Realtime: Making Digital China is an investigation about China’s digital and urban infrastructure, practices and imaginary spaces. The publication attempts to capture the pace, scale and depth of China’s complex and changing realities and consists of a collection of original accounts, analyses, stories, articles, artworks, pictures, maps, illustrations, and materials collected by researchers and practitioners from various fields of design, geography, architecture, anthropology, economics, and art.
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Articles covers topics around standardization in communication protocols and production (Laperrouza), an archeology of shanzhai phones (Renaud & disnovation.org), an investigation of the informal (night) markets parallel to Shenzhen's semi formal electronics markets (De Bel), Taobao villages (Hilgefort & Li), 'red' AI (de Seta) amongst others.

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