Steve Guo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Guo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Guo |
| SIGNATURE | GUO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0026-4316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The expectation-evaluation gap: Audience news engagement and perceptions of media performance and credibility
This study explicates and examines a hypothesized discrepancy in public perceptions of the normative roles of journalists and evaluations of journalists’ actual performance. We argue that journalistic functions and public perceptions are mutually constituted, a point that has been largely ignored in existing journalism studies literature. We theoretically connect the expectation-evaluation gap with the public assessment of media credibility in a …
Deference vs. defiance: Deciphering media’s influence on censorship support in China
This study tests a moderated sequential mediation model to offer evidence for a theoretically derived hypothesis that exclusive use of domestic media (parochialism) in China leads to support of internet censorship, while the opposite is true for avid consumption of non-domestic media (cosmopolitanism). The hypothesized relationships have three distinct and yet interlapping intellectual roots: (1) authoritarian orientation; (2) institutional trust…
Pride and Patriotism: De-Otherness in US and Chinese Media Discourse on Techno-Nationalism
This study aims to investigate how media from China and the United States construct the ongoing technological conflicts between the two countries. While concerns and disagreements over technological development are primarily political, their interpretations are cultural and ideological. Conceptually, we merge literature from international relations, social psychology, and media studies into a full model centered on the concept of “de-otherness.” …
Aggregation and the New News Order: A Practice Theory Approach
This study examines the transforming power of aggregation in a traditional newsroom based on the practice theory approach. Through ethnographic observations of aggregated news production in action in a local legacy press, we were able to detect various symbolic and material sources of institutional change attributable to aggregation. Some of our findings confirmed the prescriptions of practice theory; some extended it; and some partially negated …
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong
Due to separation from their families and friends in their home countries and constrained living conditions in the host countries, migrant workers usually are found to experience loneliness. Compared with male migrant workers, female migrant workers are more vulnerable and likely to experience higher levels of psychological problems. The ubiquity of mobile phones enables migrant workers to access resources and social support to help to alleviate …
Making “Un-news: News aggregation in Chinese press
Un-news” is a Chinese newsroom jargon that refers to the process as well as the product of aggregation. It encapsulates clashes between digital and legacy journalism, challenges posed by and responses to technologies in the media industry. It differs from aggregation news elsewhere because of dynamic media environment in China. This ethnographic study closely analyzes manifestations of “un-news” churned out by digital aggregators who have to work…
Native Advertising in the Chinese Press: Implications of State Subsidies for Journalist Professional Self-Identification
This article reports a case study on how government-sponsored native advertising influences everyday practices of journalism and journalists’ role identification in China. The process is the result of the state attempt to centralize control in response to digitalization that is, changing the press landscape. Building on social identity theory, we undertook an ethnographic fieldwork in a local party newspaper to observe how news organization and j…
News production and construal level: A comparative analysis of the press coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
This research integrates construal level theory with news production strategies by exploring the joint effects of distance and editorial commitment on news narratives. In content analyzing the coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by four newspapers in China and West, we investigate determinants of choice of principled or personalized accounts in storytelling. The findings showed that editorial commitment was low and power reliance h…
Malleable Multiplicity and Power Reliance: Identity Presentation by Chinese Journalists on Social Media
This study investigates the impact of social media on journalistic identity presentation in China. We empirically link micro conceptions of journalists and macro changes in media ecology through ethnographic observations of daily routines in a party press. Specifically, our scrutiny of Chinese journalists’ use of WeChat Moments, an equivalent of Twitter, uncovered patterns showing that media organizations’ increasing dependence on state subsidies…
Understanding Support for Internet Censorship in China: An Elaboration of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Framing distance: Local vs. non-local news in Hong Kong press
Geographical location as a “natural” attribute of news has always been a source of news manipulation. This research investigates how different community newspapers select, interpret, and package events originating in places of varying distances. Contextualized in Hong Kong, three media frames (authority, conflict, and attribution) are closely examined and theoretically connected to three types of newspapers (mass appeal, elite, and pro-establishm…
Understanding Support for Internet Censorship in China: An Elaboration of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Framing distance: Local vs. non-local news in Hong Kong press
Geographical location as a “natural” attribute of news has always been a source of news manipulation. This research investigates how different community newspapers select, interpret, and package events originating in places of varying distances. Contextualized in Hong Kong, three media frames (authority, conflict, and attribution) are closely examined and theoretically connected to three types of newspapers (mass appeal, elite, and pro-establishm…
Malleable Multiplicity and Power Reliance: Identity Presentation by Chinese Journalists on Social Media
