A Former Financial Journalist turned Media & Communications Scholar
Critical EdTech Studies, AI/Data ethics, Datafied Education, Social Justice
Doctoral Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Research Projects
(ongoing and finished projects)
#Data #AI #Tech & Society #SocialJustice #Privacy #Surveillance #Dataveillance #Datafiededucation
01
AI-Textbook in South Korea (September, 2024-ongoing)
Touted as the world's first AI textbook, South Korean government announced an educational reform initiative to develop AI-textbooks and implement them in public schools by 2025. In this case study, I examine the discursive framing that legitimizes and naturalizes the new connective milieu of dataveillance in educational settings.
Keywords: Datafied Education, Dataveillance, Datafied School, Educational Consumerism, AI-textbooks
August 9th, 2023. Meeting with elementary school teachers from South Korea at SFU campus to discuss this EdTech initiative.
Topic: How to safely utilize EdTech in public schools
02
Keypunch Operators
(September, 2023-ongoing)
Simon Fraser University's Digital Democracies Institute
Extending the keynote presentation, My mother was a keypunch operator at a one day symposium (November 2, 2018) titled “My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology” at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and I are diving into the history of keypunch operators in the 1970s in Canada. We tell the stories of these female immgrant workers, whose labor was key to modern computation, and examine the critical links between race, nationality, labor and immigration policy.
03
UP-BC Precarity project (Understanding Precarity in BC, Canada)
by Dr. Kendra Strauss and Dr. Iglika Labour Studies Program; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC Office)
Based on focus group and 1:1 interviews of 35 gig workers as well as online survey, "Gig Workers Deserve Better" project shed light on the precarious working conditions of gig workers in the ride-hail and food delivery sectors in British Columbia, Canada. What we heard report (expected to be released in the Fall '23) was written based on the data collected from the survey and the interviews and will be used to close the loopholes in legislation and make sure gig workers are fully protected by British Columbia's workplace laws including the Employment Standards Act, Workers Compensation Act and Labour Relations Code.
Keywords: Labour, precarious employment, precarity, income, security, health, gender, race, immigrant status
04
Datafied Education - Rethinking 21st century education
Published in IJOC (International Journal of Communication)
I examine the increasingly datafied education in the contexts of the EU and South Korea.
Keywords:
#policyanalysis #EU Digital Action Plan #South Korean Education Policy #Pandemic Policies #COVID-19 #Pandemic #Digital Learning #Neoliberalism #Public vs. Private values
05 (Work-in-progress)
Anti-Asian Racism during the COVID-19
Using declonial approaches to examine anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, I examine Canadian news media coverage from 2020-2022.
Presented at 2023 CCA (Canadian Communications Association) : Reckonings with Racial Injustices Part I
June 1st, 2023
Keywords:
#decolonialapproach #decolonialtheory #asiaasmethod #COVID-19 #anti-asianracism #stopasianhate #criticaldiscourseanalysis