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PhotoMark G. Wu

Department of Communications
Office: CP460-7
Phone: (714) 278-8414
Email:
mwu@fullerton.edu
Office Hours: T 3:00 to 4:00pm; W 5:00 to 7:00pm; R 12:00 to 1:00pm



Professor Mark G. Wu obtained his Ph.D. in Communication from The University of Texas at Austin, his M.S. in Advertising from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.A. in English for Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. 

Prior to his graduate studies in the United States, he had project management and public relations experience in China-American joint ventures. After his graduate studies in the US, he worked as director of e-marketing (Internet marketing) in an online banking service provider company fundsxpress.com in Austin, Texas (a dotcom startup). As an online marketer, he conceptualized online advertising strategy and launched a major e-business initiative of CRM (customer-relationship management).  He has extensive hands-on experience in web design and e-business applications packages and provides expert opinions to media and ad agencies at home and abroad. 

He has taught as assistant professor of advertising at Emerson College, San Jose State University, and Syracuse University. His students portray him as a caring and passionate teacher.

His research interests are in interactive advertising and marketing, online consumer behavior, and cross-cultural consumer research with a focus on China. His pioneering work "Perceived Interactivity and Attitude toward website" (Wu 1999) has been widely cited in the interactivity research stream. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Journal of Computer-mediated Communication and the Proceedings of Conferences including American Academy of Advertising, and Society for Consumer Psychology.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles 

Wu, G. (2008). Applying the Rossiter-Percy Grid to online advertising planning: The role of product/brand type on previsit intentions. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 8(1), Available at http://www.jiad.org/vol8/no1/wu/.

Sun, T., Youn, S., Wu, G., & Kuntaraporn, M. (2006). Online word-of-mouth (or mouse): An exploration of its antecedents and consequences. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), Available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/sun.html

Wu, G. (2006). Conceptualizing and measuring the perceived interactivity of websites. Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, 28(1), 87-104. (click here for a copy of PDF)

Wu, G. (2005).  How interactive advertising works: The mediating role of perceived interactivity in the effect of actual interactivity on attitude toward the Website. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 5(2). Available at http://www.jiad.org/vol5/no2/wu/.

Sun, T. & Wu, G (2004).  Consumption patterns: A tale of urban and rural consumers in China.  Journal of Consumer Marketing, 21(4), 245-253. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Wu, G., Laferle, C., & Lee, W.-N. (2000). Advertising education in China:
What do professionals Think. International Journal of Advertising, 19(1), 95-116.

Proceedings 

Wu, G. & Biswas S. (2007). Print and web advertising synergies: A field experimental study. In K. Sheehan (ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 annual Conference  of the American Academy of Advertising (pp. 208-13). Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Hu, X., Wu, G., Wu, Y., and Zhang, H (2006). The Impact of web assurance Seals on Consumer Trust,” presented in International Conference of Electronic Commerce, Beijing, China.

Sun, T., Youn, S., Wu, G., and Kuntaraporn, M. (2005). Online word-of-mouth (or mouse): An exploration of its antecedents and consequences. In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising (p. 27). Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University.

Sun, T., Wu, G., and Youn, S. (2004). Psychological antecedents of impulsive and compulsive buying: A hierarchical perspective. In A. Cheema & J. Srivastava (Eds) the Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology 2004 Winter Conference (pp 168-174). San Francisco, CA: Society of Consumer Psychology. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Wu, G. (2003). The effects of levels of user internet skills and interactivity on attitude toward   the website. In L. Carlson (Ed.) Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising, (pp. 178-182). Clemson, SC: Clemson University. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Hong, J., Wu, G., and Leckenby, J.D. (1999). Publication interval and Web audience estimation. In M. Roberts (Ed.) Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising (pp. 127-136). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Wu, G. (1999). Perceived interactivity and attitude toward Web sites. In M. Roberts (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising (pp. 254-262), Gainesville, FL: University of Florida. (Click here for a copy of PDF)

Wu, G., La Ferle, C., and W-N. Lee (1999). A profile of today’s advertising professional in China: The importance of advertising education. In M. Roberts (Ed.)
Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising (p. 27).  Gainesville, FL: University of Florida.

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