Y Song
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 7446 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Y Song |
| PRENOMES | Y |
| SOBRENOME | Song |
| ASSINATURA | SONG Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5159-1689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Framework for AI integration into the undergraduate medical curricula
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare, driving global demand for AI applications. Undergraduate medical education (UGME) must therefore prepare future physicians for AI‐augmented practice. However, recent reviews indicate that curriculum reform lags behind the realistic clinical use of AI, raising the question of whether we are training the right “genotype” (undergraduate) and “phenotype” (postgraduate) of ph…
Empowering critical thinking in combating social media misinformation
When Disagreement Becomes Uncivil on Social Media
Exposure to cross-cutting viewpoints may not always play the deliberative role it is supposed to. This study uses both panel survey and social media data to examine how disagreement can trigger incivility, including exposure to and expression of incivility, and further elicit emotions and influence polarization. Results from the two-wave panel survey indicate that cross-cutting exposure has a polarizing effect first through promoting exposure to …
AI imaginaries shape technological identity and digital futures
Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved to become a transformative driver across various societal sectors, influencing our perception of shared digital futures. Central to this transformation are AI imaginaries – collective visions, beliefs, symbols, and expectations that individuals and communities hold about AI and its potential outcomes. AI imaginaries not only reflect societal hopes and concerns, but also actively shape the trajectory of AI …
Hotbed of stigmatization or source of support
Self-Enhancement Mentality or Cognitive Preferences? Unpacking Different Approaches to Understanding Cultural Variations in Attribution Patterns
Existing studies showed inconsistent results about whether and how attribution patterns differ across cultures. We reviewed three different theoretical approaches in this study: the relative self-enhancement approach, the universal self-enhancement approach and the cognition approach, and found that each theoretical approach has received empirical support and informed competing hypotheses. Hence, the main goal of this study is to investigate the …
The spread of pro- and anti-vaccine views by coordinated communities on facebook during Covid-19 pandemic
The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public health and eroded institutional trust. This study investigates the interplay between manipulative social media actors, coordinated behaviors, and misleading information by analyzing coordinated link sharing behavior (CLSB) on Facebook in the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on a dataset of 3,469,719 …
Investigating the Coverage of China’s Vaccine Crisis on YouTube
This study investigates how China’s domestic vaccine crisis in 2018 was politicized within Chinese video content on YouTube. The analysis, employing the Structural Topic Model, uncovered a notable hyper-politicization of the vaccine crisis in video comments, often diverging from the issue frames presented in video titles. Furthermore, inferential network analysis using the Exponential Random Graph Model revealed the hyper-politicized comments can…
Women on China’s Internet
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between women and the Internet in China, incorporating a multidimensional theoretical framework to explore the nuances of digital access, usage, and empowerment over the past 30 years. While noting a significant reduction in the gender gap in Internet access, the essay highlights persistent gender disparities in usage and outcomes, influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. It also …
Unpacking the complexity of online incivility
Purpose This study seeks to establish a new framework for categorizing incivility, differentiating between explicit and implicit forms, and to investigate their respective abilities to proliferate and mobilize conversations, along with behavioral outcomes in various social contexts. Design/methodology/approach Employing computational techniques, this research analyzed 10,145 protest-related threads from the HK Golden Forum, a prominent online dis…
Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data
China’s digital campaign to “vaccinate all who can be vaccinated,” officially launched in December 2020, carries global implications. Grounded in the agenda-setting framework to reveal how the responses of different groups are shaped and their agendas interact, this study analyzed two years of Sina Weibo (the largest Chinese microblogging service) and Baidu (the leading search engine in China) search index data to investigate the interrelationshi…
Disaster Misinformation and Its Corrections on Social Media
Improved Target-Specific Stance Detection on Social Media Platforms by Delving Into Conversation Threads
Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, is an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example application would be to overcome vaccine hesitancy in combating the coronavirus pandemic. Existing stance detection strategies rely merely on the individual instances which cannot always capture the expressed stance of…
Quality of Public Spaces in Vernacular Settlements
