Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
So grateful for this opportunity. Let’s work together to build the present we want.
Digital Democracies Institute@digitaldemocracies.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉 We're thrilled to announce that our Director, Dr. Wendy Chun, has been named a new Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Critical Algorithmic Studies at Simon Fraser University! @whkchun.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @sfu.ca
AI and the Future of the Humanities The Calgary Institute for the Humanities www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-and-the...
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Why and how are machine learning algorithms are driving polarisation? In our new 10-Minute Talk, Wendy Chun FBA unpacks the role of homophily – the idea that ‘birds of a feather flock together’ – in how social media networks are designed. Watch the full video now: https://bit.ly/402lT6t
There are very few tickets remaining for the CDH Distinguished Lecture with Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. Please only register if you are committed to turning up. And if for some reason you cannot make it, cancel ASAP so we can give your spot to someone else. We can't wait for this one!
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 6mo ago'Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory'. @camdighum.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 2026 by @whkchun.bsky.social on Wednesday 11 March. www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
'Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory'. @camdighum.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 2026 by @whkchun.bsky.social on Wednesday 11 March. www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/d...
Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun will deliver CDH Distinguished Lecture 2026 - CDH
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital Democracies...
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Revisit a 2008 paper from Critical Inquiry that unpacks the theoretical implications of constantly disseminated and regenerated digital content. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun asks: What was new media? And what will it be? https://ow.ly/GG3P50XCQTy Critical Inquiry
Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
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journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/... Special Issue: Digital Twinning Editors: Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Tristan Thielmann
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Alles im neuen Special Issue zu Digital Twinning in New Media & Society, herausgegeben von Christoph Borbach, @whkchun.bsky.social und @tristanthielmann.bsky.social mit vielen weiteren Beiträgen, die sich mit den medienwissenschaftlichen Implikationen dieser technologischen Praxis beschäftigen.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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From the Archive: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 'Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks' - addresses the seemingly paradoxical proliferation of coded systems designed to guarantee our safety and crises that endanger us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨
What a lovely day - full room and then some for @whkchun.bsky.social’s brilliant talk on LLMs and the return of critical theory co-hosted by Data Loss and @mariaa.bsky.social at the @aicentre.dk
Save the date: On June 26, I'll be at the CHCI Annual Meeting in Berlin. Together with Wendy Chun @whkchun.bsky.social, Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Zahid R. Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social & Paul Feigelfeld we'll discuss «Techno-Fascism and Democracy». Very much looking forward to it!
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✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.
"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog. critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...
Our Cruel Crude Techne?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Our moment seems marked by cruelty: from best-selling books warning Christians against “toxic empathy” towards immigrant families to online trolls who gleefully torture their v…
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Each exhibition features work by six contemporary artists alongside experimental outputs from the broader Data Fluencies Project, an international research initiative based out of the Digital Democracies Institute (headed by @whkchun.bsky.social) at @simonfraseru.bsky.social.
I'm beyond excited by this event, a webinar upcoming on May 8, with the always and ever-amazing @alondra.bsky.social "AI and the Future of Higher Education." I'd make sure to RSVP early! www.eventbrite.com/e/alondra-ne... Brought to you by @hastac.bsky.social and @futuresed.bsky.social
Just coming out of a brilliant pair of talks by @alexhanna.bsky.social and Beth Coleman, during which they inspired us to think of what remains after hype and alien encounters and surrounds.
America has their Hulk Hogans. Their Marvel comic "super heroes." Their tech billionaire winners. We had Terry Fox. In our hearts we carry Terry's spirit. Canada #strongasfuck
Lastly, during the final session on May 14 (2025), 5:30–7 PM (CEST) the brilliant @whkchun.bsky.social @mysdick.bsky.social and Matt Canute will collectively discuss AI and the (re)shaping of intelligence — sign up: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/5-cri...
#5 Critical AI Seminar Series: AI and the (Re)Shaping of Intelligence
Invited lecture by Wendy Chun, Stephanie Dick & Matt Canute 'AI and the (Re)Shaping of Intelligence' Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professo...
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"Big data is the bastard child of eugenics" by Wendy Chun. Fascinating key note on "LLMs and the return to critical theory" at the Transnational Technocultures Symposium.
Ioana Jucan’s book is brilliant. So honored to be able to publish it.
Shane Denson@shanedenson.bsky.social · 2y agoJust heard that Ioana Jucan’s Malicious Deceivers (in the Sensing Media series I edit w/Wendy Chun) won the Calloway Prize for Best Book on Drama, Theater, & Performance Studies!!! Yay!!! www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1... 👑👑👑
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2y agoOf all the problems with AI, I think we neglect this one: it is the enemy of diversity. Trained largely on white, mainstream creators, it creates a bland, soulless art form in which no individual voice, no diverse life experience can exist…
Data science is likely more powerful than you think. Are we being segregated into neighborhoods of sameness based on similar repulsions to those with opposing ideas? My latest newsletter is up here: ➡️ shorturl.at/6lvgn @whkchun.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #lespressesdureel
Digital Segregation
How data-science separates us into neighborhoods of sameness
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Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...
Thanks to @techsequences.bsky.social for the opportunity to join this for a discussion of AI and risks to social cohesion and more.
TechSequences Podcast@techsequences.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's not just the deepfakes that threaten elections globally. Chatbots' hallucinations build communities of distrust. Join co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle as they talk with Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social) about research and the bigger picture. www.techsequences.org/podcasts/202...
