Seow Ting Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4907952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seow Ting Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seow Ting |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethics in government communication on social media: Testing a relationship-building model among young adults in Taiwan
This study examines government social media communication through the integrative lenses of communication ethics, organization-public relationship (OPR), and the TARES framework of truthfulness, authenticity, respect, equity, and social responsibility (Baker, S., & Martinson, D. L. (2001). The TARES test: Five principles for ethical persuasion. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 16(2–3), 148–175). It tests a model that explains how a public’s ethical …
The Impact of Ethics Instruction and Internship on Students’ Ethical Perceptions About Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and ChatGPT
Communication programs seek to cultivate students who become professionals not only with expertise in their chosen field, but also ethical awareness. The current study investigates how exposure to ethics instruction and internship experiences may influence communication students’ ethical perceptions, including ideological orientations on idealism and relativism, as well as awareness of contemporary ethical issues related to social media and artif…
Health Orientation as a Psychographic Framework for Understanding Physical Exercise Behavior
The consistent association between regular physical exercise and positive health outcomes presents a compelling case for investigating the differences between individuals who exercise regularly and those who do not. Based on a randomized cross-sectional survey of 1,201 households, this study adopts a psychographic framework to investigate the role of health orientation in physical exercise behavior. This study extends the concept of health orient…
Film as cultural diplomacy: South Korea’s nation branding through Parasite (2019)
An Integrated Approach to Public Diplomacy and Public Relations: A Five-Year Analysis of the Information Subsidies of the United States, China, and Singapore
This study contributes to the growing research on government-issued information subsidies in mediated public diplomacy in a new media environment. It examines the online information subsidies issued by the foreign ministries of three countries—the United States, China, and Singapore—to address a gap in the literature that has given scant attention to how governments use news releases through online newsrooms for public diplomacy. The study is sig…
Media, race and crime: Racial perceptions and criminal culpability in a multiracial national context
This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption and racial perceptions. Respondents who consume more race-specific media have less negative racial perceptions of their own race, and more negative raci…
Predictors of H1N1 Influenza Pandemic News Coverage: Explicating the Relationships between Framing and News Release Selection
In health pandemic situations characterized by urgency, uncertainty and information scarcity, news media are highly reliant on information subsidies from public health agencies. This study, based on a content analysis, examines the relationships between the framing characteristics of news releases and subsequent publication to identify the predictors of news release selection for news coverage in the 2009 H1N1 A Influenza pandemic in Singapore. T…
A user approach to dialogic theory in a Facebook campaign on love and marriage
Private matters of the heart are the focus of “Beautifully Imperfect,” a Singapore government-led public communication campaign on love and marriage, part of larger pro-family efforts to reverse low marriage and birth rates. Through a case study based on focus groups, content analysis and interview methods, this study takes a user approach to dialogic theory by evaluating user reactions to and user interaction on Facebook and the manifestation of…
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
From Press Release to News: Mapping the Framing of the 2009 H1N1 A Influenza Pandemic
Pandemics challenge conventional assumptions about health promotion, message development, community engagement, and the role of news media. To understand the use of press releases in news coverage of pandemics, this study traces the development of framing devices from a government public health agency's press releases to news stories about the 2009 H1N1 A influenza pandemic. The communication management of the H1N1 pandemic, an international news…
Peace Journalism: Principles and Structural Limitations in the News Coverage of Three Conflicts
This study expands on the work in operationalizing Johan Galtung's classification of peace journalism and war journalism by describing and comparing the news coverage of three Asian conflicts—India and Pakistan's dispute over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers movement in Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian civil wars in Aceh and Maluku. By including vernacular newspapers in the analysis, this study adds to a research locus that has largely been ignored. A cont…
Asian Conflicts and the Iraq War: A Comparative Framing Analysis
This study examines the news coverage of the Iraq War and Asian conflicts by eight newspapers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines to compare the framing of two different levels of conflicts – international and local. Based on Galtung's war/peace journalism framework, a content analysis of 1558 stories on the Iraq War and the Asian conflicts involving Pakistan and India's tussle over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lank…
War or Peace Journalism? Asian Newspaper Coverage of Conflicts
This study examines the extent to which four Asian regional conflicts involving India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines are framed as war journalism or peace journalism based on Johan Galtung's classification. A content analysis of 1,338 stories from 10 newspapers suggests that, overall, the news coverage of these conflicts is dominated by a war journalism frame. The Indian and Pakistani coverage of the Kashmir issue shows the …
Globalizing Media Ethics? An Assessment of Universal Ethics Among International Political Journalists
In response to recent scholarship on the need for universal professional values, a call that has intensified in the post-9/11 world, this article reports how journalists in Asia and the Middle East conceptualize universal professional values and the possible impact of a universal ethics code. In general, the journalists interviewed for this study were suspicious of a Western-imposed set of values or a code. However, they agreed on a core set of v…
