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China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlighting the bottom-up influences of China's largest platform firms and its citizens. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and nationally representative surveys, the authors track governance of social media and commercial social credit ratings during both the Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping eras. Their findings reveal how Chinese tech companies such as Tencent, Sina, Baidu, and Alibaba, have become consultants and insiders to the state, thus forming a state-company partnership. Meanwhile, citizens voluntarily produce data, incentivizing platform firms to cater to their needs and motivating resistance by platforms. Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo unveil the intricate mechanisms linking the state, platform firms, and citizens in the digital governance of authoritarian states.
Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. The digital dilemma; 2. Popular corporatism; Part I. Social Media Platforms: 3. The role of companies in social media governance; 4. Citizens and social media platforms; 5. Implications for political trust; Part II. The Social Credit System: 6. The role of companies in the social credit system; 7. Citizens and the social credit system; 8. Implications for trust in the state-company partnership; 9. Brave new world?; Appendix A: Data coding, statistical models, and robustness test results; Appendix B: Additional tables and figures; Appendix C: Internet Use in China.