This study investigates the impact of social media on journalistic identity presentation in China. We empirically link micro conceptions of journalists and macro changes in media ecology through ethnographic observations of daily routines in a party press. Specifically, our scrutiny of Chinese journalists’ use of WeChat Moments, an equivalent of Twitter, uncovered patterns showing that media organizations’ increasing dependence on state subsidies…
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong
Due to separation from their families and friends in their home countries and constrained living conditions in the host countries, migrant workers usually are found to experience loneliness. Compared with male migrant workers, female migrant workers are more vulnerable and likely to experience higher levels of psychological problems. The ubiquity of mobile phones enables migrant workers to access resources and social support to help to alleviate …
Framing distance: Local vs. non-local news in Hong Kong press
Geographical location as a “natural” attribute of news has always been a source of news manipulation. This research investigates how different community newspapers select, interpret, and package events originating in places of varying distances. Contextualized in Hong Kong, three media frames (authority, conflict, and attribution) are closely examined and theoretically connected to three types of newspapers (mass appeal, elite, and pro-establishm…
Understanding Support for Internet Censorship in China: An Elaboration of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Malleable Multiplicity and Power Reliance: Identity Presentation by Chinese Journalists on Social Media
This study investigates the impact of social media on journalistic identity presentation in China. We empirically link micro conceptions of journalists and macro changes in media ecology through ethnographic observations of daily routines in a party press. Specifically, our scrutiny of Chinese journalists’ use of WeChat Moments, an equivalent of Twitter, uncovered patterns showing that media organizations’ increasing dependence on state subsidies…
Native Advertising in the Chinese Press: Implications of State Subsidies for Journalist Professional Self-Identification
This article reports a case study on how government-sponsored native advertising influences everyday practices of journalism and journalists’ role identification in China. The process is the result of the state attempt to centralize control in response to digitalization that is, changing the press landscape. Building on social identity theory, we undertook an ethnographic fieldwork in a local party newspaper to observe how news organization and j…
News production and construal level: A comparative analysis of the press coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
This research integrates construal level theory with news production strategies by exploring the joint effects of distance and editorial commitment on news narratives. In content analyzing the coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by four newspapers in China and West, we investigate determinants of choice of principled or personalized accounts in storytelling. The findings showed that editorial commitment was low and power reliance h…
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong
Due to separation from their families and friends in their home countries and constrained living conditions in the host countries, migrant workers usually are found to experience loneliness. Compared with male migrant workers, female migrant workers are more vulnerable and likely to experience higher levels of psychological problems. The ubiquity of mobile phones enables migrant workers to access resources and social support to help to alleviate …
Making “Un-news: News aggregation in Chinese press
Un-news” is a Chinese newsroom jargon that refers to the process as well as the product of aggregation. It encapsulates clashes between digital and legacy journalism, challenges posed by and responses to technologies in the media industry. It differs from aggregation news elsewhere because of dynamic media environment in China. This ethnographic study closely analyzes manifestations of “un-news” churned out by digital aggregators who have to work…
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China
Aggregation and the New News Order: A Practice Theory Approach
This study examines the transforming power of aggregation in a traditional newsroom based on the practice theory approach. Through ethnographic observations of aggregated news production in action in a local legacy press, we were able to detect various symbolic and material sources of institutional change attributable to aggregation. Some of our findings confirmed the prescriptions of practice theory; some extended it; and some partially negated …
The expectation-evaluation gap: Audience news engagement and perceptions of media performance and credibility
This study explicates and examines a hypothesized discrepancy in public perceptions of the normative roles of journalists and evaluations of journalists’ actual performance. We argue that journalistic functions and public perceptions are mutually constituted, a point that has been largely ignored in existing journalism studies literature. We theoretically connect the expectation-evaluation gap with the public assessment of media credibility in a …
Deference vs. defiance: Deciphering media’s influence on censorship support in China
This study tests a moderated sequential mediation model to offer evidence for a theoretically derived hypothesis that exclusive use of domestic media (parochialism) in China leads to support of internet censorship, while the opposite is true for avid consumption of non-domestic media (cosmopolitanism). The hypothesized relationships have three distinct and yet interlapping intellectual roots: (1) authoritarian orientation; (2) institutional trust…
Pride and Patriotism: De-Otherness in US and Chinese Media Discourse on Techno-Nationalism
This study aims to investigate how media from China and the United States construct the ongoing technological conflicts between the two countries. While concerns and disagreements over technological development are primarily political, their interpretations are cultural and ideological. Conceptually, we merge literature from international relations, social psychology, and media studies into a full model centered on the concept of “de-otherness.” …
China (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)