Our Publications
You can find our published work at the links below. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with our research, upcoming events, and more.
Wendy Chun
Algorithmic Authenticity (Meson Press, 2023) (Co-author with Anthony Burton, et al.)
Discriminating Data (MIT Press, Fall 2021)
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press, 2016)
New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2015) (co-editor with Anna Fisher and Thomas Keenan)
Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011)
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2005)
Svitlana Matviyenko
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko – Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota University Press, 2019)
Svitlana Matviyenko and Judith Roof (eds.) – Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave McMillan, 2018)
Paul D. Miller and Svitlana Matviyenko (eds.) – The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014)
Wendy Chun
Stephanie Dick, Wendy Chun and Matt Canute. ‘How AI Sets Limits for Human Inspiration‘. Issues in Science and Technology (January, 2024)
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (2023) “Taking the Reparative Pill: Cyberspace, Machine Learning, and the Closure of the Real,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture: Vol. 45: Iss. 3, Article 2.
Javier Ruiz Soler and Wendy Chun. “Regionally Alt-Right?# Wexit as a Digital Public Sphere” Canadian Journal of Communication (February 2022)
Wendy Chun, “The Space Between Us: Network Gaps, Racism and the Possibilities of Living In/Difference” Catalyst (October 2021)
Carina Albrecht, Wendy Chun, Laura Kurgan “Living In/difference; or, How to Imagine Ambivalent Networks,” Qui Parle, (June 2021)
Wendy Chun “Beyond Verification: Algorithmic Authenticity and Polarizing Trust”, SSRC Items, (May, 2021)
Wendy Chun, Ahmed Al Rawi, Salma Amer “Vocal, visible and vulnerable: female politicians at the intersection of Islamophobia, sexism and liberal multiculturalism” Feminist Media Studies (May 2021)
Wendy Chun, Laura Kurgan, Dare Brawley, Jia Zhang “Weak Ties: The Urban History of an Algorithm,” E-Flux Architecture (October 2020)
“Net-munity or the Space …. Between Us Will Open the Future,” Posts from the Pandemic, Critical Inquiry (May 2020″)
“Queerying Homophily,” Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 18:1 (2018): 131-148.
“Big Data as Drama,” ELH 83:2 (Summer 2016): 363-382.
“Networks NOW: Belatedly Too Early,” Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.2 (2015), special issue of Network Theory and American Culture.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Sarah Friedland, “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” differences 26:2 (2015): 1-28.
“Marshall McLuhan: The First Cyberpunk Author?” Journal for Visual Culture 13:36-8 (April 2014), special issue entitled Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media at 50.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lisa Marie Rhody, “Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows Between the Dark and the Light,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 25:1 (2014): 1-25, special issue entitled “In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities.”
Tara Mcpherson, Patrick Jagoda, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Preface: New Media and American Literature,” American Literature 85:4 (2013): 615-628, special issue entitled “New Media and American Literature.”
“Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks” Theory Culture & Society 28 (2011): 3-23, special issue entitled Codes and Codings in Crisis: Signification, Performativity and Excess.
“Race and/as Technology, or How to do Things with Race.” special issue of Camera Obscura on Race as Technology 24 (2009): 7-35.
“On Sourcery and Daemons, or Code as Fetish.” Configurations: the Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 16 (2008):299-324.
“The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory.” Critical Inquiry 35:1 (2008):148-171.
“Programmed Visions,” Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular 3:1 (2007).
“On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge.” grey room 18 (winter 2005): 26-51.
“Scenes of Empowerment: Virtual Racial Diversity and Digital Divides” New Formations special issue on “Race and/or Nation” 45, (winter 2001): 169-188.
“Unbearable Witness: Towards a Politics of Listening.” differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 11.1 (Spring 1999): 112-149.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Christine Tomlinson. Gender, Stress, Satisfaction, and Persistence: The Complex State of Digital Games as Leisure.” Acta Ludologica 5:1 (June 2022): 42-59.
Wendy Chun
Sam Andrey, Vass Bednar, Keldon Bester… Prem Sylvester & Wendy Hui Kyong Chun et al. “Platform Governance in Canada: Essay Series,” Government of Canada.
Matthew Canute, Hannah Holtzclaw, Alberto Lusoli, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. “Hate and the COVID-19 pandemic – An analysis of B.C. Twitter discourse,” British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, (June 2022).
Julia M. Wright, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Amanda Clarke, Matthew Herder, Howard Ramos, “Promoting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and Improved Communications,” Royal Society of Canada, (February 2022)
“Beyond Verification: Algorithmic Authenticity and Polarizing Trust”, SSRC Items, (May, 2021)
Wendy Chun
Wendy Chun – “Co-relating the Online Self” in The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures, Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Teresa Numerico and Peter Sarram (eds.), 2021.
