Chuncheng Liu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3590771 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chuncheng Liu |
| NOMBRES | Chuncheng |
| APELLIDO | Liu |
| FIRMA | LIU C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5842-7988 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Techno-orientalism in the US media
The portrayal of China’s Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens’ every step proliferates in Western media, despite scholarship pointing out that it has little in common with the realities of SCSs in China. The imagined techno-dystopia informs policymaking, achieved meme status as it is invoked in broader debates around governance, technology, and geopolitics. Based on sociolog…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
China as an analytical lens for AI and society
How can “China” serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and society? This commentary proposes a conceptual typology to answer that question. We offer four ways to use China as an analytical lens—China as Mirror, China as Prototype, China as Counterpoint, and China as Global Actor. Each concept illustrates how China's particularities and global entanglements can help reframe cor…
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure
Governance by quantification has a long history in human society. However, two critical issues remain underexplored in the sociology of quantification. First, while the social conditions and consequences of governance by numbers have been widely addressed, the politics of the 'middle ground' - quantification infrastructure itself, particularly with the rise of digitalization - are not fully elaborated. Second, the power dynamics that underpin and…
Trusting by Numbers
To govern, states collect and evaluate information about citizens. This paper examines a social credit system (SCS) in China, a state initiative aimed at governing trust through the quantification of social behavior. Our analysis opens the 'black box' of an SCS metric, investigating how trust is translated into numbers and the implications of this translation. We reveal that the SCS is deeply relational and embedded in specific interests, biases,…
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China
Punishment from the state can rely on formal state apparatuses, but also the mobilization and co-option of the deviant’s own social connections to enhance the power of social control. This study utilizes a mixed-method design based on 30 interviews and a national survey to examine how such ‘relational punishment’ operates in China today as part of the nation-wide Social Credit Blacklist System. The authors first trace the history of blacklisting …
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm
As states increasingly use algorithms to improve the legibility of society, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is common for concerns about the expanding power of the algorithm or the state to be raised in a deterministic manner. However, how are the algorithms for states' legibility projects enacted, contested, and reconfigured? Drawing on interviews and media data, this study fills this gap by examining Health Code ( jiankangma), the…
Who supports expanding surveillance? Exploring public opinion of Chinese social credit systems
Pervasive surveillance in modern society has raised mounting debates, which are largely concentrated on the ethical dimension and lack sociological examination. Drawing on innovative national survey data, this study analyzes public opinion about social credit systems, an emerging infrastructure that expands the depth and breadth of surveillance in China. I find a general high support for expanding surveillance and punishment yet key variations am…
Chinese Public’s Support for Covid-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West
Surveillance is never only about surveillance but is embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the surveillance practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from the perspective of the West, impacting domestic surveillance policymaking and public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ surveillance practices and discourses may impact how people in…
Making sense of algorithms
Governments and citizens of nearly every nation have been compelled to respond to COVID-19. Many measures have been adopted, including contact tracing and risk assessment algorithms, whereby citizen whereabouts are monitored to trace contact with other infectious individuals in order to generate a risk status via algorithmic evaluation. Based on 38 in-depth interviews, we investigate how people make sense of Health Code ( jiankangma), the Chinese…
Homoprejudiced violence among Chinese men who have sex with men
These findings suggest the importance of further research and the implementation of interventions focused on preventing and mitigating the effects of homoprejudiced violence among MSM in China
Beyond clinical trials
Stakeholder engagement is increasingly recognised and institutionalised as an essential component of HIV-related biomedical research. However, we know little about stakeholder engagement's social outcomes, such as its influence on the community it engages with, in authoritarian regimes and beyond high-income countries. This study evaluates a multi-site structured stakeholder engagement programme conducted in parallel with two HIV prevention studi…
Coronavirus stigmatization and psychological distress among Asians in the United States
Comprehensive measures around care seeking, public awareness, and disaggregated data collection are needed to address ethnoracial coronavirus stigmatization and its impact on psychological health and well-being
Red is not the only color of a rainbow
Multiple Social Credit Systems in China
Published on Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter, 2019, 21 (1): 22–32. In 2014, the Chinese government proposed to build a social credit system (SCS) to better collect and evaluate citizens’ creditworthiness and grant rewards and punishments based on one’s social credit. Since then, various SCS pilots have been enacted. While current media and scholars often perceive SCS as a single and unified system, this paper argues that th…
Multiple Social Credit Systems in China
Driving force of condomless sex after online intervention among Chinese men who have sex with men
The intervention appeared to be effective among MSM who reported viewing additional condom promotion videos by themselves and more community engagement after the intervention. In MSM who reported risky sexual behaviors at baseline, the intervention appeared less effective. Tailored intervention videos that target particular subgroups, active in-person community engagement, and optimized intervention frequency should be considered in future sexual…
