tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52450049789761812072024-03-05T22:50:55.747-08:00Jason Q. NgJason Q. Ng (Jason Ng) is currently a Data Science Manager at the Vera Institute of Justice and Research Advisor at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. He was previously a Staff Research Data Scientist at Spotify, an Open Technology Fund Senior Fellow, and a Google Policy Fellow. He's the author of Blocked on Weibo, a book on Chinese social media. Ng previously taught digital activism courses at Yale and Columbia SIPA and is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh.jnghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200277926968847669noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5245004978976181207.post-42609705502563969482012-04-14T02:35:00.007-07:002022-07-24T19:54:17.803-07:00Research Fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo<div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; margin-top: 20px; padding: 10px 40px 40px;">
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Hi, I’m currently a Senior Data Science Manager at Duolingo. I was previously a data science manager at the <a href="https://www.vera.org/">Vera Institute of Justice</a>, Research Advisor at the University of Toronto's <a href="https://citizenlab.org/2013/04/jason-q-ng-is-the-2013-google-policy-fellow/">Citizen Lab</a>, a Staff Research Data Scientist at Spotify, an Open Technology Fund Information Controls Senior Fellow, and a Google Policy Fellow. I'm the author of <i><a href="https://www.jasonqng.com/p/book-blocked-on-weibo.html">Blocked on Weibo</a></i>, a book on Chinese social media. I'm also a research consultant at <a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/">China Digital Times</a> where I develop censorship monitoring tools and do freelance web scraping for various other folks. I previously taught digital activism courses at Yale and Columbia SIPA (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B57d8TAdoF_LaURDS2FhZG9sRHc/view?usp=sharing">see syllabus</a>).</div>
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My research, writing, and translations have been featured in publications like <i>Reuters</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Le Monde</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal's </i>China Real Time, <i>World Policy Journal</i>, <i>Technology Review</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, and <i>VICE </i>(more in <a href="https://www.jasonqng.com/p/media-writing.html">media/writing</a>). I was previously a 2013 Google Policy Fellow, did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh in East Asian Studies, and worked as a book editor at The New Press and Metropolitan Books after studying English at Brown University.</div>
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I blog about Chinese Internet censorship at <a href="https://blockedonweibo.tumblr.com/">Blocked on Weibo</a>. Some nice things people have said about it: "a treasure of a website"—<a href="http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/06_-_June/Summary_Judgments_for_June_11/">Thomson Reuters</a>; "Censorship nerds: You must check out Blocked on Weibo, an amazingly useful and informative blog about what’s being blocked in China, and why"—<a href="http://radiofreeandrew.tumblr.com/post/20471848311/blocked-on-weibo">Andrew McLaughlin</a>, former White House deputy chief technology officer; "interesting for those with any knowledge of China and its Internet space, right from beginners to old hands"—<a href="http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/03/12/blocked-on-weibo-is-a-blog-documenting-words-that-are-censored-from-chinas-microblogs/">Jon Russell</a>, The Next Web. <a href="http://www.danwei.com/danwei-model-workers-2013/">Danwei</a> listed the site in its 2012 and 2013 Model Worker round-up.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , "times" , serif;">On the fun side, I also made the websites </span><a href="http://fireflychinese.com/">Firefly Chinese</a><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , "times" , serif;"> and </span><a href="http://findingdoraemon.tumblr.com/">Finding Doraemon</a><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , "times" , serif;">. In the past, I researched <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2267367">how the names of CCP politicians were treated</a> on Chinese social media during the 18th Communist Party Congress; how official government data on urbanization <a href="http://curs.hkbu.edu.hk/2012conference/program%20book%20without%20abstracts.pdf">compares with remote sensing data</a> from the </span>Barometer on China’s Development; what kinds of rhetoric are employed in contentious Weibo posts; and <a href="https://citizenlab.org/2013/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-wikipedia-china-with-hudong-and-baidu-baike/">the differences in various Chinese online encyclopedias</a>. These days I'm <a href="https://citizenlab.org/2015/07/tracking-censorship-on-wechat-public-accounts-platform/">spending a lot of time looking into WeChat</a>.</div>
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For more personal/frivolous things, you can find me online at the following:</div>
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Twitter – <a href="http://twitter.com/jasonqng">jasonqng</a></div>
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LinkedIn - <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonqng">jasonqng</a><br />
Github - <a href="https://github.com/jasonqng">jasonqng</a><br />
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You can email me by adding @gmail.com to jason.q.ng (<a href="http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x12DEA7D3C20D39C3">pgp</a>). Thanks.</div>
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