Wendy Chun
“Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the algorithm that discriminates” Il Manifesto (April 19, 2024)
“Wendy Chun and the danger of AI: We think we’re learning, but we’re really turning the future off.” Democracia, CNN Chile (September,2023)
Wendy Chun and Scott Stoneman – “Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic,” Pretty Heady Stuff, April 2023.
Wendy Chun and Florian Sprenger – “Performing AI: Data-Critique and Data Politics,” The Respectful Nettheatrechannel, August 2022.
Data and Society Bookcast – “Discriminating Data,” February 2022.
Meeting Street: Cogut Institute for the Humanities – “Uncovering the Humanities in Data Science,” January 2021.
Congreso Futoro “Digital Trust” September 2020
“In Conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,” TANK Magazine 84 (Autumn/Winter 2020)
“Reimagining Networks,” The New Inquiry (May 2020)
“Ryan Kuo Discusses Race with Media Scholar Wendy Chun,” Art in America (September 2019)
“Data Segregation and Algorithmic Amplification: A Conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,” Canadian Journal of Communication 44:3 (2019).
“Correlating Happiness,” Canadian Centre for Architecture (August 2019)
“Wendy Chun, interviewed by Kara Keeling” Fieldnotes, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (May 2019)
“Friday Live Extra: Wendy Chun,” Nebraska’s PBS and NPR Station (March 2019)
Svitlana Matviyenko
Molly Thomas and Riley Nimens – “Online propaganda war rages in parallel to battles on Ukraine streets” CTV’s W5, 11 March 11.
Jill Bennett – “The War in Ukraine Continues” CKNW, 02 March, 2022.
Matt Galloway – “Spotting online lies and disinformation around the invasion of Ukraine” CBC’s The Current, 01 March 1, 2022.
Wendy Chun
Institute for Advanced Study exhibition: “Becoming Bodies” Exhibition Explores the History of Computing, Cybernetics, and Cyberorganisms – March 8, 2024
Ian Campbell – “Twitter plays a ‘significant’ role in Canada’s democracy, and government must do more to regulate in face of Musk’s ‘roller-coaster,’ say observers” The Hill Times, 11 November 2022.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Amanda Clarke, Matthew Herder, Howard Ramos and Julia M. Wright – “It’s time to protect expert advice” The Globe and Mail, 3 March 2022.
Jack Gramenz – “The Social Dilemma: Why everyone is talking about Netflix doco” New Zealand Herald, 28 September 2020.
Jackson Weaver – “What Netflix’s The Social Dilemma gets wrong about Big Tech” CBC News, Entertainment section, 27 September 2020.
Manuel Cebrian & José Balso-Barreiro – “A short guide to destroying reality” Little Atoms, 25 September 2020.
The Editors – “Fake News: A Media Literacy Reading List” JStor Daily, 18 August 2020.
Jack Wareham and Dylan Burgoon -“Leftist Perspectives on Zoom: Socialist Struggle while Social Distancing” CounterPunch, 19 May 2020.
13th Gwangju Biennale – “13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning” e-flux, 15 May 2020.
Jathan Sadowski, “How ‘Smart Tech’ Masks an Emerging Era of Corporate Control” OneZero, 9 March 2020.
Sean Barton, “New artificial intelligence tools could help tackle online abuse” Tech Xplore, 24 February 2020.
DF Lab – “Congreso Futuro 2020 apuesta a ser un aporte al conflict social desde la cienca” Diaro Financiero, 9 January 2020.
Jihoon Yoon – “How do control and freedom coexist in a computer network? 컴퓨터 네트워크서 통제와 자유는 어떻게 공존하는가?” Frontline of the 21st-century Thoughts Series, Munwha Ilbo, 7 January 2020.
Julia Bugiel – “Pursuing the career the women of the Polytechnique could not” Policy Options Politiques, 6 December 2019.
Antonio Furgiuele and Matthew Allen -“Mediating Theory” e-flux, 28 April 2019.
Thomas Bedford – “From the Particular to the Universal” e-flux architecture, 22 April 2019.
Nora H. Khan, “Seeing, Naming, Knowing” The Brooklyn Rail, March 7, 2019.
Robert Yang – “If you walk in someone else’s shoes, then you’ve taken their shoes’: empathy machines as appropriation machines” NGV Triennial Voices, August, 2017.
Emily Saltz – ‘Reflection on Weird Reality: Beyond magic and novelty‘ Medium, 25 February 2017.
Prashast Thapan – “We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of Virtual Reality” Vice Magazine, 3 February 3, 2017.
Shira Makin – “Can Virtual Reality Bring World Peace?” Haaretz, 16 January 16.