Dr. Wendy Chun

Biography

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University. She serves as the Director of the Digital Democracies Institute, where she collaborates with a diverse group of scholars and stakeholders to create vibrant democratic technologies and cultures. Her research spans across Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, examining and innovating in the field of digital media. Chun is an accomplished author with several influential books on technology and society, including "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics" (MIT, 2006), "Programmed Visions: Software and Memory" (MIT, 2011), "Updating to Remain Habitual: New Media" (MIT, 2016), and "Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition" (2021, MIT Press). Furthermore, she holds numerous prestigious fellowships and has served as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an International Fellow of the British Academy. Chun has been actively involved in shaping AI auditing frameworks and has participated in panels discussing effective and trustworthy AI auditing.

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