About Ruomeng

Ruomeng is an M.Phil. student at Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. King-wa Fu. He obtained B.A. at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2024, advised by Prof. Fen Xiang, Institue of Journalism and Communication, CASS. Ruomeng also studied at University of California, Davis in 2022 fall.

Ruomeng’s research interests include political communication, media cognition and computational social science. Today’s media environment, with high-choice and uncertainty as characteristics, encourage the media scholars to advance the understanding of decision-making, on both micro and macro level.

From a simple love for news to practical experiences and academic reflections on media during undergraduate years, he have always sought to connect intellectual inquiry with real-life encounters. During high school, Ruomeng developed a fondness for reading magazines like Vista and Lifeweek, which deepened his interest in print media. At his early time, Ruomeng developed a passion for non-fiction and long investigative reports. Chinese journalists Chai Jing and Li Haipeng were his favorite feature reporters.

Research

I use quantitative and computational methods in my research, which aims to understanding:

• how people make decisions on media selection?
• how a technology-shaped environment functions, where the environment is regarded as a market-based situation: demand, supply and currency (“attention”)
• how political power is engaged in the “mediatization” process (e.g. by social curation and circulation) and its unexpected consequence.