Dr. Min Jiang
Dr. Min Jiang
Professor of Communication Studies
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July 12-14, 2023 @ 2023 Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) - The Chinese Internet in the Global South: Flows, Frictions, and Futures - Chiang Mai, Thailand

May 23-26, 2023 @ Working Group on Digital Sovereignty @ The Center for Advanced Internet Studies - Bochum, Germany - Invited speaker

May 1-3, 2023 @ Mapping Our Global Digital Future @ New America Foundation - Washington, Germany - Invited speaker

Feb 1-3, 2023 @ International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies - Melbourne, Australia - Invited speaker on Plenary Panel

Aug 18-19, 2022 @ Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMICP) Summer Conference 2022 - Ottawa, Canada - Speaker on Plenary Panel and China Team Presentation

July 11-15, 2022 @ IAMCR (The International Association for Media and Communication Research) Annual Conference 2022 - Keynote Panel on Digital Sovereignty

June 6-7, 2022 @ Diversifying Cyber Diplomacy Conference - Bologna, Italy - Invited speaker

May 26-30, 2022 @ International Communication Association Annual Conference - Paris, France

July 15, 2021 (Thursday) @ Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference (CPDP) Latam 2021 - Panel Chair for "Digital Sovereignty in BRICS Countries"

June 25-27, 2021 @ Chinese Internet Research Conference - Melbourne, Australia (Virtual) - Chair of panel "Global governance of smart cities, facial recognition and the internet"

April 23, 2021 (8:30AM-3PM EST, Friday) @ Cybernationalism and the World - Discussant on Cybernationalism panel hosted by University of Pennsylvania

February 26, 2021 (8AM EST, Friday) @ Cybersecurity and Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries Webinar - Speaker on Chinese Internet governance and cybersecurity hosted by FGV Law School, Brazil

November 13, 2020 @ Harvard Law School 2020 China Law Symposium - Speaker on panel "Comparative Internet Governance and Cybersecurity"

November 10, 2020 @ China Town Hall - Speaker for partner event hosted by Winona State University, "U.S.-China Tech Rivalry: Strategic Competition between Two Fragile Superpowers" organized by the National Committee on US-China Relations

October 1, 2020 @ Geneva Trade Week - Panel on "Digital Trade" and Data Realms

September 3-4, 2020 @ Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, Discussant on Chinese media and civil society @ The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Assessing Its Roles

July 21-22, 2020 @ China Institute, University of Alberta, Canada - Discussant on Chinese cybernationalism @ The "Xi Jinping Effect" - in China and Beyond

June 18, 2020 @ Hertie School of Government, Berlin, Germany - "China's Social Credit System"

May 20-26, 2020 @ International Communication Association annual conference

May 15, 2020 @ George Washington University "Data Governance Hub" - China's Data Governance and Personal Data Protection @ What Can we Learn From Brazil and China’s Approach to Personal Data Protection?

March 30, 2020 @ Georgetown Law School - Cyber Sovereignty and Data Protection Policies in China

Jan 31, 2020 @ Woodward Building, College of Computing and Informatics - Coronavirus Discussion Panel

November 25-28, 2019 @ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin

November 18, 2019 @ Moderating CHINA Town Hall hosted locally by UNC Charlotte

August 30, 2019 @ FGV, Brazil - Presentation "5G in Historical and Critical Perspectives" at Conference "5G and the New Digital Infrastructures in the BRICS"

August 9, 2019 @ FGV, Brazil - Presentation "AI: Application, Issues & Geopolitics" at Conference "Digitalization & Democracy"

July 19, 2019 @ FGV, Brazil - Commentator for paper "A New Framework for Online Content Moderation" at Conference "Platform Values"

June 28-29, 2019 @ Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany - Presentation "Pre-history of Social Credit System in China" at Workshop "Digital Governance in China"

June 4, 2019 @ FGV, Brazil - Presentation "Securing China: A Fragile Digital Superpower" at seminar "CyberBRICS Summit: Cybersecurity, data protection and the digital future of the BRICS"

April 5, 2019 @ Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte, Digital Humanities Forum "Search Engines: Queries and Inquiries for the Humanities"

March 19, 2019 @ Tulane University - Invited talk "The Chinese Internet: A 25-Year Retrospective"

Oct 26-27, 2018 @ Berea College - Leads session on the Chinese Internet and social media for a workshop organized by East-West Center

Sept 25, 2018 @ National Humanities Center - Webinar for educators: "The Chinese Internet: Open for Business, Closed to Criticism?"

May 24-28, 2018 @ International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference in Prague

May 22-23, 2018 @ Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) in Leiden University, The Netherlands

March 2, 2018 @ China Law Conference, University of Toronto Law School, Canada

Jan 19, 2018 @ Free University of Berlin workshop on China Big Data

Dec 6-9, 2016 @ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Guadalajara, Mexico

Oct 24-25, 2016 @ Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society event "Law, Borders, and Speech"

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Office: Colvard 5011
Phone: (704) 687-0768
Email: Min.Jiang@uncc.edu

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Dr. Min Jiang is Professor of Communication Studies, an affiliate faculty member of International Studies at UNC Charlotte, and CyberBRICS Visiting Professor at FGV Law School (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). She is co-coordinator of Digital Arts, Sciences & Technologies (DAST), a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences initiative in digital humanities; and a Secretariat member of the annual international Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC). Previously, she served as Associate Editor of Sage journal Communication & the Public, an Advisory Board Member of Project Mosaic, a university social science research initiative and Chair of Faculty Advisory Board to the Confucius Institute at UNC Charlotte. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in new media technology, global media and research methods.

