dc.contributor.author
Li, Haili
dc.contributor.author
Kostka, Genia
dc.date.accessioned
2025-10-27T11:57:33Z
dc.date.available
2025-10-27T11:57:33Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/50004
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-49729
dc.description.abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries, including China, deployed digital surveillance technologies as part of broader social governance strategies. While these technologies offered certain benefits, their widespread application also posed risks, including algorithmic bias and privacy infringement. This study examines critical discussions (or critiques) on Chinese social media concerning various problems induced by algorithmic surveillance technologies such as the Health Code and Travel Code during the pandemic. Employing computational and qualitative textual analysis, our findings highlight recurring accounts of algorithmic and technical failures that users encountered when interacting with surveillance technologies. These disruptions exposed individuals to heightened algorithmic vulnerability and intensified existing inequalities, particularly through unequal treatment and negative emotional experiences. Our research further implies that the critical discussions often framed the Chinese government’s massive deployment of algorithmic surveillance technologies as exacerbating pre-existing issues, such as the digital divide and social bias, especially for vulnerable groups like older people. Meanwhile, our analysis of online critiques highlights growing concerns and skepticism among some users toward both algorithmic technologies and state governance.
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dc.format.extent
12 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Algorithmic surveillance technologies
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dc.subject
Algorithmic vulnerability
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dc.subject
Discrimination and exclusion
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dc.subject
Digital surveillance and governance
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Social sciences::300 Social sciences, Sociology, Anthropology::300 Social sciences
dc.title
Becoming transparent and feeling helpless
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dc.title.subtitle
Expressions of vulnerability and inequality in online critiques of algorithmic surveillance in China
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
100214
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100214
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Asian Journal of Social Science
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
53 (2025)
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568484925000322
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Chinastudien

refubium.funding.id
852169
refubium.funding.project
ERC Starting Grant
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
1568-4849
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2212-3857