Jing Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Foreign Languages and Literatures Professor Cambridge, Massachusetts jing@mit.edu

Bio/Research

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...

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Bio/Research

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.

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