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Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information

31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718
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   Faculty Profile
Alton Chua
Angela Ka Ying Mak
Ang Peng Hwa
Augustine Pang
Arul Indrasen Chib
Benjamin Detenber
Bradley Freeman
Brenda Chan
Brendan Luyt
Chang Yun-Ke
Cherian George
Duffy Andrew Michael
Eddie Kuo
Fernando De La Cruz Paragas
Foo Shou Boon, Schubert
Foo Tee Tuan
Goh Hoe Lian, Dion
Hao Xiaoming
Javed Nazir
Jung Younbo
Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher
Lee Chei Sian
Lee Chu Keong
Lee Chun Wah
Lin Tsui-Chuan, Trisha
Margaret Tan
Mark Cenite
Marko Skoric
May O. Lwin
Na Jin Cheon
Nikki Draper
Paul Wu Horng Jyh
Ravi S. Sharma
Shaheen Majid
Shyam Tekwani
Shirley Ho
Stephen Teo
Theng Yin Leng
Vivian Chen
Wayne Fu
Xu Xiaoge
Yeoh Kok Cheow
 
 
  Associate Professor Wayne Fu
   
Associate Professor
Division of Communication Research
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718
Office: Room 03-14, SCI
Phone: (65) 6790 4107
Fax: (65) 6790 4329
 
  Qualifications
PhD (Northwestern)
MA (Northwestern)
BS (National Central)
   
 
   Research, Teaching and Professional Experience
Prior to joining the School in 2001, Dr Fu taught at Northwestern University in the US and National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. His research and teaching center on the economics of media, information, and telecommunications markets and industries.
Dr Fu has received various international awards including several top papers in major peer-reviewed international conferences. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Media Economics (U.S.A) and the International Journal on Media Management (U.S.A) and serves as a fellow for the East-West Center of USA and the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore.
Dr Fu has consulted for media and telecom companies and regulatory authorities in Singapore, China, the US, and Taiwan, including Singapore Media Development Authority and China Central Television (CCTV). A series of commentaries he co-authored regarding the development of the Singapore media markets appeared in the Straits Times.
   
 
   Areas of Specialisation
Media Economics, Regulation, and Policy
Economics of Telecommunications and Information Industries
Media Management
   
 
  Selected Works
Fu, W.W. (2004). Termination-discriminatory pricing, subscriber bandwagons, and network traffic patterns: The Taiwanese mobile phone market. Telecommunications Policy, 28(1), 5-22.
Fu, W.W. (2003). Multimarket contact of US newspaper chains: Circulation competition and market coordination. Information Economics and Policy, 15(4), 501-519.
Fu, W.W. (2003). Deliver on Sunday? Analysis of daily newspapers' entry to Sunday edition publishing. Journal of Media Economics, 16(3), 189-205.
Fu, W.W. (2003). Applying the Structure-Conduct-Performance framework in the media industry analysis. The International Journal on Media Management, 5(4), 275-284.
   
 
  Publications
Faculty at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information publish and present their work in many areas of communication and information studies. The publications and presentations range from communication law and policy, media effects, public relations, organisational communication and culture, advertising, gender studies to information technology and knowledge management.

Journal Articles

Fu, W.W. & Govindaraju, A. (forthcoming). Explaining global box office tastes in Hollywood films: Homogenization of national audiences’ movie selections. Communication Research.

Fu, W.W. (2009). Screen survival of movies at competitive theaters: Effects of vertical integration and horizontal control. Journal of Media Economics, 22(2), 59-80.

Fu, W.W. & Sim, C. (forthcoming). Why do we watch what we watch? Explaining international country-to-country flow of theatrical films. Journal of Communication.

Fu, W.W. & Wildman, S.S. (2008). Economic research of Asian media markets and industries: A critical reflection. Asian Journal of Communication, 18(2), 92-101.

Fu, W.W. & Lee, T. (2008). Economic and cultural influences on the theatrical consumption of foreign films in Singapore. Journal of Media Economics, 21(1), 1-27.

Fu, W.W. (2006). Concentration and homogenization of international movie sources: Examining foreign film import profiles. Journal of Communication, 56(4), 813-835.

Lee, S.Y. & Fu, W.W. (2006). Software-platform integration and incompatibility, and system-user switching. Journal of Media Economics, 19(3), 163-192.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Termination-discriminatory pricing, subscriber bandwagons, and network traffic patterns: The Taiwanese mobile phone market. Telecommunications Policy, 28(1), 5-22.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Multimarket contact of US newspaper chains: Circulation competition and market coordination. Information Economics and Policy, 15(4), 501-519.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Deliver on Sunday? Analysis of daily newspapers’ entry to Sunday edition publishing. Journal of Media Economics, 16(3), 189-205.
 
Fu, W.W. (2003). Applying the Structure-Conduct-Performance framework in the media industry analysis. The International Journal on Media Management, 5(4), 275-284.

Kluver, R. & Fu, W.W. (2004, February). The Cultural Globalization Index. Foreign Policy. Online article: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2494


Book Chapters

Fu, W.W., Li, H., & Wildman, S.S. (forthcoming). How markets aggregate advertiser demands to price access to television audiences. In Jean-Baptiste Lesourd (Ed), The Media Industries and Their Markets: Quantitative Analyses . New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fu, W.W. (2007). Termination-discriminatory pricing and subscriber bandwagons: The Taiwanese Mobile Phone Market. In L. Benzoni & P. Geoffron (Eds), A Collection of Essays on Competition and Regulation with Asymmetries in Mobile Markets. Paris: Quantifica Publishing.

