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Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis
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. 
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Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis
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. 
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Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis

Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis

Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis

Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611864922
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2024
Series: US-China Relations in the Age of Globalization
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016) and the award-winning The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009). He is also the editor or coeditor of six books, including Media Activism in the Digital Age (2017) and China’s Contested Internet (2015).
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