This article studies the platformization of cultural production in China through specific lens Kuaishou, an algorithm-based video-sharing platform targeting second- and third-tier cities as well countryside. It enables forming “unlikely” creative class contemporary China. Kuaishou’s business fits into Party State’s socio-economic agenda “Internet+” “Mass Entrepreneurship Innovation,” is also folded state’s demand for censorship social stability. As we will show, this state-commerce...

With the rapid growth of smartphones, mobile crowdsensing emerges as a new paradigm which takes advantage pervasive sensor-embedded smartphones to collect data efficiently. Many auction-based incentive mechanisms have been proposed stimulate smartphone users participate in applications and systems. However, none them has taken into consideration both bid privacy social cost. In this paper, we design two frameworks for privacypreserving that also achieve approximate cost minimization. former,...

The COVID-19 pandemic stirs up strong nationalist and localist sentiments; places pride themselves on containing the virus more effectively: We are doing better. call this ‘biopolitical nationalism’, understood by us as dynamics between body, geopolitics affect. When looking at mainland China, Taiwan Hong Kong, we analyse how biopolitical efforts of these being compared, applauded supported. Under a discourse life survival, celebration control does not fall into classic reproduction capital,...

The rapid growth of sensor-embedded smartphones has led to a new data sensing and collecting paradigm, known as crowdsensing. Many auction-based incentive mechanisms have been proposed stimulate smartphone users participate in However, none them taken into consideration the Sybil attack where user illegitimately pretends multiple identities gain benefits. This may undermine existing inventive mechanisms. To deter attack, we design Sybil-proof for crowdsensing this paper. We investigate both...

Instead of viewing TikTok as a platform, in this article we borrow Dutch film theorist Patricia Pisters’s concept neuro-images to approach cultural form that is deeply participatory, platform contingent, and algorithmically engraved. In the co-production between algorithms users, becomes an enormous database generates personalised narratives about individuals world onto through its ‘brain-screen’ interfaces, which simulate our conscious unconscious mind, actualise idea creativity based on...

Crowdsensing leverages the rapid growth of sensor-embedded smartphones and human mobility for pervasive information collection. To incentivize smartphone users to participate in crowdsensing, many auction-based incentive mechanisms have been proposed both offline online scenarios. It has demonstrated that Sybil attack may undermine these mechanisms. In a attack, user illegitimately pretends multiple identities gain benefits. Sybil-proof scenario. However, problem designing crowdsensing is...

This article studies creative labour in Chinese state-owned cultural enterprises (SOCEs). Based on the empirical analysis of fieldwork data, it analyses governmentality SOCEs through an investigation condition autonomy and discourse self-realization within selected media companies. The work system is made contingent by party state’s ideological concern, while since commercialization reform SOCEs, workers are also expected to ‘be for state’ under self-realization. In practice, as case loafing...

This research examines the complex labor practices of live e-commerce sellers in rural China. Migrant workers are being drawn back to their homes by techno-entrepreneurial prospects used as part "new farmers" branding. We examine how livestreaming platforms transform process produce sellers, zooming on physical work and transactional involved platformization. Analysis farmer" online workflow reveals not only insights into economic logics platformized but also shows important continuities...

With the rapid growth of smartphones, crowdsensing emerges as a new paradigm which takes advantage pervasive sensor-embedded smartphones to collect data efficiently. Auction has been widely used design mechanisms stimulate smartphone users participate in applications and systems. Many auction-based incentive have proposed for crowdsensing. However, none them taken into consideration both bid privacy social cost. To best our knowledge, we are first study privacy-preserving that also achieve...

Crowdsensing is a sensing method which involves participants from general public to collect sensed data their mobile devices, and also contribute utilize common database. To ensure crowdsensing system operate properly, there must be certain effective efficient incentive mechanism attract users stimulate them submit with high quality. Intuitively, the agreement on qualities payments in systems can best modeled as contract. However, none of existing mechanisms consider quality through contract...

