JOURNALISM & MEDIA STUDIES CENTRE
| Researcher : Abraham T |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Abraham T., Inside the Swine Flu Pandemic, Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong. 2010. |
| Abraham T., Lessons from Pandemic Communication, World Health Organization, Geneva, Workshop on Modern Tools for Risk Communication. 2010. |
| Abraham T., New Tools for Risk Communication, World Health Organization, Geneva, Workshop on Modern Tools for Strategic Communication. 2010. |
| Abraham T., Risk and Outbreak Communications. Lessons From Alternate Paradigms, Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009, 87: 565-644. |
| Abraham T., Strong Religion Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India , Asian Journal of Communication. Singapore, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), 2009, 19:2: 251-52. |
| Abraham T., The Challenges of Pandemic Communication, World health Organization, Workshop on new tools for pandemic communciation. 2010. |
| Abraham T., The Price of Poor Pandemic Communication, British Medical Journal. London UK, BMJ Publishing group limited, 2010, 340: 1307. |
| Abraham T., There Is No False Pandemic, International Herald Tribune. New York USA, New York Times, 2010. |
| Researcher : Bandurski DL |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bandurski D.L., "Jousting with China's Monsters: Watchdog Journalism in China's Era of Transition", powerpoint talk delivered at China Behind the Headlines forum hosted at the University of Colorado, Boulder, In: Professor Timothy Weston, University of Colorado, Boulder. 2010. |
| Bandurski D.L., "Why China's Charm Offensive Will Stall", Far Eastern Economic Review. Wall Street Journal, 2009, 172 no. 2. |
| Bandurski D.L., Ghost Town, independent documentary film on China, selected for 2009 New York Film Festival, In: David Bandurski, producer Zhao Dayong, director, Film Society of Lincoln Center. 2009. |
| Bandurski D.L., The High Life, independent fiction feature film, FIPRESCI Prize (The International Federation of Film Critics) at 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival, 寻欢作乐, In: Producer, David Bandurski Director, Zhao Dayong, Hong Kong International Film Festival, The International Federation of Film Critics. 2010. |
| Bandurski D.L., The High Life, independent fiction feature film, Silver Digital Award at 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival, 寻欢作乐, In: Producer, David Bandurski Director, Zhao Dayong, Hong Kong International Film Festival. 2010. |
| Bandurski D.L., Voices in the Gap: Media and Culture in China's Era of Transition, In: Professor Chua Beng Huat, moderator, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, lecture delivered at the National Library of Singapore. 2010. |
| Bandurski D.L., Voices in the Gap: The Key to China's Soft Power, In: Professor Chua Beng Huat, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, paper presented following public lecture on media and culture in China. 2010. |
| Researcher : Chan YY |
| Project Title: | A critical analysis of the "actual malice" standard in libel litigation in Taiwan in the context of globalisation of libel law |
| Investigator(s): | Chan YY |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Low Budget High Impact Programme |
| Start Date: | 11/2001 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine the "actual malice" standard in libel litigation through a critical analysis of landmark court decisions in Liu Tai-Ying vs. Ying Chan, et al, in Taiwan. |
| Project Title: | Equipping a Multi-media Digital Newsroom |
| Investigator(s): | Chan YY, Laurie JA, McBride RM, Tong NMY |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Leung Kau Kui Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants |
| Start Date: | 01/2009 |
| Abstract: |
| Recently, additional office space has been made available to the JMSC at Eliot Hall to accommodate a multi-media digital newsroom. The JMSC offers courses in new media and video / TV production, teaching technical skills that equip students to function effectively in a live news-reporting setting. The rolling out of new technology is changing the platform for news reporting. Graduates now have to be conversant in the broad range of digital and mobile technologies as a minimum requirement for any media-related jobs. The multi-media newsroom will create a news and feature story telling screening and editing facility for students. We envision a fully functioning international television ingest area where students can study news and documentaries on cable and broadband TV. Students would also be able to learn how to uplink multi-media content to a variety of web-based content providers. The newsroom will provide opportunities for collaborative projects in the form of news feeds created by students for international organisations such as ABC News, BBC World News, California Public Service Television and National Education Television Association. The JMSC has received requests from such organisations for collaboration and the equipment necessary for a fully-functional newsroom will pave the way for students to engage in multi-media news production under faculty supervision. The equipment requested in this proposal is insufficient to outfit the entire newsroom; other funding sources have been requested for computers and cameras. The newsroom will comfortably allow 12-14 students to work together. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan Y.Y., "Media Development in China", International Press Institute, Annual Congress, Helsinki, June. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y. and Chan Y.Y., "Obama Lost a Round," . International Herald Tribune,, 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., "The Journalism Tradition" , introduction to Investigative Journalism in China, HKU Press, 2010. |
