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Personal profile
Biography
Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture.
She has researched and published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture.
Her research takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, drawing on theory and methods from feminist science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, queer and gender studies, critical race studies, and critical algorithm studies.
As a Research Fellow at the Monash node of the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making and Society, Thao will be working in the institute’s People Program developing creative methods to study the future of automated mobilities.
Research interests
- Studies of gender and race in algorithmic culture
- Feminist technoscience/feminist STS
- Critical race and technology
- Gendered and racialised aesthetics of digital assistants
- 'Post-race' discourse in digital culture
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Media and Communication Studies, PhD, University of Melbourne
Award Date: 30 Oct 2020
External positions
Convenor, Australiasian STS grad network (AusSTS)
Member, TransAsiaSTS Network
Research area keywords
- Feminist STS
- Feminist technoscience
- Critical race studies
- Media studies
- Queer studies
- Critical algorithm studies
- Cultural studies
- Algorithmic culture
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness
Phan, T., 2019, In: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 5, 1, p. 1-39 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The materiality of the digital and the gendered voice of Siri
Phan, T., 2017, In: Transformations. 29, 11 p., 24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Introduction to the special issue 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty years on'
Phan, T., 2016, In: Platform: Journal of Media and Communication. p. 4-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other
Prizes
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Most Distinguished Paper Award
Phan, Thao (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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AusSTS 2021 Situated Practice: A Multi-Sited Workshop
Thao Phan (Organiser)
8 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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AusSTS2020 online workshop series
Thao Phan (Organiser)
2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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AusSTS2019 Interdisciplinary Workshop
Thao Phan (Organiser)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference 2018
Thao Phan (Organiser)
18 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference