Ran Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ran Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ran |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5858-2515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Heritage justice: Difficult pasts, contested memories and affects
As a variety of challenges, such as rising inequalities and discrimination, colonial practices, institutional racism, wars and conflicts and climate change, to name a few, continue to oppress margi...
Exploring the social origins of attention and executive functions: A cultural perspective from parent–infant interactions.
Attention regulation is foundational to early development and underpins the emergence of executive function. The present study draws on the Learning by Observing and Pitching In framework to investigate how Bangladeshi parents in a resource-constrained urban community scaffold infants' attention and emerging executive function. To contextualize Bangladeshi parent-infant interactions, we included a descriptive comparison with families of mid-socio…
Multi-group comparison of STEM education approaches
Background Immersive technologies, such as Mixed Reality (MR), are increasingly integrated into STEM education to enhance student motivation and learning outcomes. However, the effectiveness of MR compared to traditional methods, particularly across gender and curriculum stages, remains underexplored. Aims The research aims to compare the effectiveness of traditional and MR-supported STEM education, examining the roles of autonomy, motivation, cl…
From scaffolding to transfer: The impact of AI-powered support on children’s narrative skills
Nao-Xin-Tong Capsule alleviates astrocyte end-foot swelling after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury via NF-κB/MMP9/AQP4 signal and NF-κB/CXCL12/CXCR4 signal
Effects of Taproot‐Type and Fibrous‐Root‐Type Grass Cover Structures on Runoff and Sediment Yield Processes on Slopes in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region
Vegetation effects on slope runoff and sediment yield depend on plant types and vertical structures, yet underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently quantified. We conducted simulated rainfall experiments (60, 90, 120 mm h −1 ) on a taproot‐type grass ( Coronilla varia ) and a fibrous‐root‐type grass ( Juncus effusus ) to assess canopy and root contributions to runoff and soil loss control. The results indicated that both species significantly re…
Health Messaging During an Infodemic: Explaining Opposition to Covid Vaccines in Four Asian Cities
This study used online survey data collected from four Asian cities to reveal how individuals' health beliefs are shaped in a time of trust deficits and changing media environments. We discovered a negative relationship between individuals' competence-based government trust and their anti-vaccine attitudes, thereby underscoring the important role played by trust in risk communication with individuals during public health crises. We further examin…
Distinguishing the ‘A’ in authorised heritage discourse: Cultural authority versus political authority
This paper seeks to contribute to unpacking the nuances of the concept of authorised heritage discourse by exploring the different, and even hierarchical, roles of different authorities and what authorises their heritage discourses. I look into a regeneration project in Anyang, a northern Chinese city where only the local state’s discourse was mostly realised, whereas heritage professionals’ discourse was relatively invisible. The immediate reaso…
The Neighborhood as Refuge: Dignity, Inclusiveness, and Compassion in Takeda Rintarō’s “Kamagasaki” (1933)
Kamagasaki, an urban enclave in Osaka, maintains a long history of marginalization that can be traced to the early 1900s. This article examines the representation of Kamagasaki in Osaka writer Takeda Rintarō’s novella “Kamagasaki.” Written in 1933 during the economically prosperous “Greater Osaka” (“Dai Osaka”) period, the story features the underclass and working-class people in the neighborhood of Kamagasaki, revealing how Osaka’s development h…
The (Un)desirable shield: Consequences of perceived effects of warning labels on AI-generated political disinformation
Hostile Media and Friendly Chambers: Social Media Polarization and the 2024 U.S. Campus Protests
The Politics and Poetics of Waiting: Residents' Waiting for (Not) Being Relocated in China's Urban Regeneration
Waiting as a socially constructed way of experiencing time has received increasing attention in various social science disciplines. Yet the nuances of the modalities and implications of waiting in different contexts among different social groups call for further research to scrutinise this particular temporal process. This paper examined how urban residents in Cangxiang Street Historic District, Anyang, a mid‐sized city in China, strategically de…
Learning effectiveness in ERP systems training: A structural equation model of self-efficacy, passion, and resilience in higher education
The present study investigates the participation of 235 students from the Department of Supply Chain and Information Management at a university in Hong Kong in four training workshops focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. After each workshop, relevant questionnaire surveys were administered to gather data on students’ learning experiences and key variables, including self-efficacy, learning efficacy, passion, and resilience. The …
Perceived landscape aesthetics, spiritual well-being, and mental health: Evidence from senior tourists
