Francis L.F. Lee (PhD, Stanford University, 2003) is Director and Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the lead or sole author of Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 2018), Talk Radio, the Mainstream Press and Public Opinion in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2014), and Media, Social Mobilization, and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong (Routledge, 2011). He is the Chief Editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication and associate editor of Mass Communication & Society. He also serves on the editorial boards of eight international journals in the field of media and communication studies.