Kluver, R. & Fu, W.W. (in press). Measuring cultural globalization in Southeast Asia. In T. Chong (Ed), Globalisation and its Counter-forces in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Fu, W.W. (2007). Looking Forward: Contemporary Trends of the Copyright Economics Research in the Digital Era. In C. Heath & K.C. Liu (Eds.), Copyright Law and the Information Society in Asia, London: Hart Publishing.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Termination-Discriminatory Pricing and Network Traffic Patterns. In S.Y. Peng (Eds.), Selected Papers on Info-Communications Law. Hsinchu, Taiwan: National Tsing Hua University Press.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Network competition and subscriber bandwagons. In A. Shampine (Eds.), Down to the Wire: Studies in the Diffusion and Regulation of Telecommunications Technologies, 59-72. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Press.


Conference Papers

Fu, W.W. & Govindaraju, A. (2008). Global theatrical consumption of Hollywood films: Homogenization and cultural determination. Paper presented at the 58th International Communication Association Conference, Montreal Canada, May.

Sim, C. & Fu, W.W. (2008). Riding the “hits” wave: Informational cascade in viewership of online videos. Paper presented at the 58th International Communication Association Conference, Montreal Canada, May.

Han, T.J. & Fu, W.W. (2008). Explaining hyperlink traffic between thematic blogs. Paper presented at the 8th World Media Economics Conference, Portugal, May.

Fu, W.W. & Sim, C. (2007). Why do people watch what they watch? Explaining film import choices of individual countries among the production sources. Paper presented at the 57th International Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, May.

Lee, T., & Fu, W.W. (2006). Economic determination of the box Office performances of foreign motion pictures in the Singapore cinema market. Paper accepted for presentation at the 56th International Communication Association Conference, Dresden, Germany, June.

Fu, W.W., Li, H., & Wildman, S.S. (2006). Pricing television audiences. Paper presented at the 7th World Media Economics Conference, Beijing, May.

Fu, W.W., Li, H., & Wildman, S.S. (2005). Determining the advertising value of television audiences: A purchase profiling model. Paper presented at the 55th International Communication Association Conference, New York, May.

Fu, W.W. (2005). The movie import profiles of countries: Quantifying global media trade homogenization and domination. Paper presented at the World Communication Association Conference, Sapporo, Japan, August.

Fu, W.W. (2005). An examination of counties’ film import profiles: Homogenization of global Media consumption. Paper presented at the Workshop on Cultural Globalisation in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, June.

Kluver, R. & Fu, W.W. (2005). Measuring Cultural Globalization. Paper presented at the Workshop on Cultural Globalisation in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, June.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Quantifying divide in mobile, Internet, fixed-line phone deployments of the ASEAN countries. Presented at 4th Euroseas Conference. Paris, France, September.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Vertical integration, movie foreclosure, and exhibitors’ screening behavior in the Singapore cinema market, Presented at AEJMC Conference, Toronto, Canada, August.

Fu, W.W. & Ang, P.H. (2004). The Singapore media market deregulation: competition, market Size, and industry transition. Presented at the Chinese Communication Society Conference, Macau, China, June.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Looking forward: contemporary trends of the copyright economics research in the digital era. Presented at the Third Conference on European and Asian Intellectual Property Rights: New Paradigms of Copyright Law in the Information Society, Taipei, Taiwan, June.

Fu, W.W. (2004). Remodeling the role of mobile telephony in the digital divide.
Presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Emerging Technologies: The Challenge of the Mobile Revolution and the Digital Divide, Seoul, South Korea, May.

Fu, W.W., Li, H., & Wildman, S.S. (2004). The advertising value of television program audiences: A new conceptualization and empirical Test. Presented at the Annual American Academy of Advertising Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Applying the Structure-Conduct-Performance framework in the media industry analysis. Best Faculty Paper. Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Kansas City, US, July/Aug.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Vertical integration and competition in the Singapore cinema industry. Presented at the Chinese Communication Society Conference, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, September.

Fu, W.W. (2003). Vertical and horizontal structure of the Singapore cinema industry and competition. Accepted for presentation at the Conference of Chinese Communication in Shanghai, China, June.

Fu, W.W. (2002). Impact of chain ownership on newspaper competition. Paper presented at the 52nd International Communication Association Seoul, South Korea, July.

Fu, W.W. (2002). On applying the Structure-Conduct-Performance Framework: Toward better Industrial Organization economic analysis of media markets. Paper presented at the 52nd International Communication Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea, July.

Fu, W.W. (2002). The economics of Sunday editions for daily newspapers. Paper presented at the Fifth World Media Economics Conference, Turku, Finland, May.

Fu, W.W. (2001). Subscriber competition between networks and bandwagon effect: The case of Taiwan mobile phone industry, Paper presented at the 6th International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Hong Kong, July.

Fu, W.W. (2001). An alternative perspective toward the media study: Media economics. Paper presented at the Chinese Communication Society Conference, Hong Kong, July.

Fu, W.W. (2000). Theorizing and predicting the relationship between the performances of motion picture windows: From theaters to home video. Top Paper Award, Presented at the Broadcast Education Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April.

Fu, W.W. (2000). Multimarket contact and competition in the U.S. daily newspaper industry. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June.

Press Articles

Fu, W.W. & Ang, P.H. (2004, February 12). Media Liberalisation 2. Newspaper publishing in Singpaore: One player or two? Straits Times.

Fu, W.W. & Ang, P.H. (2004, February 11). Media Liberalisation 1. Singapore's TV market: One player or two? Straits Times.

Ang, P.H. & Fu, W.W. (2003, September 8). Nationalise the network to lower cable TV rates. Straits Times.
   
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