| Chan Y.Y., "The Role of Journalism and Journalist Diversity in Developing Nations", Annual conference, Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Media, Boston, August. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., "The Role of the News Media in Risk Communication,", Conference on “Global Dialogue: Response to Wenchuan Earthquake: Challenges and Governance, ” sponsored by HKU and Beijing Normal University, Chengdu, China, November. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., A Scholar’s View: The State Media Have an Iron Grip and Grand Plans (Global Asia, June 2010), Seoul, East Asia Foundation, 2010. |
| Chan Y.Y., Qian G. and Zhai M.L., China's Bold Bloggers, 中國猛博, Cosmos Books Ltd. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., China's media: challenges and opportunities, Asian Media Forum, Global Forum for Media Development, Jakarta, . 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., Covering China: US mainstream paper coverage of environmental issues in China, Shanghai Media Summit Conference. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., The role of journalism and journalist diversity in developing nations, Annual conference, Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Media, Boston. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., 中美信息攻防戰玄機, 亞洲周刊. 2009. |
| Chan Y.Y., 資源共享——「創意通」共建通識課程, Media Digest. 2009. |
| Fu K.W., Zhou L. and Chan Y.Y., Analyzing Media Coverage on Government's Disaster Management Practices after Wenchuan Earthquake: A Preliminary Result, International Disaster and Risk Conference. Chengdu, China, 2009. |
| Fu K.W., White J., Chan Y.Y., Zhou L., Zhang L. and Lu Q.I.B.I.N., Enabling the disabled: Media use and communication needs of people with disabilities during and after the Sichuan earthquake in China, International Journal of Emergency Management. 2010, 7 No.1. |
| Fu K.W., Zhou L. and Chan Y.Y., Wireless Alert Accessibility: International Research Findings, Wireless Emergency Communications, State of Technology Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2009. |
| Researcher : Fu KW |
| Project Title: | Young generation’s Internet use and civic engagement in Hong Kong and Beijing: a comparative study |
| Investigator(s): | Fu KW |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 05/2010 |
| Abstract: |
| International and local studies consistently show that young generation depends heavily on the internet for learning, social activities, and leisure (City University of Hong Kong, 2009; Jones & Fox, 2009). This young age cohort is usually perceived, primarily by the older adults, as less self-regulative and more susceptible to the mass media’s influences (Strasburger, Wilson, & Jordan, 2009), but meanwhile many scholars argue that unduly emphasizing the negative impacts of media is theoretically, empirically, and public-policy-wise unfounded (Livingstone, 2009). Such widespread public obsession over the negative side of media impacts, named by some as moral panic or media panic, has resulted considerable social anxieties over younger age people’s online activities, and has overwhelmingly dominated the public debate. It has thereby directed much research attention disproportionately toward studying negative effects of emerging media, examples like online violence, pornography, or internet addiction, but relatively less on investigating the opportunities gained by the internet, its pro-social, or beneficial impacts (Montgomery & Gottlieb-Robles, 2006). Internet and emerging media have been recognized as the new communication channels, especially for the younger age technology-savvy generation, to facilitate their civic participation and involvement into the process of public decision making unprecedentedly (Dahlgren & Olsson, 2008; Montgomery & Gottlieb-Robles, 2006). In a telephone survey on American adults aged 18-24 in 2008, about one in every six respondents reported that they had taken part in 2 or more than 2 civic or political activities in the past 12 months (Smith, Schlozman, Verba, & Brady, 2009). While only considering online civic activities by means of blogging political contents or making political use of social networking sites, this report read, “What is most unambiguous is that posting material about political or social issues on the Web and using social networking sites politically are forms of online engagement that are dominated by the young—especially the youngest adults” (Smith, et al., 2009, p. 50). However, there is currently very limited research about youth’s online civic engagement in Hong Kong and China. For example, recent incidents in Hong Kong (Express Rail Link) and China (Google's threat to withdraw from China) have triggered much discussion about young people’s involvement in social issues and public protests, in which the participants were mainly mobilized through Internet. How some contextual factors in these two places, like political censorship in China and the new “post-80s” generation in