“Why Drones for Ordinary People?” Digital Representations, Topic Clusters, and Techno-Nationalization of Drones on Zhihu

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dc.contributor.authorHamm, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorLin, Zihao
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T16:17:32Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T16:17:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractUnmanned and unwomaned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, are breaking and creating new boundaries of image-based communication. Using social network analysis and critical discourse analysis, we examine the 60 most popular question threads about drones on Zhihu, China’s largest social question answering platform. We trace how controversial issues around these supposedly novel tech products are mediated, domesticated, visualized, or marginalized via digital representational technology. Supported by Zhihu’s topic categorization algorithm, drone-related discussions form topic clusters. These topic clusters gain currency in the government-regulated cyberspace, where their meanings remain open to widely divergent interpretations and mediation by various agents. We find that the largest drone company DJI occupies a central and strongly interconnected position in the discussions. Drones are, moreover, represented as objects of consumption, technological advancement, national future, and uncertainty. At the same time, the sense-making process of drone-related discussions evokes emerging sets of narrative user identities with potential political effects. Users engage in digital representational technologies publicly and collectively to raise questions and represent their views on new technologies. Therefore, we argue that platforms like Zhihu are essential when studying views of the Chinese citizenry towards technological developments.en
dc.identifier.citationHamm A, Lin Z. “Why Drones for Ordinary People?” Digital Representations, Topic Clusters, and Techno-Nationalization of Drones on Zhihu. Information. 2019; 10(8):256. https://doi.org/10.3390/info10080256
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/486
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectdrone
dc.subjectUAV
dc.subjectZhihu
dc.subjecttechno-nationalism
dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectdigital representational technology
dc.subjectdigital citizenry
dc.subjectsocial network analysis
dc.subjectcritical discourse analysis
dc.title“Why Drones for Ordinary People?” Digital Representations, Topic Clusters, and Techno-Nationalization of Drones on Zhihu
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcmi.typeText
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/info10080256
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue8
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleInformation
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend275
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart256
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/10/8/256
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume10
local.researchgroupVerantwortung und das Internet der Dinge
local.researchtopicVerantwortung – Vertrauen – Governance
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