How does big data research help answer questions of equality and justice? How can this research create methods to address abusive language used online, and cyber bullying? How does data analysis combat the spread of fake news?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, will join Simon Fraser University as a prestigious Canada 150 Research Chair in 2018 and her research aims to answer those questions. She will hold the Chair in New Media, in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, and hopes to develop the coalitions that can create new approaches to digital democracy.
The chairs program, created in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary, provides Canadian post-secondary institutions with a one-time investment to attract top-tier, internationally based scholars and researchers to Canada.
SFU News spoke with Chun about her research and how she feels about joining SFU as the new Canada 150 Research Chair in Digital Media.
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