Founding Director, SIMLab
Dr. Florence M. Chee is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication and Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy (CDEP) at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She is also Founding Director of the Social & Interactive Media Lab Chicago (SIMLab), devoted to the in-depth study of social phenomena at the intersection of society and technology. Her book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play (2023 Lexington Books), critiques commonly held notions of online game addiction by taking an ethnographic look at the social and cultural roles that games fulfill in everyday life.
As a technocultural ethicist, Dr. Chee’s international experience and perspectives build upon decades of research examining the social, cultural, and ethical shifts in emergent digital lifestyles, working to translate insights about lived contexts across industrial, governmental, and academic sectors. Frequently sought out as a speaker, writer, and advisor, her sociotechnical interventions inform and influence the necessary decisions made in design, development, and policy arenas. She serves as an External Consultee to the Freedom Online Coalition’s (FOC) Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (T-FAIR) and is a Key Constituent of the United Nations 3C Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence.
This past academic year, Chee was affiliated as Visiting Faculty at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University NL continuing her international research into how participation in online communities may present predatory and/or extractive relationships with their constituencies. She is a Fellow of the Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Florence Chee has edited issues in the International Review of Information Ethics, Journal of Games Criticism, Human Technology, and currently serves as Associate Editor at flagship publication Communications of the ACM (CACM) https://cacm.acm.org/editorial-staff-board/
She has designed and taught graduate/undergraduate courses in Digital Media including Game Studies, where students engage with debates surrounding diversity, intersectionality and media production through social justice frameworks.
For inquiries by email, contact: fchee[at]luc[dot]edu.
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Specialties: Ethnography, Material Culture, Games Research, Mobility, Communities, Communcation Infrastructures, Cultures of Innovation and Policy, Research Ethics. Applied research methods (participant observation, interviews, focus groups, surveys).