Louisa Ha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3619987 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Louisa Ha |
| NOMBRES | Louisa |
| APELLIDO | Ha |
| FIRMA | HA L |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0223-368X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Influencers Against Hate
This study challenges assumptions about the uniformity within the Asian American community, especially in countering anti-Asian hate. Diving into the cultural intricacies among East Asian, South Asian, and non-Asian American influencers on X (formerly Twitter) and based on social identity theory, this study revealed compelling differences in counter speech strategies between South Asian and East Asian influencers. Combining computational techniqu…
Generative AI in Higher Education
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have become the fastest-adopted technology, raising concerns about its misuse in education. This study explores ChatGPT usage for class assignments among 646 college students in the U.S. and Bangladesh, focusing on their perceptions and trust in the tool. Using the technology acceptance model, along with internet efficacy and social persuasion theories, we found that students in both countries had high levels of a…
Communication scholarship impact reality check
This study examines 4,313 research articles published in 94 Social Science Citation Indexed (SSCI) communication journals in October 2020-September 2021 to determine the journals’ research orientations and compare how journal-level attributes affect the three major citation metrics: Journal Impact Factor (JIF), SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR), and H5-indexes. Quantitative orientation and technology-related focus are the two most important journal a…
Political allies in foreign war news framing
We examined news framing of the 2022 Russia–Ukraine war among four countries. Employing quantitative content analysis of ( n = 230) news stories, we find complex framing dynamics based on political allyship. NATO ally news outlets, The New York Times and Guardian exhibited strong pro-Ukrainian stance in their framing. China Daily , a communist-affiliated outlet, leaned more toward a pro-Russian perspective, with the Times of India mixed in its fr…
Social media communication, beliefs in foreign interference, and voting intentions
The Role of Online Comedy Skits in the Sexual Objectification of Women in Nigeria
Recently, online comedy skit creators have become celebrities and influencers in Nigeria, amassing millions of followers on various social media platforms. The influence of these influencers on their followers and society can be harmful when negative messages like sexual objectification of women are propagated. Using a mixed methods approach, this study examines the role that comedy skits play in the promotion of female sexual objectification in …
National image of China and cross-national comparative studies
University in June, 2022.The first article, "How Effective are Chinese Media in Shaping Audiences' Attitudes Towards China?A Survey Analysis in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa" is a longitudinal comparison of three public opinion survey results of people in African countries on their attitude toward China in light of the increasing presence of China's investments and media in those countries from 2017 to 2021.Authors Dani Madrid-Morales and Herm…
Global streaming media, European green consumption, perception of China before & after Covid-19 and online memes on corruption
Our spring 2023 issue features an eclectic collection of works with topics of high significance to audiences of the world.Our first original article is a very interesting comparative study of two streaming media giants of the world: Netflix of the U.S. and Tencent Video of China.Through a political economic perspective, Wenjia Tang and Mingou Wei show how both giants use audience data to prosper and the subscription-based Netflix and advertising-…
Global journal publishing, soft power, Italian Americans and social media visual impact
Article Global journal publishing, soft power, Italian Americans and social media visual impact was published on December 1, 2023 in the journal Online Media and Global Communication (volume 2, issue 4)
Gen Z’s social media use and global communication
Generation Z (Gen Z), also named digital natives, is the first to have been born after the mass-adoption of the Internet, especially the social media.Through all kinds of international digital platforms, Gen Z has more access to a vast number of diverse information than previous generations.Interconnected on world media platforms, Gen Z has become a generation doing Internet-based communication from a young age.Exposed to global communication pla…
Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news
Purpose To provide human judgment input for computer algorithm development, this study examines the relative importance of source, content, and style cues in predicting the truthfulness ratings of two common types of online health information: news stories and institutional news releases. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a multi-method approach using (1) a manual content analysis of 400 randomly selected online health news stories …
Online Media and Global Communication
Do we really need another communication journal with so many new journals out there?Yes, at least for our journal, Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC).It is because although we have hundreds of communication journals and 94 are indexed by the Web of Science in 2021 (https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/media-andcommunication/resources/ssci-communication-journal-publishing-guide),but none are truly global, at least in the language they …
Global Content Creation and Consumption Transformation by Short Video Apps
The rise of short video apps such as TikTok is changing how people present themselves and learn about other cultures around the world.TikTok has 1.2 billion monthly active users in 2021 and 600 million users for its original China version, Douyin (Iqbal 2022).Its amount of time use has surpassed online video giant YouTube (Garvey 2021).Online videos transformed from Webcasting based on computer platforms (Ha and Ganahl 2007) to short video apps b…
