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31 August 2022
Investigating Citizens’ Willingness to Have Booster Shot and Use Contact-Tracing App
Published by Karson Shek at 31 August 2022
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Investigating Citizens’ Willingness to Have Booster Shot and Use Contact-Tracing App

A survey on their willingness to receive a booster shot and use a contact-tracing app was conducted by a research team led by Professor Christine Huang Yi-hui, Associate Dean (Faculty Development) of CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Chair Professor in the Department of Media and Communication.
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31 August 2022
Parent-adolescent Conflict and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation Research Offers Valuable Implications
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Parent-adolescent Conflict and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation Research Offers Valuable Implications

Dr Andrew LOW Yiu-tsang of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences has conducted a cross-sectional survey, studying the relationship between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent suicidal ideation in Hong Kong, and the potential mediating effects of depression and anxiety on this relationship.
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31 August 2022
A Case Study in Shanghai: Reflecting on State Retreat Strategies in Mainland China’s Urban (Re)Development
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A Case Study in Shanghai: Reflecting on State Retreat Strategies in Mainland China’s Urban (Re)Development

From the case study of a village located in suburban Shanghai, Dr ZHU Jin of the Department of Public and International Affairs presents a contradicting finding and illustrates how the landlord-tenant power relationship has been reshuffled in Mainland China’s new governance context.
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31 August 2022
Investigating Digital Divide and Mobile Health in Asian Countries
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Investigating Digital Divide and Mobile Health in Asian Countries

In light of the “digital divide" phenomenon, Dr WANG Xiaohui of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication has designed a study to investigate the factors contributing to mobile health information seeking (MHIS) to profile such information seekers in Asia using data from 10 Asian countries. 
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31 August 2022
Pandemic Fatigue? CityU’s Survey Reveals Half of the Citizens Support “Living-with-COVID”
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Pandemic Fatigue? CityU’s Survey Reveals Half of the Citizens Support “Living-with-COVID”

Professor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, led a local survey together with Dr Crystal JIANG Li, Dr Vincent WANG Xiaohui and Dr Nancy DAI Yue. Survey results showed that the majority of the respondents supported the “Live-with-COVID” policy, but there were different stances on COVID policies depending on personal backgrounds.
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31 August 2022
Enhancing Social Capital for Healthy Ageing by Timebanking System
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Enhancing Social Capital for Healthy Ageing by Timebanking System

Dr Tracy LU Shiyu of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences recently published a research article “Promoting social capital for healthy ageing: Towards an integrative framework” in The Gerontologist, suggesting an integrated theoretical framework to enhance social capital for healthy ageing. 
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31 August 2022
Job Satisfaction Effect on Citizen Satisfaction: A Study of the Satisfaction Mirror in the Public Sector
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Job Satisfaction Effect on Citizen Satisfaction: A Study of the Satisfaction Mirror in the Public Sector

Dr Nick PETROVSKY of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs published a research article with Ge XIN and Jinhai YU to examine the connection between job satisfaction and individual citizens’ satisfaction with the village officials’ work, supporting the “satisfaction mirror” hypothesis.
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31 August 2022
Quality Trilingual Caretaker Input Facilitates Early Trilingual Development
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Quality Trilingual Caretaker Input Facilitates Early Trilingual Development

The vision and language education policy of the HKSAR Government is to nurture children to be biliterate and trilingual. Dr Maggie MAI Ziyin of CityU's Department of Linguistics and Translation conducted a longitudinal case study tracking the caretaker input and the trilingual development of a male child in Hong Kong named Leo for 18 months from 1.5 to 3 years old.
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31 August 2022
Published by Karson Shek at 31 August 2022
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First Ever Online Racial Discrimination Study in Hong Kong

Funded by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Dr WANG Yuan of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication led a research project titled “A Study of Online Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Online Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong.” It analysed how online news articles and their reader comments portray ethnic minority groups in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether this portrayal involves racial bias, stereotypes, or discrimination.
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31 August 2022
Ghost Marriage and Corpse Trading Crime in Rural China
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Ghost Marriage and Corpse Trading Crime in Rural China

Professor LO Tit-wing of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences led a research project to go beyond social culture and folklore to investigate the criminal business processes in this emerging economic market. He studies the nature and substance of ghost bride-induced crime while looking into the criminal business processes of ghost bride-induced crimes from an economic perspective.
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31 August 2022
Pinpointing Adaptive Communication and Perceptions in Long-distance Relationships
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Pinpointing Adaptive Communication and Perceptions in Long-distance Relationships

