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Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, with affiliations at Stanford’s Humanities Center, SFU’s Digital Democracies Institute, and the VINCI Institute. Her work critically examines data-driven technologies, surveillance practices, and the epistemological shifts in a machine-readable society. Hong holds a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication (2016), and has held fellowships at MIT and Microsoft Research.
Her research focuses on the limits of datafication, exploring how predictive technologies and algorithmic systems reshape knowledge production. Key themes include speculative inequality, the politics of prediction, and the societal implications of AI bias. Hong’s monograph Technologies of Speculation (2020) analyzes state surveillance and self-tracking technologies, arguing that datafication creates gaps between technological promises and social realities.
Hong has secured over $280,000 in SSHRC grants and serves on editorial boards for Media Peripheries and Big Data & Society. Her teaching spans AI ethics, surveillance studies, and media historiography, with courses like AI, Algorithms and Power. She advises 11 graduate students researching topics from biopolitical surveillance in China to gendered AI violence.
Her recent work explores ‘speculative drama’ in generative AI and the ritualized temporality of technological futures. Hong frequently advises Canadian government bodies on AI policy and digital governance, balancing academic rigor with public engagement.
