Investigating human-AI interactions
in health communication
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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital media technologies permeate different sectors of human activities, pertinent questions are being raised about how these can address problems in healthcare. For example, how can AI be utilised to track and predict health behaviours and attitudes? How can computerised systems be developed to understand, ascertain, and improve health decision-making? How can people accurately decipher fact from falsehood amidst abundant algorithmically-generated health information in digital media spaces? Several faculty members in the School of Communication are probing such questions.
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Journal special issue explores how cold wars are narrated
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More than three decades after the end of the US-Soviet Cold War, the world still grapples with its ripple effects. Now, there is talk of a new Sino-US Cold War. The latest issue of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images is devoted to the theme, “Narrating Cold Wars”. It explores how people made sense of the Cold War for themselves and others, as well as how they perceive the legacies of the Cold War in contemporary geopolitics. Guest edited by Kenneth Paul Tan (Department of Journalism) and Dorothy Lau (Academy of Film), the issue’s articles were selected from papers presented at the three-day conference on Narrating Cold Wars organised by the School’s Global Communication and Power research cluster in collaboration with the Academy of Visual Arts and the Department of Government and International Studies. The journal is open-access and can be downloaded via the link below.
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Promoting the idea of family doctors
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This public service video was created by a multidisciplinary team.
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Compared with many other places, having a designated family doctor is not a common practice in Hong Kong. Families tend to rely on general practitioners and specialists for their health care needs, oblivious to the potential health implications of changing doctors constantly. To tackle this challenge, Timothy Fung (Department of Interactive Media) and colleagues from the Faculty of Arts collaborated with the Hong Kong Department of Health and two professional organisations on a community outreach project to promote the family doctor healthcare model. Based on his research on Narrative Persuasion, Fung and his team designed a promotional campaign video (above) and a short drama that explains the benefits of having personalised family doctors. The Chinese version with English subtitles can be viewed here.
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- Yupeng Li (above), an assistant professor in the Department of Interactive Media, received the Young Scholar Rising Star in Social Computing Award from the Social Computing Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).
- Celine Song (Department of Journalism) and her co-authors from Hong Kong Baptist University and Arizona State University received the Best Faculty Article Award from the Chinese Communication Association (CCA) for ‘Curbing profanity online: A network-based diffusion analysis of profane speech on Chinese social media’, published in New Media & Society.
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ARE YOU NEW TO THIS NEWSLETTER?
You are reading the internal version of our School's Research Bulletin, a key way we keep the rest of the university and hundreds of peers beyond BU informed about our researchers' good work. It is compiled by Dr Mistura Adebusola Salaudeen, a graduate of our School’s doctoral programme, who serves as our research outreach officer. The publication list (below) is siphoned from IRIMS (which is your responsibility to keep updated). If you have other news to share, please message Mistura.
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INTEGRATING RESEARCH WITH TEACHING
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How Effective are Hong Kong Subway Ads?
MTR stations in Hong Kong are filled with large colourful electronic boards and posters designed to arrest commuters’ attention and possibly win their patronage. But how effective are these ads? A recent survey conducted by a team of students who took part in the course Audience Measurement and Engagement led by Kara Chan (Department of Communication Studies) provides an answer. Read more.
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Missed our recent talks? You can watch the recordings.
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Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania) talked about his new book on the Wuhan lockdown.
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Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology) highlighted the potential benefits and risks of social media use on patients’ mental well-being.
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Jos Bartels
- Khan, M. N., Shahzad, K., Ahmad, I., & Bartels, J. (2022). Boss, look at me: how and when supervisor’s phubbing behavior affects employees’ supervisor identification. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04120-9
- Khan, M. N., Shahzad, K., & Bartels, J. (2022). Examining boss phubbing and employee outcomes through the lens of affective events theory. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 74(5), 877-900. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-07-2021-0198
- Irshad, M., Bartels, J., Majeed, M., & Bashir, S. (2022). When breaking the rule becomes necessary: The impact of leader–member exchange quality on nurses pro‐social rule‐breaking. Nursing Open, 9(5), 2289-2303. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.979
Kara Chan
 Kara Chan’s new co-edited volume describes the theoretical development of social inclusion as a key outcome measure for health intervention and social services initiatives. The book presents and compares studies that enable us to see how people in different cultures interpret the concept of social inclusion and how social inclusion is experienced among different disadvantaged groups in society. Social inclusion: Theoretical development and cross-cultural measurements is the second book in the Mediated Health Series published by City University of Hong Kong Press.
