Alexander Trauth-Goik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4896543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Trauth-Goik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Trauth-Goik |
| SIGNATURE | TRAUTH-GOIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1223-1044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Top-Down Communitarianism”: The Purposes and Limitations of China’s Point System Governance
Across China, citizens are increasingly governed through point systems that quantify everyday behaviour. Using a mixed-methods design combining analysis of 122 state media reports with village-level fieldwork near Beijing, we ask what forms of conduct these systems define as ‘good’ and how they are implemented in practice. Despite variation in policy terminology and institutional sponsors, point systems converge on a shared moral core emphasising…
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (2023) Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance. Routledge Studies in Surveillance
Alexander Trauth-Goik reviews Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
Civilized cities or social credit? Overlap and tension between emergent governance infrastructures in China
Foreign imaginaries of surveillance and informatization in China are commonly connected to notions of omnipresence, advanced technology, and coherent governance. In reality, however, the Chinese government’s efforts at the building of a digital society are permeated by confusion over the meaning of central edicts, interdepartmental and regional fragmentation, and overlap between different digital governance systems. This article interrogates the …
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 …
Repudiating the Fourth Industrial Revolution Discourse: A New Episteme of Technological Progress
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) is a techno-infused discourse around which high-level discussions of the future have come to revolve. The vision depicted by the 4th IR is one of exponential technological change and convergence, a scene in which disruptive discoveries and their implementation occur simultaneously across the physical, digital and biological spheres. This article examines the development of the 4th IR and assesses the neol…
Decentralising Data Collection and Centralising Information in the People’s Republic of China: Decentralise, Manage, and Service Reforms
Xi Jinping’s ascent to power as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was accompanied by changes in national governance strategies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that have progressively incorporated the use of big data. Shortly after, in May 2015, the Chinese State Council released a set of policy reforms under the abbreviation fang guan fu 放管服 (decentralise, manage, and service). These reforms promoted big data led (1) market re…
Handling Covid-19 with big data in China: Increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’
Building a national system of social governance (guojia zhili tixi), which is the long-running governance dream of Xi Jinping, has triggered the creation of China’s ‘smart state’ using the tools of new information technologies to advance governance capacity (zhili nengli). These systems were already deployed nationally when the COVID-19 pandemic hit China, but were connected at a lesser capacity, targeting specific domains of security, industry o…
"Constructing a Culture of Honesty and Integrity": The Evolution of China's Han-centric Surveillance System
Surveillance has become the dominant organizing force of the modern era. A once isolated and limited practice, surveillance now pervades every facet of urban existence in practically all corners of the globe. Contemporary surveillance of the type facilitated by information and communication technologies embodies the logical outcome of a positivist rationality that seeks to reduce all life phenomena to calculation and quantifiable management. The …
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 …
Decentralising Data Collection and Centralising Information in the People’s Republic of China: Decentralise, Manage, and Service Reforms
Xi Jinping’s ascent to power as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was accompanied by changes in national governance strategies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that have progressively incorporated the use of big data. Shortly after, in May 2015, the Chinese State Council released a set of policy reforms under the abbreviation fang guan fu 放管服 (decentralise, manage, and service). These reforms promoted big data led (1) market re…
Handling Covid-19 with big data in China: Increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’
Building a national system of social governance (guojia zhili tixi), which is the long-running governance dream of Xi Jinping, has triggered the creation of China’s ‘smart state’ using the tools of new information technologies to advance governance capacity (zhili nengli). These systems were already deployed nationally when the COVID-19 pandemic hit China, but were connected at a lesser capacity, targeting specific domains of security, industry o…
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics
"Constructing a Culture of Honesty and Integrity": The Evolution of China's Han-centric Surveillance System
Surveillance has become the dominant organizing force of the modern era. A once isolated and limited practice, surveillance now pervades every facet of urban existence in practically all corners of the globe. Contemporary surveillance of the type facilitated by information and communication technologies embodies the logical outcome of a positivist rationality that seeks to reduce all life phenomena to calculation and quantifiable management. The …
Repudiating the Fourth Industrial Revolution Discourse: A New Episteme of Technological Progress
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) is a techno-infused discourse around which high-level discussions of the future have come to revolve. The vision depicted by the 4th IR is one of exponential technological change and convergence, a scene in which disruptive discoveries and their implementation occur simultaneously across the physical, digital and biological spheres. This article examines the development of the 4th IR and assesses the neol…
Decentralising Data Collection and Centralising Information in the People’s Republic of China: Decentralise, Manage, and Service Reforms
Xi Jinping’s ascent to power as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was accompanied by changes in national governance strategies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that have progressively incorporated the use of big data. Shortly after, in May 2015, the Chinese State Council released a set of policy reforms under the abbreviation fang guan fu 放管服 (decentralise, manage, and service). These reforms promoted big data led (1) market re…
Handling Covid-19 with big data in China: Increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’
Building a national system of social governance (guojia zhili tixi), which is the long-running governance dream of Xi Jinping, has triggered the creation of China’s ‘smart state’ using the tools of new information technologies to advance governance capacity (zhili nengli). These systems were already deployed nationally when the COVID-19 pandemic hit China, but were connected at a lesser capacity, targeting specific domains of security, industry o…
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 …
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (2023) Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance. Routledge Studies in Surveillance
Alexander Trauth-Goik reviews Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
Civilized cities or social credit? Overlap and tension between emergent governance infrastructures in China
Foreign imaginaries of surveillance and informatization in China are commonly connected to notions of omnipresence, advanced technology, and coherent governance. In reality, however, the Chinese government’s efforts at the building of a digital society are permeated by confusion over the meaning of central edicts, interdepartmental and regional fragmentation, and overlap between different digital governance systems. This article interrogates the …
“Top-Down Communitarianism”: The Purposes and Limitations of China’s Point System Governance
Across China, citizens are increasingly governed through point systems that quantify everyday behaviour. Using a mixed-methods design combining analysis of 122 state media reports with village-level fieldwork near Beijing, we ask what forms of conduct these systems define as ‘good’ and how they are implemented in practice. Despite variation in policy terminology and institutional sponsors, point systems converge on a shared moral core emphasising…
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics
Political science (8 works) · China (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)