Globalizing Media Ethics? An Assessment of Universal Ethics Among International Political Journalists
Lying to Tell the Truth: Journalists and the Social Context of Deception
This study, based on depth interviews with journalists, is an analysis of the social context of journalistic deception. Borrowing from Elliot and Culver's (1992) comprehensive definition of journalistic deception that covered not only newsgathering practices but also the potential for deception in journalists' relationships with news audiences, as well as the omission-commission distinction, this research is an empirical attempt to locate the occ…
Exploring the Characteristics of DVD Home Theater System Adopters
This study examines the growing DVD home theater phenomenon by mapping the characteristics of DVD home theater adopters and their attitudes toward the new technology, which entered the mass market in 1997 as a competitor to the VCR. It attempts to locate and differentiate DVD adopters based on patterns of media use, utilities from gratification, socialization, and displacement. Based on Q methodology with a sample of 38 American respondents, 3 di…
Public Journalism and Non-Elite Actors and Sources
Public journalism is grounded in its desire to strengthen public life. Through a news work norm of community-involvement, by listening and acting upon a community's collective concerns, public journalism activities aspire to deliver news that engages people in public life. (1) It is evident that community involvement refers to a two-way process: A newspaper focuses its coverage on the community by identifying its problems, issues and stake in pub…
Peace Journalism: Principles and Structural Limitations in the News Coverage of Three Conflicts
This study expands on the work in operationalizing Johan Galtung's classification of peace journalism and war journalism by describing and comparing the news coverage of three Asian conflicts—India and Pakistan's dispute over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers movement in Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian civil wars in Aceh and Maluku. By including vernacular newspapers in the analysis, this study adds to a research locus that has largely been ignored. A cont…
Asian Conflicts and the Iraq War: A Comparative Framing Analysis
This study examines the news coverage of the Iraq War and Asian conflicts by eight newspapers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines to compare the framing of two different levels of conflicts – international and local. Based on Galtung's war/peace journalism framework, a content analysis of 1558 stories on the Iraq War and the Asian conflicts involving Pakistan and India's tussle over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lank…
Predictors of H1N1 Influenza Pandemic News Coverage: Explicating the Relationships between Framing and News Release Selection
In health pandemic situations characterized by urgency, uncertainty and information scarcity, news media are highly reliant on information subsidies from public health agencies. This study, based on a content analysis, examines the relationships between the framing characteristics of news releases and subsequent publication to identify the predictors of news release selection for news coverage in the 2009 H1N1 A Influenza pandemic in Singapore. T…
Public Journalism and Non-Elite Actors and Sources
Public journalism is grounded in its desire to strengthen public life. Through a news work norm of community-involvement, by listening and acting upon a community's collective concerns, public journalism activities aspire to deliver news that engages people in public life. (1) It is evident that community involvement refers to a two-way process: A newspaper focuses its coverage on the community by identifying its problems, issues and stake in pub…
Lying to Tell the Truth: Journalists and the Social Context of Deception
This study, based on depth interviews with journalists, is an analysis of the social context of journalistic deception. Borrowing from Elliot and Culver's (1992) comprehensive definition of journalistic deception that covered not only newsgathering practices but also the potential for deception in journalists' relationships with news audiences, as well as the omission-commission distinction, this research is an empirical attempt to locate the occ…
Film as cultural diplomacy: South Korea’s nation branding through Parasite (2019)
An Integrated Approach to Public Diplomacy and Public Relations: A Five-Year Analysis of the Information Subsidies of the United States, China, and Singapore
This study contributes to the growing research on government-issued information subsidies in mediated public diplomacy in a new media environment. It examines the online information subsidies issued by the foreign ministries of three countries—the United States, China, and Singapore—to address a gap in the literature that has given scant attention to how governments use news releases through online newsrooms for public diplomacy. The study is sig…
Media, race and crime: Racial perceptions and criminal culpability in a multiracial national context
This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption and racial perceptions. Respondents who consume more race-specific media have less negative racial perceptions of their own race, and more negative raci…
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
Public Journalism and Non-Elite Actors and Sources
Public journalism is grounded in its desire to strengthen public life. Through a news work norm of community-involvement, by listening and acting upon a community's collective concerns, public journalism activities aspire to deliver news that engages people in public life. (1) It is evident that community involvement refers to a two-way process: A newspaper focuses its coverage on the community by identifying its problems, issues and stake in pub…
Exploring the Characteristics of DVD Home Theater System Adopters
This study examines the growing DVD home theater phenomenon by mapping the characteristics of DVD home theater adopters and their attitudes toward the new technology, which entered the mass market in 1997 as a competitor to the VCR. It attempts to locate and differentiate DVD adopters based on patterns of media use, utilities from gratification, socialization, and displacement. Based on Q methodology with a sample of 38 American respondents, 3 di…
Lying to Tell the Truth: Journalists and the Social Context of Deception
This study, based on depth interviews with journalists, is an analysis of the social context of journalistic deception. Borrowing from Elliot and Culver's (1992) comprehensive definition of journalistic deception that covered not only newsgathering practices but also the potential for deception in journalists' relationships with news audiences, as well as the omission-commission distinction, this research is an empirical attempt to locate the occ…
