| Abstrakt: |
In 2014, China initiated its social credit system (SCS), which turns online and offline (deviant) behaviors into a social credit score, with a plan to expand the system nation-wide by 2020. Using twenty-two stories that were gathered by a story completion method, this paper analyzes the SCS as a big data surveillance tool that use techniques of everyday and technology surveillance. On the one hand, this study links state control of the SCS to concepts of self and police control, as well as that of everyday surveillance. On the other hand, this research shows that technology functions as both a facilitator and an inhibitor for technological surveillance. By looking from macro-level social control to micro-level selfcontrol, this research improves our understanding of how different components of surveillance and control mechanisms operate in China's social credit system. This paper outlines social and policy implications for surveillance and policing as they link the offline world to cyberspace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
