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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Now posted on Youtube: Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession A CONVERSATION WITH JODI BYRD (Chickasaw Nation), JOSEPH M. PIERCE (Cherokee Nation), AND AUDRA SIMPSON (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk) Watch at: bit.ly/4e6ygGM

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xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So grateful for this opportunity. Let’s work together to build the present we want.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

AI and the Future of the Humanities The Calgary Institute for the Humanities www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-and-the...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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: bit.ly/402lT6t

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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!

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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? ow.ly/GG3P50XCQTy Critical Inquiry

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8

Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8

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Nettheatrechannel @nettheatrechannel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/... Special Issue: Digital Twinning Editors: Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Tristan Thielmann

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Anne Ulrich @anneulrich.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/07/2025

“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.

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The Invention of “Sesame Street”

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 13/07/2025

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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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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 ✨✨✨

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

✨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.

Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"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...

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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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roopa vasudevan @rouxpz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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

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Ant Stanley @iamstan.dev · 12/12/2024

Ken Cheng is the only person doing LinkedIn correctly

A LinkedIn post from Ken Cheng with the following text

I owed a friend £22.91 for an Uber.

I transferred them £22.19 by accident.

They never brought it up.

Nobody would bring up 72p.

I did it on purpose.

I've been doing it for years.

Every time I have to transfer someone money, I "accidentally" leave off a bit.

I call it the Plausible Deniability Typo.

£24.37 instead of £24.73.
£9.38 instead of £9.83.
£3.46 instead of £3.64.

Sometimes if I'm feeling really risky, I'll do £18.54 instead of £19.54.

They'd look like a complete tool to quibble over this.

Instead, they are a tool in a different way.

A tool for me to get to the top.

I've probably made £100 over 5 years.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"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.

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ioana Jucan’s book is brilliant. So honored to be able to publish it.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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... 👑👑👑

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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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Roz Foster @rozfoster.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Digital Segregation

How data-science separates us into neighborhoods of sameness

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

On Tues I'm leading a virtual wkshp for a bunch of publishing, museum, + library folks through KANAL, the Centre Pompidou's new Brussels post. I was asked to address libraries as commons; I plan to talk abt what can + can't be "commoned," and what work-arounds are possible. I'll share my materials!

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A workshop about the commons in libraries

Particularly in this age of privatisation and political fragmentation, of data capture and environmental extraction, public libraries seem to offer a beacon of hope, embodying both an intellectual and...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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...

A graphic with a purple background that is an image of a grey sphere landing in a net. Beneath this is a chartreuse bar with black lettering: Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks to @techsequences.bsky.social‬ for the opportunity to join this for a discussion of AI and risks to social cohesion and more.

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Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 | jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Professor in Environmental Media Studies

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First Transnational Technocultures Symposium 9.12.24 in Naples #critt with @whkchun.bsky.social

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