Living With Digital Surveillance In China Citizens Narratives on Technology Privacy and Governance 1st Edition by Ariane Ollier Malaterre 1000967043 9781000967043

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ISBN-10 :  1000967043 

ISBN-13 :  9781000967043

Author:  Ariane Ollier-Malaterre 

Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. It investigates their imaginaries about surveillance and privacy from within the Chinese socio-political system. Based on in-depth qualitative research interviews, detailed diary notes, and extensive documentation, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre attempts to ‘de-Westernise’ the internet and surveillance literature. She shows how the research participants weave a cohesive system of anguishing narratives on China’s moral shortcomings and redeeming narratives on the government and technology as civilising forces. Although many participants cast digital surveillance as indispensable in China, their misgivings, objections, and the mental tactics they employ to dissociate themselves from surveillance convey the mental and emotional weight associated with such surveillance exposure. The book is intended for academics and students in internet, surveillance, and Chinese studies, and those working on China in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, social psychology, psychology, communication, computer sciences, contemporary history, and political sciences. The lay public interested in the implications of technology in daily life or in contemporary China will find it accessible as it synthesises the work of sinologists and offers many interview excerpts.

Living With Digital Surveillance In China : Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance 1st Table of contents:

Part I Privacy, surveillance, and the social credit systems
1 Privacy and surveillance
Privacy
Surveillance
Surveillance on a continuum between care and control
Perceptions of privacy and surveillance
2 Surveillance in China: from Dang’an and Hukou to the social credit systems
Personal and household registers
Social governance in the 21st century
Bottom-up and top-down approaches: grid management and the golden shield
The social credit systems
Current status of data centralisation and algorithmic sorting in China
Part II Anguishing narratives of moral shortcomings
3 Rules and monitoring will raise people’s ‘moral quality’
The rhetoric of rules and punishment in Chinese society
Rules and punishment as tools for moral progress
The civilising power of technology-enforced rules
4 National humiliations and the civilisation dream
Saving China’s national face: the dialectics of pride and shame
The dreams
5 Saving face: privacy as hiding shameful information
Privacy imaginaries
What do you hide? Privacy as the saving of face and social respectability
Who do you hide from? Parents and supervisors, not the government
Part III Redeeming narratives of digital protection
6 The government as protection and order
China is not an ordinary country: it is the Middle Kingdom
Government as parental protection: surveillance as care
Democracy: ‘the government is by the people’
7 Technology as a magic bullet
Convenience in every aspect of life
Love of technology
The moral function of technology
Technology will give China its due place in the world
The darker side of technology: opacity
Part IV The mental and emotional weight of surveillance
8 Mental tactics to dissociate oneself from surveillance
Brushing surveillance aside: minimising, ignoring, normalising, and reframing surveillance
Othering surveillance targets
Wearing blinders: ‘so far, it has not harmed me’
Resorting to fatalism: ‘It does not matter’
9 Misgivings and objections
Awareness and unpleasant feelings
Behaviours to limit surveillance exposure
Marginal but elaborate objections to generalised surveillance
Generalised surveillance of everybody versus being singled out
Disconnect between narratives on surveillance and emotional reactions to it
10 Self-censorship
Interviewing at the margin of politics
Self-censorship in action
Conclusion
Implications for Chinese studies: how may the unstable equilibrium shift in the future?
Implications for surveillance studies in other contexts

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