Kotagede is a traditional residential area designated as a cultural heritage area. The community is currently developing as a dense residential area and this is limiting the existence of public open spaces despite their importance to social interaction public activities. Therefore, this study was conducted to discuss the quality of public open spaces in Kotagede with a focus on the use and users, accessibility, amenities and furniture, comfort an…
Can social media combat gender inequalities in academia? Measuring the prevalence of the Matilda effect in communication
This study sought to investigate whether scholarly impact and academic influence differ between men and women in the field of communication and the extent to which the gender gap has persisted on social media platforms, an arena increasingly used for research dissemination. Data were collected from 10,736 articles, published in prominent communication journals between 2012 and 2022, using a combination of three sources: OpenAlex, Altmetric, and T…
National prisms of a global phenomenon
This study compares press coverage of climate change in the US, the UK and China from a longitudinal perspective, through a combination of computer-assisted quantitative linguistic analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, we examine the extent to which these three countries portray climate change similarly or differently, and further explore how moral reasoning – a growing area of research in climate change communication – may shap…
Contagion of offensive speech online
Supportive and uncivil expressions in discussions on out-groups by in-group members in anonymous computer-mediated communication
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized
Since its inception, computational social science (CSS) has been characterized as an interdisciplinary field. Nevertheless, unlike a mature interdisciplinary field that duly integrates knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries, CSS has arguably been fragmented into multiple lines of inquiry. Although such fragmentation has been a constant concern, limited empirical evidence exists to substantiate any degree of integration in research on CSS. To sy…
Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms
Using network analysis, this study investigates how information veracity and account verification influence the dissemination of information in the context of discourse about genetically modified organisms on social media. We discovered that misinformation and true information about genetically modified organisms demonstrated different dissemination patterns on social media. In general, the dissemination networks of misinformation about genetical…
The "Parallel Pandemic" in the Context of China
Although studies have investigated cyber-rumoring previous to the pandemic, little research has been undertaken to study rumors and rumor-corrections during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Drawing on prior studies about how online stories become viral, this study will fill that gap by investigating the retransmission of COVID-19 rumors and corrective messages on Sina Weibo, the largest and most popular microblogging site in Chin…
Curbing profanity online
Profanity, also known as swearing, refers to the use of foul language that is often linked to incivility. In Chinese digital space, the state government actively censors profanity under the rationale of protecting online civility. This study examines the diffusion of profanity in Sina Weibo, one of the largest Chinese social media platforms. The study applied computational methods to reconstruct the cascade networks of swearing and non-swearing p…
Viral misinformation and echo chambers
Purpose The spread of rumors on social media has caused increasing concerns about an under-informed or even misinformed public when it comes to scientific issues. However, researchers have rarely investigated their diffusion in non-western contexts. This study aims to systematically examine the content and network structure of rumor-related discussions around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Chinese social media. Design/methodology/approa…
What predicts adolescents’ critical thinking about real-life news? The roles of social media news consumption and news media literacy
Taiwan as ghost island? Ambivalent articulation of marginalized identities in computer-mediated discourses
This study examines the conflicting self-presentations when using the term ‘ghost island’ in Taiwan, a self-mocking way to belittle the homeland. While some view this term as a form of social critique, others consider it to be suggestive of a social malaise affecting contemporary Taiwanese. Drawing on online posts and comments from the most popular bulletin board system in Taiwan, this study combines topic modeling with a discourse-historical app…
Not all emotions are created equal
Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China
This study compares different sampling methods and sample sizes in the selection of daily newspapers in China for content analysis of the news. Results show that the method of constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling, and a single constructed week allows reliable estimates of news content in a population of six months of newspaper editions even for highly volatile variables. The weekday-p…
Viral misinformation and echo chambers
