Chris C. Su — CV
Education
PhD, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018
MA, Educational Communication and Technology, New York University, 2014
BA, Journalism and Minor in Computer Science, Wuhan University, 2012
Academic Positions
2021-present, Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies Division, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication, Boston University; Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences (secondary appointment)
2018-2021, Postdoc, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
2016-2017, Visiting Scholar, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
2015-2018, Teaching Assistant, CUHK
2014-2018, Research Assistant, CUHK
2012-2014, Research Assistant, NYU
Fellowships and Affiliations
Affiliate Faculty (secondary appointment), Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University, 2022-present
Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University, 2021-present
East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship, 2022-2025
CISS Affiliate Faculty
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
Awards and Honors
2025 Best Faculty Paper, Mass Communication and Society Division, AEJMC — for Amazeen, Krishna and Su, Apprehensive or Motivational Threat? Examining the Effects of Inoculation, Threat Generation, Counterarguing, and Information Processing on Disinformation Belief.
2025 Top Faculty Paper, Communication Law and Policy Division, ICA — for Su and Chan, Assembling Platform Governance as Private Ordering in the Age of Generative AI.
2024 Best Faculty Paper (1st place), International Communication Division, AEJMC
2024 Top Poster Award (1st place), Environmental Communication Division, ICA — for Song, Su, Lu and Huang, Understanding Underlying Moral Values and Language Use of Climate Change Attitudes on X and Weibo.
2023 Top Faculty Paper (2nd place), Political Communication Division, AEJMC
2023 Top Faculty Paper, Public Relations Division, ICA — for Ji, Su, Krishna, Huang, Cummings and Vasquez, Building cross-sector alliances during COVID-19: A network approach.
2021 Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award, Political Communication Division, NCA — for Chen, Guo and Su (2020), Journal of Communication.
2021 Top Faculty Paper, Chinese Communication Association, ICA.
2021 Summer Research Project Award, IHSIP, Boston University.
2017 Top Student Paper (1st place), Communication Technology Division, AEJMC
2017 Reaching Out Award, CUHK
2016 Graduate Research Award, C-Centre, CUHK
2016 Outstanding Teaching Award, CUHK
2016 Lion Dr Francis K Pan Scholarship, CUHK
2015-2017 Representative of Graduate Students, CUHK
2014-2018 Postgraduate Full Scholarship, CUHK
Service (selected)
2023 Committee member, Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award, Political Communication Division, NCA
2023-present Faculty-in-Residence, Boston University (Upper Bay State Road Neighborhood)
Editorial Service
2025-present Editorial Board, Digital Journalism
2022-present Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Communication
2022-2024 Editorial Board, Computers in Human Behavior
Funding
2026-2027 PI, Mass Mutual — Platform Governance and AI Privacy
2024-2025 PI, BU AI Research Resource Program — Analyzing Global Election Discourse
2024-2025 Co-PI, BU College of Communication Faculty Research Seed Grant — Learning information with generative AI
2023-2024 PI, Hariri Institute — Generative AI literacy
2022-2025 PI, Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences — Media repertoires online and the emergent patterns of digital divide
2021-2024 PI, East Asia Career Development Professorship
2022-2023 Co-Investigator, Rita Allen Foundation — Fact-checking on science misinformation (PI Michelle Amazeen)
COM Misinformation grant — Media Repertoire and Platform Governance
Denmark project To Use or Not to Use? (PI Jun Liu) — External Co-Principal Investigator
People's Internet project, University of Copenhagen — Postdoc
NSF BIGDATA — Co-Investigator
Teaching
EM757 User-Producers 2.0: Developing Interactivity
CM321 Communication Research Methods
EM847 Time, Place and Social Data
Selected Publications
Platform governance
Su, C. C., and Chan, N. K. (2025). Assembling Platform Governance as Private Ordering in the Age of Generative AI. Information, Communication and Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2025.2513672.
Chan, N. K., Su, C. C., and Shore, A. (2023). Shifting platform values in community guidelines: Examining the evolution of TikTok's governance frameworks. New Media and Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448231189476.
Ingber, A. S., and Su, C. C. (2025). Protecting children of the TikTok era: A discourse analysis in the absence of Law. Policy and Internet. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.431.
Mao, T. C., Su, C. C., Chan, N. K., and Guo, L. (2025). Communicating about and through Platform Values: Legitimizing Public Expression Regulation on X and Weibo 2007-2024. Social Media and Society.
Chan, N. K., and Su, C. C. (2026). Imagining and Enacting Futures: The Anticipatory Politics of Algorithmic Governance. Sociology Compass.
Misinformation
Amazeen, M. A., Krishna, A., and Su, C. C. (2026). Apprehensive or Motivational Threat? Examining the Effects of Inoculation, Threat Generation, Counterarguing, and Information Processing on Disinformation Belief. Science Communication.
Amazeen, M. A., Vasquez, R. A., Krishna, A., Ji, Y. G., Su, C. C., and Cummings, J. J. (2024). Missing voices: examining how misinformation-susceptible individuals from underrepresented communities engage, perceive, and combat science misinformation. Science Communication, 46(1), 3-35.
Krishna, A., Cummings, J. J., Ji, Y. G., Su, C. C., Vasquez, R. A., and Amazeen, M. A. (2024). Predicting Health Misperceptions: The Role of eHealth Literacy and Situational Perceptions. Health Communication.
Networked movements and comparative use
Chen, H. T., Guo, L., and Su, C. C. (2020). Network agenda setting, partisan selective exposure, and opinion repertoire. Journal of Communication, 70(1), 35-59.
Su, C. C., Liu, J., and Zhou, B. (2020). Comparative media studies in the digital age: Two levels of digitalization and internet use across Europe, China, and the US. International Journal of Communication, 14.
Su, C. C., Zhou, B., and Liu, J. (2021). Multimodal connectedness and communication patterns: A comparative study across Europe, the United States, and China. New Media and Society, 23(7), 1773-1797.
Su, C. C., Chan, M., and Paik, S. (2022). Telegram and the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong. Chinese Journal of Communication, 15(3), 431-448.
Su, C. C., and Liu, J. (2025). Digital nationalistic activism in comparative perspective: Trump blaming China in social media in the U.S. and China. Nations and Nationalism.
Su, C. C. (2019). Circulating mobile apps in Greater China: Examining the cross-regional degree in App markets. International Journal of Communication, 13, 2355-2375.
Song, Y., Su, C. C., Lu, Y., Huang, Q., and Schuldt, J. P. (2025). How do moral values relate to climate change attitudes? An analysis of language use on X (formerly Twitter) and Weibo. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102736.
Book chapters and tools
Su et al. (2025). Selective Citations in Fact-Checking, in Checking the Fact-Checkers (Routledge), pp. 154-170.
Zhou, Su, Vittadini and Jensen (2022), in Comparing Communication Systems (Routledge).
OpenFraming tool.
Platform Policy Watch tool, demo ICA 2024.
LabelGenius (2026).