My name is Ruomeng Liu (How to pronounce: “RWO-mung Lee-YOU”). I am currently an M.Phil. candidate at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where I am affiliated with Journalism & Media Studies Centre (JMSC) , Faculty of Social Sciences, supervised by Prof. King-wa Fu.

I received bachelor’s degree at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, advised by Prof. Fen Xiang.

Research

My research focuses on political communication, information systems, and media cognition in digital media contexts. I use computational and experimental methods to understand how attention, knowledge, decisions, and communication are affected by high-choice media envrionments, and its political consequences.

Methodologically, I’m interested in designing and improving computational methods, especially around measurement problems and model/analytical considerations in causal inference. I’m particularly drawn to questions about the commensurability of different research designs and what each can and cannot tell us.

I am particularly open and passionate about interdisciplinary theory and methodology, including decision science, behavioral economics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, cultural sociology, and social physics.

Some questions I am currently working on:

How to formalize people’s choice behavior on media/information?
The “Political Economy” of an identity-driven information ecosystem, where the environment is regarded as a market-based situation: demand, supply and currency (“attention”)
How contentious politics is engaged with the “mediatization” process, and its connection with knowledge production?

Keywords: polarization, （mis）perception, common sense, identity, and causality.

Teaching

HKU

JMSC6116/2032/MSDA7105: Media Data Analysis/Digital Media Analytics - Teaching Assistant, JMSC

CCGL9011: Media in the Age of Globalization - Teaching Assistant & Tutor for Undergraduate Tutorial, Common Core