【尖端講座系列】第三十二場 Beyond Ethical Tech: Why Understanding the Sociocultural History of Our Technical Defaults Matter

【尖端講座系列】第三十二場

講題：超越倫理性科技：解析科技預設的社會文化史 Beyond Ethical Tech: Why Understanding the Sociocultural History of Our Technical Defaults Matter

主講人：Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University; Director, Digital Democracies Institute)

主持人：廖咸浩（國立臺灣大學人文社會高等研究院院長）

時間：2023年1月11日(三) 10:00-12:00

地點：國立臺灣大學校史館外文系會議室

主辦單位：國立臺灣大學人文社會高等研究院

合辦單位：國立臺灣大學外國語文學系、財團法人日月光文教基金會

講者簡介：

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. 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.

講座摘要：

The dangers of predatory predictive algorithms are well known: from amplifying discrimination to cementing polarization. If this is so, what can we do? This talk outlines how the humanities, social sciences, and STEM might come together to address the problems we face not by ignoring the past but examining how past injustices, such as segregation, have been embedded within our technical defaults.