About the Center

The Centre for Communication Research was founded in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Science at the City University of Hong Kong in 2005 . The center was initially funded by the University, supplemented with external grants from such sources as the Research Grants Committee of Hong Kong, Google, and the Taipei City Government. The core members are at the forefront of research and publication in International Communication, Media Effects, New Media, Communication for Social Change, and Political Economy of the Media. Closely affiliated with the Department of Media and Communication, the Centre has collaborated with a wide network of interdisciplinary scholars from around the world.

Graduate Student Conference at The Institute of Communication Studies of National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

The Institute of Communication Studies of National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu organized a graduate conference for CityU and NCTU students from November 27-29th, 2019. This conference event titled, “Graduate Student Conference for Communication: Hong Kong and Taiwan” enabled four PhD students from the Department to share their research and to get detailed feedback from

Research Seminar by Dr. Chung-hong Chan

On October 14, 2019, we invited Dr. Chung-hong Chan from the University of Mannheim. Dr. Chan presented the limitations of the dictionary-based bag-of-words method, which has long been used as an automated content analysis method, and how to deal with it. The seminar was delivered via live streaming, with questions and answers online. Although it

2019-20 Student mentor orientation night

2019-20 Student mentors and freshmen gathering at Creative Media Center, City University of Hong Kong   2019-20 student mentor orientation was held at Creative Media Center on 27th September 2019.  As a program coordinator, I give thanks to all student mentors who are volunteers to help the freshmen of our department. We have 18 student mentors