Biying Wu-Ouyang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Biying Wu-Ouyang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Biying |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu-Ouyang |
| SIGNATURE | WU-OUYANG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4114-6367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the impact of work from home on the effects of social media
Curation as a communicative act
Individuals increasingly express thoughts by clicking “likes,” following groups, and leaving comments. These communicative acts not only express individual preferences but also convey signals to important curators such as algorithms, advertisers, friends, and journalists, which jointly shape social media feeds. In a word, people consume what they curate. Despite its significance, current theories lack clarity on the concept explication of persona…
Internet Freedom and Social Media’s Political Consequences
While extensive research has explored social media’s political effects, less attention has been paid to its impact on authoritarian orientation, a crucial form of political attitude. The rapid evolution of social media has brought internet freedom concerns—including access barriers, content restrictions, and violations of user rights—into prominent focus. However, research examining how these aspects of internet freedom interact with social media…
Association between cardiometabolic index and biological ageing among adults
CMI is positively correlated with biological ageing in adults in the United States. Prospective studies with larger sample sizes are required to validate our findings
News avoidance or curation? Explicating the psychological process in news consumption on Facebook
This study investigates how people employ different news consumption strategies in the personalized but overloaded information environment. Specifically, we examine the psychological mechanisms of news curation and news avoidance through fear of missing out (FoMO) and news overload. An autoregressive analysis of two-wave panel data ( N = 834) shows that news use indirectly affects both news consumption strategies first through FoMO and then throu…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality
Social virtual reality (VR) platforms have unleashed new possibilities to reimagine Marshall McLuhan's classic idea of the 'global village' in the digital era. We situated our inquiry in the case of identity negotiation between Chinese mainlanders and diasporas in VRChat, a popular social VR platform. Through a 2-year-long digital ethnography and interviews, this study revealed how Chinese mainlanders and those living abroad have confronted, sepa…
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media
While the theoretical framework of curated flows provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the social media environment, it overlooks the interactions between curators and the mechanisms pertaining to these interactions. This study argues that each curator can interact with one another, resulting in an interplay between different flows and shaping an individual's information networks. Specifically focusing on personal news curation, this re…
Comparing Media Systems in Western Democracies
Amid the proliferation of multiplatform social media use and fake news, the ongoing debate about social media’s impact on news engagement and selective exposure remains inconclusive. Drawing on a representative sample of 17 countries ( N = 34,633), the present study examined the association of country-level media systems, individual-level fake news concerns, and multiplatform news use with news engagement and selective exposure. The multilevel an…
How language usage affects sojourners’ psychological well-being in a trilingual society
Quantitative research on the linguistic acculturation of sojourners in non-Western and multilingual social contexts remains scarce. Revising the Framework of Acculturation Variables (FAV), we propose a parsimonious model exploring the effect of acculturation conditions (trilingual language usage and perceived discrimination), orientations (social connectedness to mainstream and minority community), and outcome (psychological well-being). In parti…
Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media
Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation? Examining How Perceived News Feed Performance Influences Boosting and Limiting Curation on Facebook
This study examines how perceived news feed performance (i.e., perceived news feed quality and valence) shapes consumptive news feed curation, defined as a type of social media consumption behavior by which users inform algorithms about what they want to see in their news feeds. Results from a survey in the United States ( N = 1,525) show that both perceived quality and valence of news feed were associated with consumptive news feed curation on F…
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Are smartphones addictive? Examining the cognitive-behavior model of motivation, leisure boredom, extended self, and fear of missing out on possible smartphone addiction
Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method
Mobile phone usage is typically measured via self-reporting. However, scholars have questioned the validity of self-reported data, which may lead to Type I or Type II errors. Using an online survey ( n = 777), this study compared self-reported and log mobile phone usage data using a simplified version of the mobile data donation method. The results showed that people generally underreported their mobile phone usage in terms of time duration, the …
A “soul” emerges when AI, AR, and Anime converge
By converging 3A—artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and anime culture, a new type of non-naturalistic and stylized anthropomorphism has been exercised on the latest hologram social robot—“Hupo.” By combining scopes of human–machine communication and cultural studies, this study investigated how this 3A convergence constructed the user experience of Hupo. Through in-depth interviews with 25 users, we revealed their expected expe…
Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
A “soul” emerges when AI, AR, and Anime converge
By converging 3A—artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and anime culture, a new type of non-naturalistic and stylized anthropomorphism has been exercised on the latest hologram social robot—“Hupo.” By combining scopes of human–machine communication and cultural studies, this study investigated how this 3A convergence constructed the user experience of Hupo. Through in-depth interviews with 25 users, we revealed their expected expe…