As populations age, nature-based tourism enhances mental health. Grounded in Relational Restoration Theory (RRT), we articulate a dual-route account that integrates Attention Restoration Theory (ART) and Stress Recovery Theory (SRT). Addressing a non-Western context where self-efficacy and meaning in life have rarely been examined, we model spiritual well-being (SWB) as the resource channel linking these appraisals. Using validated measures and s…
Delineating school attendance boundaries to improve diversity and community integrity
The delineation of school attendance zones (SAZs) is a critical aspect of educational policy, influencing student distribution, resource allocation, and educational equity. SAZs determine which students attend specific schools based on geographic boundaries, shaping the demographic composition of schools and the opportunities available to students. Designing SAZs is a complex and challenging task, as it requires balancing multiple, often conflict…
From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development
Understanding the role of the built and social environments in outcomes of stops by police in San Diego, California
EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes
Identifying the neural processes that underlie the association between children's early adverse experiences and cognitive development could inform more effective intervention strategies. The goal of the current study (data collected 2015–2021) was to examine relations among early experiences at 6 months, electroencephalography (EEG) theta power at 6 months and 2 years, and cognitive outcomes at 5 years in Bangladeshi children (N = 115; 67 females…
Chemosensory Cues Modulate Women's Jealousy Responses to Vocal Femininity
Strategic bi-objective optimization for electric vehicle fleet replacement leveraging shared charging facilities
The Influence of Ming Dynasty Buddhism's Chan Jing He Yi (Integration of Zen and Pure Land Buddhism 禪淨合一) on Buddhist Thought in Journey to the West
In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, Yunqi Zhuhong 雲栖祩宏 and Ouyi Zhixu 蕅益智旭 integrated Zen thought and Pure Land Buddhism based on the fusion of various Buddhist sects, which facilitated the transition to Chan Jing He Yi (integration of Zen and Pure Land Buddhism 禪淨合一). In this context, Journey to the West 西遊記, published in the late Ming Dynasty, reflects the characteristic of Chan Jing He Yi (integration of Zen and Pure Land Buddhism 禪淨合一). Based on…
From Research on TCM Images to Historiography of TCM Images—Comments on History of Chinese Image Culture: Medical Image Volume
Zhong Hua Tu Xiang Wen Hua Shi Yi Yao Tu Xiang Juan (《中华图像文化史•医药图像卷》History of Chinese Image Culture: Medical Image Volume) is a history of images of Chinese medicine. This work meticulously traces the evolution of Chinese medicine from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties through to the late Qing dynasty and the Republican era, utilizing a rich array of medical and non-medical images. Through detailed analysis and interpretation of these images, the vo…
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Role of Efficacious Beliefs and Perceived Media Effects on Threat Perception in Predicting Covid-19 Compliance in China and the United States
Self-centered vs. collective-oriented perceptions and beliefs have bearings on an individual’s behavior. In the context of the global coronavirus pandemic, this study attempts a cross-cultural analysis of public compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures in China and the United States. Using data collected from two parallel surveys, we explore how individualism and collectivism have affected respondents’ efficacious beliefs, perception bias and…
Effects of integrated form-focused instruction on vocabulary learning for Chinese English learners
Vocabulary is an essential component of language learning. Despite the fact that form-focused instruction (hereinafter FFI) has been demonstrated to be effective in language learning, it remains unclear when and how FFI can contribute to vocabulary learning. To address this question, this study takes the timing of FFI into consideration and investigates the effects of integrated FFI, which incorporates form focus into meaning-oriented communicati…
An Unhelpful Chain: Antecedents and Consequences of Covid-19 News Avoidance in China and Singapore
This study used large-scale telephone surveys in China and Singapore in 2022 to examine the antecedents and outcomes of news avoidance amid the COVID-19 “infodemic.” The findings suggested a sequential process: Exposure to COVID-19 misinformation was related to information overload and subsequent news avoidance, which in turn was a correlate of skepticism toward vaccines. Moreover, the government’ pandemic-control policies conditioned the process…
Staying connected while on the move: Cell phone use and social connectedness
As people integrate use of the cell phone into their lives, do they view it as just an update of the fixed telephone or assign it special values? This study explores that question in the framework of gratifications sought and their relationship both to differential cell phone use and to social connectedness. Based on a survey of Taiwanese college students, we found that the cell phone supplements the fixed telephone as a means of strengthening us…
