Jack Qiu er professor ved Chinese University of Hong Kong, og er en av de internasjonalt mest anerkjente forskerne på asiatiske og særlig kinesiske teknologier og medier.
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Jack Qiu is a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is one of the foremost experts on Digital Culture in Asia, particularly China.
For more than six decades, actors in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have dreamed of and invested in various cybernetic futures: Maoist or neoliberal, postsocialist or postcapitalist. Yet, most of these dreams ended up in vain. The latest attempt of technological buildup, epitomized by the dispute centered on Huawei, seems to suggest that China has become a global "AI superpower" with sufficient prowess to challenge American dominance and the supremacy of Silicon Valley. From a historical and critical perspective, this talk questions the bi-polar elitist framework of China vis-a-vis the US by introducing the internal complexities of the Chinese data systems, particularly along the fault line of social class. The argument is that formations of data counterpower in China are diverse and dynamic, both on- and offline, within China proper and beyond. While Chinese data power routinely responds to external vectors (e.g., Silicon Valley, Wall Street), it is likely that its ultimate fate will hinge upon issues of domestic in/security and exceptional historical moments of internal structural realignments, as observed in the history of PRC since the 1950s.
----------- Scott Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
My new book Electronic Literature is now available from Polity: http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509516773
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