Links directly to publisher’s websites. Full pre-press versions of journal papers can be downloaded from my ResearchGate page.
Matthes, J., Hodzic, S., Stevic, A., Nanz, A., Binder, A., Chan, M., & Bojić, L. (in press). “There Are Risks, but I Will Use it Anyway”. Predicting the Urge to Regulate and the Intended Use of Generative AI Among Youth in Four Countries. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.
Chan, M., (in press). Examining the Antecedents of Generative AI Chatbot Use for Fact-Checking of News Online. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. [Link]
Chan, M., Vaccari, C., & Yamamoto, M. (2026). Cognitive drivers of misinformation belief and sharing on social media: A cross-national comparison. Mass Communication and Society, 29, 142-160. [Link]
Chan, M., Matthes, J., & Bojić, L. (2026). Examining perceived generative AI valence on social media and its implications on generative AI attitudes and uses among young adults. A cross-national comparison. Online Media and Global Communication. [Link]
Chan, M., Yi, J., Vaccari, C., & Yamamoto, M. (2025). A Cross-national examination of the effects of accuracy nudges and content veracity labels on belief in and sharing of misleading news. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 30, zmaf009. [Link]
Li, X., & Chan, M. (2025). Is availability pressure always detrimental? From availability pressure to relationship satisfaction through compulsive checking of smartphone and need satisfaction. Behaviour & Information Technology, 44, 1681-1694. [Link]
Chan, M., Kuznetsov, D., Yi, J., Lee, F., & Chen, H.-T. (2025). Distributed discovery of news and perceived misinformation exposure: A cross-continent application of the resilience to online disinformation framework. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 30, 277-298. [Link]
Munzir, A. A., Neureiter, A., Matthes. J, Chan, M., & Bojic, L. (2025). From sparks to action: the role of political influencers for young adults’ political efficacy and political participation in Austria, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Serbia. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. [Link]
Lee, F. L. F., Chan, M., & Chen, H.-T. (2025). Paying for online news as political consumption in Hong Kong. Digital Journalism, 13, 1195-212. [Link]
Chan, M., & Yi, J. (2024). Social media use and political engagement in polarized times. Examining the contextual roles of issue and affective polarization in developed democracies. Political Communication, 41, 743-762. [Link]
Chan, M., & Yi, J. (2024). Examining how public service media shapes citizens’ news media attitudes and news avoidance: A cross-national comparative analysis. International Journal of Communication, 18, 1-21. [Link]
Chan, M. (2024). News literacy, fake news recognition, and authentication behaviors after exposure to fake news on social media. New Media & Society, 26, 4669–4688. [Link]
Chan, M., Vaccari, C., & Yamamoto, M. (2024). Examining the relationship between dispositional news literacy and discernment of real and misleading news: Cross-national evidence. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36, [Link]
Chan, M., Lee, F. L. F., & Chen, H.-T. (2024). Avoid or authenticate? A multilevel cross-country analysis of the roles of fake news concern and news fatigue on news avoidance and authentication. Digital Journalism, 12, 356-375. [Link]
Chan, M., Yi, J., & Kuznetsov, D. (2024). Government digital repression and political engagement: A cross-national multilevel analysis examining the roles of online surveillance and censorship. International Journal of Press/Politics, 29, 371-393. [Link]
Chan, M. (2024). Virtual Theme Collection: Verification Behaviors and Countermeasures in the Age of Misinformation. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101, 13-19. [Link]
Chan, M., Lee, F. L. F., & Chen, H. T. (2024). Examining the roles of social media use and connections to public actors on democratic engagement: An analysis of young adults in three Asian societies. New Media & Society, 26, 53-70. [Link]
Wu-Ouyang, B., & Chan, M. (2023). Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method. Mobile Media & Communication, 11, 415-434. [Link]
Chan, M. (2023). Observations on mobile communication and well-being research. Mobile Media & Communication, 11, 101–106. [Link]
Li, X., & Chan, M. (2022). Smartphone uses and emotional and psychological well-being in China: The attenuating role of perceived information overload. Behaviour & Information Technology, 47, 2427–2437. [Link]
Su, C.C., Chan, M., & Paik, S. (2022). Telegram and the Anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong: Reshaping networked social movements through symbolic participation and spontaneous interaction. Chinese Journal of Communication, 15, 431-448 [Link]
