Congratulations to Chris Su (COM) on winning the new East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship
In her announcement to the BU community on Sept. 20, 2021, Provost Jean Morrison announced the new 2021-2022 Career Development Professorship Awardees. We are delighted that Christopher Chao Su (Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication) has been awarded the East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship.
The East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship, supported by a BU alumnus based in Taiwan, recognizes assistant professors in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Pardee School of Global Studies, the College of Communication, the College of Fine Arts, and the Questrom School of Business whose research is specific to East Asia, particularly China and Taiwan. Details about this professorship, established in 2015, can be found at https://www.bu.edu/asian/2015/01/31/news-inaugural-east-asia-studies-career-development-professorship-awardees/
This is one of a number of career development professorships established by the university recognize talented junior faculty who are emerging as future leaders within their respective fields.
About Chris Chao Su
Chris Su uses computational methods to explore and compare how media audiences take shape in an increasingly fragmented digital media environment, particularly within the context of China, Hong Kong, and the Greater China region, including Taiwan and Macau. Here’s some background about Chris, from his COM profile page https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/chris-chao-su/
Chris Chao Su holds a PhD in Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his MA in Educational Communication Technology from New York University and his BA in Journalism from Wuhan University with a minor in Computer Science. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Su had been a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Peoples’ Internet project in the Department of Communication at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
His research focuses on media audiences online, social media analytics, and mobile media use and consumption. Broadly speaking, his research explores how media audiences take shape in an increasingly fragmented digital media environment using computational methods. His work draws upon social network analysis and media sociology and typically involves the analysis of data from audience measurement services. Specifically, his approach to measuring digital media use relies on passively measured behavioral data for a more accurate picture of media consumption and includes an expansive range of media products to construct a holistic account of the digital media environment. His previous work also examines the diverse effects of media affordance, with respect to the relationship between social media use and political behaviors.
Dr. Su’s work has been published in outlets including Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, New Media & Society, Computers in Human Behavior, and International Journal of Communication.
He believes in the power of empirical investigation, interpretive approach, and comparative perspective in data exploration.
Education
- PhD, Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;
- MA, Educational Communication Technology, New York University;
- BA, Journalism with a minor in Computer Science, Wuhan University