A Model Citizen: The Rise of Social Credit

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Author(s): Ray Gutierrez Jr. (University California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 9
Source title: Redefining Journalism in an Age of Technological Advancements, Changing Demographics, and Social Issues
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Phylis Johnson (San Jose State University, USA)and Ian Punnett (Kansas State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3844-9.ch014

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Mass Communications / Media & Communications

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This chapter investigates the rise of social credit in society as a tool to control its citizens. Social credit is defined through every aspect of one's life, from credit card scores, grades in school, work ethic, reputation of friends and family members, physical fitness, one's partner, and the perspective of neighbors. All this information and more goes into a data mill that generates a citizen score that can lock out an individual from a good education, job, or even stop them from leaving the country. One way to lower one's score is to become a highly successful investigative journalist reporting on corruption in the government.

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