Asia Pacific Journalism Review launched, raising the School's tally of faculty-led journals to five

The inaugural issue of the Asia-Pacific Journalism Review (APJR) is out. The open-access bilingual journal will be published every four months by the School of Communication's Institute for Journalism and Society. Bridging the news industry and academia, it includes perspectives from experienced professionals as well as media scholars. “APJR will track the latest journalism trends around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region,” said APJR editor Raymond Li (above) of the Department of Journalism. APJR is the second journal published or co-published by the School, and the fifth edited by faculty members. Others include the new Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images (see below), which was also launched this month.

“Although the character of journalistic autonomy varies from one country to another, journalists around the world accept the importance of fostering independent news judgement and struggle against subservience to the state and to the market. ... Journalism is a public memory book that reminds people in power that someone is watching closely.” – Michael Schudson (Columbia University), writing in the AJPR inaugural issue.

New open access journal focuses on the affects and effects of audiovisual storytelling

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images has published its inaugural issue. Hosted at HKBU and published by Michigan Publishing, the twice-yearly journal serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media and technology of the moving image. The first issue covers themes ranging from Hong Kong and social movements, the building and documenting national and transnational cinema, Sino-US relations, and the narrative of the virus. More.

“Storytelling remains fundamental to our understanding of reality. ... Taken together, the research essays, polemics, and book reviews in this inaugural issue of our journal hope to ignite renewed interest in the affects and effects of audiovisual storytelling in the era of instantaneous and border-crossing transmission of stories.” – founder and editor-in-chief Ying Zhu (Academy of Film), in her Letter from the Editor.

Coming to grips with vaccine hesitancy

The School of Communication is contributing to a new initiative aimed at supplying decision-makers with timely evidence-based insights about reasons for vaccine hesitancy in Hong Kong. In collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, the HKBU-funded “Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Hong Kong” project will share the findings of various studies being conducted on vaccine hesitancy, to help authorities formulate more effective communication strategies. The interdisciplinary team will publish weekly reports on research related to vaccine hesitancy. Read more.

Animation and film projects win RGC grants

Emerging scholars Mateja Kovacic and Timmy Chen Chih-ting (above) are among four Academy of Film faculty to be awarded coveted GRF/ECS grants in the Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s latest funding round announced last month. Kovacic’s study, funded under the Early Career Scheme, is titled Transnational Anarchist Digital Networks: Japanese Animation and Civic Imagination in Political and Cultural Movements in Hong Kong. Chen’s project will examine Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Inter-Asia Identities: Wartime Shanghai and Postwar Hong Kong Song-and-Dance Films, 1931-1972. He received a General Research Fund grant, as did Eva Man Kit-wah and Kenny Ng Kwok Kwan. Like last year, the four awards account for the majority of the successful media and communication proposals submitted to the RGC.

Misinformation and Disinformation in Hong Kong: Is Legislation the Answer? The School collaborated with counterparts at Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to organise this symposium on 7 July. The half-day event can be viewed in full in this video.

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Jos Bartels

Irshad, Muhammad, Jos Bartels, Mehwish Majeed, and Sajid Bashir. 2021. “When Breaking the Rule Becomes Necessary: The Impact of Leader–Member Exchange Quality on Nurses pro-Social Rule-Breaking.” Nursing Open. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.979.
Croes, Emmelyn, and Jos Bartels. 2021. “Young Adults’ Motivations for Following Social Influencers and Their Relationship to Identification and Buying Behavior.” Computers in Human Behavior 124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106910.

Kara Chan

Terlutter, Ralf, Sandra Diehl, Isabell Koinig, Kara Chan, and Lennon Tsang. 2021. “‘I’m (Not) Offended by Whom I See!’ The Role of Culture and Model Ethnicity in Shaping Consumers’ Responses toward Offensive Nudity Advertising in Asia and Western Europe.” Journal of Advertising: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2021.1934199.

Kineta Hung

Hung, Kineta. 2021. “Celebrity, Influencer, Brand Endorsement: Processes and Effects.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Jon Nussbaum. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1106.

Kenny Ng Kwok-Kwan

Ng, Kenny K. K. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art, and Tradition《昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統. Hong Kong: Chunghwa Co., 2021.

Eva Kit Wah Man

Man, Eva Kit Wah. The Politics of the Cantonese Language in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021.

Vivian Sheer's new article in Health Communication reviews 189 studies on norms and smoking. It argues that research into antismoking interventions should adopt a wider range of theories.

Vivian Sheer

Sheer, Vivian C. 2021. “The State of Norm-Based Antismoking Research: Conceptual Frameworks, Research Designs, and Implications for Interventions.” Health Communication: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950296.

Tien Ee Dominic Yeo

Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic. 2021. “Safer Sex.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 1–2. American Cancer Society, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss007.pub2.

AWARDS

Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis received the 3rd place in AEJMC’s Media Ethics Division (MED) student paper competition for his paper “A Need for Change: The Perceived Power of Media and Journalists in Greece”.

Xiaohui Wang and Yunya Song were chosen by the Editorial Team of Internet Research for the Outstanding Paper Award in 2021 for their paper named “Viral misinformation and echo chambers: the diffusion of rumors about genetically modified organisms on social media.”

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