Digital control in China and new possibilities for agency: an analytical and methodological approach

As access to the Chinese field has become much more restricted, the Internet is now the privileged place for observing the political balance of power between state and society, and among social actors. This requires new skills from researchers. This workshop will have two objectives. On the one hand, it will take stoke of the characteristics of AI and internet control in China over the past few years while showing that the new forms of Internet regulation imposed by the Chinese government, far from establishing total control, offer new possibilities of resistance to social actors (morning session). On the other hand, it will introduce new OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) research methods making it possible to collect and scientifically exploit the data available online (afternoon session).