Thao Phan

Thao Phan is a Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia. She is a feminist STS researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. Her research addresses topics such as the aesthetics of digital voice assistants, ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture, the corporate capture of AI ethics, and AI in film and popular culture. Her work has been published in journals such as Big Data & Society, Cultural Studies, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Culture Machine. In 2022, she joins the editorial board of two internationally celebrated journals: the International Journal of Cultural Studies and Science, Technology and Human Values.