16.08.2019 kl 14:15-16:00, Aud A Sydneshaugen skole
   [1]https://www.uib.no/fg/digitalkultur/127729/jack-qiu-data-power-and-c
   ounterpower-china
   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.

   Alle er velkomne.

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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.
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   Scott Rettberg
   Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen
   My new book Electronic Literature is now available from
   Polity: [2]http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509516773

References

   1. https://www.uib.no/fg/digitalkultur/127729/jack-qiu-data-power-and-counterpower-china
   2. http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509516773