Pauline Hope Cheong
Pauline Cheong is President’s Professor of Communication Technologies and Culture, in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She previously taught at the University of Buffalo, New York, and the University of Southern California. Her multidisciplinary research related to changing knowledge and authority practices examines how religious organizations use Artificial Intelligence (AI), social robotics & digital media to interact and form local and transnational communities. As part of comparative research on smart and sustainable cities, she is investigating the social and ethical aspects of governance, strategic planning and innovation policies.
Dr. Cheong has served as the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion, and Digital Religion, Social Media, and Culture. Among her more than 120 publications, she has contributed to emerging areas of research in the intersections of religion, communication technologies and culture, with global, cross-cultural and multi-method approaches.
Featured Works: Bounded Religious Automation at Work: Communicating Human Authority in Artificial Intelligence Networks; Religious Human-Machine Communication: Practices, Power, and Prospects.
