Xin "Frida" Qi Humphreville

Research Interests

Why do I study time?

I am fascinated by time and I have my unique way of tracking time. I pack my physical clocks with me whenever I move; I have several animal-shaped, well-designed, physical mechanical timers in my apartment; I use the hourglass as both a decoration and a timer for two minutes; and I use pop songs as timers too since they always last between three to five minutes and when I hear the bridge of the song, I know I should speed up since the end of these three to five minutes is approaching.

Many people study AI. What makes mine different?

First, I am more interested in news production rather than the audience end. Second, I research less about how AI is applied, but more about the sociological and ontological impact of AI applications on the day-to-day journalism practice. To me, I am less passionate about technologies themselves but more passionate about how technologies impact our way of being.

Conference Papers

• Qi, X. F. (2025). Understanding the deadline routine in journalism: A rapid newsroom ethnography during the 2024 Presidential Election. Paper accepted for presentation at the 108th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.
• Qi, X. F. (2025). ChatGPT says you’re doing it wrong: Using bounded rationality to revise marketplace theory in the AI era. Paper accepted for presentation at the 108th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.
• Qi, X. F. (2025). Seeing journalism through ChatGPT: Textual analysis of ChatGPT’s answers to top-searched Quora questions on journalism. Paper accepted for presentation at the 108th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.
• Dahal, C. & Qi, X. F. (2025). Modeling the influence of credibility and media literacy on the prevalence of information disorder. Paper accepted for presentation at the 108th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.
• Rose, K., Qi, X. F., Jenkins, J. & Zhang, Z. (2025) “All of the water is connected in some way:” Exploring personal connections in the Mississippi River Basin. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Conference of the Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
• Qi, X. F. (2024). Constructing the collective memory as another normative role of journalism in the age of AI. Paper presented at the Preconference of the 74th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Singapore.
• Qi, X. F., Mathews, N., Khanom, A. & Holton, A. (2024). Boomeranging back to the newsroom: Exploring journalists’ returns to the industry following a hiatus. Paper presented at the 2024 Conference of the Local Journalism Researchers Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Qi, X. F. (2024). ChatGPT says you’re doing it wrong: Using bounded rationality to revise marketplace theory in the AI era. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium, Lexington, KY.
• Qi, X. F. (2024). Explicating algorithmic bias in journalism. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium, Lexington, KY.