Lingxue (Lucia) Zhan

  Social Media Research Lab

  Curtin University

  Address: Kent St, Bentley WA 6102

  Email: lingxue.zhan@curtin.edu.au

            

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About Me

Hi, I am a last year Ph.D. student in the Social Media Research Lab @ Curtin University, working with Prof. Mingming Cheng. My research interests lie in Social Media, Tourism Marketing, Image Analytics. I obtained my Master of Economics at the Shenzhen University, under the supervision of Prof. Liang Zhu.

🌟I am expecting to graduate in the summer of 2026 and am actively seeking faculty and postdoctoral opportunities.

News

🥳 2026: Receive the HDR Research Excellence Award by Curtin University.

🥳 2026: One paper got accepted by Annals of Tourism Research!

🥳 2026: One paper got accepted by Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research!

🥳 2026: One paper got accepted by Journal of Travel Research!

🥳 2026: One paper got accepted by Energy Research & Social Science!

🥳 2025: One paper got accepted by Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management!

🥳 2024: Receive the Best HDR Student Paper Award!

🥳 2023: One paper got accepted by Tourism Management!

🎉 2022: I join SMRL Lab @ Curtin Univ. as a Ph.D. student!

Publications

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• From face to hand: Rethinking tourism selfies through self-presence and the destination-centered perspective
  Lingxue Zhan, Litang Wen, Yuanyuan Shang, Ji Chen, Jingyu Tong, Mingming Cheng
  Annals of Tourism Research, 2026. (Q1, ABDC: A*)
• It Is Not Mine: Face Count and Social Media Engagement
  Lingxue Zhan, Mingming Cheng, Litang Wen, Isaac Cheah
  Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2026. (Q1, ABDC: A)
• When Visuals Meet People with Disabilities: How Destination Image Featuring Disability Drives Travel Intention?
  Mengfan Li, Lingxue Zhan, Litang Wen, Ji Chen, Mingming Cheng
  Journal of Travel Research, 2026. (Q1, ABDC: A*)
• Shaping the energy transition: Digital media discourse and public engagement in regional Australia
  Mingming Cheng, Lingxue Zhan✉, Shiyi Hu, Jingjie Zhu, Fran Ackermann, Raquel Tardin-Coelho, Emma D'Antoine
  Energy Research & Social Science, 2026. (Q1)
• The Projected Identity of Airbnb Hosts: A Multimodal Approach
  Lingxue Zhan, Mingming Cheng
  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2025. (Q1, ABDC: A)
• Tourism destination stereotypes and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) generated images
  Jingjie Zhu, Lingxue Zhan, Jie Tan, Mingming Cheng
  Current Issues in Tourism, 2024. (Q1, ABDC: A)
• Projected Destination Image of Beijing on Instagram: A Sequential Research Design
  Lingxue Zhan, Mingming Cheng, Jingjie Zhu, Xiaowei Wang
  Journal of Travel Research, 2025. (Q1, ABDC: A*)
• Progress on image analytics: Implications for tourism and hospitality research
  Lingxue Zhan, Mingming Cheng, Jingjie Zhu
  Tourism Management, 2023. (Q1, ABDC: A*)
• Projected destination image of Beijing: An image analytics approach
  Lingxue Zhan, Mingming Cheng, Jingjie Zhu.
  CAUTHE, 2023.
• Is sustainable development reasonable for tourism destinations? An empirical study of the relationship between environmental competitiveness and tourism growth
  Liang Zhu, Lingxue Zhan, Shaobo Li.
  Sustainable Development, 2021. (Q1)

Teaching

• MKTG2006 Managing Social Media Platforms
  Teaching Assistant
  [Link], July 2024.
• Managing Social Media Crises - A Case Study of Singapore Airlines
  Mingming Cheng, Jie Tan, Lingxue Zhan
  [Link], Sept 2024.

Awards

• HDR Research Excellence Award (1 awarded annually at the school), Curtin University, 2026.
• Best HDR Student Paper Award, Feb 2024.
• IFITT Journal Paper of the Year Award (2nd Place), Jan 2024.
• Curtin Scholarship, Since 2022.
• Outstanding Graduates at SZU, June 2022.
• China National Scholarship, Dec 2020.
• Tencent Founder Innovative Scholarship, Dec 2020.

Professional Service

• Co-organize the Australia - Japan Tourism Symposium, Dec 2022.
• Co-investigate the CIET Energy Transition Project, Jan 2025.

Reviewer

• Journals: Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Conferences: CAUTHE, ANZMAC