[Air-L] Chinese (or other non-Western) objections to Internet Freedom...

[Madeline Carr]

Gianluigi, thank you so much for those sources. I should have contacted you
directly in the first place. Much appreciated!

And Charles, you have gone to the essence of what I am interested in
conveying to the students. I have only a few lectures to deal with this in
the module but I want to at least *introduce *them to the complexity of
debates about a) human rights and universality and b) competing notions of
communitarianism and cosmopolitanism in global politics. I think that is
essential for any kind of critical engagement with concepts of Internet
Freedom.

Fascinating work on individualism and data privacy in China, thank you
Charles. I was not aware of those legal developments, though I guess you
are, Gianluigi?

Interesting times, indeed.

Madeline

Dr. Madeline Carr
Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension
Department of International Politics
Aberystwyth University
Penglais, Aberystwyth
SY23 3FE Wales
+44 01970 621955
mob: 0752 867 2088
madelinemcarr at gmail.com



On 5 August 2013 06:32, Charles Ess <charles.ess at gmail.com> wrote:

> In hopes this does not confuse matter, but you also noted that you want
>
> > students to critically analyse state policies and the underlying
> arguments
> > that shape them.
>
> From my perspective, insofar as "Internet freedom" (positive freedom?
> negative freedom? - both, I assume?) rests on specific assumptions /
> beliefs
> / hopes about the nature / characteristics of selfhood and identity (i.e.,
> much of high modern Western notions of freedom rest on squarely individual
> and strongly rational notions of selfhood) -
> It is worth noting as well, I think, that there are strong trends towards
> what might be called individualization in these otherwise strongly
> collective societies and the relational selves they implicate.  See:
>
> Yunxiang Yan. The Chinese path to individualization. The British Journal of
> Sociology 61 (3: 2010): 489-512.
> Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud (eds.), The Rise of the Individual
> in Modern Chinese Society, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,
> 2010.
>
> As well, though I only have a conference presentation to document it -
> others here may well have better resources - what I find especially
> staggering is the introduction of _individual_ privacy rights in the
> constitution of the P.R.C. in the past few years:
>
> Suli Sui. The law and regulation on privacy in China. Paper presented at
> the
> Rising Pan European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security
> Ethics (RISE) conference, October 20-21, 2011. Beijing, China.
>
> Cf. Graham Greenleaf, Asia-Pacific data privacy: 2011, year of revolution?
> UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2011-29, 2011.
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1914212
>
> There is even discussion among legal scholars in the P.R.C., I am told, of
> introducing due process rights - i.e., the rights that have been largely
> lost in the U.S. (and elsewhere) following 9/11, as the recent NSA
> revelations underline.
>
> Interesting world we live in.  In all events, best of luck with your
> course!
>
> - charles ess
>
> Professor in Media Studies
> Department of Media and Communication
>
> Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations
> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/>
>
> University of Oslo
> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern
> NO-0317
> Oslo Norway
> email: c.m.ess at media.uio.no
>
>
>
> On 03.08.13 12:49, "Madeline Carr" <madeline.carr at aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It seems we're all working to get our syllabi together for next semester
> > and the hunt for quality sources begins. I'm writing a new module on
> > Internet Freedom and I would like to provide the students with a balanced
> > account of objections raised by some states like China. There is plenty
> > available from a Western perspective that critiques Chinese approaches
> but
> > I want something that challenges the students to consider alternative
> > perspectives. This might include the argument about cultural imperialism,
> > language preservation, social cohesion etc... Could anyone point me to a
> > good article or chapter that looks at non-Western objections to Internet
> > Freedom in a balanced way?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Madeline
> >
> > Dr. Madeline Carr
> > Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension
> > Department of International Politics
> > Aberystwyth University
> > Penglais, Aberystwyth
> > SY23 3FE Wales
> > +44 01970 621955
> > mob: 0752 867 2088
> > madelinemcarr at gmail.com
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