Sai Wang, a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong, has recently published single- and lead-authored articles in top journals. The study published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media investigates how the presumed effects of uncivil news comments on other users influence perceivers’ intention to engage in
Lu Guan, a PhD student of our department, has received an Outstanding Research Papers Awards Scheme for PhD Students from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). The scheme is to award PhD students for publishing in top quality journals during their studies and will grant HK$5,000 to cover the cost of copy-editing.
A meeting with undergraduate students was held at the beginning of Semester B on 20 January 2020. Students from 3 different undergraduate programs, BATVB, BAMDCM and BDCOM were invited. The objective of the meeting is to enhance communication among students; to introduce our undergraduate programs in details as well as the newly launched student program
Prof. Jonathan Zhu, Dr. Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Dr. Xiaofan Liu of the Department of Media & Communication were invited to give talks at the First International Workshop on Computational Humanities and Social Science at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on 19 January 2020. Tohoku University, one of the seven leading national universities in Japan, has recently
Prof. WU Ye from Beijing Normal University gave a talk to the department on January 13, 2020. He summarized his recent work on the analysis of a popular Chinese knowledge sharing platform, Zhihu (知乎) and discussed their findings of the factors which affect the continuity of users knowledge sharing behavior. Prof. WU visits the department
