DR TANG KIN YAT GARY

首頁學術人員DR TANG KIN YAT GARY
  • BSSc (CUHK)
  • MPhil (CUHK)
  • PhD (CUHK)

Associate Professor, Department of Social Science
Associate Director, Centre for Public Policy Research

Tel : (852) 3963 5446
Email : garytang@hsu.edu.hk
HSUHK Scholar: Kin Yat Gary Tang – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

ORCID: 0000-0002-5274-9879

Gary Tang obtained PhD of communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include political communication, and social media.

Research Interests

Political Communication; Social Media

Courses Taught

  • ASI2000 Social Science Research Methods
  • PPE1005 Public Administration in the Global Perspective
  • GEN1013 Technology and Society
  • PRG6301 Political Communication in Public Policy

Grants

  • 2024-2025 (2 years). Principal Investigator. An Exploration of Civic Resilience of Hong Kong’s Citizens and Society in Times of Political Change. Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/FDS14/H15/23). Award: HK$1,000,002.
  • 2022-2024 (3 years). Principal Investigator. What is the Role of Internet Memes in Political Discussion? Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/FDS14/H12/21). Award: HK$1,060,975
  • 2021-2022 (2 years). Principal Investigator. The Impact of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement on Conception of Citizenship in Hong Kong. Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/FDS14/H07/20). Award: HK$830,078
  • 2020-2021 (2 years). Principal Investigator. How Does Use of Social Media Affect Public Trust in Police. Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/FDS14/H11/19). Award: HK$603,068
  • 2020 (6 months). Principal Investigator. Examining ‘Mutual Destruction’ Discourse in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (SR2020.B12.002). Award: HK$346,725.

Awards

  • Top Paper Award, Political Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference 2023. [Dennis Leung and Gary Tang, “Press – Police Relations after Critical Event:  Media Representations of Police Misconduct in Post-Social Movement Hong Kong”.]
  • Social Movement Studies Journal’s 2022 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize – Honorable Mentioning. [Samson Yuen and Gary Tang, “Instagram and Social Capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement”.]
  • Top Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference 2013. [Gary Tang and Francis L. F. Lee, “Facebook Use and Political Participation: The Impact of Exposure to Shared Political Information, Connections with Opinion Leaders, and Network Heterogeneity”.]

Publications

Selected Journal Articles

  • Lee, F. L. F., Yuen, S., & Tang, G. (2024). Adaptation and resilience: How pro-democracy protesters respond to autocratisation in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary Asia (online first). (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2424173
  • Tang, G., & Tse, H. (2024). Exploring the formation of choice-based citizenship: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong natives vis-à-vis Chinese immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online first). (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2399634
  • Chan, C. K., Lee, F. L. F, & Tang, G. (2024). News innovation under rapid political change: Influence of state-society relations, organizational culture, and critical events. Journalism Practice (online first). (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2370478
  • Tang, G., Leung, D. K. K. (2024). Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: Examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 34(10), 1074-90 (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2363922
  • Lee, F. L. F., Tang, G., & Chan, C. K. (2023). Media self-censorship in a self-censoring society: Transformation of journalist-source relationships in Hong Kong. Journalism Studies 24(12), 1539-1556. (SSCI) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2230308
  • Tang, G. (2023). The intervention of the Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the norms of citizenship in Hong Kong. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58(1), 26-45. (SSCI). https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221124932
  • Tang, G., & Chung, H. F. (2022). Radicalisation, exhaustion, and networked movement in abeyance: Hong Kong university students’ localist identification after the Umbrella Movement. China Perspectives, 2022(2), 51-63. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.13749
  • Tang, G., Lee, F. L. F., & Tsang, C. K. (2022). The construction of investor-subjects in a housing-led growth society: The case of Hong Kong. The Social Science Journal (online first). (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2022.2066879
  • Cheng, E. W., Lee, F. L. F., Yuen, S., & Tang, G. (2022). Total mobilization from below: Hong Kong’s Freedom Summer. The China Quarterly, 251, 629-659. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022000236
  • Yuen, S., Tang, G., Lee, F. L. F., & Cheng, E. W. (2022). Surveying spontaneous mass protests: Mixed-mode sampling and field methods. Sociological Methodology, 52(1), 75-102. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750211071130
  • Lee, F. L. F., Cheng, E. W., Liang, H., Tang, G., & Yuen, S. (2022). Dynamics of tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 52(3), 429-451. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2021.1910330
  • Lee, F. L. F., Liang, H., Cheng, E. W., Tang, G., & Yuen, S. (2022). Affordances, movement dynamics, and a centralized digital communication platform in a networked movement. Information, Communication & Society, 25(12), 1699-1716. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1877772
  • Yuen, S., & Tang, G. (2021). Instagram and social capital: Youth activism in a networked movement. Social Movement Studies (online first). (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.2011189

