Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power

Huang, Ying; Mayer, Maximilian

doi:10.1007/s11366-022-09816-0

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“…More broadly, the paper also adds to the debate on the coproduction of political space by introducing standardization as a site through which connectivity as a geopolitical vision is negotiated. Empirically, it adds to recent findings that China's different national goals for digital infrastructure development may compete with each other, reducing the country's potential to coherently connect with the world on its own terms (Huang & Mayer, 2023). Further research could explore China's ICV standardization and spatiality from a more practice-oriented perspective, linking up to recent work on the negotiation of autonomous driving imaginaries (Olin & Mladenović, 2022) and pathways to "democratizing" innovation (Stilgoe, 2020), as well as to work on China's practices of standardization negotiation and cooperation (Fuchs & Eaton, 2021;Nanni, 2022).…”

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confidence: 97%

Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies

Huppenbauer

2023

Global Media and China

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Technical standards are a topic of intense geopolitical competition. This article introduces standardization as a practice constitutive of meaning and social order, and, in particular, one that coproduces political space. It engages with the argument that China in international standardization aims to make itself more central, and increasingly rejects domestic adaptation, in order to promote a new spatial vision of Sino-centric connectivity for international relations. After situating this argument in the literature on standardization and space-making, the article analyzes China’s policy discourse on the standardization of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. The analyzed discourse reveals a position towards connectivity that is partially Sino-centric, but also reproduces established narratives of openness, technical expertise, and cooperation. The article adds to the debate on the coproduction of political space by introducing standardization as a site through which connectivity as a geopolitical vision is negotiated. Empirically, it adds to recent findings that China's different national goals for digital infrastructure development may compete with each other, reducing the country's potential to coherently connect with the world on its own terms.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies

Huppenbauer

2023

Global Media and China

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“…Constantinides, Henfridsson, and Parker 2018;Narayan 2022). In the end, the drivers of AI technology gain institutional power over the news industries in the sense that they increase their regulatory control over data resources through governance rules related to access, protocols, and functions (Huang and Mayer 2022). The impact of AI on the news, thus, occurs at the infrastructural level, from the material structures that distribute the news, through the protocols that manage data, to the platform level where content is ultimately consumed (Hesmondhalgh et al 2023).…”

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The business of news in the AI economy

Sjøvaag

2024

AI Magazine

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This article considers the impact of AI on the economy and financing of journalism organizations. AI has structural implications on the news media beyond the practice of journalism and the management of news as a process. AI also shifts the premises of competition, competitive advantage, mergers and acquisitions, and IT capabilities in the news industries. Not least, it fundamentally challenges journalism's traditional business model. Considered hereunder is the two‐sided market model, journalism's traditional platform function, its network effects, and its public good characteristics. The aim of the article is, thus, to reconceptualize core economic features of the news industries in the context of AI to provide a vocabulary with which to assess the economic future of journalism in a data‐driven platform economy.

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“…Reflecting these technological achievements, China is now regarded as being on the road to technological advancement (Mahoney 2023 ). And it is even argued to show a ‘digital orientalism’ trend, starting around 2017 (Ibid., 2023: 14), which enables China to tap its ‘global data power’ (Huang and Mayer 2023 : 25).…”

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The Evolution of China’s Foreign Talent Policy: the Case Study of Beijing

2023

Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.

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This paper aims to explore the evolution of China’s foreign talent policy (FTP) and the factors that contribute to those policy changes. Selecting Beijing as a case study, this paper explores Beijing’s FTP and divides it into three periods (1949–1978; 1978–2000; 2000 until now). It argues that at the point when the policy system becomes more institutionalized, more simplified measures are adopted. In particular, this paper applies a three-tier framework to detect the factors contributing to the policy changes as follows: (1) the deregulation of China’s scientific and educational systems, (2) emerging actors in the FTP institutional setting (Zhongguancun Science Park, private think tanks and social groups), and (3) market-oriented reform of the policy tools, e.g., China’s permanent residence system.

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Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power

Cited by 25 publications

References 85 publications

Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies

Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies

The business of news in the AI economy

The Evolution of China’s Foreign Talent Policy: the Case Study of Beijing

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