Not only do the long-distance couples tune into the communication issue, but many researchers also knuckle down to examine the contextual implications. Dr Crystal JIANG Li of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication presented a research report on adaptive communication and perceptions in long-distance dating.
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9 September 2022
Language Ideologies of International Students in a Hong Kong EMI University
Published by Karson Shek at 9 September 2022
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Language Ideologies of International Students in a Hong Kong EMI University

To dissect the language-related experiences and beliefs of international students, Dr Matthew SUNG of CityU’s Department of English launched a research project at an EMI university in Hong Kong. From the perspectives of language policy and critical sociolinguistics, he zoomed in on their ideologies about the roles, the varieties, and the monolingual and multilingual uses of English in the EMI university context.
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23 September 2022
CLASS Survey Reveals Citizens’ Preference to End Hotel Quarantine
Published by Karson Shek at 23 September 2022
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CLASS Survey Reveals Citizens’ Preference to End Hotel Quarantine

Professor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication, conducted a survey along with her research team in August 2022, asking 1,042 local citizens aged above 20, about their opinions on the existing “3+4” quarantine policy.
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18 November 2022
Are People Who Perceive Themselves Good Looking More Prone to Behave Selfishly?
Published by Karson Shek at 18 November 2022
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Are People Who Perceive Themselves Good Looking More Prone to Behave Selfishly?

Dr WANG Xijing of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and her research team launched a series of five studies to identify whether physical attractiveness can predict self-interested behaviours and the mechanism behind it.
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23 November 2022
In the hunt for global talent, don’t forget Hong Kong’s own overseas students, and local workers
Published by Karson Shek at 23 November 2022
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In the hunt for global talent, don’t forget Hong Kong’s own overseas students, and local workers

Dr Yvette TO of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs comments on the importance of nurturing and retaining local people after the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government unveiled ambitious initiatives to “trawl the world for talent” in the latest policy address in 2022.
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16 December 2022
Political Unfriending: A Comparative Study of Selective Avoidance on Social Media in Western Democracies
Published by Karson Shek at 16 December 2022
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Political Unfriending: A Comparative Study of Selective Avoidance on Social Media in Western Democracies

When people encounter dissonant speech on social media, functions such as hiding comments, unfriending and unfollowing friends may reinforce the behaviour of selective avoidance in order to re-establish more homophilous environments online. Dr Marko SKORIC of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication conducted a comparative study with his team on the selective avoidance behaviour of social media users in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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29 December 2022
Published by Karson Shek at 29 December 2022
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Myanmar’s Ousted Leader Gets 33 Years in Prison, a Likely Life Sentence

Dr Renaud EGRETEAU of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs comments on the enduring impact of Aung San Suu Kyi, the matriarchal figure in Myanmar, as her trials were wrapped up with months of legal proceedings.
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27 January 2023
Immobility and Pandemic: Examining Diseasescape in the Post-COVID Era
Published by Karson Shek at 27 January 2023
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Immobility and Pandemic: Examining Diseasescape in the Post-COVID Era

Studying global cases of immobility governance strategies in different stages of the pandemic, Dr CHAN Yuk-wah of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs has published a research article with her research partner on examining how the COVID-inflected diseasescape has impacted the dynamic between mobility and immobility, and how the diseasescape continued to evolve with the disease and the policies.
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23 February 2023
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Effective Ethical Business Pedagogy
Published by Karson Shek at 23 February 2023
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Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Effective Ethical Business Pedagogy

Social entrepreneurship has arisen as a new business model to achieve specific social objectives through entrepreneurial strategies and self-sustaining operations. Dr Yanto CHANDRA of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs has conducted a research project to assess the efficacy of applying a multimedia perspective as a complementary approach to the current pedagogy of the topic.
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13 March 2023
Largest Territory-wide Survey on Mental Health of Homeless People in Hong Kong
Published by Karson Shek at 13 March 2023
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Largest Territory-wide Survey on Mental Health of Homeless People in Hong Kong

Dr CHAN Siu-ming of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences conducted a large territory-wide homeless survey in Hong Kong with his research team, aiming to examine the mental health conditions of homeless people and the determinants of mental health problems.Interviewers talked to 1,103 homeless people and successfully collected 711 valid questionnaires for analysis.
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