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Digital business governance : the algorithm design of the short video-sharing application – TikTok
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Peng, Yuzhu (Altman) (2023) Digital business governance : the algorithm design of the short video-sharing application – TikTok. In: Talmacs, Nicole and Peng, Yuzhu (Altman), (eds.) Communications in Contemporary China. Routledge Studies on China in Transition . Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 143-158. ISBN 9781032505749
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003399124-11
Abstract
Different from digital political governance, digital business governance involves no written laws or legislations. The regulation of Internet users’ everyday practice is enhanced by the design features of the Internet services. This chapter uses TikTok as a case study to address how giant Chinese high-tech companies regulate Internet users’ everyday practice through the design of social media applications. As a social media application, TikTok is primarily designed to enable Internet users to share and view short videos. With a particular algorithm design that feeds users with customised content, TikTok becomes the most popular of its kind in the Chinese social media market, and its popularity is arguably based on these unique design features. In this way, a case study of TikTok underlines how high-tech companies engage in profitable digital business governance in the contemporary Chinese context. The outcomes of the discussion contribute to orchestrating thinking in the East Asian rising power by articulating the entangled relationships between Internet users, capitalism, and authoritarianism.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internet industry -- China, Information technology -- Government policy, Communication -- Technological innovations -- China, Information technology -- Political aspects -- China, Corporate governance -- China, Technology and state --China, Information society -- China | ||||||
Series Name: | Routledge Studies on China in Transition | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Abingdon | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781032505749 | ||||||
Book Title: | Communications in Contemporary China | ||||||
Editor: | Talmacs, Nicole and Peng, Yuzhu (Altman) | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2023 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 143-158 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003399124-11 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Communications in Contemporary China : orchestrating thinking on 1 September 2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781032505749 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 July 2023 | ||||||
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