Xiao Qiang

Xiao Qiang
Chinese: 萧强
Born (1961-11-19) November 19, 1961 (age 62)
China
OccupationActivist
EmployerUniversity of California at Berkeley
AwardsMacArthur Fellow
In this Chinese name, the family name is Xiao (蕭).

Xiao Qiang (Chinese: 萧强; pinyin: Xiāo Qiáng, born November 19, 1961) is the Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on digital rights and internet freedom, based in the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley[1] and is funded by the US Department of State.[2] He also serves as the director of the China Internet Project at Berkeley.[3][4] Xiao is an adjunct professor at the School of Information and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual news website.[5]

Xiao teaches classes Digital Activism, Internet Freedom and Blogging in China at both the School of Information and the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. In fall 2003, Xiao launched China Digital Times[6] to explore how to apply cutting edge technologies to aggregate, contextualize and translate online information from and about China.[7] His current research focuses on state censorship, propaganda and disinformation, as well as mass surveillance in China.[8]

  1. ^ "MacArthur Fellow Biography". Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  2. ^ "Counter Power Lab". ISCI. International Computer Science Institute. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  3. ^ Landow, George P. (2006). Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. JHU Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-8018-8256-2.
  4. ^ Shirk, Susan L. (April 16, 2007). China: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise. Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-19-804178-8.
  5. ^ Tang, Didi; Klepper, David (September 28, 2024). "In global game of influence, China turns to a cheap and effective tool: fake news". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 28, 2024. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  6. ^ "The "Coral Reef" Below the Ship of China's Internet Censorship Interview with Xiao Qiang". MATTERS. March 2, 1997. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  7. ^ Website chronicles China’s massive effort to control Internet content
  8. ^ Qiang, Xiao. "The Road to Digital Unfreedom:The Road to Digital Unfreedom: President Xi’s Surveillance State. Archived August 3, 2023, at the Wayback Machine" Journal of Democracy, no. 1 (2019): 53-67.