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 New Media Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism Mass Communication Quarterly, Mobile Media Communication, Telematics& Informatics. Journal of Media Psychology, and won multiple Top paper awards from ICA and AEJMC including Dissertation award from MCS division and Top faculty paper award from NOND. In EduHK, I'm also the associate programme leader 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.
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.