Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 279027 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun |
| NOMBRES | Wendy Hui Kyong |
| APELLIDO | Chun |
| FIRMA | CHUN W H K |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7155-919X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Echoing Narcissus
“I was a free and independent worker”
This paper examines the overlooked history of Korean Canadian women keypunch operators (KPOs) in 1970–’80s Canada. KPOs were responsible for preparing computer-readable data and thus crucial to the emergence of business computing, machine learning, the digital humanities, and so much more, yet their labor and stories have largely been forgotten and consistently devalued. Management considered these jobs part of a “clerical ghetto” and struggled t…
Conflicting feelings
The revenge of ‘tribal’ toxic masculinity
Toxic geek masculinity is common in gaming spaces, with racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, and ableism running rampant on live streaming platforms like Twitch. In particular, Twitch has made choices to encode certain features that have empowered the proliferation of toxic behavior, such as attacks by users on users that are intended to harass, abuse, and disrupt, called ‘hate raids’. In 2017, Twitch released a ‘raiding’ feature on their p…
Making everything ac-count-able
This editorial investigates the epistemic and media-theoretical significance of digital twinning as a decision-making practice. Digital twins purport to calculate futures based on sensor data in conjunction with generative AI, cloud computing, and Internet-of-things architectures; they shape institutional decisions and are used to make such decisions accountable. To illustrate this, examples from the logistics, transportation, and military sector…
Intersectionality and the gendered discussion around Muslim Canadian politicians on Twitter
This study investigates users’ gendered attitudes towards Muslim Canadian politicians on Twitter with regard to intersectionality. Its purpose is to understand the tone and intersectional dimensions of Twitter users’ responses to Muslim Canadian politicians and the gendered responses to them. Therefore, we extracted all the available Twitter replies to 11 Muslim men and women politicians. Using a mixed method approach, we investigated how the pub…
Understanding' Asians
Taking the Reparative Pill
.
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians
Research has shown that Black politicians in the Global North contend with higher instances of abusive language on social media platforms. The study investigates how public interactions engage with the intersectional positionalities of nine Black Canadian politicians. We collected all the replies to tweets posted by the politicians from 2006 to 2021. Results from the manual analysis showed that 56% of the tweets had a neutral tone, meaning that e…
Regionally Alt-Right? #Wexit as a Digital Public Sphere
Background: Wexit, a movement for the secession of the provinces in Western Canada, gained national attention and visibility in the federal elections of 2019, boosted by social media platforms. Analysis: This article explores #wexit interactions on Twitter as a Canadian digital issue public by analyzing the main actors spreading and controlling information and interactions to see if the public Wexit conversation on Twitter engages in alt-right di…
Discriminating Data
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage. In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-cent…
The Space between Us
This article explores how the “gaps” that structure networks and communities enclose and preserve “racialized others,” whom they seem to expel: from Black residents in US biracial housing projects to Japanese and Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. It also calls for an embrace of ambi-valent neighbors to render these undead spaces into vibrant, if in/different, modes of inhabitation
Living In/difference; or, How to Imagine Ambivalent Networks
In a 1954 essay Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton coined the term homophily to describe similarity-based friendship. They based their findings on friendship patterns among neighbors in a biracial housing project in the United States, using a combined quantitative and qualitative, empirical and speculative analysis of social processes. Since then homophily has become a guiding principle for network science: it is simply presumed that similarity…
Vocal, visible and vulnerable
To understand the burdens of “representing diversity” in multicultural democracies, this paper empirically explores Twitter posts about two female Muslim Canadian politicians, Iqra Khalid and Maryam Monsef. Using a mixed method approach, the study reveals that the majority of the most retweeted posts referring to the two members of Parliament were negative in tone. Khalid received more abusive tweets than Monsef, even though she is less prominent…
Net-munity, or the Space between Us ... Will Open the Future
Previous articleNext article FreeNet-munity, or the Space between Us ... Will Open the FutureWendy Hui Kyong ChunWendy Hui Kyong ChunPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore20 May 2020I write this during a time when we feel acutely the stakes and consequences of connection, polarization, infrastructures, models, and habits. To many, it …
Updating to Remain the Same
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest…
Habits of Leaking
This essay attempts to disable the "ruinous" logic that has fueled recent slut-shaming on Web 2.0 by making visible the ways in which our machines are promiscuous-routinely "leaking." The authors present the leak as a habit so as to disrupt the illusion of privacy and sealed subjectivity that enables the possibility of being a "victim" of slut-shaming, revenge porn, and similar dangers of Web 2.0. They argue that blaming the user for leaks only d…
On Hypo-Real Models or Global Climate Change
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. . . . Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms
Marshall McLuhan
Whenever I re-read Understanding Media, I am amazed by its brilliance and by its darkness – and by the fact that so little of the book, that many assume they already know because they have heard the aphorisms ‘the medium is the message’ and ‘the global village’, is actually known or understood (to use McLuhan’s phrase). To many, McLuhan is a prophet of the electronic age who predicted the importance of personal computers and the internet; to othe…
Working the Digital Humanities
