Face-swiping: threat or opportunity? A discourse analysis on the Chinese government’s message to the people concerning facial recognition technology

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Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

op den Buijsch, Daniël (2019)

Face-swiping: threat or opportunity? A discourse analysis on the Chinese government’s message to the people concerning facial recognition technology

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

In China, more and more security cameras on the streets are equipped with facial recognition technology. This artificial intelligent technology can identify a person immediately. Some fear for a great scale breach of privacy. This thesis discusses how the Chinese government conveys the message to the people that it is using this facial recognition technology. By conducting a discourse analysis, Chinese state-media Xinhua.net articles are analyzed. Mainly, this thesis shows that there is hardly any mention of privacy breach by using this technology in the articles. Second, it shows that local instead of national initiatives of facial recognition technology use are discussed to a larger extent.

china

facial recognition technology

Author: op den Buijsch, Daniël

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: MA Asian Studies: Politics, Society and Economy

Supervisors: Kharchenkova, Svetlana

ECTS Credits: 15

Language: en

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Face-swiping: threat or opportunity? A discourse analysis on the Chinese government’s message to the people concerning facial recognition technology