Faculty Profile of Assistant Professor Stella Chia

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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

Assistant Professor Stella Chia

•	Assistant Professor
•	Division of Journalism and Publishing Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information
•	Nanyang Technological University 31 Nanyang Link Singapore 637718
•	Office: Room 02-03, SCI
•	Phone: (65) 6790 4184
•	Fax: (65) 6790 7526
•	Email:

Qualifications

•	PhD (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
•	MA (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
•	BA (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

Research, Teaching and Professional Experience

•	Dr. Chia joined the school in 2003. Previously, she taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a lecturer for two years. She teaches audience research methods, statistics and data analysis, media effects and public opinion. She received an outstanding teaching award in year 2002 at UW-Madison and she also won the NTU Excellence in Teaching (Teacher of the Year) award in 2006. Her research interests include media effects on adolescents, public opinion and new media. Her research work has won top-faculty paper award in the Mass Communication Division at International Communication Association.
•	Dr Chia was a journalist for a couple of years covering financial issues and policies. She now also teaches journalism-related classes, such as Introduction to Journalism and Publishing and Media in Contemporary Society.

Areas of Specialisation

•	Media Effects and Public Opinion
•	Media Effects and Adolescents' Risky Behaviors
•	Mediated Communication
•	Quantitative Research Methods

Selected Works

•	Chia, S. C. (2006). How peers mediate media influence on adolescents’ sexual attitudes and sexual behavior. Journal of Communication, 56, 3, 585-606.
•	Chia, S. C., Li, H., Detenber, B. H., & Lee, W. (2006). Mining the Internet plateau: An exploration of adoption intention among nonusers in Singapore. New Media & Society, 8(4): 591-611.
•	Chia, S. C., Lu, K., & McLeod, D. M. (2004). Sex, lies, and video compact disc: A case study on third-person perception and motivations for media censorship. Communication Research, 31(1), 109-130.
•	Gunther, A. C. & Chia, S. C. (2001) Predicting pluralistic ignorance: The hostile media perception and its consequences. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 78(4): 688-701.

Publications

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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.

Refereed Journal Articles

Chia, S. C., Yong, J., Wong, D., & Koh, W. L. (in press). Personal bias or government bias?: Testing hostile media effect in a regulated press system. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Chia, S. C. & Gunther A. C. (2006). How media contributes to misperception of the social norm. Mass Communication & Society, 9(3): 301-320.

Chia, S. C. (2006). How peers mediate media influence on adolescents’ sexual attitudes and sexual behavior. Journal of Communication, 56, 3, 585-606.

Zhang, W. & Chia, S. C. (2006). The effects of mass media use and social capital on civic and political participation. Communication Studies, 57, 3, 277-197.

Chia, S. C., Li, H., Detenber, B. H., & Lee, W. (2006). Mining the Internet plateau: An exploration of adoption intention among nonusers in Singapore. New Media & Society, 8(4): 591-611.

Li, H., Detenber, B. H., Lee, W., & Chia, S. C. (2005). E-Government in Singapore: Demographics, Usage Patterns, and Perceptions. Journal of E-Government, 1(3), 29-54.

Chia, S. C., Lu, K., & McLeod, D. M. (2004). Sex, lies, and video compact disc: A case study on third-person perception and motivations for media censorship. Communication Research, 31(1), 109-130.

Gunther, A. C. & Chia, S. C. (2001). Predicting pluralistic ignorance: The hostile media perception and its consequences. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 78(4): 688-701.

Gunther, A., Christen, C., Liebhart, J. & Chia, S. C. (2001). Congenial public, contrary press: The relative hostile media effect and its consequences. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65(3): 295-320.