Jue Hou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4068403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jue Hou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jue |
| FAMILY NAME | Hou |
| SIGNATURE | HOU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8441-8468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI-assisted second-language teaching and learning in the Zone of Proximal Development
This paper presents the integration of AI features into the language-teaching platform, Revita. The system is an intelligent online tutor, developed to support learners from lower-intermediate toward advanced levels, in several languages. Target skills currently include grammar, vocabulary, aural comprehension, and pronunciation. Based on authentic texts uploaded by the learners themselves, the system creates a rich variety of exercises that are …
Winged Visions
This article reads the leading Japanese modernist Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s late works of shishōsetsu (or “I-novel,”), and the short story “Cogwheels” ( Haguruma , 1927) in particular, against James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Whereas Portrait chronicles its youthful hero’s initiation into artistic creation, “Cogwheels” records an established writer’s descent into madness. Taking as its point of departure a crisis of represe…
The Cybernetic Writing Pad
This study examines the script crisis that emerged in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the old ideology of state phonocentrism and the new wave of computer science demanded the abandoning of Chinese characters altogether. Under the project of establishing new human-machine interfaces, national debates over such technical issues as the statistical properties of Chinese according to Claude Shannon’s information theory took place in…
How About Playing Games as a Career? The Evolution of E-Sports in the Eyes of Mainstream Media and Public Relations
This paper examined the media and public relations coverage of e-sport in China over a 17-yr period, focusing on how the representations of e-sport as a fast-growing industry have changed in China during that time. With the theoretical underpinning of media framing, the study used content analysis and examined 400 e-sport-related reports. Specifically, it investigated the tone of coverage, the topic emphasis of e-sport-related stories, and the us…
Somebody Google a Doctor! Urgent Health Information Seeking Habits of Young Adults
Introduction: While much scholarship has been done on health information-seeking habits, comparatively little has been done on these habits among young adults. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine to which media young adults turn during an urgent health crisis, which factors correspond to their choice, and if information-seeking corresponded to visiting a health professional. Method: A survey method was used, sampling s…
A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination
Communicating in a proper way
This study investigated the relationship between cultural influence and people’s daily media choices. From the perspective of high-context and low-context culture, an online survey was conducted with 351 participants from China and America filling out questions about culture content, media richness, and daily media choices. Findings not only supported the general notion that China has a relatively high-context culture while the US is comparativel…
Change by default
Sudden influxes of new contributors to online communities can cause apprehension and resentment among existing members, potentially leading to the displacement of existing members by newcomers. We analyze the impact of a sudden influx of new contributors to r/TwoXChromosomes, an online community in which the experiences and perspectives of female-identified individuals are discussed. Though we find evidence of a small displacement effect, other f…
(Broad)casting a Wider Net
This study analyzed the frequency with which the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic broadcasts featured men and women athletes. To understand these portrayals, all 557 hr and 15 min of National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) 2018 Winter Olympic telecasts were recorded. This recorded content included the 62 hr and 30 min of NBC’s primetime program and, for the first time, all of the remaining non-NBC primetime coverage on NBC’s other networks. Women at…
All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories
This study takes a sociology of quantification approach in exploring the impact of ‘commensurative’ processes in data journalism, in which distinct incidents and entities are rendered similar, aggregated, and shaped into elaborate abstract constructs. This literature emphasizes the political-economic contexts of data production and predicts a heavy reliance on government data, use of national over local data, and a tendency to take data categorie…
All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories
This study takes a sociology of quantification approach in exploring the impact of ‘commensurative’ processes in data journalism, in which distinct incidents and entities are rendered similar, aggregated, and shaped into elaborate abstract constructs. This literature emphasizes the political-economic contexts of data production and predicts a heavy reliance on government data, use of national over local data, and a tendency to take data categorie…
(Broad)casting a Wider Net
This study analyzed the frequency with which the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic broadcasts featured men and women athletes. To understand these portrayals, all 557 hr and 15 min of National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) 2018 Winter Olympic telecasts were recorded. This recorded content included the 62 hr and 30 min of NBC’s primetime program and, for the first time, all of the remaining non-NBC primetime coverage on NBC’s other networks. Women at…
(Broad)casting a Wider Net
This study analyzed the frequency with which the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic broadcasts featured men and women athletes. To understand these portrayals, all 557 hr and 15 min of National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) 2018 Winter Olympic telecasts were recorded. This recorded content included the 62 hr and 30 min of NBC’s primetime program and, for the first time, all of the remaining non-NBC primetime coverage on NBC’s other networks. Women at…
All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories
This study takes a sociology of quantification approach in exploring the impact of ‘commensurative’ processes in data journalism, in which distinct incidents and entities are rendered similar, aggregated, and shaped into elaborate abstract constructs. This literature emphasizes the political-economic contexts of data production and predicts a heavy reliance on government data, use of national over local data, and a tendency to take data categorie…
Change by default
Sudden influxes of new contributors to online communities can cause apprehension and resentment among existing members, potentially leading to the displacement of existing members by newcomers. We analyze the impact of a sudden influx of new contributors to r/TwoXChromosomes, an online community in which the experiences and perspectives of female-identified individuals are discussed. Though we find evidence of a small displacement effect, other f…
How About Playing Games as a Career? The Evolution of E-Sports in the Eyes of Mainstream Media and Public Relations
This paper examined the media and public relations coverage of e-sport in China over a 17-yr period, focusing on how the representations of e-sport as a fast-growing industry have changed in China during that time. With the theoretical underpinning of media framing, the study used content analysis and examined 400 e-sport-related reports. Specifically, it investigated the tone of coverage, the topic emphasis of e-sport-related stories, and the us…
Somebody Google a Doctor! Urgent Health Information Seeking Habits of Young Adults
Introduction: While much scholarship has been done on health information-seeking habits, comparatively little has been done on these habits among young adults. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine to which media young adults turn during an urgent health crisis, which factors correspond to their choice, and if information-seeking corresponded to visiting a health professional. Method: A survey method was used, sampling s…
A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination
Communicating in a proper way
This study investigated the relationship between cultural influence and people’s daily media choices. From the perspective of high-context and low-context culture, an online survey was conducted with 351 participants from China and America filling out questions about culture content, media richness, and daily media choices. Findings not only supported the general notion that China has a relatively high-context culture while the US is comparativel…
The Cybernetic Writing Pad
This study examines the script crisis that emerged in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the old ideology of state phonocentrism and the new wave of computer science demanded the abandoning of Chinese characters altogether. Under the project of establishing new human-machine interfaces, national debates over such technical issues as the statistical properties of Chinese according to Claude Shannon’s information theory took place in…
AI-assisted second-language teaching and learning in the Zone of Proximal Development
This paper presents the integration of AI features into the language-teaching platform, Revita. The system is an intelligent online tutor, developed to support learners from lower-intermediate toward advanced levels, in several languages. Target skills currently include grammar, vocabulary, aural comprehension, and pronunciation. Based on authentic texts uploaded by the learners themselves, the system creates a rich variety of exercises that are …
Winged Visions
This article reads the leading Japanese modernist Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s late works of shishōsetsu (or “I-novel,”), and the short story “Cogwheels” ( Haguruma , 1927) in particular, against James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Whereas Portrait chronicles its youthful hero’s initiation into artistic creation, “Cogwheels” records an established writer’s descent into madness. Taking as its point of departure a crisis of represe…
Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (2 works) · History (2 works)