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Academia
Research with intellectual depth.
Critical and qualitative research on AI, educational technology, digital labour, platforms, data, policy, and public trust.
Selected researchResearcher · Writer · Speaker · Author · Former Journalist
Making sense of technology through the human questions that matter.
Saemi Nadine Jung explores how AI and digital technologies reshape education, media, knowledge, work, and public life—bringing together academic research, journalism, and public engagement.
Vancouver, Canada
Simon Fraser University
Central question
Who benefits from technology, who is left out, and who gets to shape the future?
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Point of view
Technology is never only about tools. It changes what becomes visible, whose knowledge counts, how institutions decide, and which futures become possible.
Saemi's work brings scholarship into the public sphere through research, storytelling, teaching, speaking, and policy-facing dialogue.
A public intellectual practice
One body of work.
Three public worlds.
The website presents Saemi at the intersection of knowledge production, public understanding, and institutional decision-making.
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Media
Complex ideas made publicly legible.
A background in journalism and broadcasting informs clear explanation, interviewing, narrative, and public-facing analysis.
Media & speaking
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Public & policy
Evidence brought into consequential rooms.
Talks and workshops help institutions think beyond technological optimism and panic toward questions of power, responsibility, and human flourishing.
Public engagementSelected research
Ideas with consequences.
Research is framed by the public questions it answers—so scholars, journalists, policymakers, students, and institutional leaders can see why it matters.
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Computing history · Labour · Migration
The hidden human history of computing
Recovering the experiences of Korean Canadian women keypunch operators whose overlooked labour helped make early business computing possible.
Education · Datafication · Policy
The datafied school
Examining how pandemic-era education policy accelerated data-driven infrastructure and reshaped the relationship between schools, states, technology companies, and students.
Algorithms · Public health · Trust
Digital trust in algorithmic environments
Exploring how recommendation systems, social contexts, and online identities shape public understanding of health information and vaccines.
AI · Education · Human futures
AI and the future of education
Asking what education should preserve, reconsider, and redesign as intelligent systems increasingly shape learning, evaluation, and knowledge.
The Critical Margin
Writing beyond the university.
Essays connect current technological debates with history, culture, institutions, and ordinary human experience.
The Strange Economics of AI
Why books are being destroyed to build “smarter” machines—and what this reveals about preservation, ownership, and human knowledge.
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“Don't you have work to do?”
A small institutional moment and the larger questions it raised about hierarchy, presence, and belonging in academic life.
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The future does not always replace the past
What a Bluetooth cassette adapter can teach us about technological change, continuity, and the stories embedded in old media.
Read essay ↗Media & speaking
Scholarship that can enter the room.
Saemi draws on journalism, broadcasting, teaching, and academic research to communicate complex ideas without flattening their complexity.
AI, Education & Human Futures
What should education preserve, reconsider, and redesign as AI becomes part of everyday learning?
Power & Visibility
How technologies shape whose labour, knowledge, and experiences become visible—and whose remain at the margins.
Digital Trust in an Algorithmic World
How platforms and recommendation environments influence public understanding, identity, and confidence in institutions.
Keynotes · Panels · Media interviews · Workshops · Guest lectures
Public & policy engagement
Institutions need more than AI optimism or panic.
They need better questions, historical perspective, public accountability, and approaches that treat technology as social and political—not merely technical.
AI literacy
Helping people understand capabilities, limits, incentives, power, and social consequences.
Education & data
Examining student data, EdTech procurement, surveillance, governance, and institutional responsibility.
Trust & platforms
Understanding how digital environments shape knowledge, public health, identity, and legitimacy.
Labour & visibility
Bringing overlooked workers and social histories into conversations about innovation and automation.
Books & public writing
An intellectual life across formats.
Saemi's books and journalism are not separate from her academic work. They show a long-standing commitment to making institutions and information understandable to wider publics.
Book · 2015
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Passion on Air
Essays on media, careers, ambition, and the experiences that shape a public life.
Book · 2021
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How to Read Financial News Headlines
A guide designed to make economic information and financial journalism more accessible to general readers.
Editorial platform · Ongoing
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The Critical Margin
Essays on technology, education, media, power, culture, and human possibility.
Read & subscribeAbout Saemi
A nonlinear path became a distinctive method.
Saemi Nadine Jung is a researcher, writer, speaker, author, and former financial journalist working at the intersection of technology, communication, education, and society.
Her path has moved through concert music, law and interdisciplinary study, journalism and broadcasting, media and communications, educational technology, and doctoral research. That range gives her an unusual vantage point: she studies technological systems academically while remaining attentive to how they are narrated, governed, and experienced in everyday life.
Based in Vancouver, she is pursuing a PhD in Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her work brings critical, transnational, and historically grounded perspectives to AI, education, digital labour, platforms, public trust, and policy.
Early practice
Concert pianist
Public communication
Financial journalist & broadcaster
Graduate formation
Media, communications & EdTech
Current work
Research, writing & public scholarship
Contact
Bring the conversation into your institution, newsroom, or event.
For speaking invitations, media interviews, research collaborations, workshops, and public or policy conversations.
Email Saemi