Recalling, Sharing and Participating in a Social Media Intervention Promoting HIV Testing
MSM Behavior Disclosure Networks and HIV Testing
Condom use social norms and self-efficacy with different kinds of male partners among Chinese men who have sex with men
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02516930 . August 6, 2015
Sex tourism among Chinese men who have sex with men
MSM sex tourists were more likely to have risky sexual behaviors and travel to locations with a higher HIV prevalence. MSM sex tourists may be part of core groups that are disproportionately responsible for MSM HIV transmission. Enhanced surveillance and interventions tailored to MSM sex tourists should be considered
Receiving HIV Serostatus Disclosure from Partners Before Sex
No Place Like Home? Disentangling Preferences for HIV Testing Locations and Services Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
In China, some health departments and gay community-based organizations have begun to offer home-based HIV testing kits in order to augment test uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, HIV test preferences and motivations for home-testing among MSM in China are not well understood. The HIV testing preferences of 803 MSM throughout China were evaluated using single-item assessment and a discrete choice experiment (DCE). In both the …
The Gilded Cage
Making sense of algorithms
Governments and citizens of nearly every nation have been compelled to respond to COVID-19. Many measures have been adopted, including contact tracing and risk assessment algorithms, whereby citizen whereabouts are monitored to trace contact with other infectious individuals in order to generate a risk status via algorithmic evaluation. Based on 38 in-depth interviews, we investigate how people make sense of Health Code ( jiankangma), the Chinese…
Who supports expanding surveillance? Exploring public opinion of Chinese social credit systems
Pervasive surveillance in modern society has raised mounting debates, which are largely concentrated on the ethical dimension and lack sociological examination. Drawing on innovative national survey data, this study analyzes public opinion about social credit systems, an emerging infrastructure that expands the depth and breadth of surveillance in China. I find a general high support for expanding surveillance and punishment yet key variations am…
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm
As states increasingly use algorithms to improve the legibility of society, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is common for concerns about the expanding power of the algorithm or the state to be raised in a deterministic manner. However, how are the algorithms for states' legibility projects enacted, contested, and reconfigured? Drawing on interviews and media data, this study fills this gap by examining Health Code ( jiankangma), the…
Coronavirus stigmatization and psychological distress among Asians in the United States
Comprehensive measures around care seeking, public awareness, and disaggregated data collection are needed to address ethnoracial coronavirus stigmatization and its impact on psychological health and well-being
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China
Punishment from the state can rely on formal state apparatuses, but also the mobilization and co-option of the deviant’s own social connections to enhance the power of social control. This study utilizes a mixed-method design based on 30 interviews and a national survey to examine how such ‘relational punishment’ operates in China today as part of the nation-wide Social Credit Blacklist System. The authors first trace the history of blacklisting …
Chinese Public’s Support for Covid-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West
Surveillance is never only about surveillance but is embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the surveillance practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from the perspective of the West, impacting domestic surveillance policymaking and public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ surveillance practices and discourses may impact how people in…
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Trusting by Numbers
To govern, states collect and evaluate information about citizens. This paper examines a social credit system (SCS) in China, a state initiative aimed at governing trust through the quantification of social behavior. Our analysis opens the 'black box' of an SCS metric, investigating how trust is translated into numbers and the implications of this translation. We reveal that the SCS is deeply relational and embedded in specific interests, biases,…
Red is not the only color of a rainbow
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure
Governance by quantification has a long history in human society. However, two critical issues remain underexplored in the sociology of quantification. First, while the social conditions and consequences of governance by numbers have been widely addressed, the politics of the 'middle ground' - quantification infrastructure itself, particularly with the rise of digitalization - are not fully elaborated. Second, the power dynamics that underpin and…
Condom use social norms and self-efficacy with different kinds of male partners among Chinese men who have sex with men
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02516930 . August 6, 2015
Sex tourism among Chinese men who have sex with men
MSM sex tourists were more likely to have risky sexual behaviors and travel to locations with a higher HIV prevalence. MSM sex tourists may be part of core groups that are disproportionately responsible for MSM HIV transmission. Enhanced surveillance and interventions tailored to MSM sex tourists should be considered
Receiving HIV Serostatus Disclosure from Partners Before Sex
No Place Like Home? Disentangling Preferences for HIV Testing Locations and Services Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
In China, some health departments and gay community-based organizations have begun to offer home-based HIV testing kits in order to augment test uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, HIV test preferences and motivations for home-testing among MSM in China are not well understood. The HIV testing preferences of 803 MSM throughout China were evaluated using single-item assessment and a discrete choice experiment (DCE). In both the …
Multiple Social Credit Systems in China
