Faculty Profiles - SONG Celine Yunya | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Celine Yunya SONG
宋韻雅

PhD in Media and Communication
City University of Hong Kong, 2012

Associate Head and Professor
Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas

(852) 3469 3296
yunyasong@ust.hk
Room 4353
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Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Digital media
Global communication
Social media analytics
Cyberpsychology and behavior
Computational social science

Publications

All Years 20 2025 2 2024 4 2023 1 2022 1 2021 3 2020 1 2019 8

2025 2

Bridging ideologies: analyzing the use of moral language and framing in social media discourse on climate change by U.S. congress members through computational approaches

Climatic Change, v. 178, (3), March 2025, article number 56
Song, Yunya; Schuldt, Jonathon; Zhang, Yin; Wang, Ziwei; Yuan, Connie; Zou, Sheng; Li, Jun
Article

Correction Approaches and Hashtag Framing in Addressing Mpox Misinformation on Instagram

Health Education Research, v. 40, (2), March 2025, article number cyaf009
Ku, Yee Lai Kelly; Li, Jiarui; Luo, Yueming; Song, Yunya
Article

2024 4

Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data: Navigating Leadership and Followership in China’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Social Science Computer Review, June 2024
Song, Yunya; Xu, Ran; Huang, Yi-Hui Christine; Ni, Shijun; Fan, Yining
Article

Enhancing healthcare decision support through explainable AI models for risk prediction

Decision Support Systems, v. 181, June 2024, article number 114228
Niu, Shuai; Yin, Qing; Ma, Jing; Song, Yunya; Xu, Yida; Bai, Liang; Pan, Wei; Yang, Xian
Article

Unpacking the complexity of online incivility: an analysis of characteristics and impact of uncivil behavior during the Hong Kong protests

Internet Research, October 2024
Li, Baiqi; Song, Yunya; Shi, Yongren; Chen, Hsuan-Ting
Article

Women on China’s Internet: Consumption, contestation, and challenges for empowerment

Communication and the Public, v. 9, (4), December 2024, p. 392-400
Song, Yunya; Li, Jiarui; Zou, Sheng
Article

2023 1

Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science

Social Science Computer Review, v. 41, (3), June 2023, p. 946-966
Wang, Xiaohui; Song, Yunya; Su, Youzhen
Article

2022 1

Contagion of offensive speech online: An interactional analysis of political swearing

Computers in Human Behavior, v. 127, February 2022, article number 107046
Song, Yunya; Lin, Qinyun; Kwon, K. Hazel; Choy, Christine H.Y.; Xu, Ran
Article

2021 3

Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms

Public Understanding of Science, v. 30, (3), April 2021, p. 285-301
Xu, Qian; Song, Yunya; Yu, Nan; Chen, Shi
Article

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, v. 65, (14), December 2021, p. 2014-2036
Song, Yunya; Kwon, K. Hazel; Lu, Yin; Fan, Yining; Li, Baiqi
Article

A Study of Cantonese Covid-19 Fake News Detection on Social Media

Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021 / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021, p. 6052-6054
Wang, Ziwei; Zhao, Minzhu; Chen, Yu; Song, Yunya; Lan, Liang
Conference paper

2020 1

Viral misinformation and echo chambers: the diffusion of rumors about genetically modified organisms on social media

Internet Research, v. 30, (5), August 2020, p. 1547-1564
Wang, Xiaohui; Song, Yunya
Article

2019 2

‘Collective memories’ of global media events: Anniversary journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen crackdown in the Anglo-American elite press, 1990–2014

Journalism, v. 20, (11), November 2019, p. 1460-1479
Song, Yunya; Lee, Chin-Chuan
Article

Oasis: Online analytic system for incivility detection and sentiment classification

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW / IEEE Computer Society. IEEE Computer Society, 2019, p. 1098-1101, Article number: 8955503
Liu, Leyu; Huang, Xin; Xu, Jianliang; Song, Yunya
Conference paper

2018 1

The social foreign correspondent: reconfiguring journalistic branding research in the age of social media

