Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, PhD, is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Burnaby (CA) and leads its Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of several works including Discriminating Data (forthcoming from MIT 2021) plus three other books from MIT: Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Rhode Island (US), where she worked for almost two decades. She has held numerous visiting chairs and fellowships, from institutions such as Harvard, the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Guggenheim, ACLS American Council of Learned Societies, and American Academy of Berlin. She is also Principal Investigator on several grants including one from the Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative.