Dear colleagues, Could you kindly share the following special issue information with colleagues on this listserv? Gratefully, Min __________________________________________________________________ Min Jiang (Ph.D. Purdue) Associate Professor of Communication Studies Affiliate Faculty, International Studies Chair, Confucius Institute Faculty Advisory Council Co-coordinator, Digital Arts, Sciences & Technologies (DAST) 5011 Colvard N., UNCC, 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223 704-687-0768 | Min.Jiang@uncc.edu | Web <http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/min-jiang/>site <http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/min-jiang/> | Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/mindyjiang> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/minjiang> Associate Editor, Sage journal *Communication and the Public * Secretariat Member, Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) _________________________________________________________________ Dear colleagues, A special issue on Chinese social media and big data has just been released by Policy & Internet. Some of you may find it to be of interest: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19442866/2018/10/4 The editorial, a full paper, by Min Jiang and King-wa Fu can be freely downloaded here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.187 Chinese Social Media and Big Data: Big Data, Big Brother, Big Profit? [Editorial, Full Paper] by Min Jiang & King‐Wa Fu Toward Area‐Smart Data Science: Critical Questions for Working With Big Data From China by Daniela Stockmann Constructing a Data‐Driven Society: China's Social Credit System as a State Surveillance Infrastructure by Fan Liang, Vishnupriya Das, Nadiya Kostyuk & Muzammil M. Hussain Slacktivist USA and Authoritarian China? Comparing Two Political Public Spheres With a Random Sample of Social Media Users by Gillian Bolsover The Chinese Smog Crisis as Media Event: Examining Twitter Discussion of the Documentary Under the Dome by Shuning Lu, Wenhong Chen, Xiaoqian Li & Pei Zheng Thank you, Min