Authoritarian Governance and China’s Party-Centric Model

Taylor, Monique

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“…Contemporary debates about Chinese media infrastructures tend to focus on the “paternal” (O’Hara & Hall, 2021) or “authoritarian” (MacKinnon, 2011; Taylor, 2022) character of those infrastructures. These claims are regularly extrapolated to argue about the inherent insecurity of Chinese hardware and software, especially when it comes to 5G, which has fuelled an all-out trade war between the US and China, and caught European countries in the middle (ten Oever, 2023).…”

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Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G

Maxigas

Oever

2023

Global Media and China

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This paper explores how infrastructural ideologies function as tools in geopolitical struggles for dependence and independence between world powers. Meese et al. (2020) suggest that controversies around 5G stem from infrastructural anxieties best examined in the framework of geopolitics. We build on this work by analysing the emerging infrastructural ideology and sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim, 2015) of 5G in light of the changing global division of labour. Sociotechnical imaginaries refer to the vision of technologies themselves, while ideologies refer to the totality of social relations, translating the objective reality of material conditions to subjective lived experience (Bory, 2020). The Western imaginaries around 5G infrastructures reflect, deflect, translate and sublimate the infrastructural anxieties tied to the development and deployment of new network paradigms by China as an emerging hegemon. The controversial nature, contradictory content and fragmented presentation of 5G is a necessary part of living through the trauma of lost historical agency on the part of Western superpowers. We engaged in code ethnography (Rosa, 2022) of GSM, internet and 5G technologies, as well as participant observation in the main standard-development organisations of the internet and 5G. Our methodological assumption, taken from world systems theory (Wallerstein, 2004), is that the character and content of imaginaries and their underpinning ideologies creatively translate the position of actors in the global division of labour. This paper contributes to the understanding of the role of media infrastructures in geopolitical power tussles and straddles the fields of materialist media studies, science and technology studies and international relations.

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Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G

Maxigas

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2023

Global Media and China

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Taylor, Monique. 2022. China’s Digital Authoritarianism. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. XVII, 169 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11252-2

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2023

J. Pol. Sci.

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This book examines the problem of modern Chinese digital authoritarianism, as well as the key global process of modern development, covering various areas of public life. The characteristic features of the global and regional trends in the digitalization of society are identified and described, which modernize the task of adapting political regimes to new network conditions both in China and in other authoritarian countries. This, in turn, raises the question of the need for a comprehensive comparative analysis of cases of legitimation of different political regimes in order to develop a package of recommendations for the effective transformation of the modern Chinese political regime. The most difficult scientific problem is, first of all, the definition of deep transformations of social and political reality under the pressure of forced digitalization. Other problems actualize the chosen research topic: the risks and threats of information wars, politicized fakes, attempts to distort historical memory, which can trigger the processes of delegitimization of the political regime. At the same time, digitalization gives political regimes additional prospects in terms of the use of social networks by government bodies, the transformation of communication models of the ruling parties. China’s digital technologies are research topics in political science and international relations that affect the quality and effectiveness of governance. In this regard, time and reflective ways of theorizing about digital technologies in international relations are important. The author focuses on the analysis of the role of technological continuity and changes in China, which today has practically no proven approaches to studying the impact of digitalization and big data on international relations.

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Authoritarian Governance and China’s Party-Centric Model

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Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G

Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G

Taylor, Monique. 2022. China’s Digital Authoritarianism. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. XVII, 169 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11252-2

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