Aynne Kokas
Biographic Data
| ID | 296549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aynne Kokas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kokas |
| SIGNATURE | KOKAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5913-6055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking
Studies of digital resignation focus on the idea of the corporate cultivation of digital resignation among users, an area of intense importance when examining user data sharing with corporations. To best appreciate the implications of digital resignation in a transnational context, it is important to consider not just resignation by users, but by policymakers. Weak digital policymaking in the US context enables continued digital resignation by us…
AI Development and the "Fuzzy Logic" of Chinese Cyber Security and Data Laws
Max Parasol's new book AI Development and the “Fuzzy Logic” of Chinese Cyber Security and Data Laws offers a valuable framework for understanding the competing goals of Chinese technology innovation initiatives and digital oversight regulations. Parasol is a research fellow on the Digital CBD Project, a qualified lawyer, and a former private equity professional with experience in both China and Australia. His comprehensive background and training…
Data Trafficking and the International Risks of Surveillance Capitalism
This article offers a framework to discuss when a community’s data is moved abroad without their informed consent, a practice I term data trafficking. I analyze Grindr, an LGBTQIA+ dating platform that has changed hands between China and the United States to demonstrate what data trafficking is, how it undermines national sovereignty, and how it erodes human rights. In the United States, corporate policies are the leading indicator for data gover…
How Beijing Runs the Show in Hollywood
The relationship between PRC content rules, the Chinese entertainment industry (broadly defined), and U.S. media conglomerates underscores a transition in the role of entertainment in politics. The shift is from "soft power" to "sharp power"—in particular, the type that weaponizes technology and corporations' dependence on political authorities for market access to control content. Beijing deploys sharp power to constrain content by bringing PRC …
Chilling Netflix
This article argues that as China becomes more central to streaming platform revenues, the global influence of Chinese content regulators will rise, not just because of restrictions in the Chinese market, but because of the active participation of US technology firms, driven by the demands of US capital markets. This article demonstrates how financialization, or prioritization of shareholder value above all else, in the US technology industry exp…
Producing global China
China’s economic might in the film industry has transformed representation in Hollywood. This paper examines how the expanded role of the Chinese market, both in terms of audience size and financing, has both reasserted hegemonic Hollywood genre and talent selection and asserted hegemonic Chinese standards. This takes the form of more genre films, more conservative casting in terms of race and gender, and the privileging of mainstream political d…
Serious chemistry on set
Using the case of the Mainland Chinese film industry, this paper argues that the competing features that attract commercial capital investment and drive state centralization create a molecular structure of national film investment, or the division of investment in the film industry into several interdependent centers. A combination of regulations, institutions, the built environment and access to capital leads to a distributed investment of strat…
Predicting volatility between China and Hollywood
Sino-US film collaboration processes reveal the fraught power dynamic between the Chinese and American film industries. Through several key Chinese film policy deal structures, China’s centralization of film regulation policy facilitates China’s ongoing efforts to become the most powerful film industry in the world. The absence of a centralized US government media policy, driven by long-term industry lobbying, has thus far blunted US efforts to c…
Platform Patrol
In Apple CEO Tim Cook's keynote speech at the Chinese government's 2017 World Internet Conference, he extolled the values of "Privacy. Security. Decency" (Apple Newsroom 2017). The last two terms, "security" and "decency," have long been closely associated with Chinese government efforts to control the Internet. Indeed, in 2017 Apple agreed to turn over user data to Chinese government servers and start a Chinese provincial government-run data sto…
Hollywood Made in China
Winner of the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book Award Winner of the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards 2018 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award Finalist China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on …
Data Trafficking and the International Risks of Surveillance Capitalism
This article offers a framework to discuss when a community’s data is moved abroad without their informed consent, a practice I term data trafficking. I analyze Grindr, an LGBTQIA+ dating platform that has changed hands between China and the United States to demonstrate what data trafficking is, how it undermines national sovereignty, and how it erodes human rights. In the United States, corporate policies are the leading indicator for data gover…
How Beijing Runs the Show in Hollywood
