Ven-Hwei Lo

Ven-Hwei Lo
Chinese University of Hong Kong | CUHK · School of Journalism and Communication

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Asian governments employed drastically different strategies—zero-infection versus living with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)—to balance control of the global pandemic and minimize disruption. This study examines inter-society differences in public responses to their government’s anti-pandemic policies of zero-COVID strategy in China and neighboring...
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This study examines exposure to, perception of, and behavioral responses to misinformation about COVID-19 on social media from the influence of presumed influence (IPI) framework. To understand how the digital information environment of a society shapes the spread and responses to pandemic misinformation, four culturally similar Asian cities—Beijin...
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This study examines the third-person effects of COVID-19 news among Wuhan residents during the peak of the outbreaks in the city. Using data collected in a telephone survey of 1,071 Wuhan residents, results show that respondents believed others were more influenced by the COVID-19 news. However, the more the respondents systematically processed the...
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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 to...
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This study examines the perceived impact of violent videogames from an influence of presumed influence perspective. The role of perceived telepresence and the amount of time spent playing violent videogames in influencing people’s beliefs about the effects of such games were hypothesized and tested. Results of data collected from a random sample of...
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As mobile news goes mainstream thanks to the ubiquitous smartphones, this study assesses users’ perceptions of the credibility of news created, packaged and delivered to the mobile screen in four Asian cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taipei. Results of surveys of 2988 respondents show that respondents in Shanghai and Singapore perceived...
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The televised debates in the 2016 presidential election took place between two controversial candidates, Hillary Clinton and her opponent Donald Trump, who faced a deeply divided electorate of highly opinioned voters that had already decided on their supported candidates. How did viewing the debates influence them—would the debates reinforce their...
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為了評估中文新聞傳播學術期刊的品質與影響力,本研究採用問 卷調查法訪問415位在中國、香港、台灣、澳門、新加坡與美國任教 的新聞傳播學者。調查結果發現,在閱讀頻率方面,《傳播與社會學 刊》是受訪學者最常收看的期刊,其次為《新聞與傳播研究》與《國際新 聞界》。在期刊水準方面,《傳播與社會學刊》也是受訪者認為水準最高 的期刊,其次為《新聞與傳播研究》和《新聞學研究》。在期刊影響力方 面,《傳播與社會學刊》仍然是受訪者認為影響力最大的期刊,其次是 《新聞與傳播研究》與《國際新聞界》。在引用頻率方面,《新聞與傳播研 究》則是受訪學者最常引用的期刊,其次為《國際新聞界》與《傳播與社 會學刊》。
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This study examines the relationships among workload, news autonomy, burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover intention among Taiwanese reporters. Results of a survey of 1,099 reporters indicate that workload and news autonomy were significantly associated with burnout. In addition, burnout was found to be negatively related to job satisfaction, whi...
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Inspired by the influence of presumed influence (IPI) framework, the current study examines the inferred effects of American media coverage of China, which tends to be negative and to portray China as the West’s next enemy, and the potential real-life consequences of these perceptions in the form of support for China’s global public relations effor...
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Three national surveys of working journalists were conducted in 1994, 2004 and 2014 to investigate their basic characteristics, education and training, and working conditions. Using multistage cluster sampling, the total completed sample sizes for the three surveys were 1,015 for 1994, 1,182 for 2004, and 1,505 for 2014. The results of the study re...
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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...
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How do news coverage of a grassroot protest movement and perceived importance of the movement affect people’s participation in the movement? And does people’s inference of the effect of the news on themselves versus others make a difference in participation? Informed by the third-person effect hypothesis, we examine these questions in the context o...
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The third-person effect is a simple but intriguing theoretical proposition. It has generated a robust stream of research in the past 30 years. Political communication is one of the topical areas in which third-person effect research is growing. The literature sheds light on the perception of effects concerning a range of political messages and medi...
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This study examines the effects of newspaper endorsements of candidates in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. By endorsing a particular candidate, newspapers appear to play an important role in terms of motivating college students to make their voting decision or jump on the bandwagon of a candidate who is widely endorsed by the press.
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This study examines smartphones as a platform for mobile news consumption by identifying key antecedents and consequential behavioral patterns. A causal model was proposed for empirically testing the interrelationships. A sample of 719 randomly selected young adults in China, which boasts the world’s largest mobile phone population, was used in the...
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Based on the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion and information-processing theory, the authors examined the role of perceived issue importance, news attention, and news elaboration in moderating third-person effects of news about an imported food controversy. Results show that the level of perceived issue importance affected third-person pe...
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This study examines third-person perceptions (TPP) of two types of online messages—antisocial messages that encourage drug abuse and prosocial messages in the youth anti-drug campaign—and their relationship with support for three types of rectifying measures: restrictive, corrective, and promotional. A survey of 778 secondary school students (appro...
