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[Commlist] New Book: Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis US–China Relations in the Age of Globalization

Fri Jun 07 02:08:33 GMT 2024




*Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis US–China Relations in the Age of Globalization (https://msupress.org/9781611864922/pandemic-crossing/ <https://msupress.org/9781611864922/pandemic-crossing/>)*

Edited by Guobin Yang, Bingchun Meng, and Elaine J. Yuan

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert power under the guise of public health, from closing or tightening borders to expanding the boundaries of acceptable citizen surveillance. As these controls increased in intensity, citizens’ passions to cross borders seemed to grow in proportion. Pandemic Crossings explores how these processes of boundary making and crossing, often mediated by digital technology despite inequity of access, had profound and often contradictory consequences on individual lives, national politics, and U.S.–China relations. This rich and geographically diverse collection of studies informed by everyday, individual experiences contribute new insights to the interplay between digital technologies and state governance during the covid-19 pandemic. It opens up new avenues of research not only on the covid-19 pandemic but also on global health crises more broadly.

*Table of Contents*

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ix Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan

xxv Acknowledgments

*Part 1.**Governing with Digital Tools*

3             Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine Yuan

25           Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban Governance in China, Yang Zhan

45           DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu

67           Access as Method: Hopes, Frictions, and Mediated Communication in a Remote   Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin

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*Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic*

93           Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and during the COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan**

115        Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated Experiences of Covid-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang

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137        Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment towardFellow Citizens' COVID-related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang

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*Part 3.  Contesting over Narratives*

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167        Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The “K-Quarantine” and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, Ji-Hyun Ahn

189        What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and Covid-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales

213        China's Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson

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241        Contributors

247        Index


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