SURVEILLANCE FOR THE MASSES: CHINA’S USE OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19

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Abstract: China’s usage of digital surveillance technologies proved effective in its COVID-19 containment strategy. What became a driving research question of this thesis was why China had been able to use such technologies with the compliance of individuals’ and businesses’ when other countries that failed to do the same. This paper specifically researches the underlying social, historical, and political frameworks which made such a response by the CCP possible. Using a combination of primary and secondary source documents, literary research, and associated analysis, this paper crafts a holistic theory on China’s usage of digital surveillance technologies during COVID-19 and its related impactions. One revelation from my research is the CCP’s concern for power and control over Chinese society, which has consequently influenced its related interactions with those below it. Another critical discovery is how the CCP and Chinese society have been subject to multiple and at times conflicting ideologies, all of which informed the country’s COVID-19 response. As China’s response to COVID-19 demonstrates, digital surveillance technologies could be used as tools of expanding authoritative rule in the name of national security. It is the hope of this research that awareness of this topic will lead to a better-informed society that can use digital technologies effectively and ethically.

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Date created	[ca. May 2021]

Author	Kasha Akrami

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tc568nq6695

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Preferred Citation: Kasha Akrami. (2021). SURVEILLANCE FOR THE MASSES: CHINA’S USE OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 . Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/tc568nq6695

Stanford University, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Honors Theses

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