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Hello, my name is Lu Tang and I am
a Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M
University. I am the Director of the Data Justice Lab, a lab
affiliated with the Texas A&M
Institute of Data Science. I am a health communication
researcher studying how emerging technologies such as AI and chatbot can be
used for health promotion with a special focus on ethics and social justice. I
also study the content and diffusion of health information and misinformation
on social media using new computational methods such as natural language
processing and social network analysis. Another line of my research focuses
on culture, health communication, and minority health using mixed methods. My work is supported through fundings
from the NIH, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and the
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. My work on risk and crisis
communication during public health crises and misinformation has been
especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. · My recent paper on how YouTube creates filter bubbles of
vaccine misinformation was cited in the
Surgeon General’s report on Vaccine Misinformation. · My work on COVID-19 information seeking and avoidance has
been included in the recently published 12th edition of the classic textbook:
Theories of Human Communication
(Littlejohn, Foss, & Oetzel, 2021). · More media coverage in CNBC,
Time, Bloomberg
Law, Houston
Chronicle among others. I am the Vice President of the Chinese Communication Association, a
scholarly organization with a focus on research on Chinese communication
topics. I also an Associate Editor of Communication
Monograph and serve on the editorial boards of several journals including
Health Communication, and Journalism and Mass Communication
Quarterly.
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