Third-person Effect and Hostile Media Perception Influences on Voter Attitudes toward Polls in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Focusing on the milestone 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, this study explores how perceived impact of polls is influenced by one’s social comparison groups and perception of media hostility. Results, using survey data of 541 respondents, show that respondents perceived others as more vulnerable than themselves to the influence of election polls. Even though all of the published polls consistently indicated Obama’s lead, some supporters of Obama …
News Media Use and Knowledge about the 2006 U.S. Midterm Elections: Why Exposure Matters in Voter Learning
Journal Article News Media Use and Knowledge about the 2006 U.S. Midterm Elections: Why Exposure Matters in Voter Learning Get access Ran Wei, Ran Wei Ran Wei (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1995) is an associate professor in School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA. Address correspondence to Ran Wei, School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA, E-mail: ra…
Who are the Mobile Phone Have-Nots: Influences and Consequences
Grounded in the diffusion of innovations theoretical framework, this study focuses on examining who the mobile telephone have-nots are and what are the factors at work. Results of a telephone survey with a probability sample of 834 respondents show that the have-nots tended to be older females with lower household income and education attainment. They had pagers as an alternative and subscribed to no caller ID display service at home. This study …
Predicting mobile news use among college students: The role of press freedom in four Asian cities
This study explores how mobile phone-savvy Asian college students use mobile news, especially news posted on mobile-accessible Twitter-like microblogs, to stay informed about current events. Our survey of more than 3500 college students in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan asks why young people turn to mobile phones for news and how the news-getting behavior is related to the level of press freedom in their respective societies. The resul…
Mass Media and Consumerist Values in the People's Republic of China
In this study, we report results from parallel cross-section surveys of probability samples from the two largest cities in China. We pose two questions; What are consumerist value orientations anchored in Chinese individualism? How is mass media exposure related to the emergence of such values? We find three stable consumerist value orientations: conspicuous consumption, aspiration for self-actualization, and worshipping Western lifestyles. Those…
Spatial Clustering Overview and Comparison: Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Computational Expense
Cluster analysis continues to be an important exploratory technique in scientific inquiry. It is used widely in geography, public health, criminology, ecology, and many other fields. Spatial cluster detection is driven by geographic information corresponding to the location of activities, requiring appropriate and meaningful treatment of space and spatial relationships combined with observed attributes of location and events. To date, this has me…
Show, give, and point gestures across infancy differentially predict language development
It is well established that deictic gestures, especially pointing, play an important role in children's language development. However, recent evidence suggests that other types of deictic gestures, specifically show and give gestures, emerge before pointing and are associated with later pointing. In the present study, we examined the development of show, give, and point gestures in a sample of 47 infants followed longitudinally from 10 to 16 mont…
A brief parent-focused intervention to improve preschoolers’ conversational skills and school readiness
Preschool children's use of decontextualized language, or talk about abstract topics beyond the here-and-now, is predictive of their kindergarten readiness and is associated with the frequency of parents' own use of decontextualized language. Does a brief, parent-focused intervention conveying the importance of decontextualized language cause parents to increase their use of these conversations, and as a result, their children's? We examined this…
Use of mobile social apps for public communication in China: Gratifications as antecedents of reposting articles from WeChat public accounts
Mobile social networking apps, which offer a real-time platform for creating, sharing, and chatting, showcase the integration of mobile telephony and Web 2.0 technologies. Thanks to its thriving user-created public accounts, WeChat, a globally popular mobile social media app based in China, has become a digital source of news and information. Informed by the uses and gratifications framework, the present study examines predictors of reposting art…
Lifestyles and new media: Adoption and use of wireless communication technologies in China
This study examines the relationships between the lifestyles of urban Chinese consumers and the adoption and use of pagers and mobile phones. Based on a probability sample of 7094 respondents from China’s seven most prosperous cities, results show that the respondents identified as yuppies tended to integrate pagers and mobile phones into their conspicuous, westernized and socially active lifestyle. Adopting a pager and mobile phone is found to b…
Perceptual Differences in Assessing the Harm of Patronizing Adult Entertainment Clubs
Journal Article Perceptual Differences in Assessing the Harm of Patronizing Adult Entertainment Clubs Get access Ven-hwei Lo, Ven-hwei Lo Ven-hwei Lo, Ph.D., is professor and Dean of the College of Communication at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His research interests include news media performance and the effects of mass media. He is the author of five books and his recent publications have appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Qu…
