15. JMCQ Outstanding Article Award (runner-up), Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. (link)
- Wu-Ouyang, B. (2024). Comparing Media Systems in Western Democracies: Examining the Role of Multi-Platform News Use and Fake News Concern on News Engagement and Selective Exposure. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 101(1), 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231217482
14. Dissertation Award of 2025, Mass Communication Society Division, AEJMC25.
- Wu-Ouyang, B. Who Says to Whom with What Effects? Examining Politics of Personal Curation.
13. Top Faculty Paper Award, Newspaper and Online News Division, AEJMC25.
- Wu-Ouyang, B. & Chen, H, -T (2025, Aug). Revisiting Privacy Paradox in Multi-Platform Social Media Environments: Examining News (Dis)Engagement in 16 Democratic Countries. Paper was accepted by the 108th AEJMC, NOND. San Francisco, US*
12. Top Paper Award Third-place. Communication Theory & Methodology Division, AEJMC24,
- Wu-Ouyang, B (2024 Aug). Conceptualizing and Validating Personal Curation within Curated Flows in Social Media. Paper was presented at 107th Annual AEJMC Conference, Communication Theory & Methodology Division*
11. Diversity and Inclusion Career Development Fellowship. Mass Communication and Society Division, AEJMC24
10. Top Paper Award runner up, Global Communication and Social Change Division, ICA24
- Jiang, X; Liu, L; Wu-Ouyang, B; Lin, H. (2024, Jun). Storytelling and audience engagement in China’s global communication: A big data analysis based on CGTN. Paper was presented at 74th Annual ICA Conference. Global Communication Division.*
9.Lee Hysan Foundation Postgraduate Studentship for Mainland China Students 2023/24, CUHK
8.1st Place Moeller Student Paper Award, Mass Communication and Society Division, AEJMC23, solo author
- Wu-Ouyang, B (2023, August). Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FOMO Influences Personal News Curation Through Social Media News Fatigue. Paper was presented at 106th Annual AEJMC Conference, Washington, U.S. Mass Communication and Society Division. *
7.Third-place Top Paper Award (open competition), Newspaper and Online News Division, AEJMC23
- Wu-Ouyang, B, Lu, S., & Chen, H, -T (2023, August). Stay Informed and Protected When Overloaded: Examining the News Curation and Avoidance Strategies on Social Media. Paper was presented at 106th Annual AEJMC Conference, Washington, U.S. Newspaper and Online News Division*
6.1st Place Best Student Paper Award, CIRC23, corresponding author
- Leo-Liu J., Wu-Ouyang, B., (2023, July). Negotiating Chineseness in a Social VR Platform: Acculturation of Chinese Nationals and Overseas in a Sinophone Community on VRChat. Paper was presented at 20th Chinese Internet Research Conference(CIRC), Chiang Mai University, Thailand*
5.Best Poster Presentation Award. Research poster exhibition 2023, CUHK, solo author
- Wu-Ouyang, B. (2023, May). Are Smartphones Addictive? ——Examine the Cognitive-Behavior Model of Motivations, Leisure Boredom, Extended Itself, and Fear of Missing Out on Possible Smartphone Addiction. Poster was presented at research poster exhibition 2023 hold in CUHK*
4.Top Paper Award, LGBTQ interest group, AEJMC22
- Chan L., Wu-Ouyang, B.(2022, August). Sexting among gay and bisexual men in Hong Kong and Taiwan: Roles of sensation-seeking, muscularity ideal, and filial piety, Paper was presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference 2022, LGBTQ interest group.*
3.School of Journalism and Communication Top-Up Research Grant, CUHK21
2.Top Paper Award Nomination, Entertainment Studies Interest Group. AEJMC21
- Liu J., Wu, B. * (2021, August). A “Soul” Emerges When AI Meets Anime via Hologram: A Qualitative Study on Users of New Anime-Style Hologram Social Robot “Hupo”. Paper was presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference 2021, Top paper of Entertainment Studies Interest Group*
1. Research postgraduate scholarship, CUHK,2019-2024