Research Interests
- Chinese Internet technologies (e.g. search engines, microblogging, big/small data)
- Chinese Internet politics
- Chinese Internet policies
For more information, please email me Min.Jiang@uncc.edu & visit my website here
Research Projects
Current
- Media, activism, and the new political: InterAsia perspective Funded by Social Science Research Council (SSRC) [2013-2014]. Media, Activism, and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives. InterAsia Initiative [$30,000 China Team PI: Dr. Guobin Yang]
- TweetChina: Visualizing China on Twitter in map, picture, and event modes [2013-2014] Big Data initiative funded by UNC Charlotte CLAS Digital Humanities Seed Grant [PI, $15,000, partner Dr. Xiaoyu Wang]
- UNC Charlotte, Faculty Research Grant (FRG) [2013-2014] Real-time Diplomacy: Chinese Microbloggers’ Opinion of 2012 U.S. Presidential Election [$8,500, with Dr. Richard Leeman]
- Microblogging and China’s Emerging Civil Society Online [2014 Spring] Funded by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania to participate in an international symposium The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China.
- Search Engines: The Production & Dissemination of Knowledge. Collaboration with colleague Dr. Jon Crane (2013-2014)
Past
- Search concentration, bias, and parochialism: A comparative study of Baidu, Jike, and Google’s search results from China (2013 Spring)
- The Obamas’ political discourse and Chinese social media, funded by CLAS Competitive Small Research Grants (2013 Spring).
- Managing the micro-self: Governmentality of real name registration policy in Chinese microblogosphere (2013 Spring)
- The road to neo-authoritarianism: A 25-year review of Chinese government’s Internet policies (2013 Spring)
- China’s national search engine Jike: National identity, state ideological apparatus, or Panopticon? (2012 Fall)
Teaching Projects
Current
Media Technologies: Form, Feeling, Force (COMM6000-T90, graduate course): This course examines three major topics surrounding media technologies: media forms; media and human feelings and expressions; and media, power & social activism (2013 Fall)
Past