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SUMMARY:Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Public Opinion Management in Chin
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DESCRIPTION:The digital age has afforded autocrats new technologies of con
 trol\, allowing it to co-opt\, pre-empt and repress dissent. But\, what if
  they lack the technical capacity to access digital tools of control? In w
 hat ways have digital technologies altered the way autocratic states condu
 ct statecraft? Based on an analysis of more than 3\,000 public procurement
  documents\, and a dozen elite interviews with various stakeholders\, Lyne
 tte Ong and her co-authors found that the Chinese state has outsourced var
 ious functions of online surveillance to private and for-profit arms of st
 ate-owned corporations. They found that outsourcing surveillance is intend
 ed to augment state technical capacity to moderate and fine-tune the condu
 ct of digital repression. Outsourcing digital repression opens up a pandor
 a box of state-business collaborations in autocratic settings. \n\nLynette
  Ong is the Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics at the University 
 of Toronto. A leading scholar of Chinese politics and political economy\, 
 she directs the China Governance Lab at the Munk School. She is the author
  of three books on China and comparative authoritarian politics. Her lates
 t book\, Outsourcing Repression\, has won seven best book awards. She has 
 been appointed nonresident Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center fo
 r China Analysis\, and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She has been
  invited to deliver expert testimonies before the US Congress and the Cana
 dian House of Commons. She frequently offers expert commentaries to intern
 ational and Canadian media.
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LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building\, Oxford China Centre - Lucina Ho Seminar R
 oom (first floor)\, Lucina Ho Seminar Room Dickson Poon Building\, Oxford 
 China Centre Canterbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6LU United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Professor Lynette Ong (University of Toronto)
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