Also known as Biying Wu-Ouyang, I'm joining Education University of Hong Kong under the strategic area of New and Social Media in AEDI as a tenure-track assistant professor since fall 2024. Prior to that, I got my PhD in communication from Chinese U of HK supervised by Prof Michael Chan. I was a visiting scholar from Penn State University at Media Effects Research Lab under Prof Shyam Sundar.
Research Expertise
My research expertise lies in the interaction among new media technologies, media psychology, digital journalism, and comparative politics. I’m particularly interested at the underlying mechanism (affective, social, and political) of people’s digital consumptions (mobile media, social media, AI) and how these media use impact affective, social, and political environments. Within this broad umbrella, I have three lines of research.
First, I investigated the underlying affective (FoMO, leisure boredom, news fatigue) and news (cross-cutting) mechanism of people’s digital consumption behaviours (curation, avoidance, and addiction).
Second, I studied in the context of comparative politics (US,UK,EU,HK), how biased information (i.e., fake news, fitspiration image) prevent people from further political and news consumption (i.e., polarization, selective exposure).
Third, I studied how certain digital consumption (i.e., information seeking, multiplatform use) motivate people to self-disclose and enhance their social connectedness and wellbeing.
As my research is driven by theory, I adopt mixed methods including quantitative (computational, multilevel analysis, meta-analysis, surveys, experiments) and qualitative method (interview, focus group, systematic review, content analysis). I also interested at method comparison. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Digital Journalism, Journalism Mass Communication Quarterly, Mobile Media Communication, New Media Society, Telematics& Informatics. Journal of Media Psychology.