How language usage affects sojourners’ psychological well-being in a trilingual society
Quantitative research on the linguistic acculturation of sojourners in non-Western and multilingual social contexts remains scarce. Revising the Framework of Acculturation Variables (FAV), we propose a parsimonious model exploring the effect of acculturation conditions (trilingual language usage and perceived discrimination), orientations (social connectedness to mainstream and minority community), and outcome (psychological well-being). In parti…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
Are smartphones addictive? Examining the cognitive-behavior model of motivation, leisure boredom, extended self, and fear of missing out on possible smartphone addiction
Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method
Mobile phone usage is typically measured via self-reporting. However, scholars have questioned the validity of self-reported data, which may lead to Type I or Type II errors. Using an online survey ( n = 777), this study compared self-reported and log mobile phone usage data using a simplified version of the mobile data donation method. The results showed that people generally underreported their mobile phone usage in terms of time duration, the …
A “soul” emerges when AI, AR, and Anime converge
By converging 3A—artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and anime culture, a new type of non-naturalistic and stylized anthropomorphism has been exercised on the latest hologram social robot—“Hupo.” By combining scopes of human–machine communication and cultural studies, this study investigated how this 3A convergence constructed the user experience of Hupo. Through in-depth interviews with 25 users, we revealed their expected expe…
Sexting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media
While the theoretical framework of curated flows provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the social media environment, it overlooks the interactions between curators and the mechanisms pertaining to these interactions. This study argues that each curator can interact with one another, resulting in an interplay between different flows and shaping an individual's information networks. Specifically focusing on personal news curation, this re…
Comparing Media Systems in Western Democracies
Amid the proliferation of multiplatform social media use and fake news, the ongoing debate about social media’s impact on news engagement and selective exposure remains inconclusive. Drawing on a representative sample of 17 countries ( N = 34,633), the present study examined the association of country-level media systems, individual-level fake news concerns, and multiplatform news use with news engagement and selective exposure. The multilevel an…
How language usage affects sojourners’ psychological well-being in a trilingual society
Quantitative research on the linguistic acculturation of sojourners in non-Western and multilingual social contexts remains scarce. Revising the Framework of Acculturation Variables (FAV), we propose a parsimonious model exploring the effect of acculturation conditions (trilingual language usage and perceived discrimination), orientations (social connectedness to mainstream and minority community), and outcome (psychological well-being). In parti…
Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media
Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation? Examining How Perceived News Feed Performance Influences Boosting and Limiting Curation on Facebook
This study examines how perceived news feed performance (i.e., perceived news feed quality and valence) shapes consumptive news feed curation, defined as a type of social media consumption behavior by which users inform algorithms about what they want to see in their news feeds. Results from a survey in the United States ( N = 1,525) show that both perceived quality and valence of news feed were associated with consumptive news feed curation on F…
Internet Freedom and Social Media’s Political Consequences
While extensive research has explored social media’s political effects, less attention has been paid to its impact on authoritarian orientation, a crucial form of political attitude. The rapid evolution of social media has brought internet freedom concerns—including access barriers, content restrictions, and violations of user rights—into prominent focus. However, research examining how these aspects of internet freedom interact with social media…
Association between cardiometabolic index and biological ageing among adults
CMI is positively correlated with biological ageing in adults in the United States. Prospective studies with larger sample sizes are required to validate our findings
News avoidance or curation? Explicating the psychological process in news consumption on Facebook
This study investigates how people employ different news consumption strategies in the personalized but overloaded information environment. Specifically, we examine the psychological mechanisms of news curation and news avoidance through fear of missing out (FoMO) and news overload. An autoregressive analysis of two-wave panel data ( N = 834) shows that news use indirectly affects both news consumption strategies first through FoMO and then throu…
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM in Hong Kong, based on the transactional model of social media and body image concerns and cultivation theory. Methods A mixed-methods design was employed, with a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, 214 youn…
The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Social Virtual Reality
Social virtual reality (VR) platforms have unleashed new possibilities to reimagine Marshall McLuhan's classic idea of the 'global village' in the digital era. We situated our inquiry in the case of identity negotiation between Chinese mainlanders and diasporas in VRChat, a popular social VR platform. Through a 2-year-long digital ethnography and interviews, this study revealed how Chinese mainlanders and those living abroad have confronted, sepa…
Exploring the impact of work from home on the effects of social media
Curation as a communicative act
Individuals increasingly express thoughts by clicking “likes,” following groups, and leaving comments. These communicative acts not only express individual preferences but also convey signals to important curators such as algorithms, advertisers, friends, and journalists, which jointly shape social media feeds. In a word, people consume what they curate. Despite its significance, current theories lack clarity on the concept explication of persona…
Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social media (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works)