War or Peace Journalism? Asian Newspaper Coverage of Conflicts
This study examines the extent to which four Asian regional conflicts involving India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines are framed as war journalism or peace journalism based on Johan Galtung's classification. A content analysis of 1,338 stories from 10 newspapers suggests that, overall, the news coverage of these conflicts is dominated by a war journalism frame. The Indian and Pakistani coverage of the Kashmir issue shows the …
Globalizing Media Ethics? An Assessment of Universal Ethics Among International Political Journalists
In response to recent scholarship on the need for universal professional values, a call that has intensified in the post-9/11 world, this article reports how journalists in Asia and the Middle East conceptualize universal professional values and the possible impact of a universal ethics code. In general, the journalists interviewed for this study were suspicious of a Western-imposed set of values or a code. However, they agreed on a core set of v…
Globalizing Media Ethics? An Assessment of Universal Ethics Among International Political Journalists
Asian Conflicts and the Iraq War: A Comparative Framing Analysis
This study examines the news coverage of the Iraq War and Asian conflicts by eight newspapers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines to compare the framing of two different levels of conflicts – international and local. Based on Galtung's war/peace journalism framework, a content analysis of 1558 stories on the Iraq War and the Asian conflicts involving Pakistan and India's tussle over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lank…
Peace Journalism: Principles and Structural Limitations in the News Coverage of Three Conflicts
This study expands on the work in operationalizing Johan Galtung's classification of peace journalism and war journalism by describing and comparing the news coverage of three Asian conflicts—India and Pakistan's dispute over Kashmir, the Tamil Tigers movement in Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian civil wars in Aceh and Maluku. By including vernacular newspapers in the analysis, this study adds to a research locus that has largely been ignored. A cont…
From Press Release to News: Mapping the Framing of the 2009 H1N1 A Influenza Pandemic
Pandemics challenge conventional assumptions about health promotion, message development, community engagement, and the role of news media. To understand the use of press releases in news coverage of pandemics, this study traces the development of framing devices from a government public health agency's press releases to news stories about the 2009 H1N1 A influenza pandemic. The communication management of the H1N1 pandemic, an international news…
Media, race and crime: Racial perceptions and criminal culpability in a multiracial national context
This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption and racial perceptions. Respondents who consume more race-specific media have less negative racial perceptions of their own race, and more negative raci…
Predictors of H1N1 Influenza Pandemic News Coverage: Explicating the Relationships between Framing and News Release Selection
In health pandemic situations characterized by urgency, uncertainty and information scarcity, news media are highly reliant on information subsidies from public health agencies. This study, based on a content analysis, examines the relationships between the framing characteristics of news releases and subsequent publication to identify the predictors of news release selection for news coverage in the 2009 H1N1 A Influenza pandemic in Singapore. T…
A user approach to dialogic theory in a Facebook campaign on love and marriage
Private matters of the heart are the focus of “Beautifully Imperfect,” a Singapore government-led public communication campaign on love and marriage, part of larger pro-family efforts to reverse low marriage and birth rates. Through a case study based on focus groups, content analysis and interview methods, this study takes a user approach to dialogic theory by evaluating user reactions to and user interaction on Facebook and the manifestation of…
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
An Integrated Approach to Public Diplomacy and Public Relations: A Five-Year Analysis of the Information Subsidies of the United States, China, and Singapore
This study contributes to the growing research on government-issued information subsidies in mediated public diplomacy in a new media environment. It examines the online information subsidies issued by the foreign ministries of three countries—the United States, China, and Singapore—to address a gap in the literature that has given scant attention to how governments use news releases through online newsrooms for public diplomacy. The study is sig…
Film as cultural diplomacy: South Korea’s nation branding through Parasite (2019)
Health Orientation as a Psychographic Framework for Understanding Physical Exercise Behavior
The consistent association between regular physical exercise and positive health outcomes presents a compelling case for investigating the differences between individuals who exercise regularly and those who do not. Based on a randomized cross-sectional survey of 1,201 households, this study adopts a psychographic framework to investigate the role of health orientation in physical exercise behavior. This study extends the concept of health orient…
The Impact of Ethics Instruction and Internship on Students’ Ethical Perceptions About Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and ChatGPT
Communication programs seek to cultivate students who become professionals not only with expertise in their chosen field, but also ethical awareness. The current study investigates how exposure to ethics instruction and internship experiences may influence communication students’ ethical perceptions, including ideological orientations on idealism and relativism, as well as awareness of contemporary ethical issues related to social media and artif…
Ethics in government communication on social media: Testing a relationship-building model among young adults in Taiwan
This study examines government social media communication through the integrative lenses of communication ethics, organization-public relationship (OPR), and the TARES framework of truthfulness, authenticity, respect, equity, and social responsibility (Baker, S., & Martinson, D. L. (2001). The TARES test: Five principles for ethical persuasion. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 16(2–3), 148–175). It tests a model that explains how a public’s ethical …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Newspaper (7 works) · Politics (7 works)