{"id":2640,"date":"2019-10-28T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2019-10-28T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T07:10:04","slug":"debating-digital-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/studying\/debating-digital-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating Digital Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A\nDiscussion with Students at Leiden University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to get cozy online. Today\u2019s internet is divided into sophisticated apps, each providing us with increasingly convenient ways to communicate and go about our daily affairs, often seemingly for free. But considering that these offers are run by large corporations that profit from our data and free labour, we need to ask: are we enthralled by the convenience that corporate apps and services provide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital convenience has in some cases become so essential to everyday life that it is hard to imagine our societies without them. In China, platforms like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sina\u2019s microblogging app Weibo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2018\/04\/04\/weibo-public-opinion-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sina\u2019s microblogging app Weibo<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tencent-invested (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/tencent-invests-shares-bilibili\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tencent-invested<\/a> Bilibili livestreaming platform, or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alibaba's range of digital and e-commerce services (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tannermark\/2017\/09\/27\/alibaba-china-google\/#6708187a7e3e\" target=\"_blank\">Alibaba&#8217;s range of digital and e-commerce services<\/a> have inserted themselves into all manner of social processes. Tencent has been able to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"expand its chat app Weixin (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/China-tech\/Tencent-s-WeChat-is-door-to-Chinese-giant-s-transformation\" target=\"_blank\">expand its chat app Weixin<\/a> to the point that it now incorporates numerous lifestyle maintainability capabilities, like online booking and payment options that have few rivals outside <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alibaba\u2019s similarly powerful Alipay (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/openaccess.leidenuniv.nl\/bitstream\/handle\/1887\/51299\/Aleid%20Werker%2C%20MA%20THESIS.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">Alibaba\u2019s similarly powerful Alipay<\/a>. Weixin is now so popular, it is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"doubling as a virtual ID system (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/2\/1\/16721230\/wechat-china-app-mini-programs-messaging-electronic-id-system\" target=\"_blank\">doubling as a virtual ID system<\/a> for Chinese citizens. Even without the Great Firewall of China that prevents competition with foreign services, China\u2019s app market is so compartmentalized that one has the wonder whether users have voluntarily locked themselves away behind digital walled gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we do not need to turn to China and its carefully state-controlled digital ecology to encounter the power of convenience. Across Asia, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Facebook remains a dominant provider (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/asia\/facebook-is-the-internet-for-many-people-in-south-east-asia-20180322-p4z5nu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook remains a dominant provider<\/a> of news and information, despite wide-spread concerns over <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the company\u2019s business and information-management practices (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5505441\/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-downfall\/\" target=\"_blank\">the company\u2019s business and information-management practices<\/a>. In Taiwan, Facebook\u2019s penetration rate looks increasingly like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a rounding error off of 100 percent (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ralphjennings\/2018\/10\/11\/facebook-says-it-already-has-97-of-taiwans-internet-users-and-now-its-targeting-businesses\/#5fffaff2eb40\" target=\"_blank\">a rounding error off of 100 percent<\/a>. This, in turn, has raised questions about the malleability of public opinion and the threat of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"misinformation in Taiwan\u2019s highly polarized public sphere (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/english.cw.com.tw\/article\/article.action?id=2375\" target=\"_blank\">misinformation in Taiwan\u2019s highly polarized public sphere<\/a>. Similarly, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"chat app LINE (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/tokyo-fintech\/how-line-dominates-social-networks-in-japan-812fc6992eee\" target=\"_blank\">chat app LINE<\/a> is extremely popular in Japan, Taiwan, and other Asian markets, and Line&#8217;s parent company <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Naver and Daum are cornering the market for news and information (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/thedissolve.kr\/how-korea-reads-the-news\/?ckattempt=1\" target=\"_blank\">Naver is working hard to corner the market for news information<\/a> in South Korea. Meanwhile, Naver&#8217;s competitor Daum invites Korean users into tempting digital spaces of convenience through its <a href=\"http:\/\/thedissolve.kr\/how-korea-reads-the-news\/?ckattempt=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"highly successful digital platform Kakao (opens in a new tab)\">highly successful digital platform Kakao<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Digital_Convenience_400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Convenience and Comfort Zones\" class=\"wp-image-2643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Digital_Convenience_400x300-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Digital_Convenience_400x300-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicseastasia.com\/staging\/3558\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Digital_Convenience_400x300.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As early as 2012, digital security expert Bruce Schneier referred to these processes around the world as \u2018<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"digital feudalism (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/essays\/archives\/2012\/11\/when_it_comes_to_sec.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital feudalism<\/a>\u2019. In a world where everyday interactions are increasingly monopolized by profit-seeking corporations with intransparent policies, oblique algorithms, and little to no public oversight, are we giving up important public and private processes for simple convenience? Is the &#8216;platformisation&#8217; of digital spaces the new normal, for digital spaces, or is it merely a phase on the road to yet different configurations of digital media ecologies? And what lessons can we learn, in this regard, from highly advanced digital societies in East Asia? These are some of the questions our grad students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/humanities\/institute-for-area-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Leiden University\u2019s Institute for Area Studies (opens in a new tab)\">Leiden University\u2019s Institute for Area Studies<\/a> are debating this week. Join us in the comments section with your thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we trading important public and private processes for digital convenience? 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