"Constructing a Culture of Honesty and Integrity": The Evolution of China's Han-centric Surveillance System

Author(s)

Alexander Trauth-Goik

Abstract

Surveillance has become the dominant organizing force of the modern era. A once isolated and limited practice, surveillance now pervades every facet of urban existence in practically all corners of the globe. Contemporary surveillance of the type facilitated by information and communication technologies embodies the logical outcome of a positivist rationality that seeks to reduce all life phenomena to calculation and quantifiable management. The quest for security, risk management, administrative efficiency, and consumer convenience continues to motivate the global expansion of surveillance and facilitates the creation of new types of technologies and regimes. However, as new global actors seek to deploy their own advanced digitized systems, attention must be focused on the unique socio-cultural background against which both overt and covert forms of surveillance are being formulated.

Organisation(s)

External organisation(s)

University of Wollongong

Journal

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volume

38

Pages

75-81

No. of pages

7

ISSN

0278-0097

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/mts.2019.2948444

Publication date

12-2019

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

506017 Science and technology policy, 602045 Sinology, 506010 Policy analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering, General Social Sciences

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a586ad36-63db-49f6-a4c7-0e636978ebb4