Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the 2014-15 Wayne Morse Center Chair and professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, will give the keynote address at an upcoming symposium on Friday,  Feb. 20, titled “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media.”

The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at 9 a.m. and features speakers and scholars from various fields of study.

With increased public awareness of government surveillance and the rise of social media, the symposium shows how Americans have grown to depend on technology and data in unprecedented ways. The discussion will focus on new media theory, data histories, network culture and information ecologies.

The all-day event at the museum will open with Chun’s keynote address, titled “Habitual New Media,” followed by three separate discussion panels featuring several panelists from institutions around the country and Europe.

"These speakers are new and cutting-edge voices coming from a range of disciplines,” said Margaret Hallock, an organizer of the symposium and director of the Wayne Morse Center. “They offer a fresh perspective on new media."

The symposium is part of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics’ 2013-15 inquiry theme, Media and Democracy. For more information on the symposium and its full schedule, click here.

— By Nathaniel Brown, Public Affairs Communications