aim of essay- Your essay must not only clearly and briefly summarize the readings’ main arguments, but also outline their strengths and weaknesses. That is, what is the main argument of each required reading? What are each of the reading’s strengths? And what are its weaknesses? (In other words, how can the arguments and supporting evidence be improved?). At minimum, your essay must highlight 1 (one) strength and 1 (one) weakness of each required reading, and use high quality external sources (e.g., journal articles and book chapters) that support your argument. (You may use “I” while writing.)
A minimum of 5 (five) high quality sources must be cited in the body of the essay and included in the bibliography page, in addition to all of the required readings. these sources have to be academic sourcewhich are trustworthy and reliable.
additional parts to the essay- Essays should be typed using 12-point Times New Roman, double spaced with 1” (2.5 cm) margins, and submitted in PDF or Word format. Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition author-date citation should be used consistently and correctly throughout the paper.
the required readings- (these are not included in the 5 additional academic sources)
- Ahmed, S., & Weber, S. (2018). “China’s long game in techno-nationalism.” First Monday, 23(5). Retrieved from https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8085/7209
- Lam, Tong. 2022. “The People’s Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China’s Big (Br)Other.” In The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy, edited by Andrea Mennicken and Robert Salais, 71–95. Executive Politics and Governance. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6_3.
some other articles/readings that can be included (however, make sure to include academic sources that aren’t these as well)
CBC Spark 465: Open / Closed
RESET, “A Great Leap Forward,” (Chapter 3, middle section).
- Video: “Social Credit: China’s Digital Dystopia In The Making” documentary (27:12), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evBzPwCdeHI
- Cheung, Anne S. Y., and Yongxi Chen. 2022. “From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications.” Law & Social Inquiry 47 (4): 1137–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2021.56.
- Ding, Xiaodong, and Dale Yuhao Zhong. 2021. “Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society.” Journal of Contemporary China 30 (130): 630–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1852738.
a rubric is attached below, please follow it when writing the essay