Team member (from left to right): Lo Shuk Lan, Wong Ka Lin, Wong Wing Lam, Chan Hei Tung, Wong Kin Pan Creative minds from COM have won the Best Campaign Theme Award with their campaign (老細要Solve符) at Hong Kong Creative Public Relations Competition 2020 (HKCPRC). The campaign aims at promoting a
On September 28, 2020, we had a research seminar led by Dr. Guanxiong Huang from COM. Dr. Huang gave an insightful talk about how self-benefit and other-benefit incentives offered through a mobile app can promote physical activities. The findings provided profound implications for the corporate sponsorship program partnered with fitness apps, and more broadly, effective
Brenna Davidson and Jeffry Oktavianus, doctoral students from COM, won the third-place student paper award from the Electronic News Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), which was held virtually on August 6-9, 2020. Their paper, entitled “What to watch? Text-image relationship strategies and their use
The Environmental Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) recently announced the winner of its 2020 Environmental Communication Division Dissertation Award. Dr. Nan Zhang, a former PhD student of the Department, has been selected to receive this award for her PhD thesis entitled, “Constructing a Green Public Sphere: Environmental Activism and the Role of
The Department of Media and Communication held its PhD student orientation on September 9th, 2020. We warmly welcomed one of our largest ever cohorts, with nine new students joining our program. At the orientation, held via Zoom, the students were introduced to our faculty, administrative and technical staff, and their fellow PhD students from older