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This study focuses on examining the behavioral component of the third-person effect. It explores the self-other perceptual gap concerning the influence of nuclear pollution news on the prediction of different actions: corrective, protective, and promotional. The study analyzes data from a probability sample collected in Taiwan after the news about...
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By differentiating “ambivalent” from “univalent” voters, this study argues that ambivalent voters need information to reach a decision, which implies they are more open to persuasion through media coverage than are univalent voters. In turn, they may infer that election coverage exerts a greater influence on them, resulting in smaller self–other pe...
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This article examines the influence of perceived personal impact on third-person perception and on protective behaviors in connection with exposure to media coverage of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Survey results show that the perceived personal impact of the disease spreading in the local community positively predicts perceived media effects on se...
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The first factor consisted of five items that reflected the motivation for using mobile phones to gossip or chap, to seek the pleasure of talking, to relax, to relieve boredom, and to pass time (eigenvalue = 3.33; 23.81% of variance). The five items were combined to form an index of “entertainment and relaxation needs” (M = 3.34; SD = .90; α = .88)...
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This study explores how mobile phone-savvy Asian college students use mobile news, especially news posted on mobile-accessible Twitter-like microblogs, to stay informed about current events. Our survey of more than 3500 college students in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan asks why young people turn to mobile phones for news and how the new...
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Sexting among teen mobile phone users is on the rise. This study examines adolescent mobile phone users' perceptions of the harmful effect of consensual sexting between two people in a romantic relationship, mass-circulated sexting, and sexting posted on the internet. Results of a survey of 236 US adolescents showed that respondents believed sextin...
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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 ab...
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The development of public opinion polling in Taiwan is closely linked to the democratization process that started in the late 1980s. The lifting of martial law in 1987 not only allowed pollsters to work more freely, but also enabled Taiwan’s media to grow and develop an appetite for public opinion data. However, decades of one-party rule by the Kuo...
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Television news has been criticized for bias toward certain countries and topics, relying too much on public officials as news sources and presenting a large portion of sensational news. This study investigates whether biases exist in foreign news on television in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, where potentially more than a billion Chinese viewers r...
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Focusing on the milestone 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, this study explores how perceived impact of polls is influenced by one's social comparison groups and perception of media hostility. Results, using survey data of 541 respondents, show that respondents perceived others as more vulnerable than themselves to the influence of election polls. E...
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This study examines the impact of polling news in the 2008 Taiwan presidential election from a third-person effect perspective. Results of a survey using a random sample of 1,097 respondents indicate that they perceived news about election polls to have a greater effect on others than themselves, regardless of whether the effects were perceived as...
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This study explored the relationship of factors that influenced adolescent's learning about H1N1 flu from the news. A model constructed from data gathered in a sample of 1,409 respondents in Taiwan depicts these relationships. The results largely support the proposed model that media exposure, news attention, and news elaboration are related to kno...
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This study seeks to understand the role of the Internet in quality of life (QoL). Specifically, it examines the question of whether Internet communication serves, like face-to-face interactions, to enhance quality of life. It is hypothesized that the use of the Internet for interpersonal communication can improve quality of life among Internet user...
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This is a comparative survey study of journalists’ attitudes and perceptions concerning various types of conflicts of interest in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Journalists in all three regions are found to be receptive to freebies in the form of small gifts, meals and trips. However, they almost unanimously agree that monetary benefits from...
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This study examines third-person effect of news of tainted food product recalls on oneself relative to others. The survey (N = 1,213) found that respondents tended to think the influence of the news on others was greater than on themselves (the study used reactions to a milk powder scandal in China). Message credibility and attention to and elabora...
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This study explores the concept of political capital and examines the relationship between media use and political capital, especially as related to regional differences. A national survey carried out in Taiwan shows that political capital can be seen in terms of five distinctive dimensions: polit-ical networking, political knowledge, political int...
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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 arena...
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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...
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This study examined associations between individualism/collectivism and exposure to Internet pornography, sexual attitudes, and behaviors. Three parallel surveys of college students in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei show that collectivism correlated more strongly and negatively than individualism with exposure to Internet pornography, attitudes to...
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Examining voter learning in the 2006 US midterm elections, this study explores the relationships among motivation, media exposure, attention, elaboration, and knowledge gain in an expanded cognitive mediation model. The model characterizes voter learning from the news as a process driven by motivation, necessitated by exposure, and enhanced by atte...
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This paper primarily explores the influence of exposure to political call-in TV programs and call-in radio shows. The results indicated that experiment one demonstrated that exposure to pro-KMT programs (as opposed to pro-PPT programs) led participants to attribute the cause of the problems or issues discussed in the program to the government's inc...