Highly interdisciplinary, her work blends new media studies, political communication, international communication, legal studies, and information science. She’s written on Chinese digital technologies (search engine, social media, big data), politics (digital activism, online political satire, diplomacy), business (Chinese Internet giants, business ethics), policies (real name registration, privacy, security) and increasingly the impact of Chinese technologies and policies on the Global South and global communication. Her work has appeared in Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Science Computer Review, International Communication Gazette, Electronic Journal of Communication, Policy & Internet among other academic journals. She is working on several book projects related to the Chinese Internet, data and US-China relations.

Reuters, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, New Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle, Der Tagesspiegel among other media outlets have interviewed her. Her essays and op-eds have also appeared in The Diplomat, Nikkei Asian Review, China-U.S. Focus, and Asia Dialogue. A recipient of over two dozen research/travel grants, she was the first Research Fellow at UNC Charlotte’s Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science and a CyberBRICS Fellow with the FGV Law School (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in 2019. Many research institutions have invited her to present her work or funded her research including:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (2021-2027). Advisory board member and China team lead on a 40-country, 7-year grant for “Global Internet and Media Concentration Project” [Total funds: $2.5 million]
  • CyberBRICS Fellow, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Total funds: $15,000]
  • Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2013-2014), Media, Activism, and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives. InterAsia Initiative. [Total funds: $25,000 for China team of led by Dr. Guobin Yang]
  • National Humanities Center
  • National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR)
  • Stanford Law School, Center for Internet & Society
  • Fairbank Center, Harvard University
  • Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania
  • International Reporting Project (IRP)
  • SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
  • Northwestern University
  • Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy, University of Oxford
  • Institute of Chinese Studies, Free University of Berlin
  • French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Lund University (Sweden)
  • Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam Polytechnic, The Netherland
  • Hertie School of Government, Berlin, Germany

She received her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University in 2007. Prior to pursuing her doctor’s degree in the U.S., she worked as an international news editor for Beijing Television (BTV) and China Central Television (CCTV) as well as assistant to director for Kill Bill I in China.

Active in the local community, she previously served on the board of the Charlotte chapter of The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP Charlotte) and is a member of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.

Education

  • Ph.D., Purdue University 2007
  • M.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2002
  • B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1999

Appointments

Professor (2020 May – now) Department of Communication Studies, UNC Charlotte

Associate Editor (January 2019 – December 2021, Declined co-editorship in 2021) Sage journal Communication & the Public

Member of Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) Secretariat (2015 May – Present). CIRC is an annual international conference focused on the Chinese Internet. Started at USC, this conference has been hosted by various institutions including UC-Berkeley, MSU, NIT, Texas A&M, University of Hong Kong, University of Pennsylvania, Peking University, Georgetown, Oxford, Hong Kong Polytechnic, University of Alberta, Leiden University, RMIT University (Australia), Hong Kong Baptist University, and Chiang Mai (Thailand) (Archive)

Chair of Faculty Advisory Council, Confucius Institute (August 2017 – May 2020) Provides faculty leadership in advising the Confucius Institute at UNC Charlotte

Confucius Institute Project Coordinator (May 2016 – May 2017) Led campus effort to establish a Confucius Institute at UNC Charlotte

College Diversity Coordinator (2013 July – May 2014 and July 2015 – 2016 July) Led college efforts in addressing diversity-related issues, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UNC Charlotte

Associate Professor (2013 April – 2020 May) Department of Communication Studies, UNC Charlotte

Affiliate Researcher (2010 November – now) Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities, Complex Systems Institute, UNC Charlotte

Affiliate Researcher (2010 September – now) Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliate Researcher (2009 January – 2010 September) Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science, UNC Charlotte

Affiliate Faculty (2008 August – now) International Studies, UNC Charlotte

Assistant Professor (2007 August – 2013 April) Department of Communication Studies, UNC Charlotte

Awards & Honors 

Top Faculty Paper Award (2022). Communication Law & Policy Division. International Communication Association (ICA).

CyberBRICS Visiting Professorship (Nov 2019 – current) FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Conducts policy research on data protection and cybersecurity in China and collaborate with other CyberBRICS fellows/professors to develop related policy frameworks.

CyberBRICS Fellow (May – November, 2019) FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Conducts policy research on data protection and cybersecurity in China and collaborate with other CyberBRICS fellows to develop related policy frameworks.

The Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article from China Information in 2014 (2015). My co-author Jesper Schlaeger and I are given this award for our article Official Microblogging and Social Management by Local Governments in China, published in 2014 by Sage journal China Information.

Reassignment of Duties Leave (RDL) (2014 Spring). Granted competitive research leave for Fall 2014 by College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UNC Charlotte.

Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Top Paper Panel (2014). Richard W. Leeman, Min Jiang, and King-Wa Fu, “The Obamas Speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention: The Sina Weibo Response.” Rhetoric and Public Address Division.

International Education Faculty Award Nomination (2013). Nominated by students to recognize faculty achievement in international education at UNC Charlotte.

International Women’s Day Celebration Nomination (2010). Nominated by students to recognize women on UNC Charlotte campus for the enrichment of a global community.

Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute Lecturer (2009). Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy, University of Oxford, UK.

Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation Award (2009). Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA).

UNC Charlotte Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science Summer Fellow (2008).

Editorial Boards

International Journal of Communication

Communication & the Public

Global Perspectives

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