Jing Wang

Jing Wang is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business at NYU Shanghai. She is also an Affiliated Faculty of the university’s Creativity and Innovation Program and the Center for Global Asia. Jing received her Ph.D. from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. Before joining NYU, she taught at Tulane University in Louisiana. Jing’s research focuses on how information and communication technologies influence financial practices in the global context. She has published her work in leading journals in Communication Studies and Area Studies, and she is often invited to interviews with The China Business News, China Global TV Network, and YiCai. The complete list of publications can be found here. Specializing in the social studies of fintech, Jing serves as the Associate Editor of the journal Finance & Society and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Cultural Economy and Cultural Studies.  

Select Publications

• Wang, J. (2025). Financial statecraft in the digital age: FinTech and the institutional shifts in China's cross-border payment sector since 1993. Journal of Contemporary China, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2025.2544536

• Wang, J. (2022). Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries. Big Data & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221123312

• Wang, J., Li, H., Xu, W. & Kevin Xu, (2022). Envisioning a credit society: Social credit systems and the institutionalization of moral standards in China. Media, Culture & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443722112736

• Wang, J. (2021). “The Party Must Strengthen Its Leadership in Finance!”: Digital technologies and financial governance in China's fintech development. The China Quarterly. 
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000879

• Wang, J. (2018). From aperture satellite to Internet finance: Institutionalization of ICTs in China’s financial industries since 1991. Telecommunications Policy, (42)7:566-574

Education

• PhD, Information and Communication Studies
  Rutgers University
• MA, Media, Culture, and Communication
  New York University
• BA, Advertising
  Communication University of China