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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. I hold my Ph.D. in information studies from Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. I am also affilliated with the Web Mining Lab led by Prof. Jonathan Zhu at CityU, and a Co-PI of the Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies Limited. 
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My research converges at the intersection of information, communication, and technologies, echoing my education background, an intersection of arts and engineering. My research interests focus on the Social Media, Computational Social Sience, Health Informatics, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Currently I am also an Associate Editor of Quality & Quantity, a Q1 journal in General Social Sciences (Scopus); and member of the Editorial Review Board of Internet Research, a high impact interdisciplinary journal looking at the social, ethical, economic and political implications of the internet.

​Email: [email protected]
Google Scholar: Xiaohui "Vincent" Wang

Selective Publications

  1. Wang, X. & Song, Y. (2020). Viral misinformation and echo chambers: The diffusion of rumors about genetically modified organisms on social media. Internet Research, 30, 1547-1564. (Outstanding Paper of Internet Research in 2021)
  2. Wang, X., Shi, J., Kong, H. (2020). Online health information seeking: A review and meta-analysis. Health Communication. 
  3. Wang, X., Chen, L., Shi, J., & Peng, T-Q. (2019). What makes cancer information viral on social media? Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 149-156.
  4. Chen, L.*, Wang, X.*, & Peng, T-Q. (2018). Nature and diffusion of gynecologic cancer–related misinformation on social media: Analysis of Tweets. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20, e11515.
  5. ​Wang, X., Goh, D. H.-L. (2017). Video games acceptance: A meta-analysis of the extended technology acceptance model. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social networking, 20, 662-671.​​

Research Interests

  • Computational Social Science
  • Social Media
  • ​Consumer Health Informatics
  • Human-Computer Interaction​

Current research Projects

  1. Citation Network Analysis
  2. Human Information Behaviors
  3. Misinformation on Social Media
  4. Social Influence and Social Capital

Editorial Review Board

  • Internet Research​
  • Quality & Quantity (Associate Editor)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (Guest Associate Editor)