Journals

Wu-Ouyang, B (in press). Curation as a Communicative Act. Conceptualizing Personal Curation Within Curated Flows on Social Media. Communication Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtag002

*Top Paper Award  in AEJMC24 Communication Theory & Methodology Division

*Best Dissertation Award in AEJMC25 Mass Comm Society division

Wu-Ouyang, B, Lu, S., & Chen, H, -T (online first).  News Avoidance or Curation? Explicating the Psychological Process in News Consumption on Facebook. New Media &Society.  https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251351280 

*Top paper Award in the AEJMC23 newspaper and online news division

Wu-Ouyang, B. (online first). Exploring the Impact of Work from Home on the Effects of Social Media: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Psychological Well-Being. Psychology of Popular Media.  https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000608

Wu-Ouyang, B., Hu, Y (2025). Internet Freedom and Social Media’s Political Consequences: Political Nationalism and Authoritarian Orientation Among Six Asian Societies. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.  102 (2), 476– 499. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241313183

Chan L., Wu-Ouyang, B. (2025). 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. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 22, 1920–1933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01091-x

Leo-Liu J., Wu-Ouyang, B.*, (online first). The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality: The Alternative Global Village for Identity Negotiations in VRChat. Social Media + Society.  https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340854 

* Winner of Best Paper award in CIRC23 (*corresponding author)

Lu, S., Wu-Ouyang, B, & Chen, H, -T (2024). Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation? Examining How Perceived News Feed Performance Influences Boosting and Limiting Curation on Facebook. Social Media + Society. 10(4). http://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241306382 

Wu-Ouyang, B (2024). Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FOMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media. Digital Journalism. 12(4), 537-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2326629. *

* 1st Paper award in AEJMC23 mass communication society division

Jiang, X; Liu, L; Wu-Ouyang, B; Chen.L, Lin, H. (2024). Which Storytelling People Prefer? Mapping News Narrative and News Engagement in Social Media. Computers in Human Behaviour. 158, 108248, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108248

* Top Paper Award in ICA24 global comm and social change division

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

*JMCQ Outstanding Article Award (runner-up), Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. (link)

Leo-Liu J., Wu-Ouyang, B. (2024). A “Soul” Emerges When AI Meets Anime via Hologram: A Qualitative Study on Users of New Anime-Style Hologram Social Robot “Hupo”. New Media &Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221106030 26(7), 45-70. *

* Top Paper award nomination AEJMC21

Wu, B.& Liu, J. (2024). How language usage affects sojourners’ psychological well-being in a trilingual society: linguistic acculturation of Mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (SSCI,Q1).  45(6), 2214-2232. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2045299

Wu-Ouyang, B. (2023) More Mobile Connectedness, Less Wellbeing? Examining How Multiplatform Mobile Connectedness Affect Negative Wellbeing Through FoMo and Leisure Boredom. Journal of Media Psychology. 35(5), 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000388. （Also access copy through ResearchGate)

Wu-Ouyang, B.*, Chan, M (2023). Overestimating or Underestimating Communication Findings? Comparing Self-Reported with Log Mobile Data by Data Donation Method. Mobile Media & Communication, 11(3), 415-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221137162

Wu-Ouyang, B.& Hu, Y. (2023). The Effects of Pandemic-related Fear on Social Connectedness through Social Media Use and Self-disclosure. Journal of Media Psychology, 35(2), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000347 (can also access through ResearchGate, Biying Wu-Ouyang)

Chan L., Wu-Ouyang, B. (2023). Sexting among men who have sex with men in Hong Kong and Taiwan: Roles of sensation-seeking, gay identity, and muscularity ideal. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 52, 2373–2384 (social science, Q1). 10.1007/s10508-023-02559-w 

* Top Paper award in AEJMC22 LGBTQ interest group

Wu-Ouyang, B. (2022). Are Smartphones Addictive? ——Examine the Cognitive-Behavior Model of Motivations, Leisure Boredom, Extended Itself, and Fear of Missing Out on Possible Smartphone Addiction. Telematics and Informatics. 71.101834 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101834

*Best poster presentation award CUHK23

Liu, J., Wu, B.*, Qu, J. (*corresponding author) (2022). Chinese Adolescents’ Rebellion during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Discipline and Resistance in Online Compulsory Education. Education and Information Technologies. 27, 1705–1723 (SSCI, Q1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10688-9

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Journal Articles (in Chinese)

Hu, Y. &Wu-Ouyang, B*. (2023). The differential effects of informational and emotional social media use: How social media affects people’s mental well-being in COVID-19 (in Chinese: 信息性和情绪性社交媒体使用的差异性效果: 新冠疫情中社交媒体对心理健康状况的影响). Chinese Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication中国网络传播研究(CSSCI). 

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Book Reviews

Wu-Ouyang, B. (2023). [Review of the book Selfies: Why we love (and hate) them, by K. Tiidenberg]. Mobile Media & Communication. 11(1), 133-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221132486a