Tyrannical participation approaches in China's regeneration of Urban heritage areas: A case study of baitasi historic district, Beijing
In China’s new model of heritage area regeneration, a series of approaches have been undertaken to promote community participation which is branded as inclusive and innovative by the local authority. Using Baitasi Historic District in Beijing as a case study, this research examines such new participation approaches. By analysing how the government has failed to meet the communities’ demands as well as to engage the communities in the decision-mak…
Texting, tweeting, and talking: Effects of smartphone use on engagement in civic discourse in China
Media use and talking with others have been found to have positive effects on citizens’ civic participation according to Wyatt, Katz , and Kim (2000). Recent research links informational uses of the mobile phone to increased involvement in civic and political life. Building on this line of research, this study explores the effect of smartphone use on civil discourse engagement in China, with its nearly 900 million mobile phone users. Results reve…
Third-Person Effects of Health News: Exploring the Relationships Among Media Exposure, Presumed Media Influence, and Behavioral Intentions
This study expands third-person effect research to health news coverage. It examines the perceptual and behavioral components of third-person effects. Moderator variables of third-person effects-knowledge and exposure to health news-are also examined. Using data from a survey of public opinion about the coverage of avian flu involving a probability sample of 1,107 college students in Taiwan, findings show that respondents tend to think the influe…
A Cross-Societal Study on the Role of the Mass Media in Political Socialization in China and Taiwan
Grounded in two culturally similar yet politically different societies, this comparative study found that Chinese in mainland China and Taiwan held similarly negative efficacious views towards politics despite the different sociopolitical changes over the past decade. Such a similarity may be the consequence of a shared cultural heritage, particularly the influence of traditional values of obedience and submission to authority. On the other hand,…
News in their Pockets: A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia
This book explores the societal, technological, and user-related factors in understanding why and how digitally savvy college students in Asia’s most mobile cities—Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—seek news via the mobile phone, how they evaluate mobile news for credibility and usefulness, and the consequences of this practice: becoming engaged with mobile news, which then teaches them about current affairs. The analyses are situated at…
Mobile media: Coming of age with a big splash
In a very short period of time, mobile telephony, tablets, and other hand-held devices swept the world. The world’s first cellular network was created in 1977, but the mobile phone has made history as one of the fastest diffusing communication technologies, reaching nearly six billion subscribers by 2011. The time is right to define mobile media in an effort to better understand mobile communication technologies and their broad implications for t…
Evaluating public transit services for operational efficiency and access equity
Maintaining social connectedness in a fast-changing world: Examining the effects of mobile phone uses on loneliness among teens in Tibet
This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skills as antecedents. Findings of a survey of 1,135 teen mobile phone users living in Tibet showed that they actively use the mobile phone as an important …
Wi-Fi Powered WLAN: When Built, Who Will Use It? Exploring Predictors of Wireless Internet Adoption in the Workplace
High-speed wireless Internet technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX allow users to go online at broadband speed, anywhere, anytime. Experimental projects in publicly accessible Wi-Fi systems and citywide networks are mushrooming in the United States and elsewhere. Grounded in the diffusion of innovations research paradigm, this study examines factors that influence the adoption of Wi-Fi in the workplace. Similar to the adoption of the Internet at h…
Who are the mobile phone have-nots: Influences and consequences
Need for Orientation and Third-Person Effects of the Televised Debates in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The televised debates in the 2016 presidential election took place between two controversial candidates, Hillary Clinton and her opponent, Donald Trump, who faced a deeply divided electorate of highly opinioned voters that had already decided on their supported candidates. How did viewing the debates influence them? Would the debates reinforce their existing opinion, or provide them with useful information about the candidates? Drawing on Davison…
Journal Work as Community Service for the Common Good and Academic Citizenship
Health disparity in the spread of Covid-19: Evidence from social distancing, risk of interactions, and access to testing
This study answers critically unaddressed questions about health disparities in the spread of COVID-19 by assessing factors that might explain why the spread is different in different groups
Notes on recent dissertations
