Dr. Florence M. Chee is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Program Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago. 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 research examines the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of emergent digital lifestyles with a particular focus on the examination of artificial intelligence, games, social media, mobile platforms, and translating insights about their lived contexts across industrial, governmental, and academic sectors.
Her research examines the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of emergent digital lifestyles with a particular focus on the examination of artificial intelligence and predatory data infrastructures and algorithms as they become normalized in global contexts. Through qualitative research methods such as ethnography, her work provides insight into how the intersectional conditions of communication (for those marginalized through race, class, gender, sexuality, disability) may change the narratives regarding ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) such as games, social media, mobile platforms/apps, across industrial, governmental, and academic sectors. Her work in games, diversity, and ethics appears in Feminist Media Studies, Human Technology Journal, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Games and Culture, Popular Communication, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Her forthcoming book, The Social at Play (Rowman & Littlefield), is a critique of media discourses surrounding online game addiction and an ethnographic exploration of the social and cultural roles that games fulfill in everyday life.
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.
In 2021, she was was named a Community-Engaged Experiential Learning Scholar by the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS) at Loyola University Chicago.
In 2022, she was appointed a Fellow of the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University.
She has edited special issues in the International Review of Information Ethics, Journal of Games Criticism, Human Technology Journal, and currently serves as Associate Editor at Communications of the ACM (CACM) Viewpoints https://cacm.acm.org/about-communications/editorial-board/
