Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: Habitual New Media

For those of you who missed Wendy Chun’s talk at Barnard, here is the full video. It’s worth watching. Her presentation style is very engaging and the topic is relevant to our course. Please note that in Professor Chun’s email, she specifically said, “if your students do review [the video], it would be wonderful to get their feedback.”

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Blurb about the talk from Barnard Center for Research on Women: “New media technologies provoke both anxiety and hope: anxiety over surveillance and hope for empowerment. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals that these two reactions complement rather than oppose each other by emphasizing how exposure is necessary in order for networks to work. Addressing the key ways that gender plays—and has historically played—into negotiating media exposure, she examines how “habits of privacy” persist and are fostered, often to our detriment. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is professor and chair of modern culture and media at Brown University. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory.”
This lecture was recorded on October 10, 2013 at Barnard College in New York City.