Biying Wu-Ouyang

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Biying Wu-Ouyang

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Welcome! I'm Biying

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Also known as Biying Wu-Ouyang, I'm an assistant professor at The Education University of Hong Kong since fall 2024. My research expertise lies in the interaction among new media technologies, media psychology, digital journalism, and comparative politics. 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, and won multiple top paper awards from ICA and AEJMC. In EduHK, I'm also the associate programme leader of of the Master of Arts in New Media and Social Media. Prior to that, I was a visiting scholar at Penn State University invited by Prof Shyam Sundar, and got my PhD in communication from Chinese U of HK supervised by Prof Michael Chan.


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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 research agenda. 


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.

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  • [2025-02]  Learning and collaborating with @liksamchan is always a great, inspiring, and smooth experience! Really honored to contribute to this in @SRSPJournal  The association between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young men who have sex with men in Hong Kong: A mixed methods study. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01091-x


  • [2025-01]: Happy chinese new year! excited to publish a new article in JMCQ again!  this article is about Internet Freedom and Social Media’s Political Consequences Among Six Asian Societies. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241313183


  • [2024-12]: So honored to collaborate with great scholars and publish a work in SMS about consumptive news feed curation.  Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation? Examining How Perceived News Feed Performance Influences Boosting and Limiting Curation on Facebook - Shuning Lu, Biying Wu-Ouyang, Hsuan-Ting Chen, 2024 


  • [2024-9]: So honored and excited to join Education university of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in new media and social media since this fall, I'll take care of the new programme and hope to connect with you soon with my new roles! thanks for all support!


  • [2024-8]: So honored to got the conceptualization part of my thesis on personal curation Top paper award second-place in Comm theory & method from AEJ24! 
  • [2024-8]: Feeling so grateful for being selected as a 2024 AEJMC-MCSD Career Development Fellow!


  • [2024-5]: New publication alert on Computers in Human Behaviours "Which Storytelling People Prefer? Mapping News Narrative and News Engagement in Social Media"


  • [2024-3]: New publication alert on Digital Journalism "Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media" 


  • [2024] Serve as visiting scholar in Penn State University at Media Effects Research Lab under Prof Shyam Sundar


  • [2022-2026] Review committee member in IAMCR GEN division


  • [2024-1]: Got Top student paper award runner-up in Global Comm division from ICA24! Congrats to my co-authors! see you in ICA24!


  • [2024-1]: New publication alert on JMCQ” Comparing Media Systems: Examining the Role of Multi-Platform News Use and Fake News Concern on News Engagement and Selective Exposure" 


  • [2023-9]: New publication Alert on JMP. Please check my latest research on Multiplatform Mobile Connectedness (MMC) 


  • [2023-7]:Honor to receive this 1st Top paper award in CIRC23 my great collaborator Congrats to my co-authors! 


  • [2023-5]: Got First-place Top student paper award from AEJ23 Mass communication society division! so much surprised! 


  • [2023-5]: Got another Top Paper Award in AEJ23 Newspaper division !! 


  • [2022-12]: My social media post Why people posts when they confirmed with covid cases (为什么感染了要发朋友圈) on Red related to covid was somehow promoted by both Weibo and Xiaohongshu and the posts went viral get on top topic #为什么阳了建议发朋友圈 very quick with more than 300 million reads... I'm happy that my research can explain some social phenomenon. 📷check out the original academic article here


  • [2022-11]: New publication Alert on MMC! We examined people's underreporting tendency and found that research using self-reported data may have false-positive findings and Type I errors. 


  • [2022-8]: Got another top paper award with professor Sam Chan!


  • [2022-6]: Publication Alert on New Media &Society! we found that anime subcultural practices may help mitigate or offset the uncanny valley or weak AI problems. 


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The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po Rd (Ma Liu Shui), Sha Tin District, Hong Kong

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