ADI Symposium: Being Digital in China
Digital technologies have progressed more rapidly than any innovation in our history. What does “being digital” mean to China and the Chinese society?
Some believe that being digital could lead to the diversification and liberalization of public discourse and generate opportunities for citizenry to advance political advocacy. Others argue that being digital rather enhances the government’s capabilities for citizen surveillance and opinion manipulation. Still others consider that being digital, methodologically speaking, have begun to transform the landscape of China research.
This symposium involves leading scholars in the field and critically reflects on the current discussion on being digital and digitalization in China.
25 September, room 21.0.54 |
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| Time | Activity |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Welcome (Bo Ærenlund Sørensen & Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen) |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Keynote speech From Archives to Algorithms: A Historian's Approach to China's Digital Transformation Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University, France |
| 11:15-11:45 | Q&A |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00-14:15 |
Research presentations (each 15 mins + 10 mins Q&A) Tracing China’s Mask Diplomacy through Digital Sources Lauri Paltemaa, University of Turku, Finland China after the Digital: An Ethnographic Reflection Gabriele de Seta, University of Bergen, Norway Contested Terrain: Mapping Political Agenda on Chinese Social Media Shouhui Zhou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Nian Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business), and Jun Liu (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Break |
| 14:30-15:45 |
Research presentations (each 15 mins + 10 mins Q&A) Haiqing Yu (RMIT, Australia) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (Aalborg University) “Rural Guardians” – Rural place-making between politics, nostalgia, and commerce Antonie Angerer and Elena Meyer-Clement, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Worldbuilding and surveillance in Liu Cixin's Three-body trilogy Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 15:45-16:00 | Concluding |
26 September, room 15A.0.13 |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Keynote speech China’s Digital Nationalism: Narratives, Technological Affordance, Practice Florian Schneider, Leiden University, Netherlands |
| 11:15-11:45 | Q&A |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00-14:15 |
Research presentations (each 15 mins + 10 mins Q&A) Data Activism in China: Mapping Infrastructures, Actors and Tactics Yu Sun, University of Glasgow, UK Platform economies in China: what can we learn by “following the money”? Lianrui Jia, Sheffield University, UK The developmental Party and the regulatory state in China’s Internet governance Yi Ma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Chunrong Liu, Fudan University, PRC |
| 14:15-14:30 | Concluding |
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