Mobilising public support for the U.S. China-trade war
In international conflicts, national governments establish the legitimacy of their positions or policies through news announcements. This study examines how the news media in each country, through alignment with their government’s foreign policies, mobilised public support for the U.S.–China trade war. Furthermore, we explain the intricacies of the relationship among government policy and the news media, by showing how the government plays an imp…
U.S. Public Opinion on China and the United States During the U.S.–China Trade Dispute
This study examines the relationship between selective and cross-cutting/non-partisan media exposure, perceived journalism framing, and U.S. public’s perception of China and the United States during the U.S.–China trade dispute. A national survey of U.S. adult population indicated that more people perceived that the media escalated the conflict between China and the United States than promoted peace between the countries. Perceived peace journali…
Why People Use TikTok (Douyin) and How Their Purchase Intentions Are Affected by Social Media Influencers in China
The purpose of this study was to explore the motivation of young consumers’ use of TikTok (Douyin) in China and how such motivations may relate to influencer videos’ persuasion power on purchases. Using a national online survey among 382 college students in China, the result showed that entertainment gratification was the most common motivation in using Douyin. But those users with socialization gratification motives had high persuasion knowledge…
Mapping Recent Development in Scholarship on Fake News and Misinformation, 2008 to 2017
This review article examines 142 journal articles on fake news and misinformation published between 2008 and 2017 and the knowledge generated on the topic. Although communication scholars and psychologists contributed almost half of all the articles on the topic of fake news and misinformation in the past 10 years, the wide variety of journals from various disciplines publishing the topic shows that it has captured interest from the scholarly com…
Online Posting, Single-Blind Review, Open Access, and the Future of Refereed Journals
From Global Pandemic to Research Excellence in Regions Across the Globe
Mission Accomplished and Unaccomplished
Smartphones or computers for online sex education? A contraception information seeking model for Chinese college students
China has a conservative sex culture and does not include contraception as part of its sex education curriculum. As a result, young people tend to search for sex information online. How college students seek contraception information, by what means, and the factors affecting their information seeking are poorly understood. To better understand these issues, this study compares the Planned Risk Information-Seeking Model (PRISM) with an expanded mo…
Data quality comparison between computers and smartphones in different web survey modes and question formats
Purpose Low response rates in web surveys and the use of different devices in entering web survey responses are the two main challenges to response quality of web surveys. The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of using interviewers to recruit participants in computer-assisted self-administered interviews (CASI) vs computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) and smartphones vs computers on participation rate and web survey response …
Asian Women Leadership
Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos
The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos is a thorough analysis of YouTube audiences and creators of online videos that considers how the coexistence of user-generated and professional media content on YouTube makes the site a unique platform in the ever-expanding online video industry. Using a mixed method approach, the authors examine the underexplored business side of YouTube with a focus on product review videos, brand videos, s…
A pillar of community
With the advent of the Internet, once prosperous local newspapers are now faced with closure as the number of subscriptions decreases and advertising revenue continues to wane. The purpose of this article is to investigate how a newspaper’s role is perceived by its local community. This perception is conceptualized as community capital and influences subscription/readership of the newspaper and willingness to visit local retailers that advertise …
Decline in news content engagement or news medium engagement? A longitudinal analysis of news engagement since the rise of social and mobile media 2009–2012
Based on a 4-year longitudinal analysis of social media and mobile phone users in a Midwest US market, this study differentiates news content engagement from news medium engagement, proposes four levels of news engagement, and compares how social media and mobile media differ in their effects on engagement in news content and news medium between the general population and college students. The analysis shows a steady decline in the interest in po…
Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news
Purpose To provide human judgment input for computer algorithm development, this study examines the relative importance of source, content, and style cues in predicting the truthfulness ratings of two common types of online health information: news stories and institutional news releases. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a multi-method approach using (1) a manual content analysis of 400 randomly selected online health news stories …
Does college students’ social media use affect school e-mail avoidance and campus involvement
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how college students’ social media use affects their school e-mail avoidance and campus involvement. Design/methodology/approach The study employed face-to-face interviews and self-administered survey/quantitative data. Findings Communication and business students are more involved on campus and likely to use social media as the primary communication medium than other majors. Social media and text m…
A pillar of community