Purpose The spread of rumors on social media has caused increasing concerns about an under-informed or even misinformed public when it comes to scientific issues. However, researchers have rarely investigated their diffusion in non-western contexts. This study aims to systematically examine the content and network structure of rumor-related discussions around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Chinese social media. Design/methodology/approa…
Managing impressions online
This study tackled the remediated notion of consensus that the state-run media in China seek to reach with the online public through using Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter – as a platform for distribution and user interaction. The microblogs of three major state media outlets were sampled and the posts were categorized. All were found primarily to disseminate information and pronounce organizational opinions rather than promote their off…
The "Parallel Pandemic" in the Context of China
Although studies have investigated cyber-rumoring previous to the pandemic, little research has been undertaken to study rumors and rumor-corrections during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Drawing on prior studies about how online stories become viral, this study will fill that gap by investigating the retransmission of COVID-19 rumors and corrective messages on Sina Weibo, the largest and most popular microblogging site in Chin…
Curbing profanity online
Profanity, also known as swearing, refers to the use of foul language that is often linked to incivility. In Chinese digital space, the state government actively censors profanity under the rationale of protecting online civility. This study examines the diffusion of profanity in Sina Weibo, one of the largest Chinese social media platforms. The study applied computational methods to reconstruct the cascade networks of swearing and non-swearing p…
Taiwan as ghost island? Ambivalent articulation of marginalized identities in computer-mediated discourses
This study examines the conflicting self-presentations when using the term ‘ghost island’ in Taiwan, a self-mocking way to belittle the homeland. While some view this term as a form of social critique, others consider it to be suggestive of a social malaise affecting contemporary Taiwanese. Drawing on online posts and comments from the most popular bulletin board system in Taiwan, this study combines topic modeling with a discourse-historical app…
Collective memories’ of global media events
This study applies a most similar systems design to examine ‘anniversary journalism’ of two epic global events in the year 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen crackdown – as reported by the elite press in the United States and Britain from 1990 to 2014, through the combined methods of computerized network-based text analysis and critical historical discourse analysis. Findings suggest that the elite press in both countries contin…
Disaster Misinformation and Its Corrections on Social Media
Tracking the viral spread of incivility on social networking sites
Scholars are increasingly concerned with the polarizing nature of incivility which extends from the offline context to interactions on social networking sites. Although this is a common concern in the literature, few studies have empirically tested whether online swearing behaviors are purely individual acts of uttering strong emotion or contagious social practices that may heighten group polarization. Using the case of Hong Kong–Mainland China c…
User Engagement in Public Discourse on Genetically Modified Organisms
This study adopted a quantitative content analysis to examine how source attributes of opinion leaders and their message framing influenced user engagement in the public discourse of genetically modified organism (GMO) on Chinese social media. The findings showed that different source attributes and message frames used by opinion leaders varied in their respective influences on three dimensions of user engagement—reposts, comments, and likes. The…
Women on China’s Internet
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between women and the Internet in China, incorporating a multidimensional theoretical framework to explore the nuances of digital access, usage, and empowerment over the past 30 years. While noting a significant reduction in the gender gap in Internet access, the essay highlights persistent gender disparities in usage and outcomes, influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. It also …
Affective Ties That Bind
Social networking sites (SNSs) facilitate self-expression and promote social connections. There has been growing scholarly attention to the affect-charged collectivities created online in the aftermath of disasters and mass traumas. This study was designed to examine how individuals affiliate in SNS-based commemoration of a mass trauma, taking advantage of a large Weibo (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter) data set which captures users’ responses …
The social foreign correspondent
Journalistic branding in the age of social media has been attracting growing academic interest. Self-branding has become an everyday routine among journalists, but the very limited scholarship on journalistic branding on social media has largely focused on national or local journalists in single democracies, ignoring foreign correspondents, who traditionally enjoy more professional autonomy but are going social under the challenges in the age of …
The news and local production of the global
