"There Should Be More Than One Voice in A Healthy Society": Infrastructural Violence and Totalitarian Computing in China
"There Should Be More Than One Voice in A Healthy Society": Infrastructural Violence and Totalitarian Computing in China
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“健康社会应该有不止一种声音”：中国的基础设施暴力和极权计算
DOI：
10.1145/3476070
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发表时间：
2021
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B. Nardi
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作者：
Zipeng Li;B. Nardi
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，中国公民陷入了公共卫生危机以及中国政府在过去几十年里建立的广泛审查制度和宣传基础设施。 2020 年 3 月，我们采访了 24 名中国公民，了解他们在疫情爆发的最初几个月中经历了审查和宣传。我们从基础设施暴力的角度出发，记录国家在基础设施层面对中国人民施加的暴力，渗透到普通公民的思想和日常生活中。我们研究了基础设施暴力的三个维度：扭曲真相的认知暴力、国家报复的情感暴力以及关系恶化的人际暴力。根据我们的实证研究结果，我们反思基础设施暴力是如何通过极权主义计算技术构成的。我们强调研究技术地缘政治的必要性，并提出研究极权计算的研究议程。
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese citizens were caught up within a public health crisis and an expansive censorship and propaganda infrastructure built by the Chinese government over the past few decades. In March 2020, we interviewed 24 Chinese citizens to understand how they experienced censorship and propaganda during the first few months of the pandemic. Drawing from the lens of infrastructural violence, we document state violence inflicted on the Chinese people at the infrastructural scale, penetrating ordinary citizens' minds and daily lives. We examine three dimensions of infrastructural violence: epistemic violence of truth distortion, emotional violence of state retaliation, and interpersonal violence of relationship deterioration. Based on our empirical findings, we reflect on how infrastructural violence is constituted through totalitarian computing technologies. We stress the need to study the geopolitics of technology and propose a research agenda for studying totalitarian computing.