| Year | Student | Ph.D./M.Phil | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | CHEN Zhicong | Ph.D | Discovering the Shady Corner of the Internet: The Acquisition, Use, and Social Impacts of the Tor Anonymity Network |
| 2022 | DAVIDSON Brenna | Ph.D | Modality and Emotional News Content: Effects on Memory for Political Disinformation |
| 2022 | LAN Ji | Ph.D | Identifying and Evaluating Causal Relations in Social Science Research Publications on Social Media: A Hypothesis-based Knowledge Graph Approach |
| 2022 | LU Fangcao | Ph.D | The Influence of Social Media Selfie-Related Activities on Young Women’s Beauty Image Concerns |
| 2022 | MIN Chen | Ph.D | To Comment or not to Comment in China: Exploring the Influence of Online Incivility and Argument Quality on Public Expression |
| 2022 | SUN Mengru | Ph.D | The Effects of Context Collapse in Social Media on Dyadic Interpersonal Communication Processes |
| 2022 | WANG Xiaoting | Ph.D | Gender Self-Stereotypes of Women in Online Games: The Effects of Avatar Appearance and Their Roles |
| 2022 | WARUWU Barui Kurniawan Louis | Ph.D | Mediated Family Display: An Ethnography of Migrant Mothers and Transnational Family Practices in a Polymedia Environment |
| 2022 | YANG Chun | Ph.D | The Social Construction of Justice: Trial-based Media Events and Media–Court Interaction in China |
| 2022 | YU Wenting | Ph.D | News Verification: Conceptualization and Measurement |
| 2022 | ZHANG Yafei | Ph.D | A Structural and Empirical Analysis of Network-based Diffusion of Information and Virus |
| 2021 | MENG Xiang | Ph.D | Social Media, Civic Attitudes, and Citizen Engagements: A Comparison of Facebook and WhatsApp |
| 2021 | OKTAVIANUS Jeffry | Ph.D | Empowering Migrant Domestic Workers through Storytelling Networks in Times of Crises: A Communication Infrastructure Approach |
| 2021 | GUAN Lu | Ph.D | Personal Curatorial Strategy: How Do Users Select, Consume, and Manage Information on Social Media? |
| 2021 | KASADHA Juma | Ph.D | Social Media and Civic Engagement: Reconciliation, Inclusion and Community Building |
| 2021 | SUN Yanqing | Ph.D | How Exposure to Parenting Content on Social Media Influences Self-discrepancy and Postnatal Mood Disorders for Mothers of Newborn Babies |
| 2020 | TRAVIS Louis Joseph | Ph.D | Playing with Consumers: Examining the Role of Play in Marketing Communications |
| 2020 | WANG Wei | Ph.D | Chinese Government's Partition Management and the Fragmentation of Journalistic Ecology in the Age of Technological Transformation |
| 2020 | ZHI Li | Ph.D | Authoritarian Fragmentations and Media Improvisations in Mediated Disasters |
| 2020 | WU Yi | Ph.D | Consequence of Social Conflicts: Public Opinion Polarization and Mass Media in Hong Kong |
| 2020 | LIN Sixian | Ph.D | National Identity, Framing Process and Student Movements: The Case of Hong Kong from 1960s to 2010s |
| 2020 | GUO Qin | Ph.D | Parenting Influence on Adolescents’ Socialization in the Chinese Cultural Context |
| 2020 | ZHOU Yixin | Ph.D | Life in the Fast Lane: Digital Media Use and Daily Activity Rhythm across the Last 20 Years |
| 2019 | YANG Ming | Ph.D | Exploring the Mechanisms of Narrative Persuasion in Overcoming Reactance: The Influence of Explicit Appeal and Perceived Realism on the Transportation Process |
| 2019 | XIA Chuanli | Ph.D | Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover: The Dynamics of Public, Political, and Media Issue Agendas |
| 2019 | ZHU Qinfeng | Ph.D | Selective Avoidance and 'Safe Space': Political Implications of Unfriending and Unfollowing on Social Media |
| 2019 | CHEN Hexin | Ph.D | Antecedents and Consequences of User's Preference for Mobile Display Orientation: Media Domain, Task Performance, and User Experience |
| 2019 | LOVRIC Bruno | Ph.D | Remembering the Homeland War and the Construction of Croatian National Identity 1995-2015 |
| 2019 | ZHANG Nan | Ph.D | Constructing a Green Public Sphere: Environmental Activism and the Role of the Internet in China |
