Jiaqi Liu's research lies at the intersection of mobile, interpersonal, and family communication. His work examines how digital technologies shape everyday social interactions and adolescents' development within family contexts.
Jiaqi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines how people interact with new communication technologies in everyday life as well as their social and psychological consequences. He uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to study momentary and long-term processes, including experience sampling, longitudinal analysis, and experiments. His current work centers on two themes: (1) how digital technologies interrupt or support individuals' social interactions and the implications for well-being, including practices such as phubbing, co-use, and digital disconnection; and (2) how family, developmental, and social factors shape adolescents' use of AI and its differential effects, with the broader goal of addressing digital inequality and promoting positive media socialization.
M.A. (2025), Tsinghua University, Communication
B.A. (2022), Tongji University, Journalism and Communication