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词条 Xiao Qiang
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  1. Biography

  2. Recognition

  3. References

  4. External links

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Xiao Qiang ({{zh|c=萧强|p=Xiāo Qiáng}}) is the Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on technology and free flow of information in cyberspace, based in the School of Information, UC Berkeley.[1] Xiao is an adjunct professor at the School of Information (2012 – present) and the Graduate School of Journalism (2003 - 2011), at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website (2003 - present).

Xiao teaches classes Digital Activism, Internet Freedom and Blogging 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 to explore how to apply cutting edge technologies to aggregate, organize, and recommend online information from and about China.[2] His current research focuses on mapping political discourses in Chinese cyberspace, measuring the state censorship and control of the Internet, and developing cloud-based technologies which can break through such censorship.

Biography

A theoretical physicist by training, he studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered the PhD program (1986–1989) in Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full-time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989.[3] Xiao was the Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy.

Recognition

Xiao is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book "Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better" (Melcher Media, 2003). He was also a visiting fellow of the Santa Fe Institute in Spring, 2002.

In January 2015, Xiao has been named to Foreign Policy magazine's Pacific Power Index, a list of "50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship." He was named on the list "for taking on China's Great Firewall of censorship."[4]

References

1. ^MacArthur Fellow Biography
2. ^Website chronicles China’s massive effort to control Internet content
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/interviews/xiao.html |title=Interviews - Xiao Qiang | The Tank Man | FRONTLINE |publisher=PBS |date= |accessdate=2017-02-14}}
4. ^"The Pacific Power Index", Foreign Policy Jan. 19, 2015, Accessed here: http://pacificpower.foreignpolicy.com

External links

  • China Digital Times
  • [https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6707 The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China] by Xiao Qiang
  • C-Span: Xiao Qiang at UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day, 2011
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx28EUiKEUc Xiao Qiang's TEDx talk on Chinese Internet, São Paulo, Brazil, 2014]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M73jzwJbjhI Xiao Qiang's interview with Radio Free Asia: China Digital Times - ‘Resistance Media’]
  • Rock-n-Go, Xiao's personal blog
  • PBS NewsHour: In China, a Struggle for Rights, but Hope for Future
  • Human Rights in China
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050205150549/http://www.ustc.edu.cn/en/ University of Science and Technology of China]
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