Min Jiang

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ABOUT MIN JIANG

Dr. Min Jiang is Professor of Communication Studies, and Affiliate Faculty of International Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is a Non-resident Scholar at New America’s Digital Futures Program, a CyberBRICS visiting professor at FGV Law School (Rio, Brazil), a Secretariat member of the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), and an Executive Steering Committee member and China director (Co-PI) of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMCIP), a $2.5 million CAD grant to investigate media ownership and concentration issues in 30+ countries. She is co-editor of \"Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries\", a book published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press’s “Communication, Society and Politics” series. Dr. Jiang is an internationally recognized Chinese Internet and Internet governance scholar. Her work lies at the intersections of digital technologies, geopolitics and policy with a focus on China and increasingly the Global South (especially BRICS countries). Highly interdisciplinary, her work blends media and technology studies, political communication, international communication, law, policy studies, and information science. More specifically, she’s previously published on Chinese Internet technologies (search engine, social media, big data), politics (e-governance, activism, political satire), business (Chinese Internet giants, business ethics), and policies (real name registration, privacy). Reuters, Foreign Policy, New Scientist, Chronicle of Higher Education, Al Jazeera English among other media outlets have interviewed her. Various research institutions have invited her to present or funded her work including- NETmundial+10 Global Internet Governance High Level Executive Committee- Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)- National Committee on U.S-China Relations (NCUSCR)- New America Foundation, Digital Futures Task Force- Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)- French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)- Social Science Research Council (SSRC)- Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania - Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy, University of Oxford- Stanford Law School, Center for Internet & Society- Fairbank Center, Harvard University- SAIS, Johns Hopkins University- FGV Law School, Rio, Brazil She received her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University in 2007. Prior to pursuing her doctor’s degree in the U.S, she worked as an international news editor for BTV and CCTV as well as assistant to director for Kill Bill I in China.