a short review of connected china: a visualization of elite social networks in china
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2013-11-01, eScience seminar. A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China. Xiaogang Ma TWC/RPI. This presentation. Features of Connected China Technologies in its development Potential updates. Connected China. http://connectedchina.reuters.com - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A short review of Connected China: A visualization of elite social networks in China
Xiaogang MaTWC/RPI
2013-11-01, eScience seminar
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This presentation
• Features of Connected China• Technologies in its development• Potential updates
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Connected China
• http://connectedchina.reuters.com
• “tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China's elite power structure”
• Launched: Feb. 2013
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Features
• “[Connected China] provides deep insight into China’s new generation of leaders and features the best of Reuters’ coverage in data, text, photos and video.”
• Optimized for iPad 2+ and Chrome and Safari
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Features of Connected China
General information News
Circles of power
Paths to power
Roles of power
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• Families:– Princelings– Golden Sons-in-Law
• Coalitions– Shanghai Clique– Tuanpai
powerful family connections play a crucial role in all spheres of society
Party leadership is largely divided between two informal coalitions
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• Relationships with party elders
• Accumulation of guanxi– Guanxi: the accumulated
social capital
A number of former leaders maintain their political influence through extensive social connections and the protégés they have promoted over the years
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Knowing the background information of families, coalitions, relationships with party elders will help understand the social power of an individual
Click here for literal explanation
Click here to zoom in
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• The Communist Party of China – “collective leadership” by the Politburo Standing
Committee (The Seven)– Party general secretary Xi Jinping is now only the
“first among equals” in the seven-member body
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• The three pillars of Chinese politics– Party, State, and Military
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Show details of a institution and its members
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• The path to political power– In China, the path to
political power is a structured ascent
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• Comparing the ages of political leaders
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• The impact of retirement ages– For example,
Zhou Yongkang followed a similar path as Xi, but could never reach top leadership due to the retirement cutoff
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Comparison among multiple individuals
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Working group of Connected China
• Editor + Project Leader: Irene Jay Liu • Production Heads: Yolanda Ma, Malik Yusuf • Lead Writer: Chris Ip • Copy Editor: John Newland • Design + Dev: Fathom Information Design
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Technologies
• Organization and key person– Fathom Information Design: http://fathom.info/ – Ben Fry: http://benfry.com/
• HTML 5 and CSS 3
• More background information: – http://fathom.info/china
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Data sources
• The app draws on a database containing:– Tens of thousands of entities – people,
organizations, events– More than 30,000 relationships– 1.5 million words (equivalent to more than 20
non-fiction books!)
Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/connected-china/2013/02/28/welcome/
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Visualization
• Information Architecture– Shift among them without
getting lost
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Potential updates
• Provenance?– Currently most objects are prov:Agent– More objects of prov:Entity and prov:Activity– Relationships
Diagram from the W3C Provenance ontology at: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
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Potential updates
• Career Comparison: add spatial features?
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Thanks!