Photo: Eivind Senneset, UiB

I am the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Social Change (SSHRC Tier 2) and an Assistant Professor of Technology & Social Change in the Department of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, cross-appointed in the Department of English Language and Literature. I am also an Associate Professor II (part-time) at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway.

The city of Kitchener-Waterloo—home to Canada’s Google Accelerator Program and birthplace of Blackberry—is an international hub for technological research and culture. In an environment that merges critical ideas with creative practice, I work on media studies, science and technology studies (especially of biased design and AI), critical design (especially of technological hardware, software, and data), and methods of public/policy outreach through digital storytelling.

My lab is called The U&AI Lab and it is funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

In addition to serving as an Advisory Board member for multiple research and artistic groups, I serve as an Editor and the Director of Communications of electronic book review (media theory and digital literary studies, est. 1995) and Editor of the digital review (born-digital arts and literature).

My name is pronounced “Ly Chee.”

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