People & Projects

Starting out as the oldest communication programme in Hong Kong, we are now one of the region’s largest and most comprehensive communication schools. Faculty are actively engaged in collaborations with peers in other countries and continents. They are committed to making an impact beyond the academe, and work closely with industry, the professional community, civic groups, government, and international organisations. While deeply rooted in Hong Kong’s media and cultural scene, we have strong and growing connections with universities in Mainland China, as well as with peers around the world.

Cherian George was inducted as a Fellow of the International Communication Association at ICA’s annual conference in Paris in May 2022. He is HKBU’s first…

Communication science scholar Jos Bartels joined Hong Kong Baptist University in 2020 under its Talent100 initiative. A Dutch native, Bartels started his career at the…

Journalism scholar Celine Song has received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (HSSPFS) for her project studying news coverage about climate change in China,…

Born and brought up in China, Rose Luwei Luqiu nurtured a desire to become a journalist from the age of 10. After studying philosophy and…

Even as the on-going pandemic heightens the need for reliable news and information, Hong Kong media’s capacity to serve that demand has been severely hit, according to a new study by Dr. Janet Lo.

Dr Janet Lo - Department of Journalism

From studying comparative literature at the University of Washington and earning a doctorate in East Asian languages and civilisation at Harvard, to venturing into cinema and literary studies early in his academic career, Dr Kenny Ng Kwok Kwan’s journey in the academe has led ...

Dr Kenny Ng - Academy of Film

Analysing the impact of emerging giants China and India on the geopolitics of global communication is the ambitious task that Professor Daya Thussu has decided to set himself. He is working on a monograph, The Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication, which will draw on two ...

Professor Daya Thussu - Department of Journalism

Hong Kong Baptist University will soon be home to the city’s first Interactive Media Department (IMD). The cluster of academics forming IMD aims to cross…

Although the world’s largest internet market by several measures, China’s online universe remains under-studied. The Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) is a key annual event…

Themed pre-conferences are a major highlight of the International Communication Association’s annual conferences. The list of pre-conferences for ICA2022 feature two events (co-)organised by our…

The new Asia-Pacific Journalism Review (APJR) has released its inaugural issue amidst a climate of uncertainty over whether the news industry can meet the pressing need…

The inaugural issue of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images has been released, covering themes ranging from social movements in Hong Kong, and…

The COVID-19 vaccination drive in Hong Kong began in February 2021. However, despite the government providing vaccination for its residents for free, till 13 July…

In line with the growing global interest in questions of gender and sexual justice, several faculty members and doctoral students in the School of Communication…

Hong Kong’s comprehensive Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has affirmed the HKBU School of Communication’s quantum leap in research excellence over the last six years. Among…

In an age of intensifying rivalry between the United States and China, an interdisciplinary conference at Hong Kong Baptist University will look critically at “Cold…

The project will explicate the emic and etic definitions of fake news within the current media landscape and explore news credibility in relation to the various aspects of news production, consumption and perception.

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…

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…

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Editor-in-chief: Kara Chan

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