King Wa Fu

Publications

• https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/
• Can Network Help Chinese Microblogs Diffuse? Analyzing 118 Networks of Reposts About Social Issues in China
• Social Media's Initial Reaction to Information and Misinformation on Ebola, August 2014: Facts and Rumors
• Speaking up or staying silent? Examining the influences of censorship and behavioral contagion on opinion (non-) expression in China
• #WuhanDiary and #WuhanLockdown: gendered posting patterns and behaviours on Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Middle East respiratory syndrome in the Republic of Korea: transparency and communication are key
• Public health implications of social media use during natural disasters, environmental disasters, and other environmental concerns
• Networked framing between source posts and their reposts: an analysis of public opinion on China's microblogs
• Challenging Official Propaganda? Public Opinion Leaders on Sina Weibo
• Global Handwashing Day 2012: a qualitative content analysis of Chinese social media reaction to a health promotion event
• Vaccine safety and social media in China
• A novel systematic approach of constructing protests repertoires from social media: comparing the roles of organizational and non-organizational actors in social movement
• Effect of Pokémon Go on Self-Harm Using Population-Based Interrupted Time-Series Analysis: Quasi-Experimental Study
• Building a model for encouraging help-seeking for depression: a qualitative study in a Chinese society
• Exploring the relationship between cyberbullying and unnatural child death: an ecological study of twenty-four European countries
• Converting Big Data into public health
• Ebola and the social media
• Weibo's Impact on Public Affair in China: Based on Weibo Social Network and Interaction-A Case Study on "Guo Meimei and the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC)"
• Ebola virus disease and social media: A systematic review.
• How people react to Zika virus outbreaks on Twitter? A computational content analysis.
• Chinese Social Media Reaction to Information about 42 Notifiable Infectious Diseases
• Converting Big Data into public health
• The prevalence and correlates of severe social withdrawal (hikikomori) in Hong Kong: A cross-sectional telephone-based survey study
• Why We Should Care About Ebola in West Africa and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea: Global Health Ethics and the Moral Insignificance of Proximity
• Ebola and the social media
• Information Overload, Similarity, and Redundancy: Unsubscribing Information Sources on Twitter
• Testing Propositions Derived from Twitter Studies: Generalization and Replication in Computational Social Science
• The use of social media in public health surveillance
• Ebola and the social media
• Evaluation of an Online Campaign for Promoting Help-Seeking Attitudes for Depression Using a Facebook Advertisement: An Online Randomized Controlled Experiment
• Networked Framing: Chinese Microbloggers’ Framing of the Political Discourse at the 2012 Democratic National Convention
• Use of Microblogs in Grassroots Movements in China: Exploring the Role of Online Networking in Agenda Setting
• Clearing the air: investigating Weibo censorship in China: New research to show censorship of microbloggers who spoke out about pollution documentary
• Privacy protection and self-disclosure across societies: A study of global Twitter users
• The Effectiveness and Sustainability of a Universal School-Based Programme for Preventing Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Follow-Up Study Using Quasi-Experimental Design
• A Mobile Game (Safe City) Designed to Promote Children’s Safety Knowledge and Behaviors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
• The Relationship Between Cyberbalkanization and Opinion Polarization: Time-Series Analysis on Facebook Pages and Opinion Polls During the Hong Kong Occupy Movement and the Associated Debate on Political Reform
• The “mutual ignoring” mechanism of cyberbalkanization: triangulating observational data analysis and agent-based modeling
• The Relationship Between Interdisciplinarity and Journal Impact Factor in the Field of Communication During 1997–2016
• Echoslamming: how incivility interacts with cyberbalkanization on the social media in Hong Kong
• Development of the Hong Kong Identity Scale: Differentiation between Hong Kong ‘Locals’ and Mainland Chinese in Cultural and Civic Domains
• Effect of Pokémon Go on Self-Harm Using Population-Based Interrupted Time-Series Analysis: Quasi-Experimental Study (Preprint)
• Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID-19?