The relationship between PRC content rules, the Chinese entertainment industry (broadly defined), and U.S. media conglomerates underscores a transition in the role of entertainment in politics. The shift is from "soft power" to "sharp power"—in particular, the type that weaponizes technology and corporations' dependence on political authorities for market access to control content. Beijing deploys sharp power to constrain content by bringing PRC …
Platform Patrol
In Apple CEO Tim Cook's keynote speech at the Chinese government's 2017 World Internet Conference, he extolled the values of "Privacy. Security. Decency" (Apple Newsroom 2017). The last two terms, "security" and "decency," have long been closely associated with Chinese government efforts to control the Internet. Indeed, in 2017 Apple agreed to turn over user data to Chinese government servers and start a Chinese provincial government-run data sto…
Hollywood Made in China
Winner of the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book Award Winner of the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards 2018 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award Finalist China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on …
Predicting volatility between China and Hollywood
Sino-US film collaboration processes reveal the fraught power dynamic between the Chinese and American film industries. Through several key Chinese film policy deal structures, China’s centralization of film regulation policy facilitates China’s ongoing efforts to become the most powerful film industry in the world. The absence of a centralized US government media policy, driven by long-term industry lobbying, has thus far blunted US efforts to c…
Platform Patrol
In Apple CEO Tim Cook's keynote speech at the Chinese government's 2017 World Internet Conference, he extolled the values of "Privacy. Security. Decency" (Apple Newsroom 2017). The last two terms, "security" and "decency," have long been closely associated with Chinese government efforts to control the Internet. Indeed, in 2017 Apple agreed to turn over user data to Chinese government servers and start a Chinese provincial government-run data sto…
Producing global China
China’s economic might in the film industry has transformed representation in Hollywood. This paper examines how the expanded role of the Chinese market, both in terms of audience size and financing, has both reasserted hegemonic Hollywood genre and talent selection and asserted hegemonic Chinese standards. This takes the form of more genre films, more conservative casting in terms of race and gender, and the privileging of mainstream political d…
Serious chemistry on set
Using the case of the Mainland Chinese film industry, this paper argues that the competing features that attract commercial capital investment and drive state centralization create a molecular structure of national film investment, or the division of investment in the film industry into several interdependent centers. A combination of regulations, institutions, the built environment and access to capital leads to a distributed investment of strat…
Chilling Netflix
This article argues that as China becomes more central to streaming platform revenues, the global influence of Chinese content regulators will rise, not just because of restrictions in the Chinese market, but because of the active participation of US technology firms, driven by the demands of US capital markets. This article demonstrates how financialization, or prioritization of shareholder value above all else, in the US technology industry exp…
Data Trafficking and the International Risks of Surveillance Capitalism
This article offers a framework to discuss when a community’s data is moved abroad without their informed consent, a practice I term data trafficking. I analyze Grindr, an LGBTQIA+ dating platform that has changed hands between China and the United States to demonstrate what data trafficking is, how it undermines national sovereignty, and how it erodes human rights. In the United States, corporate policies are the leading indicator for data gover…
How Beijing Runs the Show in Hollywood
The relationship between PRC content rules, the Chinese entertainment industry (broadly defined), and U.S. media conglomerates underscores a transition in the role of entertainment in politics. The shift is from "soft power" to "sharp power"—in particular, the type that weaponizes technology and corporations' dependence on political authorities for market access to control content. Beijing deploys sharp power to constrain content by bringing PRC …
AI Development and the "Fuzzy Logic" of Chinese Cyber Security and Data Laws
Max Parasol's new book AI Development and the “Fuzzy Logic” of Chinese Cyber Security and Data Laws offers a valuable framework for understanding the competing goals of Chinese technology innovation initiatives and digital oversight regulations. Parasol is a research fellow on the Digital CBD Project, a qualified lawyer, and a former private equity professional with experience in both China and Australia. His comprehensive background and training…
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking
Studies of digital resignation focus on the idea of the corporate cultivation of digital resignation among users, an area of intense importance when examining user data sharing with corporations. To best appreciate the implications of digital resignation in a transnational context, it is important to consider not just resignation by users, but by policymakers. Weak digital policymaking in the US context enables continued digital resignation by us…
China (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Hollywood (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works)