University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Networked governmentality in China: rules, interpretation, and algorithms
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis dissertation explores how new networks of governance and citizenship are unfolding in and reshaping the public and private life in China. The concept “networked governmentality,” as developed in this dissertation, refers to an interconnected array of techniques and technologies that contribute to the cultural and institutional guidance and regulation of conduct and life, both in populations and through individual enfranchisement and empowerment in everyday life. Within this study, I consider the historical contradictions of Chinese citizenship in terms of changing forms of networks and networking. This dissertation examines several kinds of networks in China: networks of press, TV, and radio during the late twentieth century through twenty-first-century networks involving a recent digital news media The Paper, large networks of e-finance such as Alipay, and a question-and-answer based social media platform Zhihu. It suggests that the mutual shaping of networked culture and the technological infrastructure – platforms, algorithms, and big data, has entered into a new field where control through civic freedom has been normalized, synergized, and rationalized into everyday practices of communicating, consuming, circulating and knowing.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Communications and Media
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2023
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Ju, Ran
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Hay, James
- Christians, Clifford
- McChesney, Robert W.
- Chan, Anita Say
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 2023 Ran Ju
- Language dc:language
- en, eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/120521