In this special issue, we explore the geopolitics, aesthetics and future potentiality surrounding TikTok to assess possibility implications of a new phase digital globalisation. A in which China-based innovative platform technologies, infused with state power, generate potentially disrupt cultures places outside China. We will further next part introduction, showing how global rise is feeding into increasing geopolitical anxieties worldwide. At same time, argue for need diversify our...

In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), dynamic spectrum access has been proposed to improve the utilization, but it also generates misuse problems. One common solution these problems is deploy monitors detect misbehaviors on certain channel. However, in multi-channel CRNs, very costly every With a limited number of monitors, we have decide which channels monitor. addition, need determine how long monitor each channel and order monitor, because switching incurs costs. Moreover, information about...

In this introduction to special issue on creative labour in East Asia, we explore how the industries discourse, and related debates around labour, continue be haunted by a Eurocentric cum Anglocentric bias. The critical language of discourse often directs all discussion “inequality”, “precarity” “self-exploitation” towards critique “neoliberalism”, thus running risk overlooking different socio-political contexts. We point at urgency contextualize globalize, if not decolonize, work studies,...

In this article, we analyse the most popular stories that circulated on WeChat public accounts concerning personalized experiences of COVID-19 in China during first three months 2020. Among these non-fictional online writings, probe into ‘individual’ and mediated with coronavirus by questioning visualizations discourses their producers, as well concomitant emotions they invoked. Parallel to changing situation pandemic, observe a diachronic evolution emotions, from fear doubt (nationalist)...

Drawing on qualitative research conducted transnational creative workers in Beijing, this article shows how the vibrant interaction between global cultural industries and local Chinese economy propels labour mobility affects subjectification of workers. Having come to China enhance their careers, these professionals have been incorporated into workforce, contributing Party State's aspiration use creativity as a growth engine for form soft power. In terms workers' everyday experience,...

In this interview, José van Dijck distinguishes the concept of deplatformization from deplatforming and platformization. It describes phenomena systematic pushing back controversial platforms their communities to edge platform ecosystem, dominated by mainstream (such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). Deplatformization further demonstrates hierarchical power relations within global ecosystem complexity governability. From European perspective, argues that public values...

Role-based access control (RBAC) models have generated a great interest in the security community as powerful and generalized approach to management. One of important aspects RBAC is constraints that constrain what components are allowed do. There lots research been achieved specify for secure system developers. However more work need urgently met requirements interoperability machine people understandable specification open distributed environment. In this paper we propose another using...

The rapid proliferation of sensor-embedded devices has enabled the mobile crowdsensing (MCS), a new paradigm which effectively collects sensing data from pervasive users. In order to identify true information noisy submitted by unreliable users, truth discovery algorithms have been proposed for MCS systems aggregate data. However, power will be undermined Sybil attack, in an attacker can benefit using multiple accounts. addition, system jeopardized unless it is resistant attack. this paper,...

In this paper, we present a novel method to detect violent scenes in movies. The detection process involves two views-audio and video views. For the audio view, supervised based on HCRFs is exploited improve classification performance. shots by locating areas. Finally, auditory visual classifiers are combined co-training way. experimental results several movies with contents preliminarily show effectiveness of our method.

This paper investigates the government-led maker movement in Shenzhen, China by deploying Michel de Certeau’s concepts of “strategy” and “tactics”. While there is a growing body literature surrounding movement, discrepancy between presented urban policies its participants’ actual practices underexplored. Situating exploration Chinese context, this article looks into how state intervention shapes actors’ participation. work starts with considerations political economy to demonstrate “Make...

TikTok's short video culture confirms the idea of algorithmic cosmopolitanism (Elkins, 2019). It involves promotion local identities and place-making practices as a symbolic representation multi-culturalism, which nonetheless is also constrained by its “flattened, one-dimensional, consumerist approach” 2019: 385). At same time, impending TikTok ban in US seems to suggest rise platform nationalism an emerging approach governance (Craig et al., 2021). This paradox between demonstrates...