Social control in the digital transformation of society: A case study of the Chinese Social Credit System

M Chen, J Grossklags - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Chinese social credit system (SCS) is a digital sociotechnical credit system that rewards
and sanctions the economic and social behaviors of individuals and companies. This article …

Black or fifty shades of grey? The power and limits of the social credit blacklist system in China

A Trauth-Goik, C Liu - Journal of Contemporary China, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Punishment from the state can rely on formal state apparatuses, but also the mobilization
and co-option of the deviant's own social connections to enhance the power of social …

State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism

J Zhang, J Bates, P Abbott - Urban Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the socio-political sha** of Chinese smart urbanism by examining the
power relations between the government (national and municipal), private firms and citizens …

[LIVRE][B] Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire

V Brussee - 2023 - Springer
On a warm autumn evening in Bei**g in 2017, I sat down with local friends from Peking
University at a local restaurant in Haidian, the city's university district. As we sat down, we …

Social scoring systems for behavioral regulation: An experiment on the role of transparency in determining perceptions and behaviors

C Loefflad, M Chen, J Grossklags - … of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Recent developments in artificial intelligence research have advanced the spread of
automated decision-making (ADM) systems used for regulating human behaviors. In this …

Media framing and public support for China's social credit system: An experimental study

P Xu, B Krueger, F Liang, M Zhang… - New Media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although China's social credit system (SCS) is widely portrayed by Western media as
repressive surveillance, recent studies show that it receives high levels of support among …

Civilized cities or social credit? Overlap and tension between emergent governance infrastructures in China

A Trauth-Goik - Global Media and China, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Foreign imaginaries of surveillance and informatization in China are commonly connected to
notions of omnipresence, advanced technology, and coherent governance. In reality …

Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China

H Li, G Kostka - Policy & Internet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, China's central and municipal governments have consistently
supported the development of social credit systems (SCSs). While research has highlighted …

Reputational Discrimination and Fairness in China's Social Credit System

C Loefflad, M Chen, J Grossklags - Digital Government: Research and …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As the first nationwide reputation system, the Chinese Social Credit System (SCS) employs
a plethora of information technologies to rate citizens according to a state-defined notion of …

Ordinary people as moral heroes and foes: Digital role model narratives propagate social norms in China's Social Credit System

M Chen, S Engelmann, J Grossklags - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The Chinese Social Credit System (SCS) is a digital sociotechnical credit system that
rewards and sanctions economic and social behaviors of individuals and companies. As a …