Bio

Dr. Lu Tang conducts research on: (1) Culture and health communication, i.e. how stigma is constructed and how culture affects different health communication processes such as social support and physician-patient communication, and (2) Social media and health communication. i.e. how illness, health, and medicine is discussed on social media and its effects on health knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.

Courses Taught

• COMM 305: Theories of Communication
• COMM 470:  Topics on Health Communication (Communication in Health Organizations)
• COMM 471: Media, Health, and Medicine
• COMM 670 Seminar in Health Communication (Culture and Health Communication)

Representative Service

Chair, Finance Committee of Chinese Communication Association (http://cca1.org/).

Representative Publications

• Tang, L., Meadows, C.Z., & Li, H. (2019). How gay men’s wives in China practice co-cultural communication: Culture, identity, and sensemaking. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. Published online first. doi: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1569252
• Tang, L., Bie, B., Zhi, D. (2018). Tweeting about measles during an outbreak: A semantic network approach to the framing of emerging infectious diseases. American Journal of Infection Control, 46, 1375-1380. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.05.019
• Du, J., Tang, L., Xiang, Y., Zhi, D., Xu, J., Song, H-I., & Tao, C. (2018). Public perception analysis of Tweets during the 2015 measles outbreak using a neural network model. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(7), e236.
• Tang, L., & Guan, M. (2018). Rise of health consumerism in China and its effects on physician’s professional identity and physician-patient relationship. Health Communication, 33, 636-642. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1290015.
• Tang, L., Zhu, R., & Zhang, X. (2016). Postpartum depression and social support in China: A cultural perspective. Journal of Health Communication, 21, 1055-1061. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2016.1204384