Pauline Cheong

Recent and selected works:

Co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Co-editor, Thinking Tools on AI, Religion & Culture (2023)

Co-director, Promoting Digital Equity in Tempe: Data & Recommendations. (2023)

Mossberger, K., Cho, S., Cheong P.H., & Kuznetsova, D. (2023). ​​The public good and public attitudes toward data sharing through IoT. Policy & Internet, 15(3), 370-396. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.343

David, A., Tan, Y., Li, R., Corchado, J.M., Cheong, P.H., Mossberger, K. &  Mehmood R. (2023). Understanding local government digital technology adoption strategies: A PRISMA review. Sustainability, 15(12), 9645-9681. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129645

Cheong, P.H. & Chen, Y. (2023). Religious human-machine communication: Practices, Power, and Prospects. In A. Guzman, McEwen, R. & Jones, S. (Eds). The SAGE Human-Machine Communication Handbook (p.555-561). UK, London: Sage.  

Cheong, P.H. & Nyaupane, P. (2022). Smart campus communication, Internet of things and data governance: Understanding student tensions and imaginaries. Big Data & Society, 9(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221092656

Cheong, P. H. & Mossberger, K. (2022). Voicing the future: Folk epistemic understandings of Smart and datafied Lives. In Katz, J., Floyd, J. & Schiepers, K. (Eds.), Perceiving the future through new communication technologies. Robots, AI & Everyday life (p. 195-208). Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland.  

Cheong, P.H. (2021). Bounded religious automation at work: Communicating human authority in Artificial Intelligence networks. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 45(1), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859920977133. Lead Article. 

Cheong, P.H. (2020). Religion, Robots and Rectitude: Communicative affordances for spiritual knowledge and community. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 34 (5), 412-431. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2020.1723869k

Brummans, H.J.M., Hwang, J.M. & Cheong, P.H. (2020).  Recycling stories: Mantras, communication, and organizational materialization. Organization Studies, 41(1), 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618819033

Chen, Y. & Cheong, P.H. (2019). ‘Airpocalyse’ and the China smog crisis: Examining online and offline civic engagement motives, attention and actions. International Journal of Communication, 13, 693-714.  https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8738   Yang, A. & Cheong, P.H. (2019). Building a cross-sectoral interorganizational network to advance nonprofits: NGO incubators as relationship brokers in China. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48 (4), 784-813. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018819869

Dutta, U., Cheong, P.H. & Shuter, R. (2018). Contemporary gurus in Indian classrooms: Changing professorial authority and cultural tensions in managing digital connectivity. International Journal of Communication, 12, ​1369-1388.

Cheong, P.H. & Yang, A. (2017). Chinese non-governmental organizations, media, and culture: communication perspectives, practices, and provocations. Chinese Journal of Communication, 10 (1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2017.1275084