With the advent of the Internet, once prosperous local newspapers are now faced with closure as the number of subscriptions decreases and advertising revenue continues to wane. The purpose of this article is to investigate how a newspaper’s role is perceived by its local community. This perception is conceptualized as community capital and influences subscription/readership of the newspaper and willingness to visit local retailers that advertise …
Subcultures and Use of Communication Information Technology in Higher Education Institutions
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCanchu LinCanchu Lin is an assistant professor, Department of Interpersonal Communication, Bowling Green State University.Louisa HaLouisa Ha is a professor and acting chair, Department of Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University
Enhanced television strategy models
This study compares the use of enhanced TV features and TV commerce features on the Web sites of cable and broadcast TV networks. Both the quantitative analysis of the specific programs featured on the Web sites and the qualitative analysis of the overall Web sites show some differences in their strategies and site usability. Some program genres could develop TV commerce opportunities more easily than others. Different program genres emphases on …
In search of journalistic excellence
This study compares the standard of journalistic excellence between the news reporting awards in the United States and China from 1979 to 1984, under a newsgatherer-analyst-narrator framework. The manifest criteria of selection in the Pulitzer Prize emphasizes analytical excellence while its Chinese counterpart emphasizes narrative excellence. However, when the latent attributes of the prize-winning stories are analyzed by content analysis, both …
In search of journalistic excellence
This study compares the standard of journalistic excellence between the news reporting awards in the United States and China from 1979 to 1984, under a newsgatherer-analyst-narrator framework. The manifest criteria of selection in the Pulitzer Prize emphasizes analytical excellence while its Chinese counterpart emphasizes narrative excellence. However, when the latent attributes of the prize-winning stories are analyzed by content analysis, both …
Interactivity reexamined
This study reexamined the concept of interactivity and proposed that interactivity be defined as the extent to which the communicator and the audience respond to each other's communication need. Interactivity was construed as consisting of five dimensions: 1) playfulness, 2) choice, 3) connectedness, 4) information collection, and 5) reciprocal communication. Web sites for products, services, and retail outlets appeared to differ significantly in…
Marketing-communications in sub-Saharan Africa
(1999). Marketing-communications in sub-Saharan Africa: Toward an ethics-based framework. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 50-61
Chinese and non‐Chinese scholars’ contributions to communication research on greater China, 1978–98
This content‐analytical study investigates, over a two‐decade period, the contribution of ethnic and non‐ethnic scholars to communication research on Greater China. Although its findings show a significant increase in research publications on China over the years by both Chinese and non‐Chinese scholars, Chinese scholars are much more productive than non‐Chinese scholars. In addition, mixed ethnicity scholars have published more comparative studi…
Setting the Public Health Agenda on Major Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study investigates changes in the amount of media coverage and in the framing of 5 major infectious diseases in Africa in 4 sub-Saharan African magazines and medical journals. During a 17-year period (1981–1997), HIV/AIDS, a stigmal disease, dominated the coverage from the early to the mid-1990s; however, there was a paucity of such news items in the early 1980s. Nonstigmal diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, received much less cover…
Enhanced television strategy models
This study compares the use of enhanced TV features and TV commerce features on the Web sites of cable and broadcast TV networks. Both the quantitative analysis of the specific programs featured on the Web sites and the qualitative analysis of the overall Web sites show some differences in their strategies and site usability. Some program genres could develop TV commerce opportunities more easily than others. Different program genres emphases on …
Subcultures and Use of Communication Information Technology in Higher Education Institutions
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCanchu LinCanchu Lin is an assistant professor, Department of Interpersonal Communication, Bowling Green State University.Louisa HaLouisa Ha is a professor and acting chair, Department of Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University
Time budget, news search time cost, and news media choice
Applying a microeconomic framework, this study analyzes how people allocate their time on traditional and new news media in the age of media abundance. It argues that people with tight time budgets (more work time and less leisure time) spend less time on the consumption of traditional news media than people with loose time budgets (more leisure time and less work time). Moreover, people with tight time budgets allocate more of their news consump…
Decline in news content engagement or news medium engagement? A longitudinal analysis of news engagement since the rise of social and mobile media 2009–2012
Based on a 4-year longitudinal analysis of social media and mobile phone users in a Midwest US market, this study differentiates news content engagement from news medium engagement, proposes four levels of news engagement, and compares how social media and mobile media differ in their effects on engagement in news content and news medium between the general population and college students. The analysis shows a steady decline in the interest in po…
College Students’ Positive Strategic SNS Involvement and Stress Coping in the United States and China
Based on a self-administered online survey of undergraduate students, this study aimed to explore college students’ social media involvement in relation to their stress coping in the United States and China. A total of 262 survey responses were received from American participants and 265 survey responses were received from Chinese participants. Results indicated that American student users’ positive strategic social networking sites (SNS) involve…