- Chan, K., Ho, A., Serban, F. C., & Fung, M. (2022). Nurturing creative talent with industry partnership in Hong Kong. TVET@Asia The online journal on technical and vocational education and training in Asia, (19).
Terri Chan
- Chan, T. H. (2022). Cultivating consumer-brand relationship in social media: The role of consumer willingness to engage. International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, 17(1-2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIMA.2022.125138
Regina Chen
- Chen, Y-R. R., Hung‐Baesecke, CJ. F., & Chen, Y. (Accepted/In press). Public Relations Theory Development In China: In the Areas of Dialogic Communication, Crisis Communication, and CSR Communication. In C. H. Botan, & E. Sommerfeldt (Eds.), Public Relations Theory III: In The Age of Publics (1st ed.) Routledge.
- Chen, Y-R. R., Ma, M., & Hung‐Baesecke, CJ. F. (2023). The Roles of Internal Communication in Driving Corporate Volunteering among Chinese Employees: An Integrated Approach of Social Influence and Volunteering Motivations. In N. McCown, L. R. Men, H. Jiang, & H. Shen (Eds.), Internal Communications and Employee Engagement: A Case Study Approach (1st ed.). Routledge.
Guangchao Feng
- Feng, G. C., & Luo, N. (2022). Do sex and violence sell internationally? A moderating role of cultural differences in the mediation effect of age ratings on the relationship between films’ content elements and worldwide box office performance. International Communication Gazette. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485221144593
- Zhao, X., Feng, G. C., Ao, S. H., & Liu, P. L. (2022). Interrater reliability estimators tested against true interrater reliabilities. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22(1), [232]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01707-5
Vincent Huang and Steve Guo
- Zhong, L., Huang, V., & Guo, S. Z. S. (2022). Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong. Mobile Media and Communication, 10(3), 448-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221077525
Timothy Fung
- Fung, T. K. F., Namkoong, K., Kim, J., & Lai, P. Y. (2022). Linking psychometric paradigm of risk and issue attention cycle: Risk information in news coverage of avian and swine influenza global outbreaks. Science Communication, 44(6), 719-758. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470221138625
- Fung, T. K. F., Lai, P. Y., Chang, L., & Leung, H. M. (2022). Applying the comprehensive model of information seeking to understand chronic illness information scanning: Hong Kong evidence. World Medical and Health Policy, 14(2), 382-412. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.515
Kineta Hung
- Hung, K., Tse, D. K., & Chan, T. H. (2022). E-Commerce Influencers in China: Dual-Route Model on Likes, Shares, and Sales. Journal of Advertising, 51(4), 486-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2021.1990811
Mateja Kovacic
- Marvin, S., While, A., Chen, B., & Kovacic, M. (2022). Urban AI in China: Social control or hyper-capitalist development in the post-smart city? Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4, [1030318]. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.1030318
Yupeng Li
- Li, Y. P., Xia, M., Duan, J., & Chen, Y. (2022). Pricing-based resource allocation in three-tier edge computing for social welfare maximization. Computer Networks, 217, [109311]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109311
Angela Mak
- Harris, S., Mak, A., & Tsang, L. (2022). Revisiting contingency theory in regenerative social-mediated crisis: An investigation of Maxim’s and Yoshinoya in Hong Kong’s polarized context. Public Relations Review, 48(4), [102227]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102227
Yu Leung Ng
- Ng, Y-L. (2022). An error management approach to perceived fakeness of deepfakes: The moderating role of perceived deepfake targeted politicians’ personality characteristics. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03621-x
Jolie Shi
- Su, Y., & Shi, J. (2023). Extending the Risk Perception Attitude Framework to Predict Individuals’ Engagement in Collective Actions against Cancer. Health Communication, 38(1), 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1935540
Celine Song
- Song, C. Y., Huang, M. Z., Schuldt, J. P., & Yuan, Y. C. (2022). National prisms of a global phenomenon: A comparative study of press coverage of climate change in the US, UK and China. Journalism, 23(10), 2208-2229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884921989124
Elina Tachkova
- Coombs, W. T., & Tachkova, E. R. (2022). Elaborating the concept of threat in contingency theory: An integration with moral outrage and situational crisis communication theory. Public Relations Review, 48(4), [102234]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102234
