Blocked on Weibo at Ten Years: Reflections on Social Media Censorship in China
Data scientist and author of Blocked on Weibo Jason Q. Ng speaks about the role and possibilities of digital activism amid an evolving landscape of social media censorship and digital surveillance in China. Join us for a presentation by the author, conversation, and interactive tutorial of the Python package that Ng developed for Weibo censorship testing.
Speaker Bio
Jason Q. Ng is a Senior Data Science Manager at Duolingo, with past data science experience at Spotify, the Vera Institute of Justice, and Tumblr. He is the author of Blocked on Weibo, a book on Chinese social media and Internet regulation, and developed censorship monitoring tools as a research fellow at The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and China Digital Times. He has also taught on digital activism at Columbia University SIPA and Yale University. His research, writing, and translations have been featured in the New York Times, Reuters, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal, Technology Review, Foreign Affairs, and VICE. He was previously a Google Policy Fellow and an Open Technology Fund Senior Research Fellow, did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh in East Asian Studies, and worked as a book editor after studying English at Brown University.
