Reconfiguring the boundaries of self and state in the PRC: Metaverse, Social Credit, and Ethnicity

重新配置中华人民共和国的自我和国家边界：元宇宙、社会信用和种族

• 批准号: 2742805
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2742805
• 关键词: Reconfiguring; boundaries; self; state; PRC

China is already the world's most deeply integrated and technologically advanced society. The citizen's identity and agencyare coded about a singular government-issued ID. This then ties to everything from one's bank account and social creditscore to one's messaging and social media profiles and so reconfigures the boundary of what we might consider the'person'. In the purest sense, this is the definition of 'metaverse': a virtual realm mapped onto quotidian reality, from which'legitimate operators' can move seamlessly back and forth. Continuing my masters research into the Chinese metaversewith those at its limits in Hong Kong and Taiwan, I plan to show how the unique perspective of the Tujia minority providesan ideal delimitation within which to chart the boundaries of the cybernetic human in China today, and so present onepossible future for the internet globally.The Tujia are greatly understudied. Millions live within the vicinity of Chongqing, arguably China's largest, leastwesternised,and yet most technologically advanced megacity. There has been no community ethnography of the Tujia inChongqing, and no studies into how they have been affected by rapid sociotechnological changes, such as the recentroll-out of 5G, soon to be felt everywhere.Given the rising tides of nationalism in the PRC and their intersection with rapid urbanisation, new media, and thedeethnicisation of public discourse, I ask how does Tujia ethnicity modulate the interface of selfhood with the state? Giventhe prime role played by AI and algorithmic logic in China's technocracy, how do new technologies further mediate thisprocess? Using online and offline participant observation, semi-structured interviews, network-mapping, and linguistic GISdata, I will build upon the theoretical concept of 'cybernesis' that I have developed through my previous research to explainhow sociotechnological evolution reconfigures the boundaries of self and state.

中国已经是世界上最深入的融合和技术先进的社会。公民的身份和代理机构编码了一个奇异的政府发行的ID。然后，这与从一个人的银行帐户和社交信用核心到一个人的消息传递和社交媒体概况的所有内容相关联，从而重新配置了我们认为“专家”的边界。从最纯粹的意义上讲，这是“ metaverse”的定义：一个映射到quotidian现实的虚拟领域，从中，“合格操作员”可以从中无缝地来回移动。我继续对中国元评估的硕士学位进行研究，而在香港和台湾的局限性的范围内，我计划展示Tujia少数民族的独特视角如何提供理想的划界，以便在当今中国网络论人的界限，以便在互联网上为互联网提供一个可行的未来。数以百万计的人居住在重庆附近，可以说是中国最大的，最不熟悉的，但技术上最先进的。没有关于Tujia Inchongqing的社区民族志，也没有研究它们如何受到迅速的社会技术变化的影响，例如最近的5G爆发，很快就会感受到任何地方。 AI和算法逻辑在中国技术官僚中扮演的主要角色，新技术如何进一步调解这种过程？使用在线和离线参与者观察，半结构化访谈，网络映射和语言Gisdata，我将基于我先前的研究所开发的理论概念，以解释社会技术进化论如何恢复自我和州的边界。