Celine Yunya Song

Prof. Céline Yunya Song's research cuts across global communication, digital media, computer-mediated networks, social media analytics, cyber-psychology and behaviour. Her scholarship has straddled English, French and Chinese cultures and media. She was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Fulbright award. She received the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work in 2023 (https://parrs.hkbu.edu.hk/PA-2023/prof-song-yunya.html). She is the editor of Communication & Society (TSSCI) and the associate editor of Computers in Human Behavior (SSCI) and Mass Communication and Society (SSCI). She is the Director of the Al and Media Research Lab and the Chair of the Research Postgraduate Committee in the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.

The project

Title: A Cross-National Study of Climate Change Adaptation: Perceptions, Measures, and Contestations in France, Mainland China and Hong Kong

Selection of publications

Articles, chapters and contributions to collective volumes (selection)

• Song, Y., Wang, X., & Li, G. (2023). Can Social Media Combat Gender Inequalities in Academia? Measuring the Prevalence of the Matilda Effect in Communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad050. (SSCI)
• Zhai, W., Yu, H., & Song, Y. (2023). Disaster Misinformation and Its Corrections on Social Media: Spatiotemporal Proximity, Social Network, and Sentiment Contagion. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2271549. (SSCI)
• Liu, Y. L., Yan, W., Hu, B., Lin, Z., & Song, Y.* (2023). Chatbots or Humans? Effects of Agent Identity and Information Sensitivity on Users’ Privacy Management and Behavioral Intentions: A Comparative Experimental Study between China and the United States. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-16. (corresponding author) (SSCI)
• Wang, X., Song, Y.*, & Su, Y. (2023). Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science. Social Science Computer Review, 41(3), 946-966. (corresponding author) (SSCI)
• Song, Y., Wang, S., & Xu, Q. (2022). Fighting Misinformation on Social Media: Effects of Evidence Type and Presentation Mode. Health Education Research, 37(3), 185-198. (SSCI)