Coping with the challenge of a changing market: Strategies from Taiwan's press
This study examines the dynamic relationship between newspaper organizations and rapidly changing market conditions in post-authoritarian Taiwan between 1988 and 1994. The emphasis of the analysis is placed on identifying coping strategies in the face of unprecedented challenges and dilemmas from the evolving market. Three strategies are found among the Taiwanese newspapers: niche-seeking, depoliticization and politicization. Each strategy is als…
A Cross-Societal Study on the Role of the Mass Media in Political Socialization in China and Taiwan
Grounded in two culturally similar yet politically different societies, this comparative study found that Chinese in mainland China and Taiwan held similarly negative efficacious views towards politics despite the different sociopolitical changes over the past decade. Such a similarity may be the consequence of a shared cultural heritage, particularly the influence of traditional values of obedience and submission to authority. On the other hand,…
Who are the Mobile Phone Have-Nots: Influences and Consequences
Grounded in the diffusion of innovations theoretical framework, this study focuses on examining who the mobile telephone have-nots are and what are the factors at work. Results of a telephone survey with a probability sample of 834 respondents show that the have-nots tended to be older females with lower household income and education attainment. They had pagers as an alternative and subscribed to no caller ID display service at home. This study …
Who are the mobile phone have-nots: Influences and consequences
Mass Media and Consumerist Values in the People's Republic of China
In this study, we report results from parallel cross-section surveys of probability samples from the two largest cities in China. We pose two questions; What are consumerist value orientations anchored in Chinese individualism? How is mass media exposure related to the emergence of such values? We find three stable consumerist value orientations: conspicuous consumption, aspiration for self-actualization, and worshipping Western lifestyles. Those…
More Than Just Talk on the Move: Uses and Gratifications of the Cellular Phone
Mobility, immediacy, and instrumentality are found the strongest instrumental motives in predicting the use of cellular phones, followed by intrinsic factors such as affection/sociability. Subscription to functionally enhanced services such as call transfers and caller ID appears to be important predictors for overall cellular phone use, especially for those who are on the go. As expected, the use of cellular phones on buses, cars, and trains or …
Third-Person Effect, Gender, and Pornography on the lnternet
This study examined the role of gender in the third-person effect in the context of Internet pornography. The results indicate that most respondents believe Internet pornography has a greater negative influence on others than on themselves. Female respondents tend to perceive greater negative effects of Internet pornography on other males than on other females, and they are readier to support restrictions of Internet pornography. Finally, the mag…
Exposure to Internet Pornography and Taiwanese Adolescents' Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
This study examines use of Internet pornography by adolescents in Taiwan and the relationships between exposure to Internet pornography and the sexual attitudes and behavior of surveyed teens. Results show that about 38% of the sample had some exposure to Internet pornography. Further, this exposure was associated with greater acceptance of sexual permissiveness and the greater likelihood of engaging in sexually permissive behavior. Most importan…
Perceptual Differences in Assessing the Harm of Patronizing Adult Entertainment Clubs
Journal Article Perceptual Differences in Assessing the Harm of Patronizing Adult Entertainment Clubs Get access Ven-hwei Lo, Ven-hwei Lo Ven-hwei Lo, Ph.D., is professor and Dean of the College of Communication at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His research interests include news media performance and the effects of mass media. He is the author of five books and his recent publications have appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Qu…
Lifestyles and new media: Adoption and use of wireless communication technologies in China
This study examines the relationships between the lifestyles of urban Chinese consumers and the adoption and use of pagers and mobile phones. Based on a probability sample of 7094 respondents from China’s seven most prosperous cities, results show that the respondents identified as yuppies tended to integrate pagers and mobile phones into their conspicuous, westernized and socially active lifestyle. Adopting a pager and mobile phone is found to b…
Staying connected while on the move: Cell phone use and social connectedness
As people integrate use of the cell phone into their lives, do they view it as just an update of the fixed telephone or assign it special values? This study explores that question in the framework of gratifications sought and their relationship both to differential cell phone use and to social connectedness. Based on a survey of Taiwanese college students, we found that the cell phone supplements the fixed telephone as a means of strengthening us…
Wi-Fi Powered WLAN: When Built, Who Will Use It? Exploring Predictors of Wireless Internet Adoption in the Workplace
