Automated Societies

Automated Societies

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Automated Societies episodes

  • Locating and Localizing ADM Failures in China

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    Xin Dai from Peking University presents 'Locating and Localizing ADM Failures in China.'

    43 min
  • Surveillance and Everyday Life

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This session included the following presentations:  
    Xin Gu, Monash University:
    De-construct Chinese Facial Recognition Technology Discourse.  
    Hailing Zhao, Aalborg University, Tingting Liu, Jinan University, Guangzhou:
    Coping with Digital Blacklisting in (Non)identical Ways: An ethnographic study of the untrustworthy in China.  
    Fan Liang, Duke Kushan University, Haiyun Zhou, University of Cambridge:
    Automated Reduction? The Practices and Imaginaries of Content Moderation on Chinese Short-video Platforms.

    47 min
  • Imaginary Vs Reality

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This session included the following presentations:  
    Jian Xu, Deakin University, Terry Flew, University of Sydney:
    Governing the Algorithmic Distribution of News in China: The case of Jinri Toutiao.
     
    Yu Shan and Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology:
    Automated Decision-Making Society in China: Or all watched over by machines of loving Grace?  
    Gianluigi Negro, University of Siena:
    Nationalising the Metaverse in China. The case of Qian Xuesen.

    48 min
  • Perspectives from Information Systems

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This podcast includes the following presentations:  
    Warwick Powell, University of Queensland, Shoufeng Cao, University of Queensland:
    Automated Decision-Making in Cross-Border Trade with China: Exploring the opportunity of federated Multisig deal transaction smart contracts to streamline payments.   
    Lin Tian and Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT University:
    Contrastive Analysis of Covid-19 health misinformation within online Chinese-language communities.  
    Wynston Lee, RMIT University, Guangnan Zhu, Queensland University of Technology:
    Mapping the (Automated) Data Assemblages of China's Social Credit System.

    47 min
  • Interdisciplinary Dialogues

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This podcast includes the following presentations:
    H C Steinhardt and Christian Göbel, University of Vienna:
    Mobilising Social Anomie to strengthen the state: Justification Strategies for 'Social Credit' on Sina Weibo.  
    Anne-Christine Trémon, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris:
    Scientific Fairness: Experimentation and critique of points systems in Shenzhen.  
    Alexander Trauth-Goik, University of Vienna, Philipp Immel, University of Wurzburg:
    "My credit score ought to surpass 90% of people": A qualitative analysis of citizen interpretations and engagements with state, commercial and peer-to-peer forms of surveillance in China.  
    Lena Wassermann and Theresa Krause, University of Wurzburg:
    The impact of the SCS on foreign companies using the case of German firms.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Historicity and Governmentality

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This session included the following presentations:  
    Adam Knight, Leiden Institute:
    Automating Revolution: Operational Research and the Origins of Automated Decision-Making in 1950's China.  
    Xiang Gao, Zhejiang University:
    Automated-Decision Making, Bureaucratisation and centralisation: The rise of China's digital administrative state.  
    Warwick Powell, Queensland University of Technology:
    Dialogue and Democracy: Policing and Algorithms. Alternative perspectives on digitised life-worlds and governmentally with Chinese characteristics.

    1 hr
  • Data and Governance

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This podcast includes the following presentations:  
    Marianne von Blomberg and Bjorn Ahl, University of Cologne:
    Debating the Legality of "Credit based Regulation" in China - A review of Chinese legal scholarship.  
    Cheris Shun-ting Chen, University of Hong Kong:
    Making it a Habit: Instituting Social Credit Systems in Rural China.  
    Yu Sun, University of Glasgow,  Wilfred Wang, University of Melbourne, and Linlin Li, Zhejiang University:
    Automating moral governance: a case study of data scoring systems in rural China.

    48 min
  • Discrepancy and Division

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.

    This podcast includes the following presentations:  
    Yu Hong, Zhejiang University, Yiran Wei, Hong Kong Baptist University:  
    The Making of a City Brain: How traditional media become the sociotechnical gateway for technopolitical disagreement.  
    Han Tao, University of Sussex:
    In Credit we Trust? Banks, 'Packaging Agencies' and the Promise of Digital Lending to Small Businesses.  
    Haili Li and Genia Kostka, Freie University of Berlin:
    Grey Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion in China.

    42 min
  • Legality and Discourse on AI

    This recording is from the International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM&CS) held at RMIT University and online on 1-3 February 2023.


    This podcast includes the following presentations:  

    Haemin Jee, U.S. Military Academy:  
    Credit for compliance: How Institutional Layering Ensures Compliance in China.  

    Fan Yang, University of Cologne:  
    Strengthening Efficiency, Consistency and Supervision: Provincial Pilots of Judicial AI and Big Data in China.   

    Yiran Li, Hong Kong Baptist University:  
    Making Governance Agile: Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in China's local governance. 

    51 min

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Utopian visions of automated decision-making (ADM) and AI promises new levels of personalisation, control and choice in our lives. Yet, we still know very little about how AI and ADM is being…

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