Key to the local audience’s conceptions of the global spectacle, the marketized regional press in China has been increasingly confronted with a complex world to cover as China finds itself integrating steadily into the global marketplace and rising as a formidable power in the post-WTO era. Using the data collected from five Chinese regional newspapers in 1989 and 2009, this study indicates that the consequences of spillover in China’s growing in…
Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories
Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examin…
Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China
This study compares different sampling methods and sample sizes in the selection of daily newspapers in China for content analysis of the news. Results show that the method of constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling, and a single constructed week allows reliable estimates of news content in a population of six months of newspaper editions even for highly volatile variables. The weekday-p…
Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories
Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examin…
The news and local production of the global
Key to the local audience’s conceptions of the global spectacle, the marketized regional press in China has been increasingly confronted with a complex world to cover as China finds itself integrating steadily into the global marketplace and rising as a formidable power in the post-WTO era. Using the data collected from five Chinese regional newspapers in 1989 and 2009, this study indicates that the consequences of spillover in China’s growing in…
Comparison of risks for adverse drug reactions between traditional Chinese medicines and western medicines
Background: This study aimed to compare the risks for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) between traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and Western medicines (WMs).Materials and Methods: A comprehensive review of ADR cases reported in the Chinese-language literatures from January 2006 to December 2011 was conducted to identify the frequency, severity and hazard of ADRs associated with TCMs and WMs. Sort ratio (SR) was employed to compare the ranking of …
The strategic ritual of irony
Inspired by Tuchman’s concept of the ‘strategic ritual of objectivity’, we argue that journalists employ what can be called the ‘strategic ritual of irony’ in their accounts to convey moral stance toward morally ‘tainted’ stories, often under the façade of objectivity. Systematic reading of American journalists’ memoirs and writings reveals that their portrayals of post-1989 China, against the tragic background of the Tiananmen crackdown, habitua…
Not all emotions are created equal
Managing impressions online
This study tackled the remediated notion of consensus that the state-run media in China seek to reach with the online public through using Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter – as a platform for distribution and user interaction. The microblogs of three major state media outlets were sampled and the posts were categorized. All were found primarily to disseminate information and pronounce organizational opinions rather than promote their off…
Collective memories’ of global media events
This study applies a most similar systems design to examine ‘anniversary journalism’ of two epic global events in the year 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen crackdown – as reported by the elite press in the United States and Britain from 1990 to 2014, through the combined methods of computerized network-based text analysis and critical historical discourse analysis. Findings suggest that the elite press in both countries contin…
Tracking the viral spread of incivility on social networking sites
Scholars are increasingly concerned with the polarizing nature of incivility which extends from the offline context to interactions on social networking sites. Although this is a common concern in the literature, few studies have empirically tested whether online swearing behaviors are purely individual acts of uttering strong emotion or contagious social practices that may heighten group polarization. Using the case of Hong Kong–Mainland China c…
Affective Ties That Bind
Social networking sites (SNSs) facilitate self-expression and promote social connections. There has been growing scholarly attention to the affect-charged collectivities created online in the aftermath of disasters and mass traumas. This study was designed to examine how individuals affiliate in SNS-based commemoration of a mass trauma, taking advantage of a large Weibo (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter) data set which captures users’ responses …
The social foreign correspondent
Journalistic branding in the age of social media has been attracting growing academic interest. Self-branding has become an everyday routine among journalists, but the very limited scholarship on journalistic branding on social media has largely focused on national or local journalists in single democracies, ignoring foreign correspondents, who traditionally enjoy more professional autonomy but are going social under the challenges in the age of …
User Engagement in Public Discourse on Genetically Modified Organisms
This study adopted a quantitative content analysis to examine how source attributes of opinion leaders and their message framing influenced user engagement in the public discourse of genetically modified organism (GMO) on Chinese social media. The findings showed that different source attributes and message frames used by opinion leaders varied in their respective influences on three dimensions of user engagement—reposts, comments, and likes. The…
