Xiao Qiang | |
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Chinese: 萧强 | |
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Occupation | Activist |
Employer | University of California at Berkeley |
Awards | MacArthur Fellow |
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.
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[5] to explore how to apply cutting edge technologies to aggregate, contextualize and translate online information from and about China.[6] His current research focuses on state censorship, propaganda and disinformation, as well as mass surveillance in China.[7]
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