[Ssnet_list] Talk: Dr. Wendy Chun - Thurs May 16

[Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list]

Hello All—

I hope some of you will be able to join us for this iSchool talk on
Thursday!

Best,

Marika



Please join us for the annual Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture!  Feel free
to share this event with colleagues and students.



Ed Mignon Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Wendy Chun

*Thursday May 16, 2024*

*HUB 214*

*4:30-5:30 pm     Lecture*

*5:30-6:30 pm    Reception*

*How Are You?  Sentiment, Surveillance, and Anti-Asian Racism*

Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users’ posts and
actions to determine how they feel. This talk outlines the importance of
early- and mid-20th century studies of women workers and Japanese and
Japanese American internees in U.S. World War II internment camps to the
rise of sentiment analysis.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s *Canada 150 Research
Chair in New Media*
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Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital
Democracies Institute. At the Institute, she leads the Mellon-funded Data
Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts
and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine,
and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled
world.

She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature,
which she combines and mutates in her research on digital media. She has
authored many books, 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 the Same: Habitual New Media* (MIT
2016), and *Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New
Politics of Recognition* (2021, MIT Press). She has been Professor and
Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University,
where she worked for almost two decades and is currently a Visiting
Professor. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and
has also held fellowships from: the Guggenheim, ACLS, American Academy of
Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

The Ed Mignon Distinguished Lectureship is named after UW Information
School alumnus and former faculty member Dr. Edmond Mignon. It is made
possible by a gift from his wife, Molly Mignon.

The event will not be livestreamed, but a recording will be available after
the lecture.



Alicia Supernavage (she/her)

Assistant Director for Faculty Affairs and Administrative Services

The Information School

University of Washington

(206) 616-4223
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