Video and PPT of Lecture, Keren Wang, "Social and Moral Engineering in the Age of Big Data: Personalized 'Pillars of Shame' and the Chinese Social Credit System" Now Available

 

 

 It was my great pleasure to have attended the lecture by my colleague, friend and former student, Keren Wang, now an ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellow at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia USA).  The lecture, "Social and Moral Engineering in the Age of Big Data: Personalized 'Pillars of Shame' and the Chinese Social Credit System" examined one of the most sensitive areas of legal development--the transformation of the modalities and language of law from text to symbolic action, and its enforcement from an administrative task exogenous to the act, to the development of systems of governmentality (the governance of modes of thought in this case) grounded in quantification and nudging strategies that internalize compliance. The specific focus in this case is China and its  pioneering work in this context organized within regimes we have come to label generically Social Credit. 

The lecture video is now available online and may be accessed HERE.  Highly recommended. 

Keren has also permitted me to share the lecture PowerPoint. They follow below.