High-speed wireless Internet technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX allow users to go online at broadband speed, anywhere, anytime. Experimental projects in publicly accessible Wi-Fi systems and citywide networks are mushrooming in the United States and elsewhere. Grounded in the diffusion of innovations research paradigm, this study examines factors that influence the adoption of Wi-Fi in the workplace. Similar to the adoption of the Internet at h…
News Media Use and Knowledge about the 2006 U.S. Midterm Elections: Why Exposure Matters in Voter Learning
Journal Article News Media Use and Knowledge about the 2006 U.S. Midterm Elections: Why Exposure Matters in Voter Learning Get access Ran Wei, Ran Wei Ran Wei (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1995) is an associate professor in School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA. Address correspondence to Ran Wei, School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA, E-mail: ra…
Third-Person Effects of Health News: Exploring the Relationships Among Media Exposure, Presumed Media Influence, and Behavioral Intentions
This study expands third-person effect research to health news coverage. It examines the perceptual and behavioral components of third-person effects. Moderator variables of third-person effects-knowledge and exposure to health news-are also examined. Using data from a survey of public opinion about the coverage of avian flu involving a probability sample of 1,107 college students in Taiwan, findings show that respondents tend to think the influe…
Third-person Effect and Hostile Media Perception Influences on Voter Attitudes toward Polls in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Focusing on the milestone 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, this study explores how perceived impact of polls is influenced by one’s social comparison groups and perception of media hostility. Results, using survey data of 541 respondents, show that respondents perceived others as more vulnerable than themselves to the influence of election polls. Even though all of the published polls consistently indicated Obama’s lead, some supporters of Obama …
Alcohol beverage control, privatization and the geographic distribution of alcohol outlets
The study reveals that spatial analytical approaches can function as an excellent tool for contingency-based "what-if" analysis, providing an objective snapshot of potential policy outcomes prior to implementation. In this case, the likely outcome is a tremendous increase in alcohol outlets in Philadelphia, with concomitant negative health, crime and quality of life outcomes that accompany such an increase
Trillin, a steroidal saponin isolated from the rhizomes of Dioscorea nipponica, exerts protective effects against hyperlipidemia and oxidative stress
Texting, tweeting, and talking: Effects of smartphone use on engagement in civic discourse in China
Media use and talking with others have been found to have positive effects on citizens’ civic participation according to Wyatt, Katz , and Kim (2000). Recent research links informational uses of the mobile phone to increased involvement in civic and political life. Building on this line of research, this study explores the effect of smartphone use on civil discourse engagement in China, with its nearly 900 million mobile phone users. Results reve…
Mobile media: Coming of age with a big splash
In a very short period of time, mobile telephony, tablets, and other hand-held devices swept the world. The world’s first cellular network was created in 1977, but the mobile phone has made history as one of the fastest diffusing communication technologies, reaching nearly six billion subscribers by 2011. The time is right to define mobile media in an effort to better understand mobile communication technologies and their broad implications for t…
Predicting mobile news use among college students: The role of press freedom in four Asian cities
This study explores how mobile phone-savvy Asian college students use mobile news, especially news posted on mobile-accessible Twitter-like microblogs, to stay informed about current events. Our survey of more than 3500 college students in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan asks why young people turn to mobile phones for news and how the news-getting behavior is related to the level of press freedom in their respective societies. The resul…
Maintaining social connectedness in a fast-changing world: Examining the effects of mobile phone uses on loneliness among teens in Tibet
This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skills as antecedents. Findings of a survey of 1,135 teen mobile phone users living in Tibet showed that they actively use the mobile phone as an important …
Milestone Studies Define a Field
It is easy to agree that the new media—cell phone, internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc.—are not the place to begin. The starting point, obviously, is on the ground ... —Elihu Katz, 2014 Dr. Elihu Katz c
Extending the Deep Legacy of Our Field's Top Scholars
Spatial Clustering Overview and Comparison: Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Computational Expense
Cluster analysis continues to be an important exploratory technique in scientific inquiry. It is used widely in geography, public health, criminology, ecology, and many other fields. Spatial cluster detection is driven by geographic information corresponding to the location of activities, requiring appropriate and meaningful treatment of space and spatial relationships combined with observed attributes of location and events. To date, this has me…
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