Ken Ka-Wo Fung
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Ka-Wo Fung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken Ka-Wo |
| FAMILY NAME | Fung |
| SIGNATURE | FUNG K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soochow University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9398-0479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politically Engaged and/or Online Addicted? Assessing Youth Engagement with Digital Fluency and Addiction
While online behaviors have flourished in youth studies, they have seldom been considered in relation to political behaviors. Using structural equation modeling, we examine whether digital fluency is associated with online political participation through political efficacy, and whether online addiction moderates these relationships among youths in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Political efficacy positively predicts online political participation, and med…
How the politics and policy of Covid-19 response is reshaping and reshaped by identity and citizenship in East Asia
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people from all walks of life relate to one another. Soon after COVID-19 was first identified in Mainland China in 2019, the governments and civic societies in Taiwan and Hong Kong promptly responded to the crisis by employing strict border control, drawing on lessons learnt from the SARs pandemic in 2003. In the past two decades, the Chinese government has increased its influence in the Pacific region in…
Helping others as the key to achieving happiness”
Young adults are often taught to take part in public service activities inside and outside of school. By introducing the concept of public service motivation (PSM), this study attempts to explore the relative importance of young adults’ social capital and self-efficacy in promoting their subjective wellbeing (SWB). Surveying a large group of Chinese young adults from higher education institutions in four major cities in China, namely Beijing, Sha…
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth
Sociological Institutionalists of education suggest that the first quarter of the 21st century has seen a paradigm shift in moral education worldwide toward depicting global citizenship as rooted in social diversity and common humanity, going beyond the locally focused interests of nation-states. Within the context of the ongoing nation building process in the self-governing territory of Taiwan in the past two decades, this study offers a telling…
Cultural Conflict and Disappointment
The failure of the democratic movement during 2014–2020 prompted tens of thousands of Hongkongers (~40,000) to reluctantly leave their hometown and migrate to Taiwan to seek a freer future. Taiwan’s cultural similarity to Hong Kong, together with Taiwan’s democracy and geographic proximity, are commonly recognized as pull factors of migration. However, the intensifying cross-strait tensions since late 2021 have witnessed Taipei tighten its approv…
Toward a Rational Civil Society
To explore the mechanisms that foster rational, communicative, and actionable citizenship, this research proposes a mediation as well as moderation research framework that links deliberative thinking, political self-efficacy, social capital, and civic participation. Data from 865 Taiwanese university students are analyzed with structural equation modeling, showing a positive association of deliberative thinking to political self-efficacy and civi…
Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing
Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing
Toward a Rational Civil Society
To explore the mechanisms that foster rational, communicative, and actionable citizenship, this research proposes a mediation as well as moderation research framework that links deliberative thinking, political self-efficacy, social capital, and civic participation. Data from 865 Taiwanese university students are analyzed with structural equation modeling, showing a positive association of deliberative thinking to political self-efficacy and civi…
Toward a Rational Civil Society
To explore the mechanisms that foster rational, communicative, and actionable citizenship, this research proposes a mediation as well as moderation research framework that links deliberative thinking, political self-efficacy, social capital, and civic participation. Data from 865 Taiwanese university students are analyzed with structural equation modeling, showing a positive association of deliberative thinking to political self-efficacy and civi…
Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing
A new paradigm of moral education and civic engagement? A sociological institutionalist interpretation of multiculturalism among Taiwanese youth
Sociological Institutionalists of education suggest that the first quarter of the 21st century has seen a paradigm shift in moral education worldwide toward depicting global citizenship as rooted in social diversity and common humanity, going beyond the locally focused interests of nation-states. Within the context of the ongoing nation building process in the self-governing territory of Taiwan in the past two decades, this study offers a telling…
Cultural Conflict and Disappointment
The failure of the democratic movement during 2014–2020 prompted tens of thousands of Hongkongers (~40,000) to reluctantly leave their hometown and migrate to Taiwan to seek a freer future. Taiwan’s cultural similarity to Hong Kong, together with Taiwan’s democracy and geographic proximity, are commonly recognized as pull factors of migration. However, the intensifying cross-strait tensions since late 2021 have witnessed Taipei tighten its approv…
How the politics and policy of Covid-19 response is reshaping and reshaped by identity and citizenship in East Asia
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people from all walks of life relate to one another. Soon after COVID-19 was first identified in Mainland China in 2019, the governments and civic societies in Taiwan and Hong Kong promptly responded to the crisis by employing strict border control, drawing on lessons learnt from the SARs pandemic in 2003. In the past two decades, the Chinese government has increased its influence in the Pacific region in…
Helping others as the key to achieving happiness”
Young adults are often taught to take part in public service activities inside and outside of school. By introducing the concept of public service motivation (PSM), this study attempts to explore the relative importance of young adults’ social capital and self-efficacy in promoting their subjective wellbeing (SWB). Surveying a large group of Chinese young adults from higher education institutions in four major cities in China, namely Beijing, Sha…
Politically Engaged and/or Online Addicted? Assessing Youth Engagement with Digital Fluency and Addiction
While online behaviors have flourished in youth studies, they have seldom been considered in relation to political behaviors. Using structural equation modeling, we examine whether digital fluency is associated with online political participation through political efficacy, and whether online addiction moderates these relationships among youths in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Political efficacy positively predicts online political participation, and med…
Civic engagement (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)