CJC at the International Public Relations Research Conference 2025

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Thursday, March 6

2:45-3:45 p.m.
October 7 Changed the World: Exploring the Agenda-Building of the U.S. and Israeli Government Messages During the Israel-Gaza 2023 War
Mohammed Alqabbaa (University of Florida)

4:00-5:00 PM
Serving Multicultural Publics: Assessing the Role of Dialogic Communication and Cultural Tailoring Strategies of GenAI Chatbots in Government OPRs for Disasters
Wenlin Liu (University of Florida), Xinyan Zhao, Yuan Sun, Chau-Wai Wong (4/6)
This paper receives the Boston University Award for the Top Paper about Public Relations and the Social and Emerging Media.

Friday, March 7

9:45-10:45 a.m.
The Role of Leadership Communication in Organizations’ AI Adoption: The Impact of CEO Transformational Leadership and Supervisors’ Motivating Language Use
Hanzi He (University of Florida), Rita Men (University of Florida), Wenlin Liu (University of Florida), Jason Nam (University of Florida) (5/6)
This paper receives the Plank Center Award for Leadership in Public Relations.

Saturday, March 8

8:30-9:30 a.m.
Crisis Spillover as a ‘Sticky Crisis’ amongst Voting Machine Manufacturers
Christen Buckley (University of Florida), Rebecca Frazer (University of Florida) (1/6)

Tracing the Blame Game: Proposing a Network Approach of Analyzing Blame Attributions on Social Media
Ziqi Zhu (University of Florida), Wenlin Liu (University of Florida) (3/6)

1:30-2:30 p.m.
Chatbot Persona and Supportive Communication: Assessing the Potential of Using AI Chatbots in Organizational Crisis Response Following Hurricane Beryl
Wenlin Liu (University of Florida), Cheng Chen, Hao Xu, Ziqi Zhu (University of Florida) (4/6)

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Is Privacy Statement Friend or Foe? Exploring Social Media Platform’ s Framing around User Privacy Management
Alver (Zhe) Zhou (University of Florida) (4/6)