19/05/2022 (Thursday) 12:45-13:45 E21B-G002 Tracking the Influence of Anti-vaccines Misinformation on the Elderly Population in Hong Kong Exposure to anti-vaccination misinformation in the media has been cited as one primary factor that leads people to develop misperceptions regarding vaccines and resulting in resistance against vaccination (Motta et al., 2018). Nevertheless, elderly people
31/03/2022 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 A Multimodal Analysis of Dialect and Humor on Chinese Social Media Afforded by China’s growing social media market and mobile phone app development, thousands of entrepreneurial individuals have become famous online, known colloquially as ‘Wanghong’. On such social media apps as Weibo or Douyin (TikTok), they use the
29/11/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 An experiment in collective action through the creative use of Chinese memes as part of a mobilised nationalist campaign In this talk, Prof. WU will present a co-authored paper that examines the 2016 Diba Expedition to Facebook, a mass collective organized campaign directed at independence leaning Taiwanese individuals
05/11/2021 (Friday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Opportunity or risk? New media and digital disability New media have been regarded as an enabler that reduces barriers in a disabling environment. Adopting the uses and gratification approach, our study examined the correlation between access to new media (e.g., mobile phones or social media) and the social
23/09/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Obesity Communication with Etiology and Disease The fact that the number of population suffering from obesity has increased worldwide calls into question on media efforts for informing the public. This research attempts to determine the ways in which the mainstream digital news covers the etiology of obesity and
16/09/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Taming human subjects: Reducing variation in behavioral experiments The experimental method is often touted as the gold standard of scientific inquiry based on its ability to enable causal attribution. Valid causal attribution, however, can only be obtained through meaningful comparison across conditions, and this requiresadequate control and filtering
06/05/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Casino Art Patronage and China’s Cultural Governance: The Case of Wynn Macau during Art Macao 2019 This study examines casinos as an institutional site for collecting and exhibiting art and the role of corporate art patronage in promoting local creative and cultural industries. The focus is one gaming
22/04/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Digital mental health intervention for migrant workers: A story from Macau during the COVID-19 pandemic Compared with other international migrants (ie, international students), migrant workers (MWs) encounter more barriers in accessing health services in host countries (eg, inadequate health insurance and social protection). Under normal conditions, MWs have
16/04/2021 (Friday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Communicating and Seeking Health Information in the Age of Digital Media Over the past few decades, the development of Internet has shaped the health communication landscape in many ways. It is clear to see the digital media has become an important source for communicating and seeking health information
08/04/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and Sexual Self-representation among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities This paper examines a nascent network of commercialized sexual self-representation by micro-celebrities in China against the background of platformization, commodification, and illiberal cultural landscapes. Informed by queer Marxist theories, the paper looks at how the career trajectories