Automating Governance in China? : Data-Driven Systems in the Scoring Society / edited by Haiqing Yu and Rogier Creemers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yu, Haiqing, editor.

Creemers, Rogier, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology.

Information technology--Security measures.

China.

China--Politics and government--Decision making.

China--Politics and government--Data processing--21st century.

China--Politics and government--Decision making--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Leiden University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book considers the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems, and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China. It offers detailed studies of specific projects and applications that are automated or quasi-automated in organising and governing social, economic, and cultural lives in the world's largest techno-authoritarian regime. Written by scholars from six countries across four continents, case studies illustrate new modes of digital governance employed by the Chinese government, as it interacts and collaborates with technology companies, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. They offer new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance, and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios. In a broader sense, the book contributes to global debates about the integration of decision-making technologies in social governance."-- Back cover

Contents:

Automating governance and data-driven scoring in China : a critical introduction / Haiqing Yu and Rogier Creemers

Locating and localising automated decision-making failures in China / Xin Dai

A democratic ethos? Explorations of blockchains and governance in China / Warwick Powell

Techno-utopia or techno-trap? Unveiling the enigma of smart courts in China's judicial reform / Fan Yang

Balancing control and engagement : China's sociotechnical imaginary in facial recognition technology / Xin Gu, Gavin Smith, Neil Selwyn, Mark Andrejevic, and Chris O'Neil

The social credit system as a law-enforcing tool : pillars of local implementations / Haemin Jee

Scientific fairness : experimentation and critique of points systems in Shenzhen / Anne-Christine Trémon

Queer social sorting : control and criminalization in China's LGBTQ+ activism / Ausma Bernot

Regulating price discrimination on Chinese digital platforms / Haiqing Yu and Xuanzi Xu

The algorithmic divide in China and an emerging comparative research agenda / Peter Yu.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Selected papers presented at the "International Conferences on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies" on 1-3 February 2023, RMIT University, Melbourne.

ISBN:

94-006-0502-1

OCLC:

1517397858