Facebook ‘Friendship’ and Predicting the Future with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The Good Robot8 Mars 2022

Facebook ‘Friendship’ and Predicting the Future with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

In this episode, we chat with Professor Wendy Chun, who is Simon Fraser University's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media. As both an expert in Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, her extraordinary analysis of contemporary digital media bridges the humanities and STEM sciences to think through some of the most pressing technical and conceptual issues in technology today. Wendy discusses her most recent book, Discriminating Data, where she explains what is actually happe...

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