Jing Wang
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Jing Wang is Professor of Chinese media and Cultural Studies
and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, She is soon to join MIT's Comparative Media Studies.
Jing Wang is the founder and organizer of MIT’s New Media Action Lab. In spring 2009, Professor Wang launched an NGO2.0
in collaboration with three Chinese universities, three Chinese NGOs, and corporate partners including Ogilvy & Mather
China, Milward Brown, and Hakuhodo (Japan's second largest advertising agency). The project, funded by Ford Foundation
in Beijing, is designed to enhance the digital and new media literacy of grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China and deliver an interactive mapping platform built on Ushihidi, complete with Web 2.0
training courses and a Chinese field guide to best practices and software of social media for nonprofits.
Professor Wang started working with Creative Commons
in 2006 and serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
Mainland China. She was appointed to serve on the Advisory Board for Wikimedia Foundation in 2010. She serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several academic journals in the US, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the UK, which include journals such as Global Media and Communication; Advertising & Society Review; positions: east Asia cultures critique; Chinese Journal of Communication; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal: Movements; The Chinese Journal of Communication and Society, etc.
Duke University Press, 1992. [Second printing, 2000]
With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002.
Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east Asia cultures critique, 9:1 (spring 2001).
[Nominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the category of the Best Special Issue].
China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.[Second Printing, 2004].
NGO 2.0 Project in China http://www.ngo20.org/
Wikimedia Foudation Advisory Board http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
New Media Action Lab of MIT http://web.mit.edu/newmediaactionlab/www/aboutpost2009.html
Google Mapping of NGO2.0 China http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=zh-CN&ie=UTF8&vps=1&jsv=165c&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113269126866970531222.00046e157ff181996f73f
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, She is soon to join MIT's Comparative Media Studies.
Jing Wang is the founder and organizer of MIT’s New Media Action Lab. In spring 2009, Professor Wang launched an NGO2.0
NGO2.0
NGO 2.0 project is designed to enhance the digital and social media literacy of grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China. The Project was launched by Prof Jing Wang, founder of MIT New Media Action Lab, in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China, NGO...
in collaboration with three Chinese universities, three Chinese NGOs, and corporate partners including Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...
China, Milward Brown, and Hakuhodo (Japan's second largest advertising agency). The project, funded by Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
in Beijing, is designed to enhance the digital and new media literacy of grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China and deliver an interactive mapping platform built on Ushihidi, complete with Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
training courses and a Chinese field guide to best practices and software of social media for nonprofits.
Professor Wang started working with Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
in 2006 and serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
Mainland China. She was appointed to serve on the Advisory Board for Wikimedia Foundation in 2010. She serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several academic journals in the US, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the UK, which include journals such as Global Media and Communication; Advertising & Society Review; positions: east Asia cultures critique; Chinese Journal of Communication; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal: Movements; The Chinese Journal of Communication and Society, etc.
Books
- Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. The Arabic edition (Beiru Arabic Science Publishers) came out in 2009. The Japanese edition (Iwanami Books) and the Chinese edition (Peking University Press) are due in spring 2011.
- High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China
(Duke University Press, 1996).
- The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Water Margin," and “Journey to the West." In book series “Contemporary Interventions” (ed. Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish). Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1992. [Second printing, 2000]
Edited
Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of “China in Transition” (ed. David S. G. Goodman). London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006.With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002.
Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east Asia cultures critique, 9:1 (spring 2001).
[Nominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the category of the Best Special Issue].
China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.[Second Printing, 2004].
Candy R. Wei Memorial Scholarshiphttp://www.candywei.org/scholarship.html
Jing Wang established a scholarship fund in at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2001 to commemorate her daughter Candy R. Wei http://www.candywei.org/. Candy R. Wei was a talented young artist. Her signature work consists of three-dozen drawings, paintings, and woodblock prints that celebrate the moment of fertilization of the egg. The recipients of this fund made individual contributions to this site by submitting works inspired during their study abroad.External links
Candy R. Wei's memorial article by Jing Wang http://cn.creativecommons.org/2007/03/03/candy/NGO 2.0 Project in China http://www.ngo20.org/
Wikimedia Foudation Advisory Board http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
New Media Action Lab of MIT http://web.mit.edu/newmediaactionlab/www/aboutpost2009.html
Google Mapping of NGO2.0 China http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=zh-CN&ie=UTF8&vps=1&jsv=165c&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113269126866970531222.00046e157ff181996f73f