Leanne CHANG 張皪元 Associate Professor
Temple University (PhD)
(852) 3411-8208
leannechang@hkbu.edu.hk
CVA Room 920

Dr. Leanne Chang is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Co-director of the Centre for Media and Communication Research at the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University.
The focus of Leanne’s research is health communication. Her research concentrates on three areas of inquiry: technology and health, culture and health, and public deliberation on public health measures. She has taken a social psychological approach to examining health information behaviors, impacts of m-health interventions on personal health management, and the link between social media use and psychological well-being. She has also taken a cultural approach to exploring the importance of cultural values in shaping individuals' health beliefs and health practices.?She has published with interdisciplinary colleagues, postgraduate students, and undergraduate students in communication and information science journals such as Journal of Communication,?Communication Theory, Health Communication, International Journal of Medical Informatics,?Computers in Human Behavior, Telematics & Informatics, and?Qualitative Health Research.?She serves on the editorial board of?Journal of Women & Aging?and the?Journal of Information Society.
Research InterestsAging and Caregiving
Health Information Behaviors
Immigrant
m-Health Technology
Social Support
PublicationsJournal Articles
(* denotes post-graduate student co-author, ** denotes undergraduate student co-author)
David, P. & Chang, L. (2021).?Mediated communication during COVID-19 pandemic: Influences of media technologies in everyday life.?Journal of Information Society, 41, 1-18.
Basnyat, I. & Chang, L. (2021). Tensions in support for family caregivers of people with dementia in Singapore: A qualitative study.?Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. Advance online publication.
Chang, L. & Zhang, W. (2021). Procedural justice in online deliberation: Theoretical explanations and empirical findings. Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 17(1). 105-117.
Chang, L., Chattopadhyay, K., Li, J., Xu, M., & Li, L. (2021). Interplay of support, comparison, and surveillance in social media weight management interventions: Qualitative study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth,?9(3),?e19239.
Jacobson, T., & Chang, L. (2019). Sen’s capabilities approach and the measurement of communication outcomes.?Journal of Information Policy, 9, 111-131.
Chang, L., Li, P.*, Loh, R. S. M.*, & Chua, T. H. H.* (2019). A study of Singapore adolescent girls’ selfie practices, peer appearance comparisons, and body esteem on Instagram.?Body Image,?29, 90-99.
Chang, L., & Lim, J. C. J.** (2019). Traditional Chinese medicine physicians’ insights into inter-professional tensions between traditional Chinese medicine and biomedicine: A critical perspective. Health Communication, 34(2), 238-247.
Li, P.*, Chang, L., Chua, T. H. H.*, & Loh, R. S. M.* (2018). “Likes” as KPI: An examination of teenage girls’ perspective on peer feedback on Instagram and its influence on coping response. Telematics and Informatics, 35(7), 1994-2005.
Chang, L., & Basnyat, I. (2017). Exploring family support for older Chinese Singaporean women in a Confucian society.?Health Communication, 32(5), 603-611.
Chang, L., Yen, C. C., Xue, L.*, Tai, B. C., Chan, H. C., Duh, H., & Choolani, M. (2017). Factors associated with mobile health information seeking among Singaporean women.?Journal of Women & Aging, 29(1), 75-86.
Basnyat, I. & Chang, L. (2017). Examining live-in foreign domestic helpers as coping resource for family caregivers of people with dementia in Singapore,?Health Communication, 32(9), 1171-1179.
Chua, T.**, & Chang, L. (2016). Follow me and like my beautiful selfies: Singapore teenage girls’ engagement in self-presentation and peer comparison on social media.?Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 190-197.
Chang, L., & Basnyat, I. (2015). Negotiating biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine treatments among elderly Chinese Singaporean women.?Qualitative Health Research, 25(2), 241-252.
Chang, L. (2014). College students’ search for sexual health information from their best friends: An application of the theory of motivated information management.?Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 17(3), 196-205.
Chang, L., Basnyat, I., & Teo, D.* (2014). Seeking and processing information for health decisions among elderly Chinese Singaporean women.?Journal of Women & Aging, 26(3), 1-23.
Basnyat, I., & Chang, L. (2014). Are you a “woman”? Representation of femininity in two women’s magazines in Singapore, Cleo and Her World.?Communication Research Reports, 31(1), 82-91.
Zhang, W., & Chang, L. (2014). Perceived speech conditions and disagreement of everyday talk: A proceduralist perspective of citizen deliberation.?Communication Theory, 24(2), 124-145.
Chang, L., Jacobson, T., & Zhang, W. (2013). A communicative action approach to evaluating citizen support for a government’s smoking policies.?Journal of Communication, 63(6), 1153-1174.
Xue, L.*, Yen, C. C., Chang, L., Chan, H. C., Tai, B. C., Tan, S. B., … & Choolani, M. (2012). An exploratory study of ageing women’s perception on access to health informatics via a mobile phone-based intervention.?International Journal of Medical Informatics, 81(9), 637-648.
Lim, S.**, Xue, L.*, Yen, C. C., Chang, L., Chan, H. C., Tai, B. C., … & Choolani, M. (2011). A study on Singaporean women’s acceptance of using mobile phones to seek health information.?International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(12), e189-e202.
Chang, L., & Jacobson, T. L. (2010). Measuring participation as communicative action: A case study of citizen involvement in and assessment of a city’s smoking cessation policy-making process.?Journal of Communication, 60(4), 660-679.
Book Chapters
Chang, L. (2014). Health communication. In J. Hong (Ed.), New trends in communication studies (pp. 265-290). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. [In Chinese]
Xue, L., Yen, C. C., Chang, L., Tai, B. C., Chan, H. C., Duh, H. L., & Choolani, M. (2012). Journeying toward female-focused m-Health applications. In Y. G. Ji (Ed), Advances in affective and pleasurable design (pp. 295-305). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Gu, Y. X., Li, N., Chang, L., & Duh, H. L. (2011). A collaborative augmented reality networked platform for edutainment. In L. Alem & W. Huang (Eds.), Recent trends of mobile collaborative augmented reality systems (pp. 117-126). New York: Springer.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Chang, L., & Jacobson, T. J. (2015). Mediated public sphere and perceived speech conditions in Singapore. In S. H. Cho (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Media Influence and Public Opinion (pp. 179-213). Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan.
Li, N., Chang, L., Gu, Y. X.*, & Duh, H. L. (2011). Influences of AR-supported simulation on learning effectiveness in face-to-face collaborative learning for physics. In 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (pp. 320-322). IEEE. doi:10.1109/ICALT.2011.100
Li, N., Chang, L., Gu, Y. X., & Duh, H. L. (2011). Sociality of mobile collaborative AR: Augmenting a dual problem space for social interaction in collaborative social learning. In 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (pp. 467-469). IEEE. doi:10.1109/ICALT.2011.145
Xue, L., Yen, C. C., Chang, L., Tai, B. C., Chan, H. C., Duh, H. L., & Choolani, M. (2011, October). Mobile phone-based health application for women: A Singapore study. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (Article No. 73). ACM. doi:10.1145/2093698.2093771