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  • COVID-racism on social media and its impact on young Asians in Australia

    • Authors: Wonsun Shin; Wilfred Yang Wang; Jay Song (2023-03-03)

  • COVID-19 has fueled discrimination against people of Asian descent across the world, and anti-Asian sentiment has become pervasive across social media platforms. However, little research has been conducted to understand Asians’ experiences of COVID-related racism outside the USA. Drawing insights from cultivation theory and minority stress theory, this study examines how young Asians’ use of social media in Australia affects their experiences of individual and vicarious racial discrimination on social media, and how racial discrimination experienced on social media is associated with their concerns about real-world racism and well being. A survey of 413 social media users aged 16–30 w...
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  • Parental mediation of children’s digital media use in high digital penetration countries: perspectives from Singapore and Australia

    • Authors: Wonsun Shin; May O. Lwin (2022)

  • This research examines how parents in two high digital penetration nations in the Asia-Pacific region, Singapore and Australia, mediate children’s use of digital media and how parental mediation practices in each country are explained by parents’ media perception, digital literacy, and parental self-efficacy. We conducted surveys with parents residing in Singapore (N = 316) and Australia (N = 315). Results show that Australian parents are more actively engaged in all types of parental mediation as compared to Singaporean parents. In both countries, those who are concerned about risks associated with their children’s digital media use and those who feel confident in their parenting abi...
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  • The effects of message source and fear appeal on young adults’ response to Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) messages in Singapore

    • Authors: Hyo Jung Kim; Wonsun Shin (2018)

  • This study examines the psychological processes that determine how fear appeal and sponsor type impact young adults’ responses to public campaigns against Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in Singapore. The results showed that fear appeal in the STD messages increased the level of anger arousal, while the STD messages sponsored by a commercial company versus a government agency increased the level of negative cognitions among participants. The interaction between fear appeal and sponsor type was found in both affective and cognitive responses of psychological reactance against the STD messages.