Ryan Lange, Ph.D.

Dr. Ryan Lange is an assistant professor of communication at Alvernia University. His research interests focus on automatic behaviors as they pertain to new media technology. Dr. Lange’s curiosity about automatic behavior in the media originated from the scholarly debate over “media addictions.” Rather than seeing all automated media behavior as negative, Dr. Lange considers how cognitive automation can be used to enrich human life in a variety of ways. He has published research in American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction.