Rate My Professor King-wa Fu

King-wa Fu is a Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, where he serves as Director of the Bachelor of Journalism, Media and Artificial Intelligence Programme and Deputy Director of the Centre since 2016. He holds a PhD in Journalism from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong (2009), an MA in Social Sciences from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2001), an MPhil in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995), and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (1993). Before entering academia, he worked as a journalist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Fu has been a faculty member at HKU since 2009, progressing to full Professor, and holds additional roles including HKU Court Member since 2018, Convenor of the University affair sub-committee of HKU Convocation (2017–2020), and Member of the Standing Committee of HKU Convocation (2017–2020).

His research interests include China’s information governance, media and political participation, computational social sciences, health and the media, and media use by the younger generation. He is Principal Investigator of Weiboscope, WeChatscope, and ANTIELAB Research Data Archive, and Visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. Notable fellowships include Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Senior Research Scholar (2016–2017), China-US Scholar at Boston University (2021–2022), and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung since 2023. Awards encompass the Knowledge Exchange Award (Non-Faculty Unit) from HKU (2016) for Weiboscope and recognition in the top 1% citation and top 2% scientists lists. Fu contributes to editorial boards, including WHO’s Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals (2008), and serves as Adjudicator for Consumer Rights Reporting Awards (2014–now) and former Deputy Lead Judge for SOPA Awards (2014–2019). Key publications feature “Internet addiction: prevalence, discriminant validity and correlates among adolescents in Hong Kong” (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2010), “Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis” (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012), “Assessing censorship on microblogs in China: Discriminatory keyword analysis and the real-name registration policy” (IEEE Internet Computing, 2013), and “Vulnerability and resilience in children during the COVID-19 pandemic” (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022). His scholarship demonstrates substantial influence in computational social sciences and media studies.