Selected Book Chapters

  • Tang, G., Fung, A. Y. H., Chiu, S. W. K., & Leung, W. (2021). Emigration and “re-emigration”: Comparing intention and motivations of emigration between the youths born in Hong Kong and Mainland China (移民與「再移民」：比較香港與內地出生青年人的移民動機及考慮因素). In S. K. Cheung, G. Tang and C. K, Tsang (Eds.), Hong Kong, fabric, mutation (香港．格局．變異) (pp. 3-22). Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing Ltd.
  • Lee, F. L. F., & Tang, G. (2019). Perceived outcomes and willingness to retreat among the Umbrella Movement participants. In N. Ma and E. W. Cheng (Eds.), The Umbrella Movement: Civil resistance and contentious spaced in Hong Kong (pp. 101-124). University of Amsterdam Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552542-007
  • Tang, G. (2019). Public opinion (民意). In S. Chu (Ed.), Hong Kong keywords (香港關鍵詞) (pp. 257-264). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
  • Tang, G. (2018). Social media and social mobilization. In T. L. Lui, S. W. K. Chiu, & R. Yep (Eds.), Routledge handbook of contemporary Hong Kong (pp. 185-198). London: Routledge.
  • Tang, G. (2018). Who can mobilize for a protest? Television and new media (誰動員群眾？電視機與新媒體). In E. W. Cheng & S. Yuen (Eds.), An epoch of social movements: The trajectory of contentious politics in Hong Kong (社運年代：香港政治抗爭的軌跡) (pp. 177-188). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
  • Fung, A. Y. H., & Tang, G. (2017). Youth and social change in the Post-1997 Hong Kong. (九七後香港青年與社會變遷). In S. W. K. Chiu & F. M. C. Cheung (Eds.), The 20th year of the HKSAR (香港特區二十年) (pp. 487-499). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
  • Lee, F. L. F., & Tang, G. (2014). Economic development, political change, and post-material turn of Hong Kong youth. (經濟發展，政治轉變，和香港青年人的後物質轉向). In S. K. Cheung, K. C. Leung & K. M. Chan (Eds.), Hong Kong, city, imagination (香港．城市．想像) (pp. 243-252). Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing Ltd.
  • Tang, G., & Shen, S. (2013). Media and the Internet. In C. Ogden (Ed.), Routledge handbook of China’s governance and domestic politics (pp. 243-252). New York: Routledge.
  • Ma, K. W., Ng, C. H., & Tang, G. (2013). The coming of the era of tribalization of Hong Kong popular culture (迎接香港普及文化的部落時代). In S. K. Cheung, K. C. Leung & K. M. Chan (Eds.), Hong Kong, discourse, media (香港．論述．傳媒) (pp. 39-56). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

Books and Monographs

  • Chan, C. K., Tang, G., & Lee, F. L. F. (2022). Hong Kong media: Interaction between media, state and civil society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1820-9
  • Cheung, S. K., Tang, G., & Tsang, C. K. (Eds.) (2021). Hong Kong, fabric, mutation (香港．格局．變異). Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing Ltd.

Other Publications

  • Tang, G., & Kwok, B. (2022). Does the design of pictorial warnings matter? A report on the effectiveness of pictorial warnings on cigarette package. Hong Kong: Centre for Public Policy Research, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong; Information Design Lab, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Hung, E. P. W., Tang, G., & Au-Yeung, C. H. K. (2019). The situation of women in the business sector 2019: Research report (2019年工商界婦女在社會及家庭角色：專題研究報告). Hong Kong: The Chinese Manufacturer’s Association of Hong Kong.
  • Tang, G. and Yuen, R. (2015). Social Innovation in the District Council: Research Report (香港區議會社會創新指標研究計劃：研究報告). Hong Kong: Roundtable Community.
  • Tang, G. (2014). Online media: The growing arena of public opinion in Hong Kong. Asian Politics & Policy, 6(1), 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12093