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  • Comparing social media use, discussion, political trust and political engagement among university students in China and Hong Kong: an application of the O–S–R–O–R model

    • Authors: Xueqing Li; Michael Chan (2017)

  • Adopting the Orientation–Stimuli–Reasoning–Orientation– Response (O–S–R–O–R) model of political communication effects, this study examines the mediating roles of online/offline political discussion and political trust on the relationship between social media information seeking and online/offline political participation in China and Hong Kong. Findings through structural equation modeling showed that the relationship between information seeking and online participation was mediated by online discussion for both samples. Moreover, the relationship between information seeking and offline participation was mediated by offline discussion, and offline discussion mediated the relationship b...
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  • Networked counterpublics and discursive contestation in the agonistic public sphere: political jamming a police force Facebook Page

    • Authors: Michael Chan (2018)

  • Drawing from agonistic public sphere perspectives, this study examines the jamming of the Hong Kong Police Force Facebook Page by users from its establishment in October 2015 to March 2016. 203 posts accounting for 96,791 comments were analyzed using a mixed-method approach. Findings showed that the early posts were heavily jammed with three types of counterpublic comments: (1) calls for justice regarding alleged police brutality during the Umbrella Movement one year prior, (2) emotional statements with impolite tone, and (3) accusations of comment deletions by the Page administrators. But, the relative intensity of the three types of counterdiscourses diminished over time. Moreover,...
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  • Networked counterpublics and discursive contestation in the agonistic public sphere: political jamming a police force Facebook Page

    • Authors: Michael Chan (2018)

  • Drawing from agonistic public sphere perspectives, this study examines the jamming of the Hong Kong Police Force Facebook Page by users from its establishment in October 2015 to March 2016. 203 posts accounting for 96,791 comments were analyzed using a mixed-method approach. Findings showed that the early posts were heavily jammed with three types of counterpublic comments: (1) calls for justice regarding alleged police brutality during the Umbrella Movement one year prior, (2) emotional statements with impolite tone, and (3) accusations of comment deletions by the Page administrators. But, the relative intensity of the three types of counterdiscourses diminished over time. Moreover,...
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  • Partisan selective exposure and the perceived effectiveness of contentious political actions in Hong Kong

    • Authors: Michael Chan (2020)

  • This study examines the relationship between political identification and perceived effectiveness of formal political actors and contentious political actions to influence government policy in a polarized city state. Results based on a national survey of 923 citizens showed that identifiers of the pro-democracy parties and those who use pro-democracy news media were more likely to perceive contentious political actions as more effective to influence government while the pattern of findings were the opposite for identifiers of the pro-establishment parties and those who use pro-establishment media. Moreover, there was evidence of partisan selective exposure on subsequent perceptions, such that...
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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 mediating role of social recommendation in the relationship between concern over expression and social media news participation: a comparative study of six Asian societies

    • Authors: Macau K. F. Mak; Michael Chan; Francis L. F. Lee; Hsuan-Ting Chen (2022)

  • Although social media afford users the possibility of sharing and discussing news, some users may have much concern over how others view these expressive behaviors. The recommendation features of social media indeed offer cues about others’ opinions and possible references to engage with news. We investigate the mediating role of reliance on two social recommendation features, i.e. social filtering and popularity indicators, for news selection in the relationship between concern over online expression and social media news participation in six Asian societies (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia), using representative online survey data. Compared with Wester...