Researcher An Xiao Mina served as a contributing editor for the book Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters. A 2016-17 research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she was also a recent 2016 Knight Visiting Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, where she studied online language barriers and their impact on journalism.
With The Civic Beat, a global research collective focused on the creative side of civic technology, they have led workshops and exhibitions in spaces such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Mozilla Festival Open Artist Studio (curated by the V&A Museum and Tate Modern), the Asian Art Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the ACLU and RightsCon, and they’ve been producing what Net Monitor called “the cutest map of the internet” — a world map of animal memes in collaboration with over a dozen internet culture researchers.
Mina is author of Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power (Beacon Press, January 2019). Kirkus Reviews called it an “incisive and illuminating study,” and Booklist described it as a “thoughtful and engaging look at the complex role and power of memes in global politics and social movements.”
An Xiao Mina is currently on a digital sabbatical: not active on social media and infrequently checking emails.
General Contact: axmina@cyber.harvard.edu
Name/Pronouns
An Xiao Mina name is pronounced Ahn Shao MEE-Nuh, and the best way to cite is Mina, An Xiao. You can call her “An” or “An Xiao”. If you speak Chinese, that’s 米安晓. An identifies as queer, and An’s pronouns are she or they in English, 她 or ta in Chinese.
Disclosures
Stocks and Crypto: Given my expertise and interests, I own less than 50 shares in CHWY, AXP, AAPL, MSFT, and NTDOY and nominal amounts of cryptocurrency. I also invest in stocks outside the technology industry.
ETFs and Mutual Funds: I have investments in a number of passive and actively-managed funds, including some that are focused on the technology industry and emerging markets, including China and greater Asia. They are managed without my input.
