Alice Y. L. Lee

Hong Kong Baptist University · Department of Journalism

Media literacy (ML) education has been carried out around the world for half a century, but such education only emerged in Chinese societies, such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China, in the past two decades. Entering the twenty‐first century, Chinese societies witnessed astonishing levels of economic growth and technological advancement. This...

This entry introduces continuities and changes in the role of journalism educators in the digital era. As technology advances and the world continues to become a networked knowledge society, journalism is reinventing itself. Teachers of journalism are now providing journalistic training in a new social, technological, and educational context. In th...

In the School 2.0 era in Hong Kong, students are using laptop computers and iPads to explore and discuss media issues in the classroom. Using the innovation theory, this study investigates this new way of teaching and learning. It examines the effectiveness and challenges of learning media literacy through new media technologies. The results show t...

This study views media literacy education as an educational innovation and examines what factors affect the adoption of media education in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Diffusion of innovations and the sociology of consumer behavior constitute the theoretical foundation of this study. Findings indicate that although teachers are important agents...

This chapter examines the uses of media literacy education in China through a case study in Zhejiang Province. The Chinese government welcomes media literacy education for cultivating media literate civil servants, media professionals, and citizens, but no educational policy has been formulated to encourage growth in this field. Some universities i...

Young people were key participants in the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and the media also played an important role in this protest. This study examines how Hong Kong’s young activists developed communication strategies and media practices to mobilize this social movement. A framework termed “media and information praxis of social movements” is pr...

This study examines Chinese journalists' Weibo practices by analyzing 2659 Weibo posts by journalists. Previous studies indicate that Western journalists generally “normalize” their posting activities on social media to fit their professional standards and practices, but this normalization practice is conducted in a more complicated way in China. O...

In knowledge society, there is currently a call for cultivating a combination of media literacy and information literacy. This, however, requires cooperation from these two separate fields of study, and uncertainty regarding their boundaries hinders a smooth merger. It is unclear whether they are subsets of each other or separate entities. In this...

As more media organizations have engaged in media education, this paper investigates the goals and practices of these activities. This article coins media education initiatives by media organizations with the term media-organization media literacy (MOML). Four MOML projects in Hong Kong were selected for examination. Built on critical theory of lit...

This paper examines how online news media have changed as the Internet has moved from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Based on medium theory and boundary theory, online news media are conceptualized as being regulated by the “participatory open media code”. The code analysis attempts to examine the newly emerged form and structure of online news. In the new in...

Background: Media education is the study of the media with the aim of cultivating people's media literacy. In the past four decades, media education has rapidly developed in school systems and communities all over the world. Each country has its own developmental trajectory. With the rise of the interactive new media, media education is going to ha...

This paper examines the role online news sites play in global catastrophic crisis and attempts to find out what factors influence the glocalization mechanism of the online news coverage. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic was used as a case for investigation. Seventeen news sites in seven regions with varying degrees of press fre...

The aim of this paper is to examine the development of Webcasting in Hong Kong. Through content analysis and in-depth interviews, the study investigates the business models of 10 leading Webcasters in Hong Kong. Although websites are generally defined as global media, they are actually local tools and are mainly used domestically. The Hong Kong Web...

This study examines the social roles of online news media in their coverage of the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. It conceptualizes online news media as “interactive community bulletin boards” and evaluates their performance in informing and educating the public as well as building community linkage under crisis situations....

This article examines the socio‐economic functions of electronic newspaper in the context of epochal change from the industrial society to the information society. We argue that electronic newspaper is expanding its social roles and performing new functions. This article conceptualizes electronic newspaper as providing three digital marketplaces fo...

The aim of this article is to introduce the concept of infomedia literacy, which refers to the ability to process critically all kinds of written information, sound, images, graphics and values transmitted by the new technology. This article argues that when information technology merges with communication technology, there is a need for a new form...

This paper discusses the establishment of overseas editions by some Hong Kong newspapers under the context of the upcoming political transition of Hong Kong in 1997. These overseas editions are viewed as econo‐cultural spin‐off to tap the ‘yacht immigrants’ outflowing from Hong Kong. Various factors involved in the establishment of these overseas e...

The rapid advancement of the internet technology has made webcasting a common practice in Hong Kong. Many entertainment and non-commercial sites have be-come multimedia portals and are providing audio and video clips for convenient consumption. In fact, Hong Kong is one of the leading communication centers in Asia. Even in the colonial period (from...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997. Includes bibliographical references.