FASS Staff Profile

DR SHANGYUAN WU
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA

Appointment:
LECTURER
Office:
AS6/03-28
Email:
shanwu@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65163010
Fax:
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmws/
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Brief Introduction

Dr Shangyuan Wu is a lecturer and media researcher at the Department of Communications and New Media, where she teaches media writing, journalism, communication management, and cultural studies. She graduated with a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she also taught and researched media and communication for ten years at the university and college levels before her return to Singapore. Dr Wu's research areas of interest are centred on journalism in the digital age, with a focus on automated, data, immersive, and online journalism. In particular, her research projects have involved investigations into the impact of social, political, economic and/or technological forces on the future of the journalism industry. She is also interested in global journalism studies, the political economy of communication, media and democracy, and comparative media analysis. She has published in the peer-reviewed journals of Journalism, Journalism Studies, Information, Communication and Society, Journalism Practice, Digital Journalism, and Global Media and Communication, among others, and currently serves as the International Engagement Editor of Digital Journalism. She has a background in journalism, having worked previously as a senior broadcast journalist and presenter at Mediacorp Radio, covering the areas of politics, defense and education. 


Teaching Areas

Media Writing, Journalism (Digital and Data Journalism), Communication Management (Public Relations), Cultural Studies


Current Research

Data Journalism

  • Shaping Data Journalism in Times of Crisis: Critical Perspectives on the Role of the State

Automated Journalism

  • When User and Designer Perspectives on Automation Clash: A Comparative Analysis of Newsworker and Technologist Views on Newsroom Automation

Immersive Journalism

  • Immersive Journalism Skills as Cultural Capital: Gaining Legitimacy in The Contemporary Newsroom 

Digital Journalism

  • Rethinking “Digital Journalism” in Contemporary Newsrooms: How a “Digital-First” Strategy Has Altered and Extended the Stages of News Production

Fake News

  • The Legitimization of “Fake News” Laws: A Study of how Policy Interventions Against Fake News May Gain Legitimacy and Acceptance 
  • Emotions and the Community Reporting of Fake News: Investigating Emotions that Drive Online Civic Intervention of Falsehoods on Social Media

News Credibility

  • Theorizing “Credibility” in Journalism and Media Research: A Systematic Review of the Changing Nature of Credibility Concerns over the Last 10 Years

News Verification and Literacy

  • The Changing Processes of News Verification: What Fact-Checking in the Newsroom Looks Like in the Age of Algorithms, Bots, and Generative AI
  • News Literacy in Theory versus Practice: A Systematic Review of the Abilities and Inabilities of Audiences in their Everyday Practice of News Literacy

Alternative Media

  • The Mainstreaming of "Alternative Media": Transformations and Limitations of a Core Concept in Digital Journalism Research
  • Defining “Alternative Media” in the Non-West: Uncovering Variations of “Alternativeness” in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East

Journalism and Emotion

  • Emotions and Perceptions of “Journalism in Crisis”: Exploring the Impact of Experiences in the Sociopolitical Context on Journalists’ Feelings of Crisis

Research Interests

- Journalism in the digital age (automated, data, immersive, online journalism)
- Global journalism studies
- Political economy of communication
- Media and democracy 
- Comparative media analysis


Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

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    Wu, S. (2023). Data Journalism and the Impact of Politics: Examining Data Stories Produced Across Different Political Systems, Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2263753. [link]

    Wu, S. (2023). What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media, Digital Journalism, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2243489. [link]

    Wu, S., Wong, P. W., Tandoc, E. C., & Salmon, C. T. (2023). Reconfiguring human-machine relations in the automation age: An actor-network analysis on automation’s takeover of the advertising media planning industry, Journal of Business Research, 168, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114234. [link]

    Wu, S. (2023). Assessing the growth of data journalism start-ups as alternative media and their roles in “flawed democracies”, Journalism, DOI: 10.1177/14648849231177830. [link]

    Wu, S. (2023). A Field Analysis of Immersive Technologies and Their Impact on Journalism: Technologist Perspectives on the Potential Transformation of the Journalistic Field, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2022.2161931. [link]

    Tandoc, E. C., Wu, S., Tan, J., Contreras-Yap, S. (2022). What is (automated) news? A content analysis of algorithm-written news articles. Media & Jornalismo, 22(41), 103-120. [link]

    Wu, S. (2022). Journalism's Immersive Shift: Uncovering Immersive Journalism's Adherence to Traditional News Values, Norms, Routines and Roles. Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2022.2133779. [link]

    Wu, S. (2022). An Asian Version of Data Journalism?: Uncovering “Asian Values” in Data Stories Produced Across Asia. Journalism, DOI: 10.1177/14648849221133298. [link]

    Wu, S. (2022). Evaluating “Exemplary Data Journalism” from Asia: An Exploration into South China Morning Post’s Data Stories on China and the World. Journalism, DOI: 10.1177/14648849221093509. [link]

    Wu, S. (2022). Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System. Journalism Studies, 23:4, 469-486, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2022.2032802. [link]

    Wu, S. (2021). Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News. Digital Journalism, 9(9), 1303-1320, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2021.1942111. [link]

    Wu, S. (2021). As Mainstream and Alternative Media Converge?: Critical Perspectives from Asia on Online Media Development. Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1976072. [link]

    Tandoc, E., Lim, J. Y., and Wu, S. (2020). Man vs machine? The impact of algorithm authorship on news credibility. Digital Journalism, 8(4), 548-562, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2020.1762102. [link]

    Wu, S. (2020). When new media operates within a state-mediated press system: Assessing new media’s impact on journalism crisis perceptions in Singapore and Hong Kong. Information, Communication & Society, 23(4), 572-587, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1521458. [link]

    Wu, S., Tandoc, E., & Salmon, C. (2019). A field analysis of journalism in the automation age: Understanding journalistic transformations and struggles through structure and agency. Digital Journalism, 7(4), 428-446, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2019.1620112. [link]

    Wu, S., Tandoc, E., & Salmon, C. (2019). When journalism and automation intersect: Assessing the influence of the technological field on contemporary newsrooms. Journalism Practice, 13(10), 1238-1254, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2019.1585198. [link]

    Wu, S., Tandoc, E., & Salmon, C. (2018). Journalism reconfigured: Assessing human-machine relations and the autonomous power of automation in news production. Journalism Studies, 20(10), 1440-1457, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2018.1521299. [link]

    Wu, S. (2018). Uncovering alternative ‘journalism crisis’ narratives in Singapore and Hong Kong: When state influences interact with Western liberal ideals in a changing media landscape. Journalism, 19(9-10), 1291-1307, DOI: 10.1177/1464884917753786. [link]

    Wu, S. (2015). Development lessons from China: A political-economic perspective on how neopatrimonial states may achieve high economic growth. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 36(3), 283-295, DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2015.1026313. [link]

    Wu, S. (2013). Assessing the potential of Channel NewsAsia as the next “Al Jazeera”: A comparative discourse analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC. Global Media and Communication, 9(2), 83-99, DOI: 10.1177/1742766513478137. [link]
     

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