Does college students’ social media use affect school e-mail avoidance and campus involvement
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how college students’ social media use affects their school e-mail avoidance and campus involvement. Design/methodology/approach The study employed face-to-face interviews and self-administered survey/quantitative data. Findings Communication and business students are more involved on campus and likely to use social media as the primary communication medium than other majors. Social media and text m…
Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos
The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos is a thorough analysis of YouTube audiences and creators of online videos that considers how the coexistence of user-generated and professional media content on YouTube makes the site a unique platform in the ever-expanding online video industry. Using a mixed method approach, the authors examine the underexplored business side of YouTube with a focus on product review videos, brand videos, s…
A pillar of community
With the advent of the Internet, once prosperous local newspapers are now faced with closure as the number of subscriptions decreases and advertising revenue continues to wane. The purpose of this article is to investigate how a newspaper’s role is perceived by its local community. This perception is conceptualized as community capital and influences subscription/readership of the newspaper and willingness to visit local retailers that advertise …
Asian Women Leadership
Online Posting, Single-Blind Review, Open Access, and the Future of Refereed Journals
From Global Pandemic to Research Excellence in Regions Across the Globe
Mission Accomplished and Unaccomplished
Smartphones or computers for online sex education? A contraception information seeking model for Chinese college students
China has a conservative sex culture and does not include contraception as part of its sex education curriculum. As a result, young people tend to search for sex information online. How college students seek contraception information, by what means, and the factors affecting their information seeking are poorly understood. To better understand these issues, this study compares the Planned Risk Information-Seeking Model (PRISM) with an expanded mo…
Data quality comparison between computers and smartphones in different web survey modes and question formats
Purpose Low response rates in web surveys and the use of different devices in entering web survey responses are the two main challenges to response quality of web surveys. The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of using interviewers to recruit participants in computer-assisted self-administered interviews (CASI) vs computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) and smartphones vs computers on participation rate and web survey response …
Why People Use TikTok (Douyin) and How Their Purchase Intentions Are Affected by Social Media Influencers in China
The purpose of this study was to explore the motivation of young consumers’ use of TikTok (Douyin) in China and how such motivations may relate to influencer videos’ persuasion power on purchases. Using a national online survey among 382 college students in China, the result showed that entertainment gratification was the most common motivation in using Douyin. But those users with socialization gratification motives had high persuasion knowledge…
Mapping Recent Development in Scholarship on Fake News and Misinformation, 2008 to 2017
This review article examines 142 journal articles on fake news and misinformation published between 2008 and 2017 and the knowledge generated on the topic. Although communication scholars and psychologists contributed almost half of all the articles on the topic of fake news and misinformation in the past 10 years, the wide variety of journals from various disciplines publishing the topic shows that it has captured interest from the scholarly com…
Online Media and Global Communication
Do we really need another communication journal with so many new journals out there?Yes, at least for our journal, Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC).It is because although we have hundreds of communication journals and 94 are indexed by the Web of Science in 2021 (https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/media-andcommunication/resources/ssci-communication-journal-publishing-guide),but none are truly global, at least in the language they …
Global Content Creation and Consumption Transformation by Short Video Apps
The rise of short video apps such as TikTok is changing how people present themselves and learn about other cultures around the world.TikTok has 1.2 billion monthly active users in 2021 and 600 million users for its original China version, Douyin (Iqbal 2022).Its amount of time use has surpassed online video giant YouTube (Garvey 2021).Online videos transformed from Webcasting based on computer platforms (Ha and Ganahl 2007) to short video apps b…
Mobilising public support for the U.S. China-trade war
In international conflicts, national governments establish the legitimacy of their positions or policies through news announcements. This study examines how the news media in each country, through alignment with their government’s foreign policies, mobilised public support for the U.S.–China trade war. Furthermore, we explain the intricacies of the relationship among government policy and the news media, by showing how the government plays an imp…
U.S. Public Opinion on China and the United States During the U.S.–China Trade Dispute
This study examines the relationship between selective and cross-cutting/non-partisan media exposure, perceived journalism framing, and U.S. public’s perception of China and the United States during the U.S.–China trade dispute. A national survey of U.S. adult population indicated that more people perceived that the media escalated the conflict between China and the United States than promoted peace between the countries. Perceived peace journali…
Political science (23 obras) · Sociology (21 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Advertising (12 obras) · Business (12 obras) · Media studies (10 obras) · Social Media and Politics (10 obras) · China (9 obras) · Law (9 obras)