What predicts adolescents’ critical thinking about real-life news? The roles of social media news consumption and news media literacy
Taiwan as ghost island? Ambivalent articulation of marginalized identities in computer-mediated discourses
This study examines the conflicting self-presentations when using the term ‘ghost island’ in Taiwan, a self-mocking way to belittle the homeland. While some view this term as a form of social critique, others consider it to be suggestive of a social malaise affecting contemporary Taiwanese. Drawing on online posts and comments from the most popular bulletin board system in Taiwan, this study combines topic modeling with a discourse-historical app…
Curbing profanity online
Profanity, also known as swearing, refers to the use of foul language that is often linked to incivility. In Chinese digital space, the state government actively censors profanity under the rationale of protecting online civility. This study examines the diffusion of profanity in Sina Weibo, one of the largest Chinese social media platforms. The study applied computational methods to reconstruct the cascade networks of swearing and non-swearing p…
Viral misinformation and echo chambers
Purpose The spread of rumors on social media has caused increasing concerns about an under-informed or even misinformed public when it comes to scientific issues. However, researchers have rarely investigated their diffusion in non-western contexts. This study aims to systematically examine the content and network structure of rumor-related discussions around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Chinese social media. Design/methodology/approa…
Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms
Using network analysis, this study investigates how information veracity and account verification influence the dissemination of information in the context of discourse about genetically modified organisms on social media. We discovered that misinformation and true information about genetically modified organisms demonstrated different dissemination patterns on social media. In general, the dissemination networks of misinformation about genetical…
The "Parallel Pandemic" in the Context of China
Although studies have investigated cyber-rumoring previous to the pandemic, little research has been undertaken to study rumors and rumor-corrections during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Drawing on prior studies about how online stories become viral, this study will fill that gap by investigating the retransmission of COVID-19 rumors and corrective messages on Sina Weibo, the largest and most popular microblogging site in Chin…
National prisms of a global phenomenon
This study compares press coverage of climate change in the US, the UK and China from a longitudinal perspective, through a combination of computer-assisted quantitative linguistic analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, we examine the extent to which these three countries portray climate change similarly or differently, and further explore how moral reasoning – a growing area of research in climate change communication – may shap…
Contagion of offensive speech online
Supportive and uncivil expressions in discussions on out-groups by in-group members in anonymous computer-mediated communication
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized
Since its inception, computational social science (CSS) has been characterized as an interdisciplinary field. Nevertheless, unlike a mature interdisciplinary field that duly integrates knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries, CSS has arguably been fragmented into multiple lines of inquiry. Although such fragmentation has been a constant concern, limited empirical evidence exists to substantiate any degree of integration in research on CSS. To sy…
Improved Target-Specific Stance Detection on Social Media Platforms by Delving Into Conversation Threads
Target-specific stance detection on social media, which aims at classifying a textual data instance such as a post or a comment into a stance class of a target issue, is an emerging opinion mining paradigm of importance. An example application would be to overcome vaccine hesitancy in combating the coronavirus pandemic. Existing stance detection strategies rely merely on the individual instances which cannot always capture the expressed stance of…
Quality of Public Spaces in Vernacular Settlements
Kotagede is a traditional residential area designated as a cultural heritage area. The community is currently developing as a dense residential area and this is limiting the existence of public open spaces despite their importance to social interaction public activities. Therefore, this study was conducted to discuss the quality of public open spaces in Kotagede with a focus on the use and users, accessibility, amenities and furniture, comfort an…
Can social media combat gender inequalities in academia? Measuring the prevalence of the Matilda effect in communication
This study sought to investigate whether scholarly impact and academic influence differ between men and women in the field of communication and the extent to which the gender gap has persisted on social media platforms, an arena increasingly used for research dissemination. Data were collected from 10,736 articles, published in prominent communication journals between 2012 and 2022, using a combination of three sources: OpenAlex, Altmetric, and T…
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