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  • Bollywood and globalization: the global power of popular Hindi cinema

    • Authors: Francis L.F. Lee (2014)

  • Bollywood movies have gained global prominence in the past decade. Movies such as Three Idiots have won both popularity and critical acclaim in many places around the world. The phenomenon has naturally attracted a significant amount of academic attention. The volume edited by David Schaefer and Kavita Karan is therefore a timely publication which promises to provide readers with information, analysis, and insights into Bollywood as a global phenomenon.
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  • Do journalists believe in gender specificities of news topics? The impact of professionalism and family status

    • Authors: Sara X.T. Liao; Francis L.F. Lee (2014)

  • While women have made significant progress in gaining access to the field of journalism over the few past decades, some scholars have noted a persistent tendency for men and women journalists to be assigned to different types of news work, as if some news topics are gender specific, i.e., some news topics can be better handled by men, whereas others can be better handled by women. But do professional journalists themselves perceive news topics to be gender specific? What individual level factors may explain beliefs in the gender specificities of news topics? Drawing on a representative survey of 459 professional journalists in Hong Kong, this article showed that journalists did not tr...
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  • Hollywood movies in East Asia: examining cultural discount and performance predictability at the box office

    • Authors: Francis L.F. Lee (2008)

  • Cultural differences are likely to affect the extent to which and the ways in which audiences appreciate foreign media products. Not all media products travel across cultural and national boundaries equally successfully. When media contents are highly culturally specific, a high level of relative cultural discount and a loss in cross-culture performance predictability are likely to result. Based on these arguments, this study empirically examines: (1) how US movies of various genres, presumably with content of varying levels of cultural specificity, perform in seven East Asian countries and the world market at large, and (2) whether audiences in East Asia exhibit similar patterns of r...
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  • News from YouTube: professional incorporation in Hong Kong newspaper coverage of online videos

    • Authors: Francis L.F. Lee (2012)

  • This study examines newspaper coverage of online videos in Hong Kong. Drawing upon the extant literature on media usages of online user-generated content, newspaper coverage of online videos is expected to exhibit signs of professional incorporation and content standardization over time. Findings from content and textual analyses show that Hong Kong newspapers seldom based their judgment of the newsworthiness of online videos solely on the videos’ online currency. Rather, newspapers used the reporting of online videos to meet a variety of existing professional and/or organizational needs, such as filling news space, reporting on newsworthy events, performing as a watchdog, and repres...
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  • Selective exposure and agenda setting: exploring the impact of partisan media exposure on agenda diversity and political participation

    • Authors: Michael Chan; Francis L.F. Lee (2014)

  • A deliberative democracy calls for citizens who are well informed about a diverse range of public issues and a media system that shapes the public agenda for deliberation and consensus building. However, with the current proliferation of a high-choice media environment, citizens can engage in partisan selective exposure by only consuming news that matches their own political attitudes and dispositions. This study examines two under-researched effects of partisan selective exposure: (1) the reduction in the number of societal issues that individuals consider important (i.e., nominal agenda diversity) and (2) the reduction in the variety of issues (i.e., thematic agenda diversity). A na...
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  • The impact of political party support on interpersonal political discussion: survey evidence from two Chinese societies

    • Authors: Francis L.F. Lee; Frank C.S. Liu (2014)

  • This study examines whether and how political party support shapes inter-personal political discussion. Drawing upon existing research, party support is hypothesized to lead to more frequent political discussion and lower levels of disagreement within discussion networks. Party support is also hypothesized to moderate the relationship between news consumption and discussion frequency and the relationship between discussion frequency and disagreement. The analysis further explores if the impact of party support varies according to the parties being supported. The hypotheses and research question were examined using data from representative surveys conducted in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The...
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  • The influence of family viewing preferences on television consumption in the era of multichannel services

    • Authors: Francis L.F. Lee (2010)

  • It is widely argued that the rise of multichannel television services, together with other ‘new media,’ have led to a decline in family television viewing and the emergence of more individualized media culture within the household. This study, however, argues that family viewing can be treated as a variable shaping people’s use and evaluations of the medium. More specifically, the survey data analysis focuses on how individuals’ perceptions of family television viewing preferences influence their consumption and evaluation of both conventional mass broadcast television and multichannel television services in Hong Kong. The results show that consumption and evaluation of mass broadcas...