Research Impact and Knowledge Transfer
Interactive Media Scholar joins WHO Social Media Research Project
Jingyuan Jolie Shi of the School of Communication has been appointed to a World Health Organization (WHO) panel investigating how to convey health-related risks through…
Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy
Several of the School’s researchers are contributing to the university-wide “Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Hong Kong”, which aims to provide authorities with timely incremental research…
International symposium held in the midst of a global pandemic grapples with ‘infodemics’
The importance of credible health information has been underlined by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Against this backdrop, the Centre for Media and Communication Research convened…
Forum: Ways to combat coronavirus misinformation
The coronavirus has taken the world by storm and generated a tremendous impact on people’s lives. In crises like this, people seek information to assess the situation and to protect themselves and their loved ones. However, concerns exist about the credibility and neutrality of ...
Webinar: Breaking news, how journalists report on the global pandemic
As COVID-19 reaches every corner of the globe, it is still hard to grasp the scale and scope of its worldwide impact. Virtually no aspect of our lives has been left unaffected. Journalists around the world are reporting on the pandemic from many different angles, ...
Webinar: How Chinese language journalists dig and tell COVID-19 stories
As COVID-19 reaches every corner of the globe, it is still hard to grasp the scale and scope of its worldwide impact. Virtually no aspect of our lives has been left unaffected. Journalists around the world are reporting on the pandemic from many different angles, ...
Materialism among children and youth
What factors may make children and adolescents adopt materialistic values? In the past 15 years, Professor Kara Chan (Department of Communication Studies) and her team conducted 14 studies on the ...
Persuasive health communication research increased Hong Kong’s organ donation registrants
Dr. Timothy Fung’s research changed health promotional practice and increased Hong Kong’s organ donation registrants. His research on persuasive health communication guided the message design of an animated video, entitled Say Your Wish, Save a Life, for organ donation promotion. In 2016, the government ...