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The College Arts + Humanities Institute presents:
Wendy Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media
Simon Fraser University
“Roadblocks as Opportunities:
Working Across Disciplines to Counter
Polarization and Mis-Information”
3:30pm, Thursday, March 18
This event will stream online via Zoom. Register here.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun will join CAHI’s Distinguished Scholar series. Her work in Critical Data Studies is timely and crucial: she pushes us to heed the power of algorithms and big data in fostering discrimination and misinformation, and offers tools for countering these trends.
Chun’s talk will outline projects led by Simon Fraser University’s Digital Democracies Institutes that analyze and counter the proliferation of online “echo chambers,” and mis/disinformation by integrating research in the humanities, social and data sciences. In particular, the talk will discuss how moving from factuality to authenticity opens avenues into understanding the spread of “fake news.”
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, is at the forefront of contemporary Critical Data Studies and digital humanities. Her pioneering research sheds light on discriminatory algorithms, as well as the spread of misinformation, and abusive language, in network analytics and big data. As leader of Simon Fraser’s Digital Democracy Group, she oversees research that seeks to combat discrimination online by fostering democratic exchange and developing methods for creating effective online counterspeech.
Chun is the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), and numerous other publications. Her new book, Discriminating Data, comes out this fall from MIT Press. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, among other organizations.
This event is free and open to the public, presented by the College Arts + Humanities Institute. For more information, please email cahi@indiana.edu or visit cahi.indiana.edu.
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