Good news to share

The past few months have been so rewarding for me, and I am honored to receive several awards and honors.

In October, a paper I co-authored with Dr. Hsuan-Ting Chen and Dr. Lei Guo received the Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award from NCA Political Communication Division.

In September, I was awarded the East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship at Boston University! It is awarded to junior faculty members who have been recommended by their deans and colleagues as promising scholars in their fields.

In May, the Chinese Communication Association Division of the International Communication Association presented me with the award for Best Factual Paper.

Summer Updates

Publication: I have a new article, “Multimodal connectedness and communication patterns: A comparative study across Europe, the United States, and China,” online first in New Media & Society. This study investigates the relationships between social connectedness and communication patterns from seven countries across the globe. Find a preprint version here.

Teaching: In the summer, I will be teaching two courses at Boston University: a) EM777, Masters Collaboratory Project, and b) EM797, Connecting Humans: Networks, History, and Social Media.

Grant: I am honored to receive a grant from IHSIP, Boston University to study Content Moderation of Vaccination Tweets during the summer with two graduate students. More updates on this project will be shared later in the summer.

Conference: I will be presenting two papers (one sole-authored and one co-authored) at the annual conference of AEJMC in August.

Award: I consider it a great honor to be awarded the Best Faculty Paper with my colleagues (also my mentors when I was doing my PhD), Dr. Hsuan-Ting Chen (CUHK) and Dr. Lei Guo (BU), from the Chinese Communication Association of the International Communication Association this year. The awarded paper can be found here.

A New Publication

I have a new publication, Two Levels of Digitalization and Internet Use Across Europe, China, and the U.S., forthcoming in the International Journal of Communication. In this paper, my colleagues at the Peoples’ Internet Project (PIN) at the University of Copenhagen, examine both micro (individual) and macro (infrastructural) levels of digitalization and their interaction effects on use of the Internet across Europe, China, and the United States using population survey data.

A Interview

Recently, I received an interview from the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Boston University to talk about my research, when and how I first become interested in mobile communication. As my Ph.D. advisor Professor Francis Lee has said, one can enjoy doing research based on interest and curiosity. With both of them, I always have fun with whatever I have been working on.

Click the link below to see my full interview:

Interview With Dr. Chris Chao Su

More information about the Center for Mobile Communication Studies:

Center for Mobile Communication Studies