- Coombs, T. W., & Tachkova, E. R. (2022). Extending the Value of Crisis Translation in Crisis Communication. In S. O’Brien, & F. M. Federici (Eds.), Translating Crises (1st ed., pp. 37-48). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350240117.ch-2
Daya Thussu
Stephanie Tsang
- Tsang, S. J. (2022). Biased, not lazy: assessing the effect of COVID-19 misinformation tactics on perceptions of inaccuracy and fakeness. Online Media and Global Communication, 1(3), 469–496. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2022-0037
- Tsang, S. J. (2022). Predicting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Hong Kong: Vaccine knowledge, risks from coronavirus, and risks and benefits of vaccination. Vaccine: X, 11, [100164]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100164
Sai Wang
- Wang, S. (2022). Hostile media perceptions and consumption of genetically modified and organic foods: Examining the mediating role of risk-benefit assessments. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14054
- Sun, Y., Oktavianus, J., Wang, S., & Lu, F. (2022). The Role of Influence of Presumed Influence and Anticipated Guilt in Evoking Social Correction of COVID-19 Misinformation. Health Communication, 37(11), 1368-1377. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1888452
Dominic Yeo
- Liu, P. L., & Yeo, T. E. D. (2022). Challenges in Cancer Control Confronting the LGBT Population in China: Health Risks, Unique Barriers, and Unmet Needs. In U. Boehmer, & G. Dennert (Eds.), LGBT Populations and Cancer in the Global Context (1st ed., pp. 303-316). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06585-9_15
- Yeo, T. E. D. (2022). Models of viral propagation in digital contexts: How messages and ideas—from Internet memes to fake news—created by consumers, bots, and marketers spread. In R. Llamas, & R. W. Belk (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption (2nd ed., pp. 489-501). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317524-45
Xinzhi Zhang
- Zhang, X. (2023). Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity. Human Communication Research. Online first. doi: 10.1093/hcr/hqad009
- Zhao, X., Chen, L., Jin, Y., & Zhang, X. (2023). Comparing button-based chatbots with webpages for presenting fact-checking results: A case study of health information. Information Processing & Management, 60(2), 103203. Online first. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103203
- Zhang, X., Zhu, R., Chen, L., Zhang, Z., & Chen, M. (2022). News from Messenger? A cross-national comparative study of news media’s audience engagement strategies via Facebook Messenger chatbots. Digital Journalism. Online first. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2145329.
- Zhang, X., & Zhu, R. (2022). How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health crisis. Journalism, 23(12), 2627-2645. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211023153
Bu Zhong
- Li, L., Shi, J., & Zhong, B. (2023). Good in arts, good at computer? Rural students' computer skills are bolstered by arts and science literacies. Computers in Human Behavior, 140, [107573]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107573
- Xie, L., Pinto, J., & Zhong, B. (2022). Building community resilience on social media to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, 134, [107294]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107294
- Zhong, B., Sun, T., Zhou, Y., & Xie, L. (2022). Privacy matters: reexamining internet privacy concern among social media users in a cross-cultural setting. Atlantic Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2099548
Shuo Zhou
- Zhou, S., Villalobos, J. P., Munoz, A., & Bull, S. (2022). Ethnic Minorities’ Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccines and Challenges in the Pandemic: A Qualitative Study to Inform COVID-19 Prevention Interventions. Health Communication, 37(12), 1476-1487. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2093557
- Li, Q., Riosmena, F., Valverde, P. A., Zhou, S., Amura, C., Peterson, K. A., Palusci, V. J., & Feder, L. (2022). Preventing intimate partner violence among foreign-born Latinx mothers through relationship education during nurse home visiting. Journal of Nursing Management, 30(6), 1639-1647. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13565
Sheng Zou
- Zou, S. (2022). When a Subculture Goes Pop: Platforms, Mavericks, and Capital in the Production of “Boys’ Love” Web Series in China. Media Industries, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/mij.471
- Zou, S. (2022). Curating a scopic contact zone: Short video, rural performativity, and the mediatization of socio-spatial order in China. Television & New Media. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476422112892
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