Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens' Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance Ollier-Malaterre Ariane
Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens' Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance Ollier-Malaterre Ariane Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in…
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Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens' Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance Ollier-Malaterre Ariane
Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. 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, Ollier-Malaterre attempts to 'de-Westernize' the internet and surveillance literature. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it.
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 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 civilizing forces.