• Cheong, P.H. (2018). Religion and the Internet. In B. L. Warf (Ed). The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, 725-729. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n214
• Cheong, P.H. (2017). The vitality of new media and religion: Communicative perspectives, practices and authority in spiritual organization. New Media & Society, 19(1), 25-33. doi:10.1177/1461444816649913
• Shuter, R., Dutta, U., Cheong, P.H., Chen, Y. & Shuter, J. (2017). Digital Behavior of University Students in India and the U.S.: Cultural Values and Communication Technologies in the Classroom, 1-21. Western Journal of Communication, 82(2), 160-180.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2017.1294703
• Cheong, P.H., Shuter, R. & Jittaporn, T. (2016). Managing student digital distractions and hyperconnectivity: Communication strategies and challenges for professorial authority. Communication Education, 65 (3), 272-289.  doi:10.1080/03634523.2016.1159317
• Cheong, P.H. (2016). Religious authority and social media branding in a culture of religious celebrification. In S. Hoover (Ed). The Media and Religious Authority. (pp.81-104) PA: Penn State University Press.
• Shuter, R., Cheong, P.H., & Chen, Y. (2016). The influence of cultural values on US and Danish students' digital behavior: Exploring culture, new media, and social context. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 9 (2), 161-178. doi:10.1080/17513057.2016.1154183
• Brummans, H.J.M., Cheong, P.H. & Hwang, J.M. (2016). Faith-based non-governmental environmental organizing in action: Veroes' campaigning for vegetarianism and mindful food consumption. International Journal of Communication, 10, 4807-4829.
• Cheong, P.H. & Arasa, D. (2015). Religion. In L. Cantoni & J. Danowski (Eds.) Handbooks of Communication Science. Vol 5. Communication and Technology (pp. 455-466). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Cheong P.H., Brummans H.J.M., & Hwang J.M. (2015). Researching religious authority in organizations from a communicative perspective: A connective online-offline approach. In Contractor S, Shakkour S (Ed.), Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion (pp. 137-146). London: Bloomsbury.
• Cheong, P.H. & Chen, Y. (2015). Memetic Engagement as Middle Path Resistance: Contesting Mainland Chinese Immigration and Social Cohesion. In W. Chen & S. Reese (Eds.), Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement (pp. 93-124). NY: Routledge.
• Cheong, P.H. (2014). Tweet the message? Religious authority and social media innovation. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 3 (3), 1-19. http://www.jrmdc.com/journal/article/view/27. Lead Article.
• Cheong, P.H., Hwang, J.M. & Brummans, H.J.M. (2014). Transnational immanence: The autopoietic co-constitution of a Chinese spiritual organization through mediated communication. Information, Communication & Society, 17 (1), 7-25. Lead Article.
• Cheong, P.H. (2014). Religion and the Internet: Understanding digital religion, social media and culture.  In G. Laderman & L. Leon (Eds). Religion and American Cultures. An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity and Popular Expressions (pp. 1215-1236). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
• Cheong, P.H. & Lundry, C. (2012). Prosumption, transmediation and resistance: Terrorism and man-hunting in Southeast Asia. American Behavioral Scientist, 56 (4), 488-510.
• Cheong, P.H., Huang, S.H., & Poon, J.P.H. (2011). Religious communication and epistemic authority of leaders in wired faith organizations. Journal of Communication, 61 (5), 938-958.
• Cheong, P.H., Huang, S.H., & Poon, J.P.H (2011). Cultivating online and offline pathways to enlightenment: Religious authority in wired Buddhist organizations. Information, Communication & Society, 14 (8), 1160-1180.
• Cheong, P.H., & Halverson, J. F. (2010). Youths in violent extremist discourse: Mediated identifications and interventions. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33 (12), 1104-1123.
• Cheong, P.H. & Gong, J. (2010). Cyber vigilantism, transmedia collective intelligence, and civic participation.  Chinese Journal of Communication, 3 (4), 471-487. 
• Sanderson, J. & Cheong, P.H. (2010). Tweeting prayers and communicating grief over Michael Jackson online. Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society, 30 (5), 328-340.
• Cheong, P.H., Poon, J.P.H., Huang, S.H., Casas, I. (2009). The Internet highway and religious communities: Mapping and contesting spaces in religion-online. The Information Society, 25 (5), 291-302. Lead Article.
• Cheong, P.H. & Poon, J.P.H. (2009). Weaving webs of faith:  Examining Internet use and religious communication among Chinese Protestant transmigrants. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2(3), 189-207. Lead Article. Top Research Paper.
• Cheong, P.H. & Poon, J.P.H. (2008). ‘WWW.Faith.Org’: (Re)structuring communication and social capital building among religious organizations. Information, Communication and Society, 11 (1), 89-110.
• Cheong, P.H., Halavis, A. & Kwon, K.H.* (2008) The chronicles of me: Understanding blogging as a religious practice. Journal of Media and Religion, 7, 107-131. Lead Article.
• Cheong, P.H. (2008). The young and techless? Internet use and problem solving behaviors among young adults in Singapore. New Media and Society, 10 (5), 771-791.
• Cheong, P.H., Edwards, R., Goulbourne, H. & Solomos, J. (2007) Immigration, social capital, and social cohesion: A critical review. Critical Social Policy, 27 (1), 24- 49.