Jing Wang (professor)

{{Short description|American media scholar (1950–2021)}}

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Jing Wang (王瑾; 1950 – July 25, 2021){{cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/jing-wang-1950-2021|title=Jing Wang, 1950-2021|work=Times Higher Education|date=2021-09-16|access-date=2022-01-11}} was Professor of Chinese media and Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was jointly appointed to MIT's Comparative Media Studies and Global Studies & Languages.MIT. "[http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/people/JingWang.shtml Jing Wang]." Retrieved Jan 10, 2013.

After a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, Wang studied comparative literature at University of Michigan before earning her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts. She began her teaching career at Duke University, where she was on the faculty for 16 years. Her 1992 monograph The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West won the Joseph Levenson Prize for the year's best book on premodern China.{{Cite book|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/470/The-Story-of-StoneIntertextuality-Ancient-Chinese|doi = 10.1215/9780822379737|title = The Story of Stone|year = 1992|last1 = Wang|first1 = Jing|isbn = 978-0-8223-1178-2| s2cid=165691103 }}

Jing Wang was the founder and organizer of MIT's New Media Action Lab.New Media Action Lab, MIT http://web.mit.edu/newmediaactionlab/{{failed verification|date=September 2019}} In spring 2009, Wang launched an NGO2.0.NGO2.0 Project http://www.ngo20.org/{{failed verification|date=September 2019}}

Wang started working with Creative Commons in 2006 and served as the chair of the international advisory board of Creative Commons Mainland China. She was appointed to serve on the advisory board for Wikimedia Foundation in 2010. She served on the editorial and advisory boards of ten academic journals in the US, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the UK{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}.

Wang died in Boston, July 25, 2021, aged 71.{{cite web |last1=Whitacre |first1=Andrew |title=Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2021/jing-wang-professor-dies-0729 |website=MIT News |date=29 July 2021 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=29 July 2021 |language=en}}