FACULTY FORUM

Social media: balancing private and work lives

Jos Bartels argues that social media have changed the way we look at relationships at our workplaces. Bartels, who joined the Department of Communication Studies as an Associate Professor this year, will discuss the positive and negative consequences that social media use can have for organizations and their employees. Register by email.

PUBLIC LECTURE

Public secrets in post-socialist China

Margaret Hillenbrand shows how Chinese artists use "photo-forms" — artworks that riff on well-known historical photographs — to commemorate violent and traumatic events that are unforgettable and yet cannot be discussed aloud. Hillenbrand, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at Oxford University, is the author of Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Duke University Press, 2020).

SEMINAR

My academic journey: to the West and back

Christine Huang Yi-Hui shares how she looks at herself, her research, and her field. Huang is Chair Professor of Communication and Media at City University of Hong Kong,  specialising in public relations and strategic communication in the digital era, crisis and risk communication, conflict resolution and negotiation, and cross-cultural communication. Register by email.

FACULTY FORUM

Celebrity fans on social media

Kineta Hung examines how fans have become marketing partners. Fans undertake  activities that in the past were the domains of agency management and marketers of endorsed products: they play a role as celebrity image-shapers and voluntary marketer-promoters. Hung is Professor, Department of Communication Studies. Register by email.

BESTSELLER

The case for political reform in Singapore

Cherian George's new book is a national non-fiction bestseller in Singapore. Co-authored with Donald Low, professor of practice in public policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PAP v. PAP: The Party's Struggle to Adapt to a Changing Singapore makes the case for political reform as the city-state grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and its deepest economic crisis since independence. "Only by strengthening democratic practices and norms can Singapore maintain its edge in a world pulled apart by identity politics, populist nationalism and nativism, and an erosion of trust in public institutions," the authors argue.

DECEMBER SEMINARS

Refugee children's use of digital technologies

Annamária Neag will present her research on how unaccompanied refugee children use digital technology and social media in four European countries. She will discuss how these findings can help in developing media literacy tools for refugee children’s civic participation. Neag is a Research Fellow at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Excellence in Media Practice. Register by email.

Gender representations in the media

Michael Prieler discusses areas of research related to gender representations, including (1) gender representations of older people, (2) gendered body image portrayals in social media, (3) gender in advertising, and (4) face-ism, or how the media portrays men with more facial prominence than women. Prieler is a professor in the Media School at Hallym University, South Korea, currently visiting at City University of Hong Kong. Register by email.

MORE NEW PUBLICATIONS

• Prooijen, Anne-Marie van, Jos Bartels, and Timo Meester. 2020. “Communicated and Attributed Motives for Sustainability Initiatives in the Energy Industry: The Role of Regulatory Compliance.” Journal of Consumer Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.1907.    

• Chan, Kara, and Fei Fan. 2020. “Perception of Advertisements with Celebrity Endorsement among Mature Consumers.” Journal of Marketing Communications: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527266.2020.1843063.    

• Chen, Yi-Ru Regina, and Xinyan Zhao. 2020. “Digital Dialogue in Online Brand Communities: Examining the Social Network Outcomes of Brands’ Dialogue with Facebook Users.” Telematics and Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101507.     

• Gutierrez, Jose. “Cinematic Contemplation Online: The Art and Philosophy of Life-World Series (2017).” In Reconceptualizing the Digital Humanities in Asia: New Representations of Art, History and Culture, edited by Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, 31–52. Singapore: Springer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4642-6_3.   

• Aoyagi, Hiroshi, Mateja Kovacic, and Stephen Grant Baines. 2020. “Neo-Ethnic Self-Styling among Young Indigenous People of Brazil: Re-Appropriating Ethnicity through Cultural Hybridity.” Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 17. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412020v17a352.
• While, Aidan H, Simon Marvin, and Mateja Kovacic. 2020. “Urban Robotic Experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai.” Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020917790.

• Man, Eva Kit Wah. 2020. “About Nature: Discourses on the Boundaries of East and West in Curtis Carter’s Concern over Contemporary Chinese Art.” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 22: 43–53. https://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/383.

• Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim. “Gazing of the Wuxia Body: Digital Visual Effects, Looking Relations, and Spectatorship in Peter Chan’s Wu Xia (2011).” In Reconceptualizing the Digital Humanities in Asia: New Representations of Art, History and Culture, edited by Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, 17–30. Singapore: Springer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4642-6_2.  
• Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim. “Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTube.” In Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences, edited by Hyesu Park. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.

• Wai Han, Lo, and Cheng Benjamin Ka Lun. 2020. “Melodramatic Animation, Presence and Sympathy for Crime Victims in News: An Experiment with Adolescents in Hong Kong.” Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00028_1.
• 2020）《香港文學大系》—歌詞卷。香港：商務印書局。

• Dai, Yaoyao, and Luwei Luqiu. 2020. “Camouflaged Propaganda: A Survey Experiment on Political Native Advertising.” Research & Politics 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168020935250.  

• Luqiu, Luwei Rose. 2020. “Female Journalists Covering the Hong Kong Protests Confront Ambivalent Sexism on the Street and in the Newsroom.” Feminist Media Studies: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1842481.  

• Ragragio, Jefferson Lyndon D. 2020. “Framing Media Populism: The Political Role of News Media Editorials in Duterte’s Philippines:” Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920959505.

• Salaudeen, Mistura Adebusola, and Ngozi Onyechi. 2020. “Digital Media vs Mainstream Media: Exploring the Influences of Media Exposure and Information Preference as Correlates of Media Credibility.” Cogent Arts & Humanities 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1837461.
• Salaudeen, Mistura Adebusola. Framing Family Planning: An Analysis of Nigerian Newspaper Coverage. In Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa, edited by Alfred O. Akwala and Agnes Wanjiku Muchura Theuri, 91–115. IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8091-1.ch006.

• Shi, Jingyuan, and Yue Dai. 2020. “Promoting Favorable Attitudes Toward Seeking Counseling Among People With Depressive Symptomatology: A Masspersonal Communication Approach.” Health Communication: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1834209.  

• Thussu, Daya. “Culture as soft power: India.” In BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order?, edited by Daya Thussu and Kaarle Nordenstreng. London: Routledge, 2020.
• Thussu, Daya. “BRICS de-Americanizing the Internet.” In BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order?, edited by Daya Thussu and Kaarle Nordenstreng. London: Routledge, 2020.
• Thussu, Daya. 2020. “The Soft Power of India.” Lumina 14(1): 111–24. https://doi.org/10.34019/1981-4070.2020.v14.30137.

• Tsang, Stephanie Jean. 2020. “Motivated Fake News Perception: The Impact of News Sources and Policy Support on Audiences’ Assessment of News Fakeness.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020952129.  

• Wang, Dan, Vincent Lei Huang, and Steve Zhongshi Guo. 2020. “Malleable Multiplicity and Power Reliance: Identity Presentation by Chinese Journalists on Social Media.” Digital Journalism: 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1832900.  

• Zhang, Xinzhi, and Minyi Chen. 2020. “Journalists’ Adoption and Media’s Coverage of Data-Driven Journalism: A Case of Hong Kong.” Journalism Practice: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1824126.   

• Zhu, Ying. 2020. “Travel Down Memory Lane: Nostalgia and Nostophobia in Youth (2017).” Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 18(1): 9–26. https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2020-0001.

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