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This study expands third-person effect research to health news coverage. It examines the perceptual and behavioral components of third-person effects. Moderator variables of third-person effects—knowledge and exposure to health news—are also examined. Using data from a survey of public opinion about the coverage of avian flu involving a probability...
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Accepting freebies and the consequence of doing so is a long‐standing ethical issue in journalism. Critics argue that freebies corrupt journalists and undercut the integrity of journalism. Working journalists tend to agree. Accepting freebies, however, is widespread in many countries. Why is there such an attitude‐behavior gap? Surveying 771 journa...
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Studies disagree as to whether an optimistic bias can account for the commonly observed third-person perceptions. This study aims to help clarify the relationship between third-person perceptions and biased optimism in the context of assessing the impact of the news about bird flu outbreaks in Taiwan. Using a random sample of 1,107 college students...
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Developing usage and gratification theories, this paper explored the content of political call-in shows and audiences' viewing motives. The content analysis indicated that call-in programs in Taiwan exhibited the following aspects: (1) they discussed more breaking news than general public policies; (2) they contained party biases; and (3) they fram...
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This study assesses the perceived role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) including the Internet, mobile telephone, CD/MD/MP3, television and VCR/VCD/DVD in raising quality of life (QoL). A comparison is made between three Chinese cities, namely, Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong, to see if differences exist in the perceived value of...
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This study examines the indirect effects of extensive negative political attack ads in the 2004 presidential election from a third-person effects perspective. Results of a survey using a probability sample of 496 college students indicate that these students believe attack ads harm others more than themselves. Moreover, the respondents tended to pe...
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This study explores the relationship of factors that influence adolescents’ learning about the two Gulf Wars from the news. A model constructed from data gathered in two sample surveys in Taiwan depicts these relationships. The results largely support the hypotheses that newspaper use, television news use, attention, and elaboration are related to...
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As people integrate use of the cell phone into their lives, do they view it as just an update of the fixed telephone or assign it special values? This study explores that question in the framework of gratifications sought and their relationship both to differential cell phone use and to social connectedness. Based on a survey of Taiwanese college s...
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This study examines use of Internet pornography by adolescents in Taiwan and the relationships between exposure to Internet pornography and the sexual attitudes and behavior of surveyed teens. Results show that about 38% of the sample had some exposure to Internet pornography. Further, this exposure was associated with greater acceptance of sexual...
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This study examined the role of gender in the third-person effect in the context of Internet pornography. The results indicate that most respondents believe Internet pornography has a greater negative influence on others than on themselves. Female respondents tend to perceive greater negative effects of Internet pornography on other males than on o...
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The number of Taiwanese daily newspapers increased tenfold after martial law was lifted in 1988. Increased competition and new technology influenced the adoption of design innovations. This study examined three Taiwanese daily newspapers' use of color, graphics, headline styles, modular design, and number of stories before and after the lifting of...
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This article examines the use of pornographic media by Taiwanese high school students, and explores the effects of exposure to such on their attitudes and behaviour in terms of sexual permissiveness. The results of this research indicate that more than 90 per cent of the students interviewed had at least some exposure to a variety of pornography, w...
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This research examines how television reported the campaign, parties, and candidates during the 1995 Legislative Election in Taiwan. Results of this study showed that state‐owned broadcast television stations were far more likely than privately owned cable television channels to give greater coverage to the ruling party and its candidates, to use r...
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This article reports a secondary analysis comparing media role perceptions among journalists in China, Taiwan, and the United States, based on three recent nationwide surveys in these societies. By comparing the goodness-of-fit of a series of loglinear models, we have found that the societal factor has the strongest impact on journalists' views abo...
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The 23 May 1996 Presidential election in Taiwan was historic and so was the size and nature of foreign media coverage. Among the significant factors revealed by a National Chengchi University survey of the visiting foreign correspondents was that Beijing's missile threats added to the news interest and provided an extra dimension to the coverage ac...
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This research examines how TV reported the campaign and the candidates during Taiwan's first?ever presidential election in 1996. A content analysis of evening news coverage of six TV stations indicated that the state?owned broadcast TV stations were far more likely than the privately owned cable TV stations to give a greater amount of coverage and...
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A survey of high school students in Taiwan shows that understanding involvement can help elaborate the relationship between media use and knowledge. Measuring involvement as cognitive and behavioral with regard to the Gulf War produced results consistent with the hypothesis, which proposes that under conditions of high involvement, newspaper use wi...
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Based on a content analysis of evening newscasts by the three television stations in Taiwan, this study examines the patterns of news sources selection and presentation in television news. The results of this study show that television news relies heavily on government officials who are primarily middle‐aged men in executive positions located in th...
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Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-181).

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