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REVISIT WORKING-CLASS NETWORK SOCIETY: CHINA & THE WORLD
JACK LINCHUAN QIUTHE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
16 NOVEMBER 2016HANGZHOU
A DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Education Attainment of Chinese Internet Users
High school or lower
Bachelor degree
Graduate school
Elementary school or lower
High School
Community college
Bachelor or above
Elementary school or lowerJunior high schoolSenior high school Community college
Bachelor or aboveCommunity collegeBachelor or above
Elementary school or lower
Junior high school
Senior high school
1998 2mil
2003 80mil
2008 320mil
2016 710mil
China’s National Population
THE DISTRIBUTION OF INTERNET RESOURCES (BEIJING, SHANGHAI, GUANGDONG, JIANGSU & ZHEJIANG AS % OF
NATIONAL TOTAL)
20.9% (National Census)
POLITICO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF CHINA’S SOCIAL MEDIA INDUSTRY • MAJOR TELECO’S (E.G. CHINA MOBILE, CHINA
TELECOM) HAD BECOME PUBLICLY LISTED IN HONG KONG OR NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO
• BAT (BAIDU, ALIBABA, TENCENT) HAS BECOME “THE MOST IMPORTANT EMPOWERMENT CONGLOMERATE AND SAFEGUARDING FORCE IN GOVERNANCE” FOR CHINESE AUTHORITIES
• OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE ALL OWNED BY CAPITALIST OLIGOPOLIES, INCREASINGLY MONOPOLIES (E.G., DIDI)
“Asteroids 隕石期” (mid 1990s ~ 2003)
“Bees 蜜蜂期” (2003 ~ 2009)
“Coliseums 競技場期” (2009 ~
now)
Three Phases of China’s Network Society
COMPARING 3 PHASES OF CHINA’S NETWORK SOCIETY
A B CPolitical parallelism L M H
Opinion pluralism M H L
Globality H M L
Efficacy M H L
Civil society development M M.-H. M.-L.
WORKING-CLASS SOCIAL MEDIA IN CHINA:A BRIEF HISTORY
• PHASE I: QQ, QQ CLUSTER, Q ZONE• PHASE II: WEBLOG (E.G., BLOGCHINA), ONLINE FORUM (E.G.,
TIANYA, MOP, BOXUN, WORKERS’ FORUM), INTERNET VIDEO (E.G., 56.COM)
• PHASE III: WEIBO, WECHAT
FOXCONN, 2010~
FINANCIAL TIMES
FOXCONN FACILITIES IN CHINA, 2011
FOXCONN WORLDWIDE
FOXCONN.COM.CN
APPLE SUPPLIERS, 2014
SUPPLYCHAIN257.COM
THE PENETRATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION
1800: the British Empire (1 million slaves): 2.5 billion hours (R. Blackburn)
2014: Foxconn (1.4 million employees in China):4.8 billion hours
In Facebook, worldwide, in 2014 (1.04 billion daily active users):
652.9 billion hours (261 British Empires or 137 Foxconns)
STEVE CUTTS
“GLOBALLY CONNECTED & LOCALLY DISCONNECTED”?
HONDA LOCKS STRIKE, 2010
OFFICIALS COLLUDE WITH BOSSES, INSURANCE BECOMES OUR LOSSES.WHAT A PITY, WORKERS, OUR YOUTHFUL YEARS JUST A FUSS.STRIKE! STRIKE! THE PEAK OF LABOR MOVEMENT IS
UPON US.
YUE YUAN STRIKE, 2014
WOOHA STRIKE, DECEMBER 2011
360JINJIANGSTRIKE,
2009
WGC: GLOBAL RELEVANCE FROM MARIKANA, SA, TO THE USA
WGC: GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING COOPS
A TYPOLOGY OF WGC (WORKER-GENERATED CONTENT)
WORKING-CLASS NETWORK SOCIETY, REVISITED• BASIC IDEAS (E.G., INFO HAVE-LESS, EXISTENTIAL NEEDS, NETWORK LABOR)
REMAIN RELEVANT, BUT NO LONGER SUFFICIENT• NEW CHALLENGES SINCE 2009: FACTORY REGIME, TEMPORAL EXPLOITATION,
CRACKDOWNS, APPCONN, ISLAVERY• ON-GOING DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA’S NETWORK SOCIETY AND
DIVERSE FORMS OF WORKER RESISTANCE• FEMININE SOLIDARITY• WORKER-HACKER ALLIANCE• WGC AND CULTURAL CHANGE
• CLASS ANTAGONISM BECOMING MORE ACUTE -- ANOTHER OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN CYBERIA SHALL SHAKE CHINA AND THE WORLD
• DON’T LET BAT DICTATE YOUR LIFE. GET ACTIVE, AND GET PREPARED FOR A NEW ERA OF CLASS POLITICS, TOWARD A CLASSLESS SOCIETY
THANK YOU
3 triangular exchange models: Slavery &
antislaveryEurope
West Africa
The Americas
$$, sugar
slaves
$, rum
Apple
Foxconn
ManufacturediSlaves
$$, UGC
$, R&D
gadgets
Network Labor
Working-Class ICTs
Working-Class Public
Spheres
DNA
WGC
cultural capitalsocial innovation