Upcoming Feb. 6 public lecture: “Social and Moral Engineering in the Age of Big Data: Personalized ‘Pillars of Shame’ and the Chinese Social Credit System”
Hosted by REALC Faculty Spotlight Series, Emory University
Format: Online
Time: Monday evening, Feb 6, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (US Eastern Standard Time)
Event link https://emory.zoom.us/j/94409772969
For my upcoming Feb. 6 public lecture hosted by Emory REALC Faculty Spotlight Series, I will be discussing the legal and rhetorical dynamics of public shaming policy experiments in China, as a part of their ongoing Social Credit System project.
The construction of the Chinese Social Credit System (SCS) represents one of the most ambitious social engineering projects in post-Mao China. It is also arguably the most significant governance-by-data experiment thus far the 21st century. This lecture explores the ways in which the SCS project was prompted by a ritual impulse to inculcate Chinese societal moral character in the big data age.
