Min Tang (she/her)
Associate Teaching Professor
Education
B.A., Broadcasting and TV Journalism, Fudan University
M.Sc., Global Media and Communications, London School of Economics
M.A., Global Communication, University of Southern California
Ph.D., Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Courses
- BIS 178 Introduction to Communication
- BIS 234 Media, Culture and Capitalism: Reimagine Disney
- BIS 235 Critical Media Literacy
- BIS 332 Global Digital Industries
- BIS 490 Advanced Seminar: Chinese Media and Society
- BISGST 303 History and Globalization
- BISMCS 279 Journalism Writing
- BISMCS 333 Media and Communication Studies
Teaching Interests
As a critical political economy scholar, my role as a teacher is to encourage and inspire students to critically think, reflect on and write about media and social problems, such as the roles of media practices, corporate power, government policies and participatory democracy in informing and shaping (in)justice and (in)equalities. I strive to build an inclusive, supporting and compassionate learning environment to fulfill students’ individualized needs for education.
Research and Scholarship Interests
As a critical political economy scholar, I study information communication technologies (ICTs) as emerging sites of capitalist reproduction, power negotiations, policy debates and geopolitical rivalries. I am the author of Tencent: The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant (Routledge, 2019). My work can also be found on peer-reviewed journals including Chinese Journal of Communication, International Journal of Communication, and Information, Communication & Society.
- Min Tang. (2026). “Researching China’s digital industries: A critical political economy perspective”. In Jian Xu, Shaohua Guo & Weiyu Zhang (eds), The Sage Handbook on Chinese Digital Media and Communication. Chapter 37, pages 711-728. London, UK: Sage, 2026.
- Min Tang and Lin Song. (2025). Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states. Chinese Journal of Communication, 18(3), 350–365.
- Min Tang. (2023). “After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the Internet for social development in post-crisis China.” Chinese Journal of Communication, 16:4: Revisiting Communication, Technology and Development: A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Dallas Smythe in China, pp. 395-409.
- Dan Schiller and Min Tang. (2023). “Global political economy, information technologies, and a people’s history of telecommunications: A dialogue with Dan Schiller.” Communication and the Public, 8(1), 3–13.
- Min Tang. (2022). “The challenge of the cloud: between transnational capitalism and data sovereignty.” Information, Communication and Society (2022), Volume 25, Issue 16: The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets, pp. 2397-2411.
- Min Tang. “Not yet the end of transnational digital capitalism: A communication perspective of the U.S.-China Decoupling.” International Journal of Communication 16(2022), 1506–1531.
- Min Tang. (2020). “Huawei versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure.” International Journal of Communication 14(2020), 4556–4577.
- Min Tang. (2019). “From “bringing-in” to “going-out”: Transnationalizing China’s Internet capital through state policies.” Chinese Journal of Communication, Volume 13, 2020, Issue 1: Pages 27-46.
- Min Tang. (2019). Tencent: The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant. New York: Routledge, 2019.