China/Hong Kong, play their role in shaping the young people’s civic engagement is an important research question. Another interesting but unaddressed issue is whether these Hong Kong or Chinese young age people behave in same online manner and identical features cross-culturally as do their counterparts in other countries. To what extent do they exhibit similarities and differences is worth asking through conducting comparative research to address “the question of universality and simultaneously, uniqueness of findings based on nation-specific data, which cannot be answered unless we compare them with the data from other countries (Hasebrink, Ólafsson, & Štětka, 2009, p. 44).” In this regard, this proposal outlines a research project aimed at exploring the ways in which the internet and the new media could (or could not) enable/empower/enlighten the young generation to engage in civic participation with respect to the unique and specific social and cultural contexts in Hong Kong and China. Conceptualizing Online Civic Engagement With the characteristics of robustness, interactivity, rapid information dissemination, and globally borderless, the internet is routinely conceived by the public and many scholars as an major ingredient of a new political sphere for civic participation, which is usually anchored within the boundaries of democratic system and traditional party politics. Online civic participants no longer act as a passive media receiving end of political information and knowledge, but could be also an active initiator or contributor to the online political discussions. These activities could potentially challenge the normative model of public agenda-setting, serving as emerging agenda-setters via bottom-up approach but no longer through the dominant top-down approach mainly initiated by the mainstream mass media, political parties, or the governments. However, while focusing too much on the power of the internet, such view could easily invite criticisms, like “naïve Internet-optimism” (Laer & Aelst, 2010, p. 248) or technological determinism, which is a notion that excessive emphasis is put on the side of technology per se but not on the broader scope of socio-cultural contexts. Another dimension of apprehending online civic engagement is its role on identity construction, particularly during the life course of young people. As put by Dahlgren & Olsson (2008, p. 496), many young people in modern society tend to spend much time and energy on “identity work”, which is defined as their effort that “they are engaged in formulating who they are, what life goals they want to strive for, what their vocational calling will be.” By encouraging young people to articulate their views and self-expression online, Internet is able to offer multiple virtual platforms and networks for them to establish social groupings and identities, to build up capacity of being social agents, and to discover or recover their social position and meaning for the peers, the communities, and the society at large. Dahlgren & Olsson (2008) suggests that civic engagement, as reflected by the civic culture, could be conceptualized as six dimensions with mutual reciprocal relationships: 1) knowledge, 2) values, 3) trust, 4) spaces, 5) practices and skills, and 6) identities. This framework will help us in this study develop the conceptual model for addressing the following research questions. Research Questions 1) How can the internet facilitate civic participation among young age people with different demographic, socio-cultural and psycho-social backgrounds in Hong Kong and China? 2) In what ways and to what extent do the six dimensions and other contextual factors play their role in shaping young people’s online civic participation? 3) What are the similarities and differences in civic engagement between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese young people and why? 4) What are the similarities and differences in civic engagement between Chinese and American young people and why? |
| Project Title: | International Communication Association Annual Conference 2010 (ICA 2010) Is Internet Addiction a Distinct Construct From Other Psychopathological Conditions? Evidence From a Panel Study on a Representative Sample in Hong Kong, China |
| Investigator(s): | Fu KW |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 06/2010 |
| Completion Date: | 06/2010 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Fu K.W., Zhou L. and Chan Y.Y., Analyzing Media Coverage on Government's Disaster Management Practices after Wenchuan Earthquake: A Preliminary Result, International Disaster and Risk Conference. Chengdu, China, 2009. |
| Fu K.W., Communicating Risk in Sichuan Earthquake, Disaster Recovery Management and Reconstruction Engineering. 2010. |
| Fu K.W., Confirmatory Factor Analysis: a nontechnical introduction, Research Seminar, Department of Social Work and Social Administration. 2010. |
| Fu K.W., White J., Chan Y.Y., Zhou L., Zhang L. and Lu Q.I.B.I.N., Enabling the disabled: Media use and communication needs of people with disabilities during and after the Sichuan earthquake in China, International Journal of Emergency Management. 2010, 7 No.1. |
| Fu K.W., Chan W.S.C., Wong P.W.C. and Yip P.S.F., Internet addiction: prevalence, discriminant validity and correlates among adolescents in Hong Kong, British Journal of Psychiatry. UK, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010, 196: 486–492. |
