Yung Au

WRITING

Here is a selection of some recent academic & public writing:

Au, Yung (2022). “Data Centres on the Moon and Other Stories: A Volumetric and Elemental Analysis of the Coloniality of Digital Infrastructures” Special Issue on Earthly Volumes, Voluminous Materialities: Working with Apprehension Edited by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds. Territory, Politics, Governance.* Winner of the Decolonial Scholarship Award & Best Student Paper Award at ICA. 2023.

Au, Yung (2022). “Platforming Hong Kong: A City of Alternatives”. Special Issue on Digital Platforms and Socio-Spatial Justice edited by Chiara Certomà and Filippo Celata. Digital Geography & Society.* Winner of Best Student Paper Award at ICA. 2022.

Au, Yung (2021). Surveillance as a Service. Working paper 2021.4, Oxford, UK: Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance.

Au, Yung (2021). “An Electric Brain”.A New AI Lexicon edited by Noopur Raval and Amba Kak. AI Now. New York.

Au, Yung (2021). “Exporting AI”. A New AI Lexicon edited by Noopur Raval and Amba Kak. AI Now. New York.

Au, Yung (2021). “Navigating Data Worlds: On Ubiquitous Surveillance”. In Automated Photography edited by Milo Keller, Claus Gunti, & Florian Amoser. Lausanne and London: ECAL/Mörel Books, 2021.

Au, Yung (2021). “Thinking Critically About Maps” written for Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible Series

Au, Yung (2021) “Data Traces from a 14 Day Quarantine”. Deep City Book. Ecole Polytechnique.

Au, Yung, Project Ainita, & Howard, Philip (2020). “Benefiting on the Back-End of Controversies”. Computational Propaganda Project Data Memo. 2020.7. University of Oxford. Washington Post coverage here.

Au, Yung (2017). “Gender Minorities in Hong Kong and Legislative Inconsistency”. Midnight Blue, Hong Kong.