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Involution Nation : = Passion, Place and Precarity in the Chinese Mobile Tech Industry.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Involution Nation :/
其他題名:	Passion, Place and Precarity in the Chinese Mobile Tech Industry.
作者:	Xu, Yizhou.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (251 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-03, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-03B.
標題:	Communication. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29326303click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798841747659

Involution Nation : = Passion, Place and Precarity in the Chinese Mobile Tech Industry.
Xu, Yizhou.

Involution Nation :Passion, Place and Precarity in the Chinese Mobile Tech Industry. - 1 online resource (251 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-03, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation project considers how Chinese tech workers navigate within and against the various constraints imposed by government policies, corporate institutions, and platform infrastructures in governing the mobile software industry. The current state of Sino-American relations culminating in what many pundits consider as a "tech cold war" has highlighted not just increasing divisions between divergent tech policies but also the contending interpretations of what constitutes privacy, access, and openness in the digital age. Likewise, the onset of the global pandemic coupled with growing regulatory crackdowns have exacerbate preexisting inequalities, created downturns in the tech industry, and heightened extreme forms of competition that gave rise to the involution turn in China. I am therefore especially interested in how tech workers make sense of their everyday experiences in the light of increasing precarity and austerity and how such relational processes shape their livelihoods and subjectivities in the formation of a possible common tech identity. Given the growing influence of Chinese tech on the world stage, understanding the plight of Chinese tech workers can offer important lessons in the future of work and labor activism in the global economy. Based on a 13-month ethnography where I worked as a full-time employee in the Chinese mobile tech industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, I explicate many of the material and affective conditions rooted in the everyday that help to shape workers' understanding of their own roles within the industry and society writ large. I argue that tech workers and IT professionals occupy a contradictory position by which they are often the enablers of the same oppressive means of digital control that dictates their own working lives. In other words, the compounding issues of policy, platforms and precarity can both enable and impede the mechanism of control where tech workers paradoxically possess the necessary technical skills to exploit and subvert the system. In doing so, my project offers an intimate perspective of tech workers' personal and professional lives as they grapple with the issues of alienation and aspiration that are often at odds with state and corporate interests.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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