| 2018 | TU Caixie | Ph.D | An Examination of Young Undergraduates’ Celebrity-related Media Use and Involvement with Celebrities |
| 2018 | ZENG Yuan | Ph.D | Reporting China on the Rise: A Study on the Field of Foreign Correspondence in Contemporary China |
| 2018 | MADRID MORALES Daniel | Ph.D | African News with Chinese Characteristics: A Case Study of CGTN Africa |
| 2018 | HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ Miriam | Ph.D | Influence of Political, Economic and Geographical Factors on the Representation of Immigration Issues in the American Press |
| 2018 | JIANG Yalong | Ph.D | Cultivating Actual Resources on Social Media and Benefit from It: Patterns of Social Media Use, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-being |
| 2018 | YAN Jing | Ph.D | Media Representation of Conflict on Consumer Rights and Consumer Nationalism in Transitional China |
| 2018 | PENG Kun | Ph.D | What Happened Before and After You Lied? Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Presentation in Online Dating |
| 2018 | LU Yin | Ph.D | In the Name of the People: Reporting Public Opinion in China |
| 2017 | Wang Pianpian | Ph.D. | A Longitudinal Analysis of the Dynamic Agenda-setting Process in the Social Media |
| 2017 | LIU Qian | Ph.D | Segregated Spiral of Silence: Investigating Influences on Outspokenness on the Internet in China |
| 2016 | Spiezio Roberto | Ph.D. | La Cina è Vicina: News Coverage and Emerging Narratives on China’s Rise in Two Italian National Dailies 1994-2013 |
| 2016 | Cao Bolin | Ph.D. | Resolving Social Conflicts and Improving Intergroup Relations in the Digital Age: The Effects of Contact Contents and Channels |
| 2016 | Gong Wanqi | Ph.D. | Celebrity Endorsement on Microblog: the Role of Source Factors and Audience Factors |
| 2016 | Bernadas Jan Michael Alexandre | Ph.D. | By the Mercy and Help of God: Towards a Religiousness-Health Information Seeking and Scanning Behaviors Framework |
| 2015 | Wang Zhenzhen | Ph.D. | Mapping the Landscape of Communication Research around the World: A Structural Theory of Academic Dependency |
| 2015 | Szilagyi Anna | Ph.D. | Party-Press Parallelism: Reception and Representation of China’s Soft Power in Post-Communist Hungary |
| 2015 | Wang Tian Jiao | Ph.D. | Rhetorical Activism in China: The Power of Grassroots Criticism of Government on the Internet |
| 2015 | Xu Minjun | Ph.D. | Reading the Romance in the Age of Web 2.0: A Mixed Methods Study on the Role of Social Networking Sites in Romantic Relationships |
| 2015 | Chen Chujie | Ph.D. | Shifting Press Boundaries, Political Economy, and Opinion Production at *Southern Metropolis Daily*Italic* |
| 2014 | Liu Yang | Ph.D. | Differentiating Framing from Priming and Persuasion: Psychological Mechanism, Competition Effect, and Duration Over Time |
| 2014 | Liang Hai | Ph.D. | The Discussion Atmosphere of Democracy: The Dynamic Process of Political Deliberation in Web Forums |
| 2014 | Liu Jing | Ph.D. | The Rise of Media Populism in the Neoliberal Age: A Comparative Case Study of Apple Daily in Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| 2014 | Ho Jeffrey Chun Fai | Ph.D. | Processing and Elaboration of Web Based Information: The Influence of Information Scent, Task, and Content Relevance |
| 2014 | Wang Chengjun | Ph.D. | Jumping over the Network Threshold: Information Diffusion on Information Sharing Websites |
| 2014 | Liu Na | Ph.D. | Media Representation, Citizenship Rights and Civil Society in China, 1978 – 2012 |
| 2014 | Qin Jie | Ph.D. | Emergence, Evolution, and Effectiveness of Interorganizational Computer-mediated Communication Networks: A Study of the Hyperlink Networks among Environmental Non-governmental Organizations in the United States and China |
| 2013 | Zhang Xinzhi | Ph.D. | Social Networking Sites Use, Political Attitudes, and Political Participation: A Comparison of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan |
| 2013 | Yi Yan | Ph.D. | Press Conference with Chinese Characteristics: Institution, Ritual and Symbolism |
