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SUMMARY:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Metricracy: The Data and Symbolic Pol
 itics of a Chinese Social Credit System
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtuall
 y on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is requir
 ed. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your em
 ail. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/kVZXk Based on f
 ieldwork inside one of China's most celebrated social credit systems\, t
 his talk shows what actually happens when a state tries to score the mor
 al lives of its citizens. Far from the all-seeing surveillance machine\,
  the system runs on data that are selectively collected and routinely fa
 bricated—and even then\, the state struggles to make the score mean an
 ything\, facing constant contestation and reinterpretation. This notorio
 us system\, Dr. Liu will suggest\, is less an authoritarian anomaly than
  a sharp lens on the contradictions of governing by numbers anywhere. Ch
 uncheng Liu is a sociologist of knowledge and technology who studies the
  politics of data and classification. An assistant professor of communic
 ation and sociology at Northeastern University\, he earned his Ph.D. in 
 sociology and science studies at the University of California\, San Dieg
 o\, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England.
  His current research examines the politics of sociotechnical systems th
 at surveil and classify citizens. His work has appeared in journals incl
 uding *Big Data & Society*\; *Information\, Communication & Society*\; *
 Social Science & Medicine*\; and *Science\, Technology & Human Values*\,
  and has been featured in outlets such as The Guardian\, Bloomberg\, and
  Rest of World. *Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Soverei
 gnty* https://myumi.ch/ii-theme\n\nMore info: https://events.umich.edu/e
 vent/150169\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/fc68617c-9358-4f8d-b3f1
 -06b91d795a66
LOCATION:The University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/fc68617c-9358-4f8d-b3f1-06b91d795a6
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