Professor of Telecommunications
Director of the Institute for Communication Research
Director of Graduate Studies
(812) 855-5824
anlang@indiana.edu

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987

Editorial Board Member:
    Communication Monographs
    1999 Jounalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
    Communication Research
    Media Psychology
    Communication Studies
    Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
    Human Communication Research
    Journal of Communication

My current research interests are in studying how people process mediated messages (both traditional and new media) and applying that information to the production of more effective public service messages and other types of information programming. My recent research has focused on how adolescents process media messages and, in particular, on investigating how physiological motivational states impact the processing of information about risky behaviors and substances. In addition, I am beginning to look at how message processing changes across the life-span and, of particular interest, at how older adults process health related information and drug advertisements in the media.

• Motivation, Sensation Seeking & Designing Effective PSAs . 2002. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• News Program Pacing, Arousal, Memory, and Channel Changing. 2002. National Association of Broadcasters.
• Processing PSAs: Production Pacing, emotion, and arousal. 1999. National Institute of Drug Abuse.

The laboratory in the Institute for Communication Research is designed to collect secondary task reaction times, on-line self report measures, heart rate, skin conductance, emg, and the other physiological responses time-locked to the presentation of mediated stimuli. In addition, the lab includes the facilities to collect visual and audio recognition latency measures. Multi-media stimulus presentation can be accommodated.

Grabe, M. E., Lang, A., and Zhao, X. (in press). Tabloid packaging of television news: Effects on memory and viewer evaluations. Communication Research.

Lang, A., Potter, D., & Grabe, E. (in press). Making News Memorable Applying theory to the production of local television news. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

Bolls, Paul D. & Lang, Annie. (In press). I saw it on the radio: The allocation of attention to high imagery radio advertisements. Media Psychology.

Lang, A., Borse, J., Wise, K., David, P. (2002). Captured by the World Wide Web: Orienting to structural and content features of computer presented information. Communication Research, 29(3), 215-245.

Bolls, P., Lang, A., & Potter, R. (2001). The use of facial EMG to measure emotional responses to radio. Communication Research, 28(5), 627-651.

Potter, D. & Lang, A. (2001). Bridging the gap: Applying the lessons of research in TV newsrooms. Electronic News: A Journal of Applied Research & Ideas, 1 (1), 1-5.

Shapiro, M. D., Lang, A., Hamilton, M. & Contractor, N. (2000). Information systems Division: Intrapersonal, Meaning, Attitude, and Social Systems. Researching communication processes. Communication Yearbook, 24, 17-49.

Grabe, M. E., Zhou, S., Lang, A., & Bolls, P. D. (2000). Packaging Television News: The effects of tabloid and standard television news on viewer evaluations, memory and arousal. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media,44, 581-598

Grabe, M. E., Lang, A., Zhou, S. & Bolls, P. (2000). Cognitive access to negatively arousing news: An experimental investigation of the knowledge gap. Communication Research, 27, 3-26.

Lang, A. (2000). The information processing of mediated messages: A framework for communication research. Journal of Communication, 50, 46-70.

Lang, A., Zhou, S., Schwartz, N., Bolls, P. D., & Potter, R. F. (2000). The effects of edits on arousal, attention, and memory for television messages: When an edit is an edit can an edit be too much? Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 44, 94-109.

Bucy, E., Lang, A., Potter, R. & Grabe, M. (1999). Structural features of cyberspace: A content analysis of the world wide web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1246-1256.

Lang, A., Bolls, P., Potter, R., and Kawahara, K. (1999). The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 43(4), 451-476.

Lang, A., Potter, R. F., and Bolls, P.D. (1999). Something for nothing. Is visual encoding automatic? Media Psychology, 1(2), 145-164.

Reeves, B., Lang, A., Kim, E., and Tartar, D. (1999). The effects of screen size and message content on attention and arousal. Media Psychology, 1, 49-68.