Data Hegemony and Digital Enclaves
Lawscape Analysis of Taiwan’s Urban Data Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24217822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tzu-I Lee (0009-0009-7906-7067, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology), Min-Syuan Kang (National Taipei University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2026-09-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-9015 • E-ISSN: 2052-9023 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/als.2026.10062 |
| OpenAlex | W7214173950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Taiwan’s urban data governance reveals how concentrated data control creates spatial power through subtle mechanisms. This article introduces “data hegemony” and “digital enclaves” to examine COVID-19 surveillance in Taipei’s Wanhua district and concert management in Kaohsiung. Wanhua demonstrates coercive data hegemony—comprehensive surveillance under emergency powers that create visible harms (healthcare denial, spatial stigmatisation, and economic losses)—which enables civil society to contest through legal challenges. Kaohsiung demonstrates service-integrated data hegemony—surveillance embedded within service provision delivering genuine improvements (efficient crowd management, optimised facilities, and economic benefits) that foreclose contestation through satisfaction. This framework addresses critical gaps in privacy-centric and state-surveillance approaches by capturing how algorithmic categorisation produces collective spatial effects transcending individual privacy violations, with implications for democratic oversight in digitised cities.
COVID-19 surveillance · crowd management · data control · democratic oversight · emergency powers · Kaohsiung · legal challenges · Privacy · spatial power · Taiwan · urban data governance · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Digitalization, Law, and Regulation · Smart Cities and Technologies
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |