Selected Articles:

Song, Y., Wang, X., & Li, G. (Accepted). Can Social Media Combat Gender Inequalities in Academia? Measuring the Prevalence of the Matilda Effect in Communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. (SSCI) .

Lan, L., Huang, T., Li, Y., & Song, Y. (Accepted). A Survey of Cross-Lingual Text Classification and Its Applications on Fake News Detection. World Scientific Annual Review of Artificial Intelligence, 1, 2350003.

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)

Li, Y., He, H., Wang, S., Lau, F. C., & Song, Y. (2023). Improved Target-specific Stance Detection on Social Media Platforms by Delving into Conversation Threads. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2023.3320723.

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)

Yin, Q., Zhong, L., Song, Y., Bai, L., Wang, Z., Li, C., ... & Yang, X. (2023). A Decision Support System in Precision Medicine: Contrastive Multimodal Learning for Patient Stratification. Annals of Operations Research, 1-29.

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)

Ng, Y.-L., Song, Y.*, & Huang, Y. (2022). Supportive and Uncivil Expressions in Discussions on Out-groups by In-group Members in Anonymous Computer-mediated Communication. Telematics and Informatics, 69, 101785. (corresponding author) (SSCI)

Song, Y., Lin, Q., Kwon, K. H., Choy, C.H.Y, & Xu, R. (2022). Contagion of Offensive Speech Online: An Interactional Analysis of Political Swearing. Computers in Human Behavior,127,107046. (SSCI)

Song, Y., Huang, Z., Schuldt, J. P., & Yuan, Y. C. (2021). National Prisms of a Global Phenomenon: A Comparative Study of Press Coverage of Climate Change in the US, UK and China. Journalism,23(10), 2208-2229. (SSCI)

Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., Lu, Y., Fan, Y., & Li, B. (2021). The "Parallel Pandemic" in the Context of China: The Spread of Rumors and Rumor-corrections during COVID-19 in Chinese Social Media. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(14), 2014-2036. (SSCI)

Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., Xu, J., Huang, X., & Li, S. (2021). Curbing Profanity Online: A Network-Based Diffusion Analysis of Profane Speech on Chinese Social Media. New Media & Society, 23 (5), 982-1003. (SSCI) (Best Faculty Article Award, CCA)

Song, Y., Lee, C. C., & Huang, Z. (2021). The News Prism of Nationalism Versus Globalism: How Does the US, UK and Chinese Elite Press Cover 'China's Rise?. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 22 (8), 2071-2090. (SSCI)

Xu, Q., Song, Y., Yu, N., & Chen, S. (2021). Are You Passing Along Something True or False? The Dissemination of Social Media Messages about Genetically Modified Organisms. Public Understanding of Science, 30(3), 285-301. (SSCI)

Chen, S., Zhou, L., Song, Y.,..& Janies, D. (2020). Comparison of Viral COVID-19 Sina Weibo and Twitter Contents: A Novel Feature Extraction and Analytical Workflow. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(1). (SSCI)

Wang, X. & Song, Y.* (2020) Viral Misinformation and Echo Chambers: The Diffusion of Rumors about Genetically Modified Organisms on Social Media. Internet Research, 30(5), 1547-1564. (SSCI) (corresponding author) (Outstanding Paper Award of Internet Research Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence)

Li, Y. T., & Song, Y.* (2020). Taiwan as Ghost Island? Ambivalent Articulation of Marginalized Identities in Computer-Mediated Discourses. Discourse & Society, 31(3), 285-306. (SSCI) (corresponding author)

Ng, Y. L., Song, Y.*, Kwon, K. H., & Huang, Y. (2019). A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Online Incivility. Telematics and Informatics, 101323. (SSCI) (corresponding author)

Schuldt, J. P., Yuan, Y. C., Song, Y., & Liu, K. (2019). Beliefs about Whose Beliefs? Second-Order Beliefs and Support for China's Coal-to-Gas Policy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 66, 101367. (SSCI)

Ku, K. Y. L., Kong, S. Q., Song, Y., Deng, L. P., Kang, Y., & Hu, A. (2019). What Predicts Adolescents' Critical Thinking about Real-life News? The Roles of Social Media News Consumption and News Media Literacy. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 33, 100570. (SSCI)

Song, Y., & Xu, R. (2019). Affective Ties That Bind: Investigating the Affordances of Social Networking Sites fo Commemoration of Traumatic Events. Social Science Computer Review, 37(3), 333-354. (SSCI)

Liu, L., Huang, X., Xu, J., & Song, Y. (2019). Oasis: Online Analytic System for Incivility Detection and Sentiment Classification. In 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 1098-1101, IEEE.