Mak, M. K. F., Chan, M., Lee, F. L. F., & Chen, H.-T. (2022). The mediating role of social recommendation in the relationship between concern over expression and social media news participation: A comparative study of six Asian societies. Asian Journal of Communication, 32, 271–289. [Link]
Chan, M., Hu, P., Mak, K. F. (2022). Mediation analysis and warranted inferences in media and communication research. Examining research design in communication journals from 1996 to 2017. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 99, 463-486. [Link]
Chen, H. T., Kim, Y., & Chan, M. (2022). Just a glance, or more? Pathways from counter-attitudinal incidental exposure to attitude (de)polarization through response behaviors and cognitive elaboration. Journal of Communication, 72, 83-110. [Link]
Chan, M., Yi, J., Hu, P., & Kuznetsov, D. (2021). The Politics of Contextualization in Communication Research: Examining the Discursive Strategies of Non-US Research in JCR Journals From 2000 to 2020. International Journal of Communication, 15, 5272–5294. [Link]
Chan, M., Chen, H. T., & Lee, F. L. F. (2021). Cross-cutting discussion on social media and online political participation: A cross-national examination of information seeking and social accountability explanations. Social Media & Society, 7, 1-13. [Link]
Chan, M., Lee, F. L. F., & Chen, H. T. (2021). Examining the roles of multi-platform social media news use, engagement, and connections with news organizations and journalists on news literacy: A comparison of seven democracies. Digital Journalism, 9, 571-588. [Link]
Lee, F. L. F., Chan, M., & Chen, H. T. (2020). Social Media and Protest Attitudes during Movement Abeyance: A Study of Hong Kong University Students. International Journal of Communication, 14, 4932-4951. [Link]
Chan, M., & Li, X. (2020). Smartphones and psychological well-being in China: Examining direct and indirect relationships through social support and relationship satisfaction. Telematics and Informatics, 54, 1-11. [Link]
Chan, M. (2020). Partisan selective exposure and the perceived effectiveness of contentious political actions in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Communication, 30, 279–296. [Link]
Chan, M. (2019). The practicalities of a contextual approach in comparative political communication research. Political Communication, 36, 666-670. [Link]
Chan, M., Chen, H. T., & Lee, F. L. F. (2019). Examining the role of political network and efficacy on social media news engagement: A comparative study of six Asian countries. International Journal of Press/Politics, 24, 127-145. [Link]
Lee, F. L. F., Chan, M., Chen, H. T., Nielsen, R., & Fletcher, R. (2019). Consumptive News Feed Curation on Social Media as Proactive Personalization: A Study of Six East Asian Markets. Journalism Studies, 20, 2277-2292. [Link]
Chan, M. (2018). Networked counterpublics and discursive contestation in the agonistic public sphere: Political jamming a police force Facebook Page. Asian Journal of Communication, 28, 561-578. [Link]
Chan, M. (2018). Mobile-mediated multimodal communications, relationship quality and subjective well-being: An analysis of smartphone use from a life course perspective. Computers in Human Behavior, 87, 254-262. [Link]
Chan, M. (2018). Digital communications and well-being across the life span: Examining the intervening roles of social capital and civic engagement. Telematics and Informatics, 35, 1744-1754 [Link]
Chan, M. (2018). Partisan strength and social media use among voters during the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election: Examining the roles of ambivalence and disagreement, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 95, 343-362. [Link]
Chan, M. (2018). Reluctance to talk about politics in face-to-face and Facebook settings: Examining the impact of fear of isolation, willingness to self-censor, and peer network characteristics, Mass Communication & Society, 21, 1-23. [Link]
Lee, P. S. N., So, C. Y., Lee, F. L. F., Leung, L., & Chan, M. (2018). Social media and political partisanship – A subaltern public sphere’s role in democracy. Telematics and Informatics, 35, 1949-1957.[Link]
Chan, M. (2017). Media use and the Social Identity Model of Collective Action: Examining the roles of online alternative news and social media news, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 94, 663-681. [Link]
Chan, M. (2017). Social identity and the linguistic intergroup bias: Exploring the role of ethnic identification in the context of intergroup relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 36, 473-483. [Link]