Published on Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter, 2019, 21 (1): 22–32. In 2014, the Chinese government proposed to build a social credit system (SCS) to better collect and evaluate citizens’ creditworthiness and grant rewards and punishments based on one’s social credit. Since then, various SCS pilots have been enacted. While current media and scholars often perceive SCS as a single and unified system, this paper argues that th…
Multiple Social Credit Systems in China
Driving force of condomless sex after online intervention among Chinese men who have sex with men
The intervention appeared to be effective among MSM who reported viewing additional condom promotion videos by themselves and more community engagement after the intervention. In MSM who reported risky sexual behaviors at baseline, the intervention appeared less effective. Tailored intervention videos that target particular subgroups, active in-person community engagement, and optimized intervention frequency should be considered in future sexual…
Recalling, Sharing and Participating in a Social Media Intervention Promoting HIV Testing
MSM Behavior Disclosure Networks and HIV Testing
Homoprejudiced violence among Chinese men who have sex with men
These findings suggest the importance of further research and the implementation of interventions focused on preventing and mitigating the effects of homoprejudiced violence among MSM in China
Beyond clinical trials
Stakeholder engagement is increasingly recognised and institutionalised as an essential component of HIV-related biomedical research. However, we know little about stakeholder engagement's social outcomes, such as its influence on the community it engages with, in authoritarian regimes and beyond high-income countries. This study evaluates a multi-site structured stakeholder engagement programme conducted in parallel with two HIV prevention studi…
Coronavirus stigmatization and psychological distress among Asians in the United States
Comprehensive measures around care seeking, public awareness, and disaggregated data collection are needed to address ethnoracial coronavirus stigmatization and its impact on psychological health and well-being
Red is not the only color of a rainbow
Chinese Public’s Support for Covid-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West
Surveillance is never only about surveillance but is embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the surveillance practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from the perspective of the West, impacting domestic surveillance policymaking and public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ surveillance practices and discourses may impact how people in…
Making sense of algorithms
Governments and citizens of nearly every nation have been compelled to respond to COVID-19. Many measures have been adopted, including contact tracing and risk assessment algorithms, whereby citizen whereabouts are monitored to trace contact with other infectious individuals in order to generate a risk status via algorithmic evaluation. Based on 38 in-depth interviews, we investigate how people make sense of Health Code ( jiankangma), the Chinese…
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China
Punishment from the state can rely on formal state apparatuses, but also the mobilization and co-option of the deviant’s own social connections to enhance the power of social control. This study utilizes a mixed-method design based on 30 interviews and a national survey to examine how such ‘relational punishment’ operates in China today as part of the nation-wide Social Credit Blacklist System. The authors first trace the history of blacklisting …
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm
As states increasingly use algorithms to improve the legibility of society, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is common for concerns about the expanding power of the algorithm or the state to be raised in a deterministic manner. However, how are the algorithms for states' legibility projects enacted, contested, and reconfigured? Drawing on interviews and media data, this study fills this gap by examining Health Code ( jiankangma), the…
Who supports expanding surveillance? Exploring public opinion of Chinese social credit systems
Pervasive surveillance in modern society has raised mounting debates, which are largely concentrated on the ethical dimension and lack sociological examination. Drawing on innovative national survey data, this study analyzes public opinion about social credit systems, an emerging infrastructure that expands the depth and breadth of surveillance in China. I find a general high support for expanding surveillance and punishment yet key variations am…
The Gilded Cage
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
China as an analytical lens for AI and society
How can “China” serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and society? This commentary proposes a conceptual typology to answer that question. We offer four ways to use China as an analytical lens—China as Mirror, China as Prototype, China as Counterpoint, and China as Global Actor. Each concept illustrates how China's particularities and global entanglements can help reframe cor…
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure
Governance by quantification has a long history in human society. However, two critical issues remain underexplored in the sociology of quantification. First, while the social conditions and consequences of governance by numbers have been widely addressed, the politics of the 'middle ground' - quantification infrastructure itself, particularly with the rise of digitalization - are not fully elaborated. Second, the power dynamics that underpin and…
Trusting by Numbers
To govern, states collect and evaluate information about citizens. This paper examines a social credit system (SCS) in China, a state initiative aimed at governing trust through the quantification of social behavior. Our analysis opens the 'black box' of an SCS metric, investigating how trust is translated into numbers and the implications of this translation. We reveal that the SCS is deeply relational and embedded in specific interests, biases,…
Techno-orientalism in the US media
The portrayal of China’s Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens’ every step proliferates in Western media, despite scholarship pointing out that it has little in common with the realities of SCSs in China. The imagined techno-dystopia informs policymaking, achieved meme status as it is invoked in broader debates around governance, technology, and geopolitics. Based on sociolog…
Political science (14 obras) · China (13 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 obras) · Men who have sex with men (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 obras) · Demography (8 obras)