I am a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford (Clarendon Scholar & Global Histories of Capitalism Scholar) where my thesis examines the export of surveillance technologies. Sitting at the intersection of Science Technology and Society, Geography, and Sociology, it explores the vast industry that underpins these pervasive infrastructures and the colonial legacies that are reified, reproduced but also resisted.
Besides traditional academic work, I am invested in organising and community projects, as well as exploring creative outputs and different types of collaborations. Please feel free to get in touch.
Other projects: I am the PI of Stories in/around the Machine, a project that teases out tales of troubles, tinkering, and trickeries of living with AI/ML systems. I am also an Associate Lecturer at the University Arts London where I co-teach on “Surveillance Futures” and “Human Rights & Computation”.
yung.au[at]oii.ox.ac.uk
twitter: @a_yung_
Interests: Surveillance, De/Post/Re-Colonial Studies, Critical Data Studies, Abolition, Futures, Alternative Infrastructures, Space, Critical Cartography
RECENT EDUCATION
Current, DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
2016-17, MSc of Sociology, University of Oxford (Winner of A.H. Halsey Prize for the Highest Grade in Sociology Msc, University of Oxford).
RESEARCH GRANTS
2021-22. Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund in AI Governance, Oxford University.
2022. Brazen Art Fund, Brasenose College.
2022. Brasenose Research Grant, Brasenose College.
2021. Critical Thinking Community, TORCH.
2021. Santander Grant for Fieldwork, Oxford University.
2021. St Antony’s Student and Travel Research Grant.
2019. Oxford Internet Institute DPhil Fund.
SELECT AWARDS
2023. Decolonial Scholar Award in the Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division at ICA.
2023. Best Student Paper Award in the Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division at ICA.
2022. Best Student Paper Award in the Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group at ICA.
2021-22. Global History of Capitalism Scholarship, Oxford University.
2018-22. Clarendon Scholarship for DPhil Tuition and Stipend, Oxford University.
2018. Global Rotary Scholarship.
RECENT ACADEMIC PUBLICATION.
2022. Protest, pandemic, & platformisation in Hong Kong: Towards cities of alternatives. ❋ Winner of the Best Student Paper Award in the Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group at ICA.
This paper explores the variety of alternative, local platforms that flourished in Hong Kong during 2019–2020, a tumultuous time which was shaped by the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protests and the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the vast range of alternative platform possibilities and argues for the importance to think more critically about what platforms we are platforming, where we look to when we think of innovation, and what we forgo in a landscape starved of options.
RECENT PUBLIC WRITING.
What would computing be like as an electric brain, a little thunder, and a little flesh? Or a river, electrified? Perhaps as meat and skull and a drizzle of rain?“
