overview
My research broadly examines how people understand and communicate about health and illnesses and how such understanding and communication are enabled and constrained by social, political, cultural, and technological factors. My research is informed by the new paradigm of "big data" research, which marries the traditional interpretive and postpositive epistemologies to discover patterns of meanings and relationships in texts, videos, narratives, and social networks (interpretive epistemology) using scientific data processing methods developed in computer science and data science.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Communication, University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 2007
- M.A. in Communication, University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 2004
- B.A. in English Language and Literature, Peking University - (Beijing, Beijing, China) 2001
selected publications
Academic Articles56
- Zou, W., Tang, L. u., Zhou, M. i., & Zhang, X. (2024). Self-disclosure and received social support among women experiencing infertility on reddit: A natural language processing approach. Computers in Human Behavior. 154, 108159-108159.
- DuPont-Reyes, M. J., Villatoro, A., Gama, G., & Tang, L. u. (2023). Measuring media-related health and mental health information acquisition among Latino adults in the United States.. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. e1967.
- Li, J., Tang, L. u., & Pu, Y. (2023). My Story of Depression: A Content Analysis of Autobiographic Videos on Douyin.. Health Communication. ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-9.
- Nguyen, E., Amith, M., Nordberg, A., Tang, L. u., Harris, M. R., & Tao, C. (2023). CRENO: An ontology to model concepts relating to culture, race, ethnicity, and nationality for health data.. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings AMIA Summit on Translational Science. 2023, 398-407.
- Zou, W., Li, J., Yang, Y., & Tang, L. u. (2023). Exploring the Early Adoption of Open AI among Laypeople and Technical Professionals: An Analysis of Twitter Conversations on #ChatGPT and #GPT3. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-12.
Chapters8
- Aguilar, C., Amith, M., Tang, L. u., Hamilton, J., Savas, L. S., Rhee, D., Khan, T., & Tao, C. (2023). Evaluating Domain-Independent Small Talk Conversations to Improve Clinical Communication Interaction for Human and Machine. Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. 330-343. Springer Nature.
- Wang, S., Du, J., Tang, L. u., & Tao, C. (2022). Understanding Public Perceptions of Measles from Twitter Using Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Networks.. Assistive technology research series. MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health Global Partnership for Digital Innovation. 607-611. IOS Press.
- Zhu, A., Amith, M., Tang, L. u., Cunningham, R., Xu, A., Boom, J. A., & Tao, C. (2021). Experimenting with a Prototype Interactive Narrative Game to Improve Knowledge and Beliefs for the HPV Vaccine.. HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: HCI Applications in Health, Transport, and Industry. 186-201. Springer Nature.
- Xu, A., Amith, M., Li, J., Tang, L. u., & Tao, C. (2020). An Interactive Game for Changing Youth Behavior Regarding E-cigarettes. Communications in Computer and Information Science. HCI International 2020 - Posters. 512-518. Springer Nature.
- Shan, Z., & Tang, L. u. (2017). Social Media and the Public Sphere in China. Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media. 410-425. IGI Global.
Conference Papers1
- Moore, N., Amith, M., Neumann, A., Hamilton, J., Tang, L. u., Savas, L., & Tao, C. (2024). Translating motivational interviewing for the HPV vaccine into a computable ontology model for automated AI conversational interaction. Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-12.
Repository Documents / Preprints4
- Tang, L. u., Liu, W., Thomas, B., Tran, H., Zou, W., Zhang, X., & Zhi, D. (2020). Texas Public Agencies Tweets and Public Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Natural Language Processing Approach (Preprint).
- Tang, L. u., Fujimoto, K., Amith, M. T., Cunningham, R., Costantini, R. A., York, F., ... Tao, C. (2020). Down the Rabbit Hole of Vaccine Misinformation on YouTube: Network Exposure Study (Preprint).
- Amith, M., Lin, R., Cunningham, R., Wu, Q. L., Savas, L. S., Gong, Y., ... Tao, C. (2020). Examining Potential Usability and Health Beliefs Among Young Adults Using a Conversational Agent for HPV Vaccine Counseling.
- Du, J., Tang, L. u., Xiang, Y., Zhi, D., Xu, J., Song, H., & Tao, C. (2017). Public Perception Analysis of Tweets During the 2015 Measles Outbreak: Comparative Study Using Convolutional Neural Network Models (Preprint).
in the news
- New Texas A&M lab works to eliminate bias in artificial intelligence and machine learning KBTX-TV 3 News July 5, 2021
- Texas A&M communications experts reveals how to talk about COVID vaccines so people will listen Houston Chronicle December 4, 2020
recent teaching activities
- COMM305 Theories Of Comm Instructor
- COMM470 Comm Hcc: Health Org Comm Instructor
- COMM471 Media Health Medicine Instructor
- COMM616 Topics Comm Methods Instructor
- COMM670 Health Communicatn Sem Instructor
Email
ltang@tamu.edu
First Name
Lu
Last Name
Tang
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4234
USA
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