Popular Communication, v. 16, (4), October 2018, p. 293-308
Zeng, Yuan; Song, Yunya
Article

2017 1

What can software tell us about media coverage and public opinion? An analysis of political news posts and audience comments on facebook by computerised method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Volume 10540 LNCS, September 2017, p. 230-241
Song, Yunya; Zhang, Yin
Conference paper

2015 2

Decoding the Chinese media in flux: American correspondents as an interpretive community

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media / Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma, Gary D. Rawnsley, editors. London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis, 2015, p. 446-459
Song, Yunya
Book chapter

A synthetic approach for recommendation: Combining ratings, social relations, and reviews

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-January, July 2015, p. 1756-1762
Hu, Guang-Neng; Dai, Xin-Yu; Song, Yunya; Huang, Shu-Jian; Chen, Jia-Jun
Conference paper

2012 2

Selecting daily newspapers for content analysis in China: A comparison of sampling methods and sample sizes

Journalism Studies, v. 13, (3), June 2012, p. 356-369
Song, Yunya; Chang, Tsan-Kuo
Article

Shifting journalistic paradigms of American correspondents on contemporary China: The case of Orville Schell

Public Relations Review, v. 38, (5), December 2012, p. 796-798
Song, Yunya
Article

Article 2

Bridging ideologies: analyzing the use of moral language and framing in social media discourse on climate change by U.S. congress members through computational approaches

Climatic Change, v. 178, (3), March 2025, article number 56
Song, Yunya; Schuldt, Jonathon; Zhang, Yin; Wang, Ziwei; Yuan, Connie; Zou, Sheng; Li, Jun

Correction Approaches and Hashtag Framing in Addressing Mpox Misinformation on Instagram

Health Education Research, v. 40, (2), March 2025, article number cyaf009
Ku, Yee Lai Kelly; Li, Jiarui; Luo, Yueming; Song, Yunya

Article 4

Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data: Navigating Leadership and Followership in China’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Social Science Computer Review, June 2024
Song, Yunya; Xu, Ran; Huang, Yi-Hui Christine; Ni, Shijun; Fan, Yining

Enhancing healthcare decision support through explainable AI models for risk prediction

Decision Support Systems, v. 181, June 2024, article number 114228
Niu, Shuai; Yin, Qing; Ma, Jing; Song, Yunya; Xu, Yida; Bai, Liang; Pan, Wei; Yang, Xian

Unpacking the complexity of online incivility: an analysis of characteristics and impact of uncivil behavior during the Hong Kong protests

Internet Research, October 2024
Li, Baiqi; Song, Yunya; Shi, Yongren; Chen, Hsuan-Ting

Women on China’s Internet: Consumption, contestation, and challenges for empowerment

Communication and the Public, v. 9, (4), December 2024, p. 392-400
Song, Yunya; Li, Jiarui; Zou, Sheng

Article 1

Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Computational Social Science

Social Science Computer Review, v. 41, (3), June 2023, p. 946-966
Wang, Xiaohui; Song, Yunya; Su, Youzhen

Article 1

Contagion of offensive speech online: An interactional analysis of political swearing

Computers in Human Behavior, v. 127, February 2022, article number 107046
Song, Yunya; Lin, Qinyun; Kwon, K. Hazel; Choy, Christine H.Y.; Xu, Ran

Article 2

Are you passing along something true or false? Dissemination of social media messages about genetically modified organisms

Public Understanding of Science, v. 30, (3), April 2021, p. 285-301
Xu, Qian; Song, Yunya; Yu, Nan; Chen, Shi

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, v. 65, (14), December 2021, p. 2014-2036
Song, Yunya; Kwon, K. Hazel; Lu, Yin; Fan, Yining; Li, Baiqi

Conference paper 1

A Study of Cantonese Covid-19 Fake News Detection on Social Media

Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021 / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021, p. 6052-6054
Wang, Ziwei; Zhao, Minzhu; Chen, Yu; Song, Yunya; Lan, Liang

Article 1

Viral misinformation and echo chambers: the diffusion of rumors about genetically modified organisms on social media