| Fu K.W., Internet and suicide: a case study on animated suicide stories in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Symposium on Suicide and the Mass Media: An International Perspective. 2010. |
| Fu K.W., Is Internet Addiction a Distinct Construct From Other Psychopathological Conditions? Evidence From a Panel Study on a Representative Sample in Hong Kong, China, Annual International Communication Association Conference. Singapore, 2010. |
| Fu K.W. and White J., Who do you Trust? Comparing People-centered Communication in Disaster Situations in the US and China , 7th Annual ICPA-Forum Workshop, Designing Disaster Resilience and Public Policy. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2010. |
| Fu K.W., Zhou L. and Chan Y.Y., Wireless Alert Accessibility: International Research Findings, Wireless Emergency Communications, State of Technology Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2009. |
| Yip P.S.F., Law C.K., Fu K.W., Law Y.W., Wong P.W.C. and Xu Y., Restricting the means of suicide by charcoal burning, British Journal of Psychiatry. UK, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010, 196(3): 241-242. |
| Researcher : Lai YYW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lai Y.Y.W. and Lane T., Characteristics of Medical Research News Reported on Front Pages of Newspapers , In: Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, United States of America, Public Library of Science ONE. 2009, PLoS ONE 4(7): e6103. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006103. |
| Lai Y.Y.W. and Lane T., Sources and Coverage of Medical News on Front Pages of US Newspapers, Public Library of Science ONE. 2009, PLoS ONE 4(9): e6856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006856. |
| Researcher : Lih AA |
| Project Title: | Collaborative network-based systems for participatory journalism |
| Investigator(s): | Lih AA |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding for New Staff |
| Start Date: | 11/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate the systems, technologies, and communities that have facilitated the rise of modern participatory journalism. |
| Project Title: | 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? |
| Investigator(s): | Lih AA |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 04/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Project Title: | Wikimania 2005: The First International Wikimedia Conference Wikipedia in a Participartory Journalism Framework |
| Investigator(s): | Lih AA |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 08/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| N/A |
| Researcher : Ma ONV |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ma O.N.V., Being A Good Person, Ming Pao, 一個好人,《明報》通通識名家寫作, Hong Kong, 2010. |
| Ma O.N.V., Dream And Bubble-Hong Kong Book Fair 2009 , C For Culture Monthly, 香港書展的美夢和泡影,《 文化現場》, Hong Kong, 2009, Pp. 34-35. |
| Ma O.N.V., Last Letter Of Eileen Chang, Ming Pao, 張愛玲的最後信函,《明報》, Hong Kong, Ming Pao, 2009. |
| Ma O.N.V., Legend of The Fall of the Pagoda, Ming Pao, 破塔團圓的傳奇, Hong Kong, 2010. |
| Ma O.N.V., Mind Reading, Ming Pao, 透視你的心,《明報》通通識名家寫作, Hong Kong, 2010. |
| Ma O.N.V., On Observation, Ming Pao , 在那闌珊處《明報》通通識名家寫作, 2010. |
| Ma O.N.V., On Writing, Ming Pao, 我寫故我在《明報》通通識名家寫作, Hong Kong, 2010. |
| Researcher : MacKinnon R |
| Project Title: | Multimedia and Convergent Journalism |
| Investigator(s): | MacKinnon R, Laurie JA, Cheng PP |
| Department: | Journalism & Media Studies Centre |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Leung Kau Kui Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants |
| Start Date: | 05/2008 |
| Abstract: |
| The Journalism and Media Studies Centre aspires to be Asia's leading institution for professional journalism training. It will be impossible to meet this goal without beefing up the quality of our new media and video production offerings. We are well on our way to building an excellent team with myself heading up New Media instruction and Jim Laurie heading up our video instruction. A new advanced course in multimedia web skills will be offered this spring. Technical skills cannot be taught well without adequate equipment so that students can learn how to use the software and gear used by professionals, and hone their skills as much as possible. At the moment our existing equipment is not adequate to match the skills needed to be taught in three courses for Spring 2008. Hence this proposal focuses entirely on equipment: video and still cameras with related accessories, audio recorders, and the computer equipment needed to produce professional quality video and multimedia online works. |
| Researcher : Qian G |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan Y.Y., Qian G. and Zhai M.L., China's Bold Bloggers, 中國猛博, Cosmos Books Ltd. 2009. |
| Researcher : Weisenhaus D |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Li C. and Weisenhaus D., China's Media, In: Christopher H. Sterling , Encyclopedia of Journalism. US, Sage, 2009, 287-292. |
| Weisenhaus D., Creating Media Law Databases and Websites, 2nd Southeast Asia Media Defense Litigation Conference. 2009. |
| Weisenhaus D., Moderator, Media Legal Defense in Asia, International Media Conference: Reporting New Realities in Asia and the Pacific, co-hosted by the East-West Center (Hawaii) and Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong. 2010. |