Situating digital humanities within larger changes to university funding and structures, Chun and Rhody complicate rhetoric surrounding “the digital” as the bright future of the humanities and higher education. Chun confronts a general euphoria surrounding technology and education by invoking Lauren Berlant’s term cruel optimism and challenges assertions that technical savvy yields more jobs for undergraduates and that moocs reduce the cost of hi…
Programmed Visions
A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world. New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things—mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programm…
Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks
This article addresses the seemingly paradoxical proliferation of coded systems designed to guarantee our safety and crises that endanger us. These two phenomena, it argues, are not opposites but rather complements; crises are not accidental to a culture focused on safety, they are its raison d'être. Mapping out the temporality of networks, it argues that crises are new media's critical difference: its exception and its norm. Although crises prom…
Introduction
This special issue poses the questions: to what degree are race and technology intertwined?Can race be considered a technology or a form of media -that is, not only a mechanism, but also a practical or industrial art?Could race be not simply an object of representation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a technique that one uses, even as one is used by it -a carefully crafted, historically inflected system of tools, mediation, or enfr…
On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish
This essay offers a sympathetic interrogation of the move within new media studies toward "software studies." Arguing against theoretical conceptions of programming languages as the ultimate performative utterance, it contends that source code is never simply the source of any action; rather, source code is only source code after the fact: its effectiveness depends on a whole imagined network of machines and humans. This does not mean that source…
The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory
The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory
Updating to Remain the Same
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest…
On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge
Introduction
This special issue poses the questions: to what degree are race and technology intertwined?Can race be considered a technology or a form of media -that is, not only a mechanism, but also a practical or industrial art?Could race be not simply an object of representation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a technique that one uses, even as one is used by it -a carefully crafted, historically inflected system of tools, mediation, or enfr…
On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish
This essay offers a sympathetic interrogation of the move within new media studies toward "software studies." Arguing against theoretical conceptions of programming languages as the ultimate performative utterance, it contends that source code is never simply the source of any action; rather, source code is only source code after the fact: its effectiveness depends on a whole imagined network of machines and humans. This does not mean that source…
Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks
This article addresses the seemingly paradoxical proliferation of coded systems designed to guarantee our safety and crises that endanger us. These two phenomena, it argues, are not opposites but rather complements; crises are not accidental to a culture focused on safety, they are its raison d'être. Mapping out the temporality of networks, it argues that crises are new media's critical difference: its exception and its norm. Although crises prom…
On Hypo-Real Models or Global Climate Change
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. . . . Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms
Habits of Leaking
This essay attempts to disable the "ruinous" logic that has fueled recent slut-shaming on Web 2.0 by making visible the ways in which our machines are promiscuous-routinely "leaking." The authors present the leak as a habit so as to disrupt the illusion of privacy and sealed subjectivity that enables the possibility of being a "victim" of slut-shaming, revenge porn, and similar dangers of Web 2.0. They argue that blaming the user for leaks only d…
Unbearable Witness
wendy hui kyong chun is an assistant professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics
Vocal, visible and vulnerable
To understand the burdens of “representing diversity” in multicultural democracies, this paper empirically explores Twitter posts about two female Muslim Canadian politicians, Iqra Khalid and Maryam Monsef. Using a mixed method approach, the study reveals that the majority of the most retweeted posts referring to the two members of Parliament were negative in tone. Khalid received more abusive tweets than Monsef, even though she is less prominent…
Working the Digital Humanities
Situating digital humanities within larger changes to university funding and structures, Chun and Rhody complicate rhetoric surrounding “the digital” as the bright future of the humanities and higher education. Chun confronts a general euphoria surrounding technology and education by invoking Lauren Berlant’s term cruel optimism and challenges assertions that technical savvy yields more jobs for undergraduates and that moocs reduce the cost of hi…
Making everything ac-count-able
This editorial investigates the epistemic and media-theoretical significance of digital twinning as a decision-making practice. Digital twins purport to calculate futures based on sensor data in conjunction with generative AI, cloud computing, and Internet-of-things architectures; they shape institutional decisions and are used to make such decisions accountable. To illustrate this, examples from the logistics, transportation, and military sector…
Unbearable Witness
wendy hui kyong chun is an assistant professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics
Romance on a Global Stage
New Media, Old Media
New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, …
Control and Freedom
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with co…
On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge
On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish
This essay offers a sympathetic interrogation of the move within new media studies toward "software studies." Arguing against theoretical conceptions of programming languages as the ultimate performative utterance, it contends that source code is never simply the source of any action; rather, source code is only source code after the fact: its effectiveness depends on a whole imagined network of machines and humans. This does not mean that source…
