻传播学质性研究中的应用。全球传媒学刊 12（2），47-66。（CSSCI）
22.刘子琨、约翰·彼得斯（2023）。“媒介是文化和自然环境的塑造者”：访谈媒介理论家——约翰·杜海姆·彼得斯教授, 全球传媒学刊 10（5），171-182。（CSSCI）

三、灾难研究与文化社会学
23.Liu, Z. (2025). Performing sacredness: The Touqi Public Memorial Ceremony as a cultural response to Chinese major disasters (2010–2019). Chinese Journal of Sociology, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2057150X251330727. (ESCI)
24.刘子琨、朱远航、许松影（2024）。“最好的文化社会学兼具高风险和创造性”——菲利普·史密斯访谈录。清华社会科学 6（1），295-311。（CSSCI集刊）
25.杰弗里·C·亚历山大、刘子琨*、许松影、朱远航（2024）。“我期待非西方社会的新思想”——杰弗里·亚历山大谈新闻学、文化社会学与社会理论。清华社会学评论 22（1），259-280。（CSSCI集刊）
26.闫岩、刘子琨*（2022）。被个别诠释的灾难：六起特大事故的新闻框架与灾难叙事。传播与社会学刊 60 (2)，57-90。（TSSCI）
27.刘子琨、闫岩（2019）。创伤、战争、起点与新生：“汶川地震十年”纪念报道中的叙事隐喻。新闻与传播评论 72(6), 68-79。（CSSCI）
28.魏海岩、谷文浩、刘子琨（2018）。进奏院别名考证。新闻与传播研究 25(11)，109-125。（CSSCI）

获奖情况
1.优秀论文奖，首届人机传播、心理与社会变迁国际研究工作坊，2025
2.Top Paper Award; Top Student Paper Award; Garrison Award for Top Applied Paper, Michael Haley Travel Grant, Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association, 2024
3.北京市优秀毕业生 2024
4.清华大学毕业生启航奖银奖 2024
5.Best Oral Presentation Award, Asian Network for Public Opinion Research (ANPOR) and Asia-Pacific Communication Alliance (APCA) Annual Conference, 2021
6.优秀论文奖，第二十一届中国新闻传播学科研究生学术年会暨复旦大学博士生学术论坛之新闻传播学篇，2021 
7.中国新媒体传播学年会员工组特邀论文，2021 
8.清华大学研究生综合一等奖学金 2022; 2023
9.American Political Science Association (APSA) Travel Grant 2023
10.tyc33455cc太阳集团优秀毕业研究生 2020

科研项目
1.中国国家社科基金一般项目（18BXW112）：参与，2020-2024；
2.清华大学自主科研项目（2019THZWLJ35）、清华大学自主科研项目（2023THZWJC10）：参与，2020-2024；
3.中国人民大学“双一流”建设项目（RMXY2018C007）：参与，2019；
4.中国国家社科基金青年项目（13CXW006）：参与，2017-2019；
5.辽宁省社会科学基金重点项目（L11AXW001）：参与，2015-2018。

学术兼职
1.耶鲁大学文化社会学中心研究员
2.期刊审稿人：New media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; Health Communication; Social Science Computer Review; Journal of Information Technology & Politics; Online Information Review; Information Development; Patient Education and Counseling; Journal of Health Psychology; Emerging Adulthood; PEC Innovation; Cogent Arts & Humanities; Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development; BMC Women’s health; Discover Social Science and Health, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Health Education Research, Frontiers in Global Women's Health; 国际新闻界；全球传媒学刊；新闻春秋