New Media Action Lab Staff
Director: Jing Wang
- Professor Jing Wang received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the founder of New Media Action Lab – previously known as the MIT International Initiative of Critical Policy Studies of China. Professor Wang also serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons in China. In spring 2009 she launched an NGO 2.0 China project undertaken in collaboration with five Chinese partner institutions. The author and editor of many books, she published her latest work Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture (Harvard University Press, 2008). Her current research interests include branding, marketing, advertising, and new media, particularly the impact of Web 2.0 on civic media. http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/people/JingWang.shtml.
Associate Director: Song Shi
- Song Shi is a senior researcher at MIT New Media Action Lab. He is a Ph.D. student in Communication Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interest includes three inter-related parts: the influences of new media on social movements and civil society organizations; digital divide, new media, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT); digital copyright and new media. He was a research affiliate at Comparative Media Study program at MIT in 2007. And he was a team member of Creative Commons China Mainland from 2007 to 2008.
Faculty: Ian Condry
- Ian Condry is Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at MIT and is also Associate Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies (2009-10). He is the author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006, Duke Univ. Press) which was published in Japanese as Nihon no Hip-Hop (2009, NTT Publications). He is currently completing a book manuscript called The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story. Condry is also founder/organizer of the MIT / Harvard Cool Japan research project, which explores the cultural connections and critical potential of the media and popular culture in a globalizing world. More info at: http://mitcooljapan.com. Personal web page: http://iancondry.com
Senior Researchers
Fan Xiang
- Fan, Female, joined MIT New Media Action Lab in 2012 as a senior researcher. Fan earned her MFA in the Dynamic Media Institute of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is also Assistant Professor and the founder of Information Communication Design Program at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. As an artistic designer, Fan’s activities range widely from the arts, design, technology, to educational fields. Her research and practice focuses on data visualization, interactive design, and wayfinding systems. She is now engaged in a project on “scientific data visualization” in collaboration with scientists from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. She authored Wayfinding Signage System Design (2010) and is an active columnist writer for Chinese design magazines.
Endy Dong Xie
- Endy Dong Xie, MALE, joined MIT New Media Action Lab in 2012 as a senior researcher. He became a faculty member of the Dept. Sci-Tech Policy and Communication after receiving a BA in communication from University of Science and Technology of China. He is a Ph.D candidate of the School of Management at USTC. As the founder of E-learning Lab, he mainly researches on social media, new media industry, and technical communication. He has also been serving as the technology director for NGO2.0 Project and for the 2.0 Map project.
Xu Yin
- Eric Yin received a BA in Electronic Business from University of International Business and Economics in China. He is the Founder of E-Causes (www.ecauses.org), an online community focuses on nonprofit technology. He serves as technology volunteer of Greenpeace China and consulted about the usage of online tools. He participated in planning “Google IT Tools Training”, one of the biggest NPO online tools training, held by NPP and Google China. Yin is also a product manager of DHgate.com, a B2B e-Commerce website serving Chinese sellers and global buyers. He is responsible for integrating social media tools and community into the website. He also served as an analyst in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., Beijing Branch.
Zhou Kui
- Zhou Kui joined MIT New Media Action Lab in 2010 as a senior researcher. He is a Ph.D candidate of Tsinghua University of China, and currently in a visiting research project at MIT sponsored by China Scholarship Council. His research focuses on social media and social mobilization, Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) and new media industry. He joined Center of Future Media Studies and center of Media Management & Economics as researcher in 2008. He is the Co-author of Report on Development of China’s Media Industry for both 2009 and 2010 (The China Media Blue Book). Before that, He served as a documentary journalist for the Hong Kong based Phoenix Satellite TV, where he won the Silver Hugo Award of 2009 Chicago International Film Festival as writer.
Jianbo Li
- Li graduated in 2008 from the Kunming University of Science and Technology majoring in Computer Science. He has served as a collaborator with and a member of the think tank for the NGO2.0 China Project since 2008. He joined the MIT New Media Action Lab in March 2010 as the Principal Technology Supervisor to lead the NGO Grassroots Technology Team to research on, conceptualize, and develop software tools for nonprofits in China. He was the Chief ICT Officer at NGOCN Communication Net from 2008 - 2010 and the Project Coordinator for EXIDEA, a Kunming-based NGO, from2007-2009. He also participated as an instructor for the Web 2.0 training workshops held under the aegis of the NGO2.0 China Project.
Liu Yong 刘勇
- Liu Yong is the founder and organizer of Linfen Internet Application Promotion Project (http://liaiw.blogbus.com). He was appointed the Director of Communication for NGO2.0 China Project and serves as the deputy director of the NGO2.0 Technology Team sponsored by the Project. He is also one of the earliest bloggers in China. He has worked as a volunteer for CNBlog’s annual conventions and was a participant of the Digital Nomad Project for Independent Blog. Between 1998 and 2004, Liu developed several Web applications, some of which resembled the Twitter application. Liu is a strong believer of Web 2.0. He has set up an independent blog (http://digitip.net) and is an active user of Twitter (@ooof) .
Han Jierong 韩杰荣
- Han Jierong is the founder of Save Minqin (http://www.minqin.net) and its president. Later, he was joined by several like minded friends and Minqin fellow villagers, and together they formed the Save Minqin Volunteers Association. Though now holding a management post in a bio-fuel company, Han spends considerable spare time on combating desertification. And through reading, self-learning, and fighting desertification in the front-line, he amasses vast practical knowledge on re-vegetating deserts and prevention measures for desertification. He has written many articles on the subject matter for Chinese media, appeared as guest speaker at conferences on combating desertification, and interviewed by a host of local and foreign media.
Xiao Ruifeng
- Xiao Ruifeng, Male, graduated from the Department of Industrial and Business Administration at Wuhan Engineering University. Xiao acquired the Second-level Certificate of e-commerce specialist. He is running an office supply company as the General Manager. In 2004, he became involved as a volunteer in Green Han River, a nonprofit organization of Environmental Protection in Xiangfan City. He now serves on the Board of Directors at the NGO.
Sun Huan
- Sun Huan, Female, is a M.S. candidate of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and research assistant under the project of NGO2.0. She received a B.A. in Journalism from Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her research interest lies in the rise of digital media and its socio-political implications on China. Her undergraduate thesis built up structural equation models to examine the use of SNS (http://www.renren.com) by Chinese college students and how it relates to their civic engagement. She used to work with Professor Dutton from Oxford Internet Institute on the subject of fifth estate in the context of China. She has also completed internships at The New York Times (Beijing), Beijing Daily, Beijing Evening Newspaper, and with Eurosport.com.