The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory
Introduction
This special issue poses the questions: to what degree are race and technology intertwined?Can race be considered a technology or a form of media -that is, not only a mechanism, but also a practical or industrial art?Could race be not simply an object of representation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a technique that one uses, even as one is used by it -a carefully crafted, historically inflected system of tools, mediation, or enfr…
Programmed Visions
A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world. New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things—mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programm…
Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks
This article addresses the seemingly paradoxical proliferation of coded systems designed to guarantee our safety and crises that endanger us. These two phenomena, it argues, are not opposites but rather complements; crises are not accidental to a culture focused on safety, they are its raison d'être. Mapping out the temporality of networks, it argues that crises are new media's critical difference: its exception and its norm. Although crises prom…
Marshall McLuhan
Whenever I re-read Understanding Media, I am amazed by its brilliance and by its darkness – and by the fact that so little of the book, that many assume they already know because they have heard the aphorisms ‘the medium is the message’ and ‘the global village’, is actually known or understood (to use McLuhan’s phrase). To many, McLuhan is a prophet of the electronic age who predicted the importance of personal computers and the internet; to othe…
Working the Digital Humanities
Situating digital humanities within larger changes to university funding and structures, Chun and Rhody complicate rhetoric surrounding “the digital” as the bright future of the humanities and higher education. Chun confronts a general euphoria surrounding technology and education by invoking Lauren Berlant’s term cruel optimism and challenges assertions that technical savvy yields more jobs for undergraduates and that moocs reduce the cost of hi…
Habits of Leaking
This essay attempts to disable the "ruinous" logic that has fueled recent slut-shaming on Web 2.0 by making visible the ways in which our machines are promiscuous-routinely "leaking." The authors present the leak as a habit so as to disrupt the illusion of privacy and sealed subjectivity that enables the possibility of being a "victim" of slut-shaming, revenge porn, and similar dangers of Web 2.0. They argue that blaming the user for leaks only d…
On Hypo-Real Models or Global Climate Change
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. . . . Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms
Updating to Remain the Same
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest…
Net-munity, or the Space between Us ... Will Open the Future
Previous articleNext article FreeNet-munity, or the Space between Us ... Will Open the FutureWendy Hui Kyong ChunWendy Hui Kyong ChunPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore20 May 2020I write this during a time when we feel acutely the stakes and consequences of connection, polarization, infrastructures, models, and habits. To many, it …
Discriminating Data
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage. In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-cent…
The Space between Us
This article explores how the “gaps” that structure networks and communities enclose and preserve “racialized others,” whom they seem to expel: from Black residents in US biracial housing projects to Japanese and Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. It also calls for an embrace of ambi-valent neighbors to render these undead spaces into vibrant, if in/different, modes of inhabitation
Living In/difference; or, How to Imagine Ambivalent Networks
In a 1954 essay Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton coined the term homophily to describe similarity-based friendship. They based their findings on friendship patterns among neighbors in a biracial housing project in the United States, using a combined quantitative and qualitative, empirical and speculative analysis of social processes. Since then homophily has become a guiding principle for network science: it is simply presumed that similarity…
Vocal, visible and vulnerable
To understand the burdens of “representing diversity” in multicultural democracies, this paper empirically explores Twitter posts about two female Muslim Canadian politicians, Iqra Khalid and Maryam Monsef. Using a mixed method approach, the study reveals that the majority of the most retweeted posts referring to the two members of Parliament were negative in tone. Khalid received more abusive tweets than Monsef, even though she is less prominent…
Regionally Alt-Right? #Wexit as a Digital Public Sphere
Background: Wexit, a movement for the secession of the provinces in Western Canada, gained national attention and visibility in the federal elections of 2019, boosted by social media platforms. Analysis: This article explores #wexit interactions on Twitter as a Canadian digital issue public by analyzing the main actors spreading and controlling information and interactions to see if the public Wexit conversation on Twitter engages in alt-right di…
Taking the Reparative Pill
.
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians
Research has shown that Black politicians in the Global North contend with higher instances of abusive language on social media platforms. The study investigates how public interactions engage with the intersectional positionalities of nine Black Canadian politicians. We collected all the replies to tweets posted by the politicians from 2006 to 2021. Results from the manual analysis showed that 56% of the tweets had a neutral tone, meaning that e…
Intersectionality and the gendered discussion around Muslim Canadian politicians on Twitter
This study investigates users’ gendered attitudes towards Muslim Canadian politicians on Twitter with regard to intersectionality. Its purpose is to understand the tone and intersectional dimensions of Twitter users’ responses to Muslim Canadian politicians and the gendered responses to them. Therefore, we extracted all the available Twitter replies to 11 Muslim men and women politicians. Using a mixed method approach, we investigated how the pub…
Understanding' Asians
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