• A Mobile Game (Safe City) Designed to Promote Children’s Safety Knowledge and Behaviors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
• Specificity, Conflict, and Focal Point: A Systematic Investigation into Social Media Censorship in China
• A tale of two city-states: A comparison of the state-led vs civil society-led responses to COVID-19 in Singapore and Hong Kong
• Effect of a Mobile Game–Based Intervention to Enhance Child Safety: Randomized Controlled Trial
• Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic
• Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement
• Effectiveness of virtual reality intervention in promoting sustainable hand hygiene for community participants: A mixed methods approach
• The power of digital activism for transnational advocacy: Leadership, engagement, and affordance
• Do harm or do less harm : identifying and addressing research gaps in media influences on suicidality
• The Impact of a Celebrity's Suicide on the Introduction and Establishment of a New Method of Suicide in South Korea
• An integrative suicide prevention program for visitor charcoal burning suicide and suicide pact
• Changes in Reporting of Suicide News After the Promotion of the WHO Media Recommendations
• Estimating the Risk for Suicide Following the Suicide Deaths of 3 Asian Entertainment Celebrities: A Meta-Analytic Approach
• VLSI architecture for real-time fractal video encoding
• Reality Check for the Chinese Microblog Space: A Random Sampling Approach
• Economic fluctuations and suicide: A comparison of Taiwan and Hong Kong
• Enabling the disabled: media use and communication needs of people with disabilities during and after the Sichuan earthquake in China
• A Study of the Impact of Thirteen Celebrity Suicides on Subsequent Suicide Rates in South Korea from 2005 to 2009
• Accessing Suicide-Related Information on the Internet: A Retrospective Observational Study of Search Behavior
• Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis
• Effectiveness of a universal school-based programme for preventing depression in Chinese adolescents: A quasi-experimental pilot study
• Newspaper coverage of emergency response and government responsibility in domestic natural disasters: China-US and within-China comparisons
• Who Do You Trust? Comparing People-Centered Communications in Disaster Situations in the United States and China
• Newspaper reporting of suicides in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Guangzhou: compliance with WHO media guidelines and epidemiological comparisons
• Testing a Theoretical Model Based on Social Cognitive Theory for Media Influences on Suicidal Ideation: Results from a Panel Study
• Long-term impact of celebrity suicide on suicidal ideation: results from a population-based study
• Predictive validity of the Chinese version of the Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and its short version
• Internet addiction: prevalence, discriminant validity and correlates among adolescents in Hong Kong
• Restricting the means of suicide by charcoal burning
• What Do Internet Users Seek to Know About Depression From Web Searches? A Descriptive Study of 21 Million Web Queries
• Evaluating the effectiveness of barrier installation for preventing railway suicides in Hong Kong
• The effects of a celebrity suicide on suicide rates in Hong Kong
• Suicide rates among working-age adults in South Korea before and after the 2008 economic crisis
• Responses to a Self-Presented Suicide Attempt in Social Media A Social Network Analysis
• Validation of the Chinese version of the Reynolds' suicidal ideation questionnaire: psychometric properties and its short version
• Why Do We Report Suicides and How Can We Facilitate Suicide Prevention Efforts? Perspectives of Hong Kong Media Professionals
• Analyzing Online Sentiment to Predict Telephone Poll Results
• Chinese social media reaction to the MERS-CoV and avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreaks
• Analyzing Media Coverage on Government's Disaster Management Practices after Wenchuan Earthquake A Preliminary Result
• Very low bit rate fractal video coding by genetic algorithm
• How Chinese Netizens Discuss Environmental Conflicts? Framing and Functions on Sina Weibo
• The Obamas’ Effect: Real-Time Reception of U.S. Political Discourse on Chinese Microblogs During 2012 DNC
• Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire--Chinese Version
• Chinese Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire--Short Version
• Social Media: An Ill-Defined Phenomenon
• Estimating the Risk for Suicide Following the Suicide Deaths of 3 Asian Entertainment Celebrities
• A Comparative Study of Online Suicide-Related Information in Chinese and English
• Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in China: Discriminatory Keyword Analysis and the Real-Name Registration Policy