Dr. Min Jiang
Dr. Min Jiang
Professor of Communication Studies
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Office: Colvard 5011
Phone: (704) 687-0796
Email: Min.Jiang@Charlotte.edu


Upcoming Talks & Meetings

March 12, 2025 @ Talk at NYU Shanghai - "Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries"

Jan 31, 2025 @ Webinar with George Washington University's Data Governance Hub "Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries" - Speaker

Dec 15-19, 2024 @ panel organized by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) "States and digital sovereignty: infrastructural challenges" @ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) annual meeting - Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Invited panel speaker

Dec 13, 2024 @ "Digital Sovereignty in the Global South" panel, IAMCR webinar - Invited speaker

Nov 22-24, 2024 @ US-China Power Relations panel @ 110th National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting - New Orleans - Panel organizer, chair and speaker

Nov 20-21, 2024 @ "Sovereignty and Agency in the Age of AI" - Digital Futures Symposium @ New America Foundation - Washington, DC - Invited participant

Oct 24, 2024 @ "Internet Governance in the BRICS+" @ VIII BRICS Conference at the University of São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil - Invited speaker

June 27-28, 2024 @ Global Media & Internet Concentration Project - Sydney Symposium - Sessions on media ownership - Sydney, Australia

June 20-24, 2024 @ International Communication Association (ICA) 2024 Annual Meeting - Panel organizer and speaker on Global Media & Internet Concentration - Gold Coast, Australia

May 9, 2024 @ Dinner & Democracy at the Library of Congress - "Global Perspectives on Technology Policy" hosted by Karsh Institute of Democracy & Kluge Center to engage with Congressional staffers - Washington, DC

May 1, 2024 @ G20 side event "Promoting Information Integrity" - São Paulo, Brazil

April 29-30, 2024 @ NETmundial+10 - "Global Challenges for the Governance of the Digital World" - as a member of High-Level Executive Committee (HLEC) in drafting the final multistakerholder document - São Paulo, Brazil

April 24, 2024 @ FGV Law School Symposium on Digital Sovereignty, AI Sovereignty + Pre-launch of "Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries" with my co-editor Dr. Luca Belli - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nov 16-19, 2023 @ 109th National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting - Panel organizer "Debating U.S.-China Power Relations: Soft Power, Hard Power, Sharp Power or Smart Power?" - National Harbor, MD

July 12-14, 2023 @ 2023 Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) - The Chinese Internet in the Global South: Flows, Frictions, and Futures - Chiang Mai, Thailand - Panel Chair/Participant, Conference Secretariat Member

June 26-July 13, 2023 @ The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2023 - “From laissez faire to regulatory winter? The shape of platform antitrust in China.” Communication Policy and Technology Section -- Lyon, France [Competitively Selected]

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

May 2-3, 2023 @ "Mapping Our Global Digital Future" Tech Symposium @ New America Foundation - Washington, DC - Invited participant

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"

Media Appearances

2025, Chinese AI Firm DeepSeek (Deutsche Welle, German International Broadcaster)

2020, Data Governance Hub, George Washington University

Brazil and China’s Approaches to Personal Data Protection

Other Interviews

Deutsche Welle. (Jan 28, 2025). Chinese AI app DeepSeek shakes tech industry, wiping half a trillion dollars off Nvidia.

The Wire China (July 18, 2022). Shutting Out Windows. 

Quartz (August 23, 2021). How China’s top internet regulator became Chinese tech giants’ worst enemy. 

South China Morning Post (August 13, 2021). How Xi Jinping looks to the Communist Party to plug cybersecurity gaps. (HK-based English language paper).

The Initium (August 5, 2021). In the name of cybersecurity (HK-based media, article in Chinese).

The Wire China (March 21, 2021). Weakening Links

Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) (Jan 29, 2021). Google pulled its service from China more than a decade ago — can Australia learn from that?

The Wire China (December 6, 2020). The Snowden Effect. 

Deutsche Welle. (August 7, 2020). Trump’s ban on TikTok.

South China Morning Post (July 7, 2019). Is China’s propaganda machine losing the public relations battle with the US? Retrieved from https://is.gd/6RTE1K

Deutsche Welle (September 4, 2018). Google at 20. Retrieved from https://www.dw.com/en/google-at-20/av-45355913

Der Tagesspiegel. (February 16, 2018). Big Data in China: Kaufen, chatten, gehorche.

Financial Times. (March 29, 2017). Chinese tech apps trade knowledge for cash. Retrieved from https://www.ft.com/content/add21080-0ace-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b

Stanford Law School. (2016). Laws, Speech & Borders Conference. Retrieved from https://is.gd/pY7naH

Nikkei Asian Review. (January 22, 2015). 2015 Chinese internet industry prospects (op-ed). Retrieved from http://is.gd/O4b4PB

Foreign Policy. (November 20, 2014). A “System Bitch’s” Dissent. Retrieved from http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/20/a-system-bitch-dissents/

Foreign Policy. (October 9, 2014). Hong Kong, What Does the Motherland Really Owe You? [Reporter: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian] http://is.gd/1RHQ34

The Diplomat. (October 4, 2014). China: A crack in the Great Firewall. [Reporter: Zach Toombs]. http://is.gd/lRHaj8

New Scientist. (August 21, 2014). China sting shows censors fear posts that incite unrest. [Reporter: Aviva Rutkin]. http://is.gd/1VEr4m

The Diplomat. (August 6, 2014). How Weibo is changing local governance in China. [Feature story: Jiang, M. & Schlaeger, J.] Retrieved from http://is.gd/GLNMB5

New Scientist. (July 25, 2014). The new Google? Baidu’s big plans to bust out of China. [Reporter: Aviva Rutkin]. http://is.gd/Aj3zE6

Reuters. (April 17, 2014). Weibo debut highlights complicated dance with Chinese censors. [Reporters: Gerry Shih and Yimou Lee]. http://is.gd/bCVU1m

Reuters. (December 12, 2013). China’s not messaging app WeChat may be good news for censors. [Reporters: Paul Carsten & Adam Rose]. http://is.gd/56Eoch

Al Jazeera English. (November 2, 2013). Video comments on Chinese online rumor. Al Jazeera English, Listening Post. https://is.gd/6YMDlW    

The Chronicle of Higher Education. (July 22, 2012). Students in China find a virtual voice through social media. http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Virtual-Voice-on-Chinese/132993/

French Institute of International Affairs. (2011). Public talk on Chinese Internet companies. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl4ov3

Voice of America [Chinese] (2011). Scholar: Chinese Internet and CCTV share the same origin.

Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania (May 2009). Interview with the Annenberg School of Communication, reflecting upon the Seventh Chinese Internet Research Conference and Chinese Internet research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yA5vVvGUC8

WFAE, NPR affiliate station. (2008). The Decline of the Daily Newspaper. Panelist.

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