Dr Dang Nguyen

Dang Nguyen is an Affiliate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society.

As a researcher of AI, they examine the informal infrastructures, moral frictions, and aesthetic conditions that shape digital life, with a focus on how media and infrastructure emerge under conditions of constraint.

Dang is Bellwether Scholar at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.

Dang holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Science in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford, where they were a Chevening Scholar. They have been a Fox Fellow at Yale University and a Majority World Scholar at Yale Law School. Dang serves as a media and technology expert on the International Panel for the Information Environment (IPIE).

Dang has provided media commentary for a range of international outlets, including ABC News (Australia), Triple R Radio (Australia), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA), Rest of World (USA), and ARTE (France).

Dang’s books include Digital research methods and the diaspora (Routledge, 2023) and Internet cures (Bristol University Press, 2024). Dang has also published widely in a range of scholarly venues, such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Science & Medicine, and Health & Place.

RECENT BOOK RELEASES

Internet Cures: The social lives of digital miracles (2024)

Unravelling the intricate connections between social, technological, biomedical, and non-biomedical spheres, Dang’s new book ‘Internet Cures’ explores the intersection of miracle cures and technology, combining computational social media data with ethnographic insights from Vietnam and the US, and captures the interconnected lives of such cures in the digital realm.

Access ‘Internet Cures’ via: ⁠https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/internet-cures