Chan, M., Chen, H. T., & Lee, F. L. F. (2017). Examining the roles of mobile and social media in political participation: A cross-national analysis of three Asian societies using a communication mediation approach. New Media & Society, 19, 2003-2021. [Link]
Lee, P. S. N., So, C. Y., Leung, L., Lee, F. L. F., & Chan, M. (2017). The Struggle for Hegemony – The Emergence of a Counter-public Sphere in Post-1997 Hong Kong. Chinese Journal of Communication, 10, 338-359. [Link]
Chen, Z. & Chan, M. (2017). Social media use and impact on political participation in China: A cognitive and communication mediation approach. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20, 83-90. [Link]
Lee, F. L. F., Lee, P. S. N., So, C. Y., Leung, L., & Chan, M. (2017). Conditional impact of Facebook as an information source on political opinions: the case of political reform in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Political Science, 25, 365-382. [Link]
Li, X., & Chan, M. (2017). Comparing social media use, discussion, political trust, and political engagement among university students in China and Hong Kong: An application of the O-S-R-O-R model. Asian Journal of Communication, 27, 65-81. [Link]
Lee, F. L. F., Chen, H.T., & Chan, M. (2017). Social media use and university students’ participation in a large-scale protest campaign: The case of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Telematics and Informatics, 34, 457-469. [Link]
Chen, H. T., Chan, M. & Lee, F. L. F. (2016). Social media use and democratic engagement: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 9, 348–366. [Link]
Chan, M. (2016). Social network sites and political engagement: Exploring the impact of Facebook connections and uses on political protest and participation, Mass Communication & Society, 9, 430-451. [Link]
Chan, M. (2016). Psychological antecedents and motivational models of collective action. Examining the role of perceived effectiveness in political protest participation, Social Movement Studies, 15, 305-321.[Link]
Chan, M. (2015). Examining the influences of news use patterns, motivations, and age cohort on mobile news use: The case of Hong Kong, Mobile Media & Communication, 3, 179-195 . [Link]
Chan, M. (2015). Multimodal connectedness and quality of life: Examining the impact of communication technologies on subjective well-being across the life span, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20, 3–18. [Link]
Chan, M. (2015). Mobile phones and the good life: Examining the relationships among mobile use, social capital and subjective well-being. New Media & Society, 17, 96-113. [Link]
Chan, M. (2014). Social identity gratifications of social network sites and impact on collective action participation, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17, 229-235. [Link]
Chan, M., & Lee, F. L. F. (2014). Selective exposure and agenda-setting: Exploring the impact of partisan media exposure on agenda diversity and political participation, Asian Journal of Communication, 24, 301-314. [Link]
Chan, M. (2014). Exploring the contingent effects of political efficacy and partisan strength on the relationship between online news use and democratic engagement, International Journal of Communication, 8, 1195-1215. [Link]
Chan, M. (2014). (Re)categorizing intergroup relations and social identities through news discourse: The case of the China Daily’s reporting on regional conflict. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33, 146-166. [Link]
Chan, M., & Guo, J. (2013). The role of political efficacy on the relationship between Facebook use and participatory behaviors. A comparative study of young American and Chinese adults. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16, 460-463. [Link]
Chan, M. (2012). The discursive reproduction of national identities and ideologies in the Chinese and Japanese English-language press. Discourse & Communication, 6, 361-378. [Link]
Chan, M. (2012). Social identity dynamics and emotional labour: The multiple roles of the tuina masseuse in the Shenzhen spa. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, 519-534. [Link]
Chan, M., Wu, X., Hao, Y., Xi, R., & Jin, T. (2012). Microblogging, online expression and political efficacy among young Chinese citizens. The moderating role of information and entertainment needs in the use of Weibo. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15, 345-349. [Link]
Chan, M. (2011). Shyness, sociability, and the role of media synchronicity in the use of computer-mediated communication for interpersonal communication, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 14, 84-90. [Link]
Chan, M. (2010). The impact of e-mail on collective action: A field application of the SIDE Model. New Media & Society, 12, 1313-1330. [Link]