My work sits at the intersection of human-AI communication and media psychology. Specifically, I am interested in how people form intimate relationships with AI systems, how these relationships persist or shift as the underlying technology evolves, and how emerging media reshape practices around mourning, memory, and digital immortality. I also examine the governance and political economy of AI platforms, integrating qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches to investigate the psychological, relational, and institutional dimensions of human–AI interaction.
Publications
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2026Article
Subscribe to Intimacy: Platform Capitalism, Governance, and the Stratification of AI Companionship.Lan, J., Deng, K., and Huang, Y.Telematics and Informatics
2026Article
Provincializing Vulnerability: Rethinking Communication Inequality in East Asia's COVID-19 Research.Huang, Y. & Lan, J.*Health
2026Article
Empowering Civic Engagement in AI Governance: A Two-wave Panel Study on AI Literacy and Participatory Governance of Generative AI in China.Lin, Z., Jin, Q., & Lan, J.Telecommunications Policy
2025Article
Personality Meets the Machine: Traits and Attributes in Human-AI Intimate Interactions.Huang, Y., Lan, J.*Psychology of Popular Media
4S 2026 
ICA 2026 
NCA 2025 
AEJMC 2025 
IAMCR 2025