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  • Asian mobile communication research: current status, enduring issues and future trends

    • Authors: Yue Zheng; Elmie Nekmat; Ran Wei (2016)

  • With a total of 2.5 billion subscribers, Asia’s leadership in worldwide mobile communication calls for a systematic review of the academic research on mobile communication in Asian countries. By reviewing 120 articles published in 18 top-ranking refereed journals from 1995 to 2015, this study identified a prominent increase in research output covering multiple subfields over the past 20 years, marked by accelerated growth beginning from 2005. This rise appears to be a product of global scholarship. Limitations in the current Asian mobile communication literature were also discussed, regarding the overemphasis on East Asian countries, the lack of a unified theoretical framework, and th...
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  • Cognitive reasoning, risk targets and behavioral responses to COVID-19 outbreaks among Wuhan residents during lockdown

    • Authors: Zongya Li; Ran Wei; Ven-hwei Lo; Mingxin Zhang; Yicheng Zhu (2021)

  • How did residents in Wuhan, who were at the epicenter of the initial COVID-19 outbreaks in China evaluate the risk to themselves and to society at large, and take action accordingly? This study examines the need for orientation, cognitive reasoning of COVID-19 news, and perceived risk, which all contributed to protective action during the city’s total lockdown. Using data collected in a mobile CATI survey during the peak of the outbreaks in February 2020, findings show that the attention to COVID-19 in digital media predicted the perception of the coronavirus pandemic as a personal risk. In addition, the need for orientation and elaboration of news about the outbreaks were positively a...
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  • Examining the first, second and third-person effects of Internet pornography on Taiwanese adolescents: implications for the restriction of pornography

    • Authors: Ven-Hwei Lo; Ran Wei; Hsiaomei Wu (2010)

  • To explore the impact of Internet pornography on users as compared with traditional forms of pornography, a total of 1688 adolescents in Taiwan were surveyed. Results show that respondents estimated the harms of Internet pornography to exceed that of pornographic materials in print and broadcast media. More importantly, findings show that exposure to Internet pornography resulted in desensitizing effects in that users tended to perceive the harms of Internet pornography as less on self and others. In addition, exposure was found to be negatively related to support for restrictions of Internet pornography, but the perceived harm on self was found to be positively related to support for...
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  • New media and political communication in Asia: a critical assessment of research on media and politics, 1988–2008

    • Authors: Ven-hwei Lo; Ran Wei (2010)

  • This study focuses on reviewing research on the interplay between new media and political communication in Asian societies. To assess the state of the discipline of political communication and how the research advances knowledge of the role and impact of media in politics, this study content-analyzed articles concerning media use in political arenas in Asian societies that were published in 10 leading communication journals between 1988 and 2008. Results reveal that the social science paradigm was the leading paradigm of inquiry, accounting for the majority of research in these journals. The analysis also indicates that most articles were theory-driven and survey was the most frequent...
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  • Self-efficacy, information-processing strategies, and acquisition of health knowledge

    • Authors: Ven-hwei Lo; Ran Wei; Herng Su (2013)

  • Informed by the Cognitive Mediation Model of media learning, this study explores how self-efficacy and information-processing strategies jointly impact the learning of health knowledge. Using survey data (N^1409), the study examines the roles that self-efficacy, motivation of media use, news attention, and elaboration play in acquiring knowledge about swine flu during the 2009 global pandemic crisis. Results support the hypothesized relationships among self-efficacy, motivation, attention to and elaboration of swine flu news, and knowledge about the flu. Implications of the findings to advance the research in mediated cognitive learning are discussed.
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  • Taking stock and showcasing communication research on Asia for a global audience

    • Authors: Ran Wei (2016)

  • Communication research on Asia has enjoyed remarkable growth at the turn of the twenty-first century. Scholarly interest in Asia has grown largely due to the economic and cultural rise of China and India. Then, what are the implications of Asia’s rising global power for communication scholars, in Asia and around the world? For example, the on-going mobile revolution in Asia merits a timely and thorough review to docu-ment the scope, depth, and achievements of past research in understanding the social change in Asia triggered by the ubiquitous mobile phone. This special issue takes stock of accomplish-ments in communication research on Asia for the global audience, examines some enduri...
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  • The state of new media technology research in China: a review and critique

    • Authors: Ran Wei (2010)

  • Scholars argue that the history of communication technology is a history of social change, often in unpredictable ways under the influence of various socio-political forces and technological innovations. How does this insight apply to China which has witnessed a boom of new media technologies amidst rapid social change? To what extent does new media research conducted by Chinese scholars help us understand the process of new media diffusion and consumption in China? By reviewing research published in Chinese-language scholarly journals, this paper reviews current new media research in China by tracing trends in such research, identifying research agenda, applications of theory, and us...
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  • Theoretical and methodological patterns of third-person effect research: a comparative thematic analysis of Asia and the world

    • Authors: Ven-Hwei Lo; Ran Wei; Xiao Zhang; Lei Guo (2016)

  • Third-person effect (TPE) hypothesis is a theory of increasing global appeal to media effects scholars. To assess the research trends and methodological patterns of TPE studies on Asia and the world’s other regions, this study content-analyzed 147 articles published in 10 leading communication journals between 1983 and 2015. Results reveal Asia as a popular site for the robust TPE research (41 articles focused on Asia). The most popular topics in Asia were pornography and news about social events. The results further indicate that survey was the most used method in TPE research conducted in Asia. In addition, U.S.-based authors dominated the overall TPE research. But authors from Asi...