Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Chun in 2017
Born1969 (age 54–55)
EducationUniversity of Waterloo
Princeton University

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (born 1969) is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.[1] She is the founding Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University, established in 2020. [2][3] Previously, she was Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.[4][1] Her theoretical and critical approach to digital media draws from her training in both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.[5][6]

She is the author of several books, including Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press, 2021), as well as a trilogy that includes Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press, 2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011), and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006). She has also written articles and co-edited collections pertaining to the digital media field.[4]

Her research spans the fields of digital media, new media, software studies, comparative media studies, critical race studies, and critical theory.[7] In 2022 she joined the editorial board for the relaunched Software Studies series from MIT Press.[8] She has served on the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression.[9]

  1. ^ a b Samson, Natalie (March 29, 2018). "Government reveals list of Canada 150 Research Chairholders". University Affairs. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
  2. ^ "Simon Fraser's Digital Democracies Institute is a leader in the fight against misinformation and hate speech". The Globe and Mail. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  3. ^ Shaw, Melissa (June 23, 2022). "SFU researchers receive over $6 million to tackle online disinformation, foster data fluencies". SFU News. Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Wendy Hui Kyong Chun". CCA Reports. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Wendy Hui Kyong Chun". Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  6. ^ Koh, Adeline (2013). "Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Adeline Koh". Journal of E-Media Studies. 3 (1). doi:10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.428. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  7. ^ "The Shift From Physical Communities To Digital Networks – School of Communication, American University: DEI Help for Comm Studies Teachers". School of Communication, American University. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  8. ^ Wilson, Kate Silverman (June 13, 2022). "The MIT Press relaunches the Software Studies series". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  9. ^ Vanderdeen, Lauren (June 23, 2022). "Burnaby's SFU gets $6.2M to study misinformation, foster more equitable futures". Burnaby Now. Retrieved 9 May 2023.