Song, Y., & Lee, C.-C. (2019). "Collective Memories" of Global Media Events: Anniversary Journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Crackdown in the Anglo-American Elite Press, 1990-2014. Journalism. 20 (11), 1460-1479. (SSCI)

Xu, Q., Yu, N., & Song, Y. (2018). User Engagement in Public Discourse on Genetically Modified Organisms: The Role of Opinion Leaders on Social Media. Science Communication, 40(6), 691-717. (SSCI)

Zeng, Y., & Song, Y. (2018). The Social Foreign Correspondent: Reconfiguring Journalistic Branding Research in the Age of Social Media, Popular Communication, 16(4), 293-308. (SSCI)

Huang, X., Jiang, J., Choi, B., Xu, J., Zhang, Z., & Song, Y. (2018). Pp-dblp: Modeling and Generating Attributed Public-private Networks with dblp. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 986-989, IEEE.

Song, Y., & Chang, T. K. (2017). Managing Impressions Online: Microblogs and the State Media's Adaptation of Online Logics in China. Journalism, 18(8), 1064-1081. (SSCI)

Song, Y., Dai, X.-Y., & Wang, J. (2016). Not All Emotions are Created Equal: Expressive Behavior of the Networked Public on China's Social Media Site. Computers in Human Behavior, 60, 525-533. (SSCI)

Hu, G. N., Dai, X. Y., Song, Y., Huang, S. J., & Chen, J. J. (2016). A Synthetic Approach for Recommendation: Combining Ratings, Social Relations, and Reviews. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1756–1762.

Song, Y., & Lee, C.-C. (2016). Perceiving Different Chinas: Paradigm Change in the "Personalized Journalism" of Elite U.S. Journalists, 1976-1989. International Journal of Communication, 10, 4460-4479. (SSCI)

Song, Y., & Lee, C.-C. (2015). The Strategic Ritual of Irony: Post-Tiananmen China as seen through "Personalized Journalism" of Elite U.S. Correspondents. Media, Culture & Society, 37(8), 1176-1192. (SSCI)

Bao, Q., Cheung, W. K., Liu, J., & Song, Y. (2015). Inferring latent co-activation patterns for information diffusion. In 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), Vol. 1, 485-492, IEEE.

Song, Y., & Chang, T. K. (2014). A New World of Spectacle in the Post-cold War Era: China's Central Television and Its Significant Other, 1992-2006. Public Relations Review, 42(3), 465-475. (SSCI)

Song, Y., & Chang, T. K. (2013). The News and Local Production of the Global: Regional Press Revisited in Post-WTO China. International Communication Gazette, 75(7), 619-635. (SSCI)

Song, Y., & Chang, T. K. (2012). Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories: Party Press Discourse on Rural Society in Transitional China (1997-2006). International Journal of Press/Politics, 17, 316-340. (SSCI)

Song, Y. (2012). Shifting Journalistic Paradigms of American Correspondents on Contemporary China: The Case of Orville Schell. Public Relations Review, 38(5), 796-798. (SSCI)

Song, Y., & Chang, T. K. (2011), Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China. Journalism Studies, 13, 356-369. (SSCI)

Selected Books:

Song, Y., Thussu, D., & Margolin, D. (Eds.) (Accepted). Checking the Fact-checkers: A Global Perspective. London: Routledge.

Huang, Y. & Song, Y. (Eds.) (2018). The Evolving Landscapes of Media and Communications in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Xiao, X., Huang, Y. H. C., & Song, Y. (Eds.) (2016). Communication & Society in Perspective. Hong Kong:
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. (in Chinese)

Song, Y., & Wang, L. (2010). Media in American Politics: Contents and Consequences, 2nd Edition (Translation).
By David Paletz. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press.

Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Networked Framing in the Age of Hybrid Media" (Role: Principal Investigator)

Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), HKSAR Policy Innovation and Coordination Office: "Building Resilience to Information Disorder in Hong Kong: An Investigation of Rumor Exposure and Dissemination in Times of Public Crisis" (Role: Principal Investigator)

General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Mapping the Status of Political Incivility in Hong Kong's Digital Space" (Role: Principal Investigator)

General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "AI Application and Privacy Concerns: Comparing Users’ Perceptions of AI Chatbots and Human Agents" (Role: Co-Investigator)

Fulbright Senior Scholar Programme, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Tracking Online Public Views of Climate Change in China and the U.S." (Role: Principal Investigator)

General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Empowering University Students to Debunk Misinformation: Effectiveness of Fact-based VS Logic-based Correction Intervention on Corrective Actions and Misconception Reduction" (Role: Co-Investigator)

Quality Education Fund (QEF), Education Bureau: "Promoting Smart and Positive News Engagement: News Literacy Education in the Digital Age" (Role: Co-Investigator)

General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Gauging Public Sentiment and Mutual Misperception through Online Discussion Forums" (Role: Principal Investigator)

Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), HKSAR Policy Innovation and Coordination Office: "Investigating Hong Kong Students' Critical News Literacy in the Age of Social Media" (Role: Co-Investigator)

General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: "Framing the Rise of China: How States, Markets, and Globalization Shape Foreign News in the U.S., French and British Press" (Role: Principal Investigator)