Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid
administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”
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Title
Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid
administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”
administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”
Subject
China, smart sensors, digital governance, e-government in everyday practice, grid members
Description
This study explored sensor-based e-government practices in eight pilot “Future Communities” in Zhejiang Province, China. Adopting the ap-
proach of “e-government in everyday practice,” it examines how grid members at the grassroots level make sense of smart sensors and their
mediated governance through the parameters of passive response, collaborative human and nonhuman networks, and calculability. In an emerg-
ing sensing environment, grid members are exposed to contradictory governance regimes, experimenting with and performing competing sets
of discourses and actions that are either efficient or inefficient, manual or automatic, and progressive or regressive. Neither facilitated nor emp-
tied by sensor-enabled Weberian functions, they actively improvise along with the dynamism of specific local interactions and situations.
However, currently sensors and attendant technologies merely leave space for them to engage in ambiguities and negotiations concerning the
extent and boundaries of technical solutionism rather than opening up possibilities for empowerment to refine the forms of governance.
proach of “e-government in everyday practice,” it examines how grid members at the grassroots level make sense of smart sensors and their
mediated governance through the parameters of passive response, collaborative human and nonhuman networks, and calculability. In an emerg-
ing sensing environment, grid members are exposed to contradictory governance regimes, experimenting with and performing competing sets
of discourses and actions that are either efficient or inefficient, manual or automatic, and progressive or regressive. Neither facilitated nor emp-
tied by sensor-enabled Weberian functions, they actively improvise along with the dynamism of specific local interactions and situations.
However, currently sensors and attendant technologies merely leave space for them to engage in ambiguities and negotiations concerning the
extent and boundaries of technical solutionism rather than opening up possibilities for empowerment to refine the forms of governance.
Creator
Yuchao Zhao
Source
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad016
Date
20 April 2023
Contributor
PERI IRAWAN
Format
PDF
Language
ENGLISH
Type
TEXT
Files
Collection
Citation
Yuchao Zhao, “Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid
administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed May 21, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8732.
administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed May 21, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8732.