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King-wa FU is a Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include China's information governance, media and political participation, computational social sciences, health and the media, and younger generation's media use. He was a visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Senior Research Scholar in 2016-2017. His online CV: http://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/.

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

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