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Anita Say Chan

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228 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St.
M/C 462
Urbana, IL 61801

Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media

Biography

Anita Say Chan is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also holds the Fiddler Innovation Faculty Fellowship at the National Centerfor Supercomputing Applications at UIUC. Her research and teaching interestsinclude globalization and digital cultures, innovation networks and the “periphery”, science and technology studies in Latin America, and hybridpedagogies in building digital literacies. She received her PhD in 2008 fromthe MIT Doctoral Programs in History; Anthropology; and Science, Technology, and Society. Her first book on the competing imaginaries of global connection and information technologies in network-age Peru, Networking Peripheries:Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism, was released by MIT Press in 2014, and was released in Spanish by the Institute of Peruvian Studies in 2018. Her research has been awarded support from the Center for the Study of Law & Culture at Columbia University’s School of Law and the National Science Foundation. She is faculty affiliate at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), the Illinois Informatics Institute, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and theCollaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP). She is a2018-19 Faculty Fellow with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities' Training in Digital Methods for the Humanities Program, and a 2017-19 Faculty Fellow with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences
Affiliate, Informatics
Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Highlighted Publications

Chan, A. (2014). Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism. MIT Press.

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Recent Publications

Balasubramaniam, G. S., Belitz, C., & Chan, A. S. (2024). Bridging Informational Divides: A Community-Centered Analysis of "Public Safety" Surveillance Technology. In CHI 2024 - Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems Article 550 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3644046

Bosch, N., Chan, A. S., Davis, J. L., Gutiérrez, R., He, J., Karahalios, K., Koyejo, S., Loui, M. C., Mendenhall, R., Sanfilippo, M. R., Tong, H., Varshney, L. R., & Wang, Y. (2024). Artificial Intelligence, Social Responsibility, and the Roles of the University. Communications of the ACM, 67(8), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640541

Bosch, N., Chan, A. S., Davis, J. L., Gutiérrez, R., He, J. R., Karahalios, K., Loui, M. C., Mendenhall, R., Sanfilippo, M. R., Tong, H., Varshney, L. R., & Wang, Y. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility: The Roles of the University. Computing Research Association. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/116374

Chan, A. S. (2021). Data Journalism, Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery. In L. Bounegru, & J. Gray (Eds.), The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (pp. 307-313). Article 43. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qr6smr.46

Chan, A. S., & Bakry, M. E. (2020). Feminist design and the relational infrastructures of protest. Interactions, 27(6), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3425913

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