Juan Liu

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Assistant Professor

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Contact Info

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Office:
Psychology Building, 513

Education

Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2017

Areas of Expertise

Strategic communication, corporate social advocacy, stakeholder engagement, social media and misinformation, communication and technology, media, surveillance and public opinion.

Biography

Dr. Liu joined Towson University in 2021. Before joining the faculty in the Department of Mass Communication, Dr. Liu held a tenure-track position at Columbus State University. Her research focuses on corporate social advocacy, strategic communication, and political misinformation. She examines how corporations involve in social advocacy campaigns to create informed public opinion. Dr. Liu also conducts research exploring how expert corrections mitigate misinformation on social media. Her work has been published in New Media & Society, Mass Communication and Society, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, etc.