Jing Wang

Name:	Jing Wang
Title:	Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Languages & Culture Afiliated Faculty, Comparative Media Studies
Email:	jing@mit.edu
Phone:
Office:	14N-311
Website:	http://www.mitnewmedia.org/

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Jing Wang

Professor Jing Wang received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is jointly appointed to FL&L and Comparative Media Studies. She also serves as the Director of the Institute of Civic Media and Communication at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Wang serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Creative Commons China while sitting on the Advisory Board of Wikimedia Foundation. In spring 2009 she launched a volunteer based NGO 2.0 project (“Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0 Environment”) undertaken in collaboration with three Chinese universities, Ogilvy & Mather China, and two Chinese NGO partner organizations. The project is building cross-sector collaboration with foundations, academia, grassroots NGOs, the media sector, Corporate Social Responsibility, the government, and software developers’ communities in China.

Professor Wang published several books and articles, among them, the award-winning The Story of Stone, High Culture Fever, and the editor of Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture (available in Paperback from Routledge), Popular Culture and the Chinese State, China’s Avant-Garde Fiction, Cinema and Desire (with Tani Barlow). Her current research interests include advertising and marketing, civic media and communication, social media action research, pop culture, and nonprofit technology, with an area focus on the People’s Republic of China. Her book Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture is available from Harvard University Press.