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Department of Media and Communication Center for Communication Research
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences  ·  Department of Media and Communication

Dr Wan-Ying LIN 林宛瑩

BA (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), MA (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), MPP (Duke Univeristy), PhD (University of Southern California, US)

Associate Professor

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Contact Information

Office: M5090
Phone: +(852) 3442 8868
Fax: +(852) 3442 0228
Email: wanying@cityu.edu.hk
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Academic Profile

CityU Scholar

Research Interests

  • New Media and Youth
  • Internet Campaigns
  • Media Effects
  • Social and Economic Implications of Technologies
  • Transnationalism and Migration
  • Health Communication

Publications

  • Chan, R., Mak, W., Chan, W. & Lin, W.-Y. (2020). Effects of Social Movement Participation on Political Efficacy and Well‑Being: A Longitudinal Study of Civically Engaged Youth. Journal of Happiness Studies. [Published Online]
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2020). Digital Politics in Mainland China: Participation in an Unlikely Place, pp.72-81. In Dutton, W. H. (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X. & Cao, B. (2018). How do new media influence youths’ health literacy? Exploring the effects of media channel and content on safer sex literacy. International Journal of Sexual Health, 30(4): 354-365.
  • Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018) Hanging together or not? Impacts of social media use and organizational membership on individual and collective political actions. International Political Science Review, 39(2):273-289.
  • Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018). Stoking the fires of participation: Extending the Gamson hypothesis on social media use and elite-challenging political engagement. Computers in Human Behavior, 79:217-226.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Cao, B., & Zhang, X. (2017). To speak or not to speak? Predicting college students’ outspokenness in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. International Journal of Communication, 11:3704-3720.
  • Chan, W.-Y., Cattaneo, L.B., Mak, W. & Lin, W.-Y. (2017). From moment to movement: Empowerment and resilience as a framework for collective action in Hong Kong. American Journal of Community Psychology. Published Online.
  • Cao, B. & Lin, W.-Y. (2017). Revisiting the contact hypothesis: Effects of different modes of computer-mediated communication on intergroup relationships. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 58: 23-30.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Song, H., & Omori, K. (2016). Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure. Computers in Human Behavior, 56: 289-294.
  • Song, H., Omori, K., Kim, J., Tenzek, K., Hawkins, J., Lin, W.-Y., Kim, Y.-C., & Jung, J.-Y. (2016). Trusting social media as a source of health information: Comparison among U.S., Korea, and Hong Kong. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(3), e25.
  • Cao, B. & Lin, W.-Y. (2015). How do victims react to cyberbullying on social networking sites? The influence of previous cyberbullying victimization experiences. Computers in Human Behavior, 52: 458-465.
  • Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014). Political participation in an unlikely place: How individuals engage in politics through social networking sites in China. International Journal of Communication, 8:21-42.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X. & Lee, F. (2013). Making the world a distant place? How foreign TV news affects individual cynicism in post-colonial Hong Kong. International Communication Gazette, 75(8): 715-731.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Jung, J.-Y., & Kim, Y.-C. (2013). From the wired to wireless generation? Investigating teens’ Internet use through the mobile phone. Telecommunications Policy, 37(8): 651-661.
  • Jung, J.-Y., Lin, W.-Y., & Kim, Y.-C. (2012). The dynamic relationship between East Asian adolescents’ use of the internet and their use of other media. New Media & Society, 14(6): 969-986.
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2012). Exploring the Online-Offline Social Capital Construction of the “Otaku” Youth in Hong Kong. Mass Communication Research, 121:1-41. [In Chinese]
  • Lin, W.-Y., Lo, V., & Jacobs, K. (2012). To view or not to view: Exploring the influence of social networks and subjective norms on online pornography consumption. International Journal of Cyber Society and Education, 5(1):81-84.
  • Lee, F, Lee, He, Z., C.-C., Lin, W.-Y., & Yao, M. (2012). Globalization and people’s interests in foreign affairs: A comparative survey in Hong Kong and Taipei. International Communication Gazette, 74(3): 221-239.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Lo, V. & Wang, T. (2011). Bias in Foreign Television News in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Chinese Journal of Communication, 4(3):294-311.
  • Lee, F., Lee, C., Yao, M., He, Z., & Lin, W.-Y. (2011). The presence of foreign media in China: From political economy to media effects. In J. Cheng (ed.), Whither China Democracy? Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident, pp. 345-374.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Cheong, P., Kim, Y.-C., & Jung, J.-Y. (2010). Becoming Citizens: Youths’ Civic Uses of New Media in Five Digital Cities in East Asia. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25(6): 839-857.
  • Lin, W.-Y., Song, H., & Ball-Rokeach, S.J. (2010). Localizing the Global: Exploring the Transnational Ties That Bind in New Immigrant Communities. Journal of Communication, 60(2): 205-229.
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Lee, F. (2010). Exploring Agenda Diversity in Local, National, and Foreign News on Hong Kong Television. Communication & Society, 13: 109-138. [In Chinese]
  • Lee, F., He, Z., Lee, C., Lin, W.-Y. & Yao, M. (2009). The attitudes of urban Chinese towards globalization: A survey study of media influence. Pacific Affairs, 82(2): 211-230.
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Li, X. (2007). Beyond market competition: The political economy of the cable TV industry in Taiwan. Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 6(2): 273-285.
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Song, H. (2006). Geo-ethnic storytelling: An examination of ethnic media content in contemporary immigrant communities. Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, 7(3): 347-373.
  • Jung, J.-Y., Kim, Y.-C., Lin, W.-Y. & Cheong, P. (2005). The influence of social context on Internet connectedness of adolescents in Seoul, Singapore and Taipei. New Media & Society, 7(1), 64-88.
  • Lin, W.-Y. & Dutton, W. H. (2003). The “Net” effect in politics: The “stop the overlay” campaign in Los Angeles. Party Politics, 9(1): 124-136.
  • Dutton, W. H. & Lin, W.-Y. (2001). Using the Web in the democratic process. European Review, 9(2): 187-199.
  • Weare, C. & Lin, W.-Y. (2000). Content analysis of the World Wide Web: Opportunities and challenges. Social Science Computer Review, 18(3): 272-292.