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Qt68s0x1r3.Pdf UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68s0x1r3 Author Oreglia, Elisa Publication Date 2013 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China By Elisa Oreglia A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management and Systems in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Jenna Burrell, Chair Professor Robert Glushko Professor You-Tien Hsing Professor AnnaLee Saxenian Fall 2013 From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China © 2013, All Rights Reserved Elisa Oreglia ABSTRACT From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China by Elisa Oreglia Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley Professor Jenna Burrell, Chair In the mid-2000s, China began a set of policies to ‘informatize’ the countryside, i.e. to bring Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural residents in order to improve their economic conditions. These policies posit the countryside as a world of ‘less,’ compared to urban areas, and they are framed in terms of what people who are at the margins of China’s modernization (migrant workers, rural residents, older people, and farmers) need in order to improve their lives, how ICT can benefit them, and how they can access more and better information despite their low educational and income levels. In contrast to this widespread view of marginalized users as passive recipients of technologies that will help them improve their material conditions, this dissertation looks at the diffusion and appropriation of ICT such as mobile phones and computers among rural residents and migrant workers in their own terms: not as foils for elite views of why they would/should go online, but rather as people who discover the opportuni- ties offered by the Internet that are of interest to them, and try to use these opportunities as best as they can. By following the paths through which ICT travel in urban and rural China and the social relations that are maintained, renewed, and reinvented along the way, I argue that people at the margins have to ‘invent’ themselves as users, and find a connection between themselves and ICT. Migrant workers play a key role in bringing ICT to the countryside, where family networks, shop keepers, and community life foster the circulation of information about ICT and their use. With the help of these intermediaries, even people who are typically dismissed by urban elites as non-users because of their age or educational level, and who live far away from the resource-rich areas where such devices are common, can still be connected to them through their personal ties as well as through appropriate and mediated use of new ICT. As a counter-narrative to the prevailing discourse on ICT and rural users, this dissertation argues that the combination of new technologies and personal networks are a powerful but often overlooked vector along which some aspects of urban growth are shared with the countryside, and that ICT have so far helped to strengthen the familial and personal networks commonly present in rural villages and often lamented as being broken by the dual forces of migration and urbanization. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................................iii I Introduction 1. Computers to the Countryside ............................................................................................................1 2. The Chinese State and the Informatization of the Countryside ................................................4 2.1 Historical Legacy: China, Technology, and the West ...........................................................4 2.2 Informatization, Economic Growth, and the Development of the Countryside ...........5 2.3 The Urban-Rural Divide: Hukou ................................................................................................8 3. Unimagined Users: Locating the User in Rural China ..................................................................8 3.1 “Information Have-Less” and “Unimagined Users” .............................................................8 4. Domestication Theory .......................................................................................................................14 4.1 Extending Domestication to Unimagined Users ................................................................. 17 II Locating People, Objects, and Places 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 22 2. From the Center to the Periphery .................................................................................................. 23 2.1 Beijing: Migrant Women and the Service Sector ............................................................... 23 2.2 Beijing: Expanding the Pool of Informants .......................................................................... 27 2.3 The Three Villages .................................................................................................................... 28 3. Gender and Power Relationships ................................................................................................... 32 4. Multiple Fields and Longitudinal Research ................................................................................. 35 5. Contested Meanings & Conflicting Categories .......................................................................... 37 6. Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................40 III A Gift from the City: How Mobile Phones Travel from Urban to Rural Areas 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................42 2. The Beginnings of Domestication: Imagining and Purchasing Mobile Phones ..................44 3. Gift, Materiality, and Family Ties ...................................................................................................46 4. A Traveling Mobile Phone: Who Makes a Gift, Who Receives It .......................................... 47 5. Mobile Phones and Social Relationships ...................................................................................... 51 5.1 There’s No Free Gift .................................................................................................................... 51 5.2 Mobiles and Freedom .............................................................................................................. 53 5.3 A Married Out Daughter Is No Longer Like Spilt Water ................................................. 56 6. New Users, Different Functions ..................................................................................................... 57 7. Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................60 i IV The Sent-Down Internet: Going Online at the Margins 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 62 2. Objectification .................................................................................................................................... 63 3. Incorporation and Intermediation ..................................................................................................66 4. Trajectories of Learning .................................................................................................................... 73 5. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 76 V When Technology Doesn’t Fit: Information-Sharing Practices among Farmers 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 79 2. Rational Behavior and Socially Constructed Markets ..............................................................80 3. How to Become a Farmer ................................................................................................................. 82 3.1 Agriculture in China ................................................................................................................... 82 3.2 Farming as a Community of Practice ...................................................................................84 3.2.1 Knowledge (and Information) Sharing .......................................................................88 3.2.2 Risks in Farmers’ Lives ...................................................................................................94 4. Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................................98
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