Biying Wu-Ouyang
@BiyingWuOuyang
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Assist Prof at EdUHK | media tech| news | pol comm| affect, curation, algorithm | health | PhD from @CUHKofficial |@PSUBellisario @kingsartshums alumni
Hong Kong
Joined April 2016
📢 New Research Alert! 🌏Does internet freedom shape social media's impact? ⚡️Our comparative study reveals despite restricted internet freedom in Asia, social media use for political information still exhibit an overall 🧨pro-liberal tendencies (1/n)
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However, when more internet feeedom on user rights, the effects on authoritarian orientation are increased, indicating the polarizing effects.
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Notably, social media’s democratic effects was accentuated by increased freedom of content but weakened by reduced user rights protections. When more freedom on internet content, social media’s democratic effects is strengthened, congruent with the diverse and democratic theory.
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We further explain how this democratic effects are mediated by political nationalism- a specific type of nationalism and moderated by three subdimensions of internet freedom. (4/n)
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🌏Does internet freedom shape social media's impact? Our new comparative study reveals despite restricted internet freedom, social media use for political information still exhibit an overall pro-liberal tendencies ⚠️ But these effects hinge on internet freedom
This #JMCQ study demonstrated that social media has democratizing effects in #Japan, Mainland #China, #Taiwan, #Singapore, #Vietnam, and #malaysiaopen2025. Effects were mediated by political nationalism and moderated by internet freedom.
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I am touched and appreciated by the discussion to highlight invisible things on the table! E.g, “female colleagues do more invisible caring work in department and outside their academic careers”. Every department should have a conversation abt the division of emotional labor.
Do more publications mean more knowledge? Do universities’ ranking pursuits clash with scholars’ goals for quality research? Grateful to the JOC editors for inviting me to reflect on these questions, alongside other amazing colleagues👉
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RT @liksamchan: I’m excited to share my graduate student Don Chui's research on queer men’s consumption of BL in Hong Kong! Her work situat…
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(4/n) when the news feed became diverse, perceived negativity was negatively related to boosting curation. Overall, we differentiated between informational and emotional dimensions of news feed performance, and examine the Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation pattern.
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(3/n) Additionally, we found the diversity of the news feed moderate curation behaviors. When users had a more diverse range of content in their feeds, the connection between perceived quality and boosting behavior was stronger
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(2/n) Based on our research in the States (n=1525), we found that both the perceived quality and valence of the news feed are linked to news curation, but in an asymmetric pattern: the perception of quality were related to more "boosting" but not limiting behaviors
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(1/n) In this research, we take a closer look at how people perceive the performance of their news feeds, and how these perceptions play a big role in "news feed curation," which is when users actively influence the feed based on their preferences.
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RT @admeierlab: Are age restrictions the best we can do? Or are there better ways to improve the impact of social media on youth well-being…
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