UC Irvine Postdoc Visit: Year 3

    In November 2023, the MDMP project member Han Tao visited University of California, Irvine for three weeks. She was hosted by UCI’s Steckler Center for Responsible,…

New article on Access published in Commoning Ethnography

Drawing on reflections on entering China in order to do project fieldwork, postdocs Han and Hailing with PI Rachel develop an analysis of the shifting meaning of access…

MDMP contributes to Made in China

Issue 8 of the Made in China journal,  “Out of the Fog” carries three articles by the MDMP project:   “Red, Yellow, Green: Test, Test, Test“, authored by…

Project Retreat Year 3: Hong Kong

This year we met up in Hong Kong, partway through Rachel’s sabbatical and whilst Han and Hailing were able to travel more easily between Shenzhen and Hong Kong….

Year 3: 2022-2023

In the past year, members of the MDMP project have been able to deepen their understanding of social credit policies through fieldwork, and we have more publications in…

MDMP Participates in International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

The first conference of 2023 for the MDMP project is coming up in February. The project team, particularly Jesper, Han and Hailing, have all been preparing articles throughout…

MDMP Participates in “Ethnographies of Urban Data and Technology” October 2022

In October, MDMP postdoc Hailing Zhao and Rachel Douglas-Jones, project PI, will participate in the conference Ethnographies of Urban Data and Technology, hosted at the project’s home institution,…

MDMP Participates in Quantified Futures

In September 2022, Hailing Zhou and Rachel Douglas-Jones will participate in a workshop on Quantified Futures, held in Brussells. Hailing, who is conducting fieldwork in southern China, will…

MDMP at Generation Asia: Excavating Generations of Identification

In August 2022, MDMP project members joined the NIAS conference this year hosted at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. It was an opportunity to converse across areas…

Year 2: 2021-2022

As the world has gradually emerged from COVID-19 restrictions, the last year has seen the a new phase of the project. Shortly after last year’s August meeting, we…