- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Media Studies and Communication
- Social Media and Politics
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Hong Kong Baptist University
2021-2024
Although studies have investigated cyber-rumoring previous to the pandemic, little research has been undertaken study rumors and rumor-corrections during COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Drawing on prior about how online stories become viral, this will fill that gap by investigating retransmission of corrective messages Sina Weibo, largest most popular microblogging site in China. This examines impact rumor types, content attributes (including frames, emotion, rationality),...
China’s digital campaign to “vaccinate all who can be vaccinated,” officially launched in December 2020, carries global implications. Grounded the agenda-setting framework reveal how responses of different groups are shaped and their agendas interact, this study analyzed two years Sina Weibo (the largest Chinese microblogging service) Baidu leading search engine China) index data investigate interrelationships among groups’ issue foci effects sentiment, rationality, moral motivation process....
Mainland: This study investigates the intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) relationships among major newspapers in Hong Kong, U.S. and mainland China concerning 2019 anti-extradition bill protests. It builds on protest paradigm to characterize news attributes adopted by leading media outlets examined transfer of attribute agendas at both regional international levels. A total 9,646 items were content analyzed. Granger causality tests revealed that Chinese primary agenda-setter three, contrary...