Chi Kit Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4412947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chi Kit Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chi Kit |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5429-3035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political trust under shifting state–society relations
This article investigates two questions. Conceptually, it examines the formation of political trust amid expanding state power over a chilling civil society. This question echoes to the persistent scholarly concerns over the retreats of democratic institutions and practices under both liberal and authoritative contexts. Empirically, this article addresses an intriguing finding deriving from two populational surveys of Hong Kong in 2020 and 2024. …
Political Tolerance and Forms of Active News Avoidance
Journalists as actors of democratic resilience
Studies of democratic resilience typically focus on the role of political institutions in resisting autocratization. Few studies focus on the roles of social actors in resisting autocratization even after institutional breakdown. This study offers a case study of Hong Kong, where the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in 2020 had ushered in a process of rapid autocratization and disrupted the status quo of the city as a hybrid regime. I…
Value Shift or Suspension? Hong Kong Youth under Economic Precarity and Political Inhibition
Commentators and scholars have considered the shift to post-material value orientation among young people in Hong Kong as a driver of the rise of social mobilization since the 2000s. However, post-materialism is theoretically premised on a sense of security. As young people face both economic precarity and political inhibition in the post–National Security Law era, will their value orientation shift? We use an interpretive approach to address thi…
News Innovation Under Rapid Political Change
Extant discussions of news media innovation have largely focused on the impact of media technologies, market forces, and audience reception. This article examines how political dynamics in transitional societies shape news media innovation. It argues that, in such contexts, news media innovation can be understood as a contingent outcome driven by changing state-society relations, mediated by organizational factors, and punctuated by critical poli…
Determinants of escape from echo chambers
This study aims to understand the determinants of escape from echo chambers. Social media users can control the content to which they are exposed by confining their contacts to like-minded individuals. The resulting echo chamber effect can reinforce existing views and discourage rational discussion. We conducted a survey with a representative sample of 1969 respondents in 2020. Contrary to common expectation, a liberal political orientation was i…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
Shifting journalistic paradigm in post-2019 Hong Kong
In the aftermath of the anti-ELAB protests, the relationship between state power and civil society, in which the journalistic paradigm in Hong Kong is embedded, has been fundamentally altered. In brief, the term journalistic paradigm refers to the media political economy that conditions the news values, ideologies, and journalistic practices of the news profession. Since the post-handover years, Hong Kong has been a liberal enclave under Chinese …
Anti-extradition law and beyond
Hong Kong Media
Political Events and Cultural Othering
Much academic research has examined the transformation of Hong Kong people's national and local identification after 1997. This article further develops the literature by focusing on the notion of cultural othering and adopting the perspective of eventful sociology. It contends that, up to year 2020, an important aspect of Hong Kong people's identity change was the increasing tendency, especially among the younger generation, to see Hong Kong and…
Hong Kong Media
From soft power to sharp power
This article examines China’s media image in Hong Kong’s health crises of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 and the coronavirus disease-19 in 2020. Both diseases were allegedly transmitted from mainland China to Hong Kong, which triggered extensive media coverage and intensive debates over China’s role in epidemic control, reaction, and its trust in Hong Kong and the world. In 2003, China established a relatively positive and constructive…
Defining health risk by media template
In the risk society that has resulted from modernization, power rests with those who define risks. In the midst of uncertainties and controversies surrounding unpredictable risks, the news value of objectivity becomes a key justification for news organizations and journalists narrating speculation of social risks in news discourses. I shed light on the theorization of ‘media template’, and construct a three-step model to examine how highly unknow…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
Defining health risk by media template
In the risk society that has resulted from modernization, power rests with those who define risks. In the midst of uncertainties and controversies surrounding unpredictable risks, the news value of objectivity becomes a key justification for news organizations and journalists narrating speculation of social risks in news discourses. I shed light on the theorization of ‘media template’, and construct a three-step model to examine how highly unknow…
Political Events and Cultural Othering
Much academic research has examined the transformation of Hong Kong people's national and local identification after 1997. This article further develops the literature by focusing on the notion of cultural othering and adopting the perspective of eventful sociology. It contends that, up to year 2020, an important aspect of Hong Kong people's identity change was the increasing tendency, especially among the younger generation, to see Hong Kong and…
Defining health risk by media template
In the risk society that has resulted from modernization, power rests with those who define risks. In the midst of uncertainties and controversies surrounding unpredictable risks, the news value of objectivity becomes a key justification for news organizations and journalists narrating speculation of social risks in news discourses. I shed light on the theorization of ‘media template’, and construct a three-step model to examine how highly unknow…
From soft power to sharp power
This article examines China’s media image in Hong Kong’s health crises of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 and the coronavirus disease-19 in 2020. Both diseases were allegedly transmitted from mainland China to Hong Kong, which triggered extensive media coverage and intensive debates over China’s role in epidemic control, reaction, and its trust in Hong Kong and the world. In 2003, China established a relatively positive and constructive…
Shifting journalistic paradigm in post-2019 Hong Kong
In the aftermath of the anti-ELAB protests, the relationship between state power and civil society, in which the journalistic paradigm in Hong Kong is embedded, has been fundamentally altered. In brief, the term journalistic paradigm refers to the media political economy that conditions the news values, ideologies, and journalistic practices of the news profession. Since the post-handover years, Hong Kong has been a liberal enclave under Chinese …
Anti-extradition law and beyond
Hong Kong Media
Political Events and Cultural Othering
Much academic research has examined the transformation of Hong Kong people's national and local identification after 1997. This article further develops the literature by focusing on the notion of cultural othering and adopting the perspective of eventful sociology. It contends that, up to year 2020, an important aspect of Hong Kong people's identity change was the increasing tendency, especially among the younger generation, to see Hong Kong and…
Hong Kong Media
Determinants of escape from echo chambers
This study aims to understand the determinants of escape from echo chambers. Social media users can control the content to which they are exposed by confining their contacts to like-minded individuals. The resulting echo chamber effect can reinforce existing views and discourage rational discussion. We conducted a survey with a representative sample of 1969 respondents in 2020. Contrary to common expectation, a liberal political orientation was i…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
News Innovation Under Rapid Political Change
Extant discussions of news media innovation have largely focused on the impact of media technologies, market forces, and audience reception. This article examines how political dynamics in transitional societies shape news media innovation. It argues that, in such contexts, news media innovation can be understood as a contingent outcome driven by changing state-society relations, mediated by organizational factors, and punctuated by critical poli…
Political Tolerance and Forms of Active News Avoidance
Journalists as actors of democratic resilience
Studies of democratic resilience typically focus on the role of political institutions in resisting autocratization. Few studies focus on the roles of social actors in resisting autocratization even after institutional breakdown. This study offers a case study of Hong Kong, where the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in 2020 had ushered in a process of rapid autocratization and disrupted the status quo of the city as a hybrid regime. I…
Value Shift or Suspension? Hong Kong Youth under Economic Precarity and Political Inhibition
Commentators and scholars have considered the shift to post-material value orientation among young people in Hong Kong as a driver of the rise of social mobilization since the 2000s. However, post-materialism is theoretically premised on a sense of security. As young people face both economic precarity and political inhibition in the post–National Security Law era, will their value orientation shift? We use an interpretive approach to address thi…
Political trust under shifting state–society relations
This article investigates two questions. Conceptually, it examines the formation of political trust amid expanding state power over a chilling civil society. This question echoes to the persistent scholarly concerns over the retreats of democratic institutions and practices under both liberal and authoritative contexts. Empirically, this article addresses an intriguing finding deriving from two populational surveys of Hong Kong in 2020 and 2024. …
Politics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · News media (3 works)