吴博士的研究领域包括媒体心理学、媒体效应及新媒体技术的社会影响。 他最近研究新媒体技术的心理影响与使用动机、人工智能互动及人工智能中介传播。他曾为香港大学新闻及传媒研究中心的博士后研究员，在香港浸会大学传理学院取得传理博士学位。
执教课程
传媒与传播大数据分析
传播理论
数码媒体数据挖掘与知识发现
数码媒体研究
传播研究方法
教研领域
媒体心理学
新媒体技术的社会影响
社交媒体挖掘
传播研究方法
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Ng, Y.-L. (2022). Exploring the association between use of conversational artificial intelligence and social capital: Survey evidence from Hong Kong. New Media & Society, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/
14614448221074047 - Ng, Y.-L. & Lin, Z. (2022). Exploring conversation topics in conversational artificial intelligence–based social mediated communities of practice. Computers in Human Behavior, 107326. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.chb.2022.107326 - 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. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.tele.2022.101785 - Ng, Y.-L. (2020). Uses and gratifications of and exposure to nature 2.0 and associated interdependence with nature and pro-environmental behavior. Social Science Computer Review, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439320901490
- Ng, Y.-L., Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., & Huang, Y. (2020). Toward an integrative model for online incivility research: A review and synthesis of empirical studies on the antecedents and consequences of uncivil discussions online. Telematics and Informatics, 47, 101323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2019.101323
- Ng, Y.-L. (2019). Active and passive Facebook use and associated costly off-line helping behavior. Psychological Reports, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119860262
- Ng, Y.-L. (2019). Toward an evolutionary perspective on social media use for cooperation. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000172
- Ng, Y.-L., Chan, K., Balwicki, L., Huxley, P., & Chiu, Y.L. (2019). The digital divide, social inclusion, and health among persons with mental illness in Poland. International Journal of Communication, 13, 1652-1672.
- Ng, Y.-L., Ma, F., Ho, F., Ip, P., & Fu, K.W. (2019). Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality-enhanced exercise on physical activity, psychological outcomes, and physical performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Computers in Human Behavior, 99, 278-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.026
- Luqiu, L. R., Schmierbach, M., & Ng, Y.-L. (2019). Willingness to follow opinion leaders: A case study of Chinese Weibo. Computers in Human Behavior, 101, 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.005
- Ng, Y.-L., & Zhao, X. (2018). The human alarm system for sensational news, online news headlines, and associated generic digital footprints: A uses and gratifications approach. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218793739
- Ng, Y.-L. (2016). More than social-cultural influences: A research agenda for evolutionary perspectives on prosocial media effects. Review of General Psychology, 20, 317-335. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000084
Aphorism
- “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.” (George E. P. Box)