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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic
Description: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun holds the Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She’s also the Director of the Digital Democracies Institute there. The Digital Democracies Institute is a group of scholars and stakeholders from around the world who collaborate across disciplines to generate more democratic technologies and cultures. Wendy herself has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she uses to understand contemporary trends and threats within digital media and emerging technologies.
She is the author of books like Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fi...