Xi Jinping’s Internet: Faster, Truer, More Positive and More Chinese?

Herold, David Kurt

doi:10.1353/chn.2018.0025

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“…At the same time, the State sets the limits of expression, with temporal and spatial changes, which allow netizens to debate on issues, in particular as long as online discontent does not turn into offline protests (ibid.). In the last decade, under Xi Jinping's government, China has tried to increase national sovereignty and public security in cyberspace, extending and tightening existing regulations and increasing the restriction of web activities, in particular, those related to rumors, pornography, violence, and terrorism-related content (Herold, 2018).…”

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Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Cabras

2022

Int. J. Islam Asia

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During the last few decades, Muslim communities in China have experienced a religious revival in which belonging to a global Muslim community has been a central element. At the same time, in recent years, the State’s campaign of Sinicization of Islam (yisilan zhongguohua) has supported Chinese nationalism and targeted symbols of Islam that are alleged to distance the believers from patriotism. This study explores the capacity for texts, language, and visual choices to build and shape sociality and forms of devotion and to reflect social and political changes. The research examines visual posting on the multipurpose app Weixin (WeChat), providing insights into local forms of religiousness, self-representation, and aspirational identities of part of the Muslim community in Xining (Qinghai province, Northwest China).

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Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Cabras

2022

Int. J. Islam Asia

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“…Between an unregulated model and a state-controlled model we, Europeans, promote a human-centric, ethics-based approach, that serves our citizens’ (Michel, 2021: 21). The CCP and the EU clearly diverge normatively, and they have different strategic relationships with the platform companies that dominate in each region (Jiang, 2010). Yet, the two powers are aligned in terms of their willingness to play a significant role in regulating digital platforms in accordance with their stated economic, political and social values.…”

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“…When viewed broadly, China's suite of digital policies fits into Pohle and Thiel's (2020) 'economic autonomy and competition' category of digital sovereignty, in which economic self-determination objectives overlap with 'measures seeking to strengthen the security of technological systems and national autonomy' (p. 10). While encouraging the growth of its digital economy domestically and regionally, the Chinese government has sought to sustain tight control over data, information infrastructure, Internet content and cross-border flows (Herold, 2018;Hong and Goodnight, 2020). It does so with the goal of achieving a digital economy that is autonomous nationallyensuring both economic gains and state controland a dominant force within the global economy.…”

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China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty

Wang

Gray

2022

Media International Australia

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The digital environment is dominated by monopolistic companies who possess and exercise substantial economic, political and social power to varying degrees. Globally, policymakers are striving to regulate these digital platform companies to address monopoly issues. Through a content analysis of publicly available policy and government documents, company reports, trade press and news media, we investigate key moments in the evolution of anti-monopoly/oligopoly actions taken by the Chinese government against its dominant digital platforms. We then compare this analysis with a brief overview of the European Union's (EU) digital sovereignty agenda, focusing on the discourse regarding greater digital economy competition in the region. Our analysis suggests that in both jurisdictions digital sovereignty is not simply an issue of geopolitics, that is, contests between nation states, but it is also a response to the excessive power wielded by digital platform companies. We argue that in an international digital policy landscape increasingly characterised by digital sovereignty agendas, the issue of monopoly in digital platform economies is a small but potentially overlooked and undervalued point of convergence between the EU and China.

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“…Second, China has widely used automated filtering software to remove antigovernment content or content with offensive or politically sensitive keywords (敏感詞) in emails or on online forums (Endeshaw, 2004;Herold, 2018;Zhu & Fu, 2021). As discussed, the Internet facilitates timely discussions, so netizens could easily come together and discuss social issues.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…cannot deter people from posting such content; China needs another measure with a great deterrent effect in discouraging people from criticising the government. Therefore, the government closely monitors internet activities and tracks critics of the government using the Internet police, employed individuals, big data, and internet tools and services (Herold 2018;Qiang, 2019). The public security forces also leverage other established surveillance systems like DNA, voice and image recognition, and closed-circuit television to monitor the daily activities of these people (Dong, 2012;Qiang, 2019), then, the internet police will harass, arrest, and interrogate these antigovernment forces (Endeshaw, 2004).…”

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Keep Your Eyes on China’s Metaverse

Hung¹

2022

JICW

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While many people have been discussing the security implications of the development of the metaverse from a civilian or business perspective, very few discussions analyse the implications from a national security perspective. Thus, this article contributes to the security discussions by exploring how China can make use of the metaverse to maintain stability and international influence. This article argues that the metaverse provides an immersive and integrated environment, thus, facilitating the Chinese government’s spread of propaganda and invasion of the privacy of netizens accessing China’s Internet. This article will discuss China’s emphasis on Internet security; then, this article discusses how the metaverse assists China in influencing people’s mindsets and monitoring people’s behaviours. Finally, this article discusses the implication of China’s metaverse on individuals. As we sail into a new era of the digital world, everyone should maintain their independent thinking and be aware of their data security to enhance their resilience to government abuses.

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Xi Jinping’s Internet: Faster, Truer, More Positive and More Chinese?

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Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty

Keep Your Eyes on China’s Metaverse

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