Internet Research, v. 30, (5), August 2020, p. 1547-1564
Wang, Xiaohui; Song, Yunya

Article 1

‘Collective memories’ of global media events: Anniversary journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen crackdown in the Anglo-American elite press, 1990–2014

Journalism, v. 20, (11), November 2019, p. 1460-1479
Song, Yunya; Lee, Chin-Chuan

Conference paper 1

Oasis: Online analytic system for incivility detection and sentiment classification

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW / IEEE Computer Society. IEEE Computer Society, 2019, p. 1098-1101, Article number: 8955503
Liu, Leyu; Huang, Xin; Xu, Jianliang; Song, Yunya

Article 1

The social foreign correspondent: reconfiguring journalistic branding research in the age of social media

Popular Communication, v. 16, (4), October 2018, p. 293-308
Zeng, Yuan; Song, Yunya

Conference paper 1

What can software tell us about media coverage and public opinion? An analysis of political news posts and audience comments on facebook by computerised method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Volume 10540 LNCS, September 2017, p. 230-241
Song, Yunya; Zhang, Yin

Book chapter 1

Decoding the Chinese media in flux: American correspondents as an interpretive community

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media / Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma, Gary D. Rawnsley, editors. London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis, 2015, p. 446-459
Song, Yunya

Conference paper 1

A synthetic approach for recommendation: Combining ratings, social relations, and reviews

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-January, July 2015, p. 1756-1762
Hu, Guang-Neng; Dai, Xin-Yu; Song, Yunya; Huang, Shu-Jian; Chen, Jia-Jun

Article 2

Selecting daily newspapers for content analysis in China: A comparison of sampling methods and sample sizes

Journalism Studies, v. 13, (3), June 2012, p. 356-369
Song, Yunya; Chang, Tsan-Kuo

Shifting journalistic paradigms of American correspondents on contemporary China: The case of Orville Schell

Public Relations Review, v. 38, (5), December 2012, p. 796-798
Song, Yunya

2019 2

‘Collective memories’ of global media events: Anniversary journalism of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen crackdown in the Anglo-American elite press, 1990–2014

Journalism, v. 20, (11), November 2019, p. 1460-1479
Song, Yunya; Lee, Chin-Chuan
Article

Oasis: Online analytic system for incivility detection and sentiment classification

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW / IEEE Computer Society. IEEE Computer Society, 2019, p. 1098-1101, Article number: 8955503
Liu, Leyu; Huang, Xin; Xu, Jianliang; Song, Yunya
Conference paper

2018 1

The social foreign correspondent: reconfiguring journalistic branding research in the age of social media

Popular Communication, v. 16, (4), October 2018, p. 293-308
Zeng, Yuan; Song, Yunya
Article

2017 1

What can software tell us about media coverage and public opinion? An analysis of political news posts and audience comments on facebook by computerised method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Volume 10540 LNCS, September 2017, p. 230-241
Song, Yunya; Zhang, Yin
Conference paper

2015 2

Decoding the Chinese media in flux: American correspondents as an interpretive community

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media / Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma, Gary D. Rawnsley, editors. London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis, 2015, p. 446-459
Song, Yunya
Book chapter

A synthetic approach for recommendation: Combining ratings, social relations, and reviews

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-January, July 2015, p. 1756-1762
Hu, Guang-Neng; Dai, Xin-Yu; Song, Yunya; Huang, Shu-Jian; Chen, Jia-Jun
Conference paper

2012 2

Selecting daily newspapers for content analysis in China: A comparison of sampling methods and sample sizes

Journalism Studies, v. 13, (3), June 2012, p. 356-369
Song, Yunya; Chang, Tsan-Kuo
Article

Shifting journalistic paradigms of American correspondents on contemporary China: The case of Orville Schell

Public Relations Review, v. 38, (5), December 2012, p. 796-798
Song, Yunya
Article

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Spring 1 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 0 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 0 2023-24 Winter 0

EMIA2200

Introduction to Digital Media

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