Dr. Xiaowei R. Wang is an artist, writer, organizer, and coder. They are the author of Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China’s Countryside, a 2023 National Book Foundation Science and Literature Award winner. Their multidisciplinary work over the past 15 years sits at the intersection of tech, digital media, art, and environmental justice. Xiaowei is one of the stewards of Collective Action School (formerly known as Logic School), an organizing community for tech workers, and a faculty member at ELISAVA’s Master in Design for Responsible AI. They have also been a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice, and an Eyebeam Democracy Machine fellow.
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PointsD&S affiliate Xiaowei Wang presents their research on electronics manufacturing workers in Taiwan and Korea, tracing the toxicity of the process and the consequences of the industry’s desire for unbridled growth. Read on PointsApril 2025