| 2013 | Lu Heng | Ph.D. | The Sustainability of User-generated Content: Understanding Continuance and Switching Produsage Behavior |
| 2012 | Song Yunya | Ph.D. | Shifting Prisms of China: U.S. Correspondents as an Interpretive Community, 1972-2000 |
| 2012 | Cui Li | Ph.D. | Stardom in the View of Media Power: Reproduction of Media Power in the Case of Li Yuchun |
| 2012 | Wu Ling Fei | Ph.D. | Understanding the Rise of Web 2.0 Sites: Beyond the Debate between "Mediacide" and "Mediamorphorsis" |
| 2012 | Li Ying | Ph.D. | How Temporal Frame and Social Distance Influcence College Female Students' Intension To Vaccinate Against Human Papillomavirus |
| 2011 | Huang Shunming | Ph.D. | Manufacturing Professional Honor: Journalism Award Institution as Social Control in China |
| 2011 | Zhang Lun | Ph.D. | Growth Model of Online Friendship and Individual, Dyadic, and Network Determinants |
| 2010 | Song Jing | Ph.D. | National Elite Media Discourses on Globalization: Comparing China with India |
| 2010 | Lin Gong Cheng | Ph.D. | How Journalists Use Blogs: The Impact of Blogs on the Development of Journalistic Professionalism in China |
| 2010 | Zhang Wei | M. Phil | Discursive Contestation in China's Marketized Media: Coverage of the Torch Relay Incident in Beijing Olympics |
| 2009 | Huang Hui | M.Phil | Effect of Financial News on Investors' Trading Behavior |
| 2009 | Li Hongtao | Ph.D. | State, Danwei, and Knowledge Production in China: A Study of Academic Journals in Communication |
| 2009 | Li Linbo | M.Phil | Determinants of Message Salience in Blogosphere - An Examination of the Framing Effects in Web2.0 Context |
| 2009 | Qian Li | M.Phil | Corporate Blogs: New Opportunities for the Organizational Crisis Response |
| 2009 | Wu Zhuoyun | M.Phil | Anonymity, Private Self-Awareness & Online Self-Disclosure - An Examination for Blogging Activities |
| 2009 | Yan Yan | Ph.D. | Coorientation between Hong Kong and Mainland Journalists on the Integration of Hong Kong and Mainland China |
| 2008 | An Qi | M.Phil | The Influence of Desperate Housewives on Chinese College Female Students' Perspectives Toward Relationship |
| 2008 | Chan Che Ming | M.Phil | Just CC Everyone! The Role of Communication Channel in Social Capital Mobilization |
| 2008 | Cui Li | M.Phil | Empowerment from Super Girls' Voice for Female College Students in China |
| 2008 | Jiang Shujun | Ph.D. | Who Decides? Individual, Organizational, Political, and Market Influences on News Content in a Chinese Newspaper |
| 2008 | Pan Xiaohui | Ph.D. | Globality and Broadcasting Media in China -- Measurements and Media impact |
| 2008 | Peng Taiquan | Ph.D. | Intentional Adoption, Usage Automaticity, and Attitudinal Dynamics: An Evolving Triadic Model of Internet Behaviors and Perceptions |
| 2008 | Yang Yinjuan | Ph.D. | Marketized Media in China: Bargaining with the State and Rent Seekers -- The Case of the Guangzhou Press |
| 2008 | Zhang Jinguang | M.Phil | Re-examining the Motive of Self-enhancement in People's Message Effects Perceptions: A Social Identity Perspective |
| 2007 | Lai Hiu Man Debby | Ph.D. | Internet Piracy - A User Behavioral Perspective |
| 2006 | Shi Lin | M.Phil | Official and Popular Discourses: Taiwan's Opposition Leaders' Visits to Mainland China |
| 2006 | Tong Jingjing | Ph.D. | Competition Among Interpersonal Media: The Impact of Rational, Relational, Social, and Individual Factors on Media Choice |
| 2005 | Zhou Yuqiong | Ph.D. | The Interplay Between Chinese Journalists and the Internet: Diffusion, Use, and Effects of the internet |
| 2004 | Fan Xiaojiang | M.Phil | The Effects on Homepage Design of Chinese Online Newspapers on Reader's Reading Patterns |
| 2003 | Tan Yue | M.Phil | Causes and Covariates of News Credibility Perceived by Chinese Audiences: An Experimental Study |
| 2001 | Man Chi Wai Charles | M.Phil | Adoption of E-commerce by the Service Industry in Hong Kong: A Communication Behaviour Approach |
| 2000 | Peng Shiyong | Ph.D. | An Analysis of Cultural Influence on Conflict Management in Foreign-invested Enterprises in Mainland China |
