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

July 7-9, 2025 @ The 22nd Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) “The Future of Chinese Internet in the Era of AI” at Peking University

June 25, 2025 @ UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) "Open Forum #15 Building Bridges for WSIS Plus: A Multistakeholder Dialogue" in Oslo, Norway

June 16, 2025 @ International Communication Association (ICA) annual meeting in Denver panels "Media And Internet Concentration In An Age Of Uncertainty" and "International Media Ownership and Concentration Studies in the Age of Digital Platforms"

May 20, 2025 @ Talk "Digital Sovereignty from the South: Conceptualizations and Challenges" at the South School on Internet Governance

April 5, 2025 @ Talk “The Internet Age from PC to AI” at Charlotte SHOUT Ideas Festival

April 4, 2025 @ Discussion panel on "Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist" hosted by Georgia Tech IGP and Quello Center of Michigan State University

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

Feb 11, 2025 @ UNC Charlotte Capitalism Studies talk “The Internet Age from PC to AI”

Jan 31, 2025 @ Webinar with George Washington University's Data Governance Hu"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"

Special Issue (ICG)

International Communication Gazette

Volume 80, Issue 1, January 2018

Special issue: The politics and economics of Chinese Internet Industry

Guest Editors: Weiyu Zhang, Min Jiang, Bingchun Meng

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Editorial

Weiyu Zhang, Min Jiang, Bingchun Meng,

First Published January 1, 2018; pp. 3–6

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From modernization to neoliberalism? How IT opinion leaders imagine the information society

Jing Wu, Guoqiang Yun,

First Published January 1, 2018; pp. 7–29

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The political economy of Chinese internet companies: Financialization, concentration, and capitalization

Lianrui Jia, Dwayne Winseck,

First Published January 1, 2018; pp. 30–59

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From divergence to convergence: Institutionalization of copyright and the decline of online video piracy in China

Jie Gu,

First Published January 1, 2018; pp. 60–86

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How local journalists interpret and evaluate media convergence: An empirical study of journalists from four press groups in Fujian

Hui Xiong, Jian Zhang,

First Published January 1, 2018; pp. 87–115

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ICA 2016 Preconference

The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

 

9th June, 2016 (Thursday)

8:30am – 5:00pm

Room Vega

Hilton Sea Hawk, Fukuoka

 

Programme

 

830am – 9am Registration and Welcome Moderator: Prof Weiyu Zhang
9am – 945am

Keynote Presentation

Prof Stephen REESE

School of Journalism, U of Texas at Austin

 

 

945am – 1115am

 

Session 1: Policy and Regulations

Weishan MIAO, Yunxia PANG, Min JIANG

 

Moderator: Prof Bingchun Meng

Regulating the Internet in China: Tracing the Trajectory of Chinese Internet Policies over 20 Years

 

Min TANG

 

Repurposing China’s Internet for Capital Development: Regulatory Context, Policy Changes and Implications

 

Hongmei LI

 

The Baidu Controversy: Advertising Practices, Regulatory Challenges and Ethics

 

Jie GU

Institutional Change and Convergence: Towards Anti-Piracy in China’s Online Video Industry

 

Zhan LI & Junbin SU

 

Is “Ethical Commercialization” of Web Companies Possible? —A Public Policy Study of Media Buying of Popular Search Engines and Portals in China

 

1115am – 1130am

Tea Break

 

 
1130am – 1pm

Session 2: Politics? Economics?

 

Moderator: Prof Jing Wu
   

Zehui DAI, Miao FENG, Eileen Le HAN, & Yu XU

 

The Old Media on the “New” Media: Understanding the Local Political Economy of Chinese Media through Weibo

 

Lize ZHANG & Weiyu ZHANG

 

The Power Game of Sina Weibo’s Monetization: Conflicts, Problems and Negotiations

 

Benedetta BREVINI

 

Social media, power and the environment: a political economy of Chai Jing’s documentary Under the Dome

 

XIONG Hui & ZHANG Jian

 

How local journalists interpret and evaluate newspaper industry’s transformation toward new media? A qualitative study on journalists from 11 newspaper in Fujian Province

 

Kecheng FANG

 

Commercial Media Are Dying, Long Live the Party Media

 

1pm – 2pm

Lunch (at conference hotel)

 

 
2pm – 230pm

Session 3: Business Strategies and Modes of Production

 

Moderator: Prof Min Jiang

Hongzhe WANG

 

“Prosumer Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”: Sharing Economy and the Transformation of Information Labor Politics in China

 

Lin ZHANG

 

“Participatory Capitalism” and the Rise of E-commerce Village in China: The Case of Wantou

 

Lotus Yang RUAN & Hatty LIU

 

Manufacturing Innovation: 30 Years of Entrepreneurial Clustering in China’s Information Technology Development

 

Bjarke LIBORIUSSEN, Paul MARTIN & Andrew WHITE

 

Developing New Business Models for Content Creation in the Chinese Creative Industries

 

Yanfang WU

 

An Engagement Business Model in the Digital Age: An Investigation of Digital Transition in Newsrooms in China and the U.S.

 

230pm – 245pm

Tea Break

 

245pm – 415pm Session 4: Local and Global

Moderator: Prof Zhan Li

 

Jing WU & Guoqiang YUN

 

From Modernization to Neoliberalism? How IT Opinion Leaders Imagine the Information Society

 

Zhiqiu ZHOU

 

After iPhone, What? Resistance From China’s Mobile Technology Industry

 

DU Juan

 

China’s Internet Governmentality: An Investigation to the Occupy Central Movement Case

 

Gianluigi NEGRO

 

The Global Construction of the Chinese Internet, 1994 – 2014

 

Susan LEONG & Terence LEE

 

The Long Shadow of Internet Giants: Chinese Cybersovereignty and Internet Governance in Singapore and Malaysia

 

415pm – 5pm

Spotlight Presentation

Lianrui JIA

York University, Toronto, Canada

 

Financialization of Chinese Internet Companies

 

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