Description
Product ID: | 9781032517704 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Surveillance |
Title: | Living with Digital Surveillance in China |
Subtitle: | Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance |
Authors: | Author: Ariane Ollier-Malaterre |
Page Count: | 322 |
Subjects: | History, Humanities, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political structure and processes, News media and journalism, Jurisprudence and general issues, Data protection law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Privacy and data protection, Computer science, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political structure & processes, Press & journalism, Jurisprudence & general issues, Data protection law, Legal aspects of IT, Privacy & data protection, Computer science |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-10-06 |