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Wendy Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of ''Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics'' (MIT, 2006), ''Programmed Visions: Software and Memory'' (MIT 2011); she is co-editor (with Lynne Joyrich) of a special issue of ''Camera Obscura'' entitled ''Race and/as Technology'' and co-editor (with Thomas Keenan) of ''New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader'' (Routledge, 2005). She is currently a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton); she has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a Wriston Fellow at Brown, as well as a visiting associate professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard. She is currently working on a monograph entitled ''Imagined Networks''.
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'''Wendy Hui Kyong Chun''' is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, and leads the Digital Democracies Group which was launched in 2019. The Group aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers,” abusive language, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. It has four distinct research streams all led by Dr. Chun: Beyond Verification which looks at authenticity and the spread of disinformation; From Hate to Agonism, focusing on fostering democratic exchange online; Desegregating Network Neighbourhoods, combatting homophily across platforms; and Discriminating Data: Neighbourhoods, Individuals and Proxies, investigating the centrality of race, gender, class and sexuality to big data and network analytics.
  
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* http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/chun/
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Dr. Chun is also the author of ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/80d25f7c-d6ca-4acd-b25c-baf3c933cd76 Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media]'' (2016), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3057 Programmed Visions: Software and Memory]'' (2011), and ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=8130 Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics]'' (2006), as well as numerous articles and edited collections.  She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes, including the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades. Currently, Dr. Chun works with the Digital Democracies Group to undertake the proliferation of misinformation, abusive language and discriminatory algorithms. Through the investigation of natural language processing (NLP), political theory and critical data studies, the group aims to develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and alternative models for connection. [https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html (2020)]
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==Publications==
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=8130 Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics]'', MIT Press, 2006, 352 pp.
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* editor, with Thomas Keenan, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/aeb38ffa-6509-4c9c-abee-fef9ff0bbcf9 New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader]'', Routledge, 2006; 2nd ed., eds. Wendy Chun and Anna Fisher, with Thomas Keenan, Routledge, 2015.
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* ''Camera Obscura'' 24: "Race as Technology", eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lynne Joyrich, 2009.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3057 Programmed Visions: Software and Memory]'', MIT Press, 2011, 239 pp.
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* ''American Literature'' 85(4): "New Media and American Literature", eds. Tara McPherson, Patrick Jagoda and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2013.
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/80d25f7c-d6ca-4acd-b25c-baf3c933cd76 Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media]'', MIT Press, 2016.
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** trans., China Renmin University Press, 2017. {{cn}}
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* co-author, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20571 Pattern Discrimination]'', University of Minnesota, and Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2019, xii+123 pp.
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* ''[https://1lib.cz/book/18025414/263768 Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods and the New Politics of Recognition]'', ills. Alex Barnett, MIT Press, 2021, 344 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/discriminating-data]
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* [https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/communication/Team/wendy-chun/whkchun_cv.pdf more]
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==Links==
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* [https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html Profile on Simon Fraser U]
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* [https://twitter.com/whkchun Twitter]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190211075642/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/chun/ Profile on Brown U] (archived)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 09:33, 6 November 2021

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, and leads the Digital Democracies Group which was launched in 2019. The Group aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers,” abusive language, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. It has four distinct research streams all led by Dr. Chun: Beyond Verification which looks at authenticity and the spread of disinformation; From Hate to Agonism, focusing on fostering democratic exchange online; Desegregating Network Neighbourhoods, combatting homophily across platforms; and Discriminating Data: Neighbourhoods, Individuals and Proxies, investigating the centrality of race, gender, class and sexuality to big data and network analytics.

Dr. Chun is also the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes, including the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades. Currently, Dr. Chun works with the Digital Democracies Group to undertake the proliferation of misinformation, abusive language and discriminatory algorithms. Through the investigation of natural language processing (NLP), political theory and critical data studies, the group aims to develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and alternative models for connection. (2020)

Publications[edit]

  • Camera Obscura 24: "Race as Technology", eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lynne Joyrich, 2009.
  • American Literature 85(4): "New Media and American Literature", eds. Tara McPherson, Patrick Jagoda and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2013.

Links[edit]

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