Chris Chao Su

Chris Chao Su is an assistant professor of emerging media studies in the College of Communication and the East Asia Studies Career Development Professor at BU. His research focuses on online media audiences, social media analytics, and mobile media use and consumption. Broadly speaking, his research explores how media audiences take shape in an increasingly fragmented digital media environment using computational methods. His previous work also examines the diverse effects of media affordance, with respect to the relationship between social media use and political behaviors. He holds a PhD in communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a MA from New York University, and a BA in journalism from Wuhan University with a minor in computer science. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Copenhagen prior to joining Boston University. Learn more about his research.