Cynthia Wang

Cynthia Wang received her B.S. from Northwestern University, majoring in Radio/TV/ Film and Biological Sciences, and minoring in Asian American Studies. Upon graduating, and discovering that trying to make a living doing freelance filmmaking is, well, difficult, she climbed the corporate ladder at COPE Health Solutions, a non-profit health care organization. In 2008, Cynthia returned to school for her M.A. in the Media, Culture, and Communication department at New York University. Her Masters thesis explored the idea of “high” art/culture and the role of the “expert” on the Internet, looking specifically at the comments sections of live classical music performances on YouTube. Her research centers on how art, music, entertainment, and culture intersect with the Internet, the subsequent potential for democratization, and the role traditional frameworks of power have in the digital age. More recently, she has been fascinated with the idea of time, temporal capital, and the dynamics between work, leisure, and interstitial time given technological advances and the proliferation of mobile devices.