Minyan Wang (Mia) is a PhD candidate in media studies at Zhejiang University. Her MA project at Fudan University focused on media archaeology as topos. Prior to that, her research interests were centered on film semiotics.

Mia’s current interests lie in media theory, media history, and the philosophy of technology. Her PhD project focuses on the discourse surrounding media in 1964, examining how technological, social and cultural transformations shaped the understanding and evolution of media. She is currently spending a year at UBC as a Visiting International Research Student from October 2024 to October 2025.

Translations
Toward Media Ontology: Selected Essays on Media Theory by Friedrich Kittler et al, English-Chinese, China International Broadcasting Press, 08/2024
“Algorithms (and the) Everyday” by Michele Willson, English-Chinese, China Communication Studies Review, 12/2023
“Toward a History of Peep Practice” by Erkki Huhtamo, English-Chinese, Journal of Beijing Film Academy, 09/2023
“On Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Relation between Technology and Nature in the Anthropocene” by Yuk Hui, English-Chinese, Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, 01/2023

Conference Presentation

“From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligent Earth: On the Media Theory of Planetary-Scale
Computation”, The First Academic Forum for Exceptional Ph.D. Students in Communication, Chongqing, 12/2023