Thursday, 24th April 2025, 12:30pm (HKT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom
As a global AI superpower, China has experienced dramatic technological transformation, especially within the home. China’s digitally-connected families in urban Chinese cities are avidly deploying a range of digital technologies within and beyond the household. With regard to their children’s academic pursuits, a plethora of apps, online platforms and gadgets has emerged to help parents connect with schools and teachers, keep up with their children’s progress and provide support for their learning and personal development. But with heightened digital connectivity, Chinese parents must reckon with a slew of digital parenting burdens – parental accountability, peer pressure and performative parenting. Digital Parenting Burdens in China delves deeply into these aspects of family life in an intensively digitalising society. Based on 80 interviews with 60 Chinese parents in Beijing and Hangzhou before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, the book captures how these technologically infused parenting practices have intensified even as parents bear the weight of social aspirations and the quest for academic excellence. Prof Lim will also reflect on her efforts to translate her research into public education and advocacy.
SUN SUN LIM is Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at Singapore Management University. She has extensively researched the social impact of technology, focusing on technology domestication by families, future of work and AI ethics. She has over 100 academic publications including Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and articles in top journals like Nature, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and Big Data & Society. From 2018-2020, she was Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore, raising issues such as governance of big data, priorities in digital literacy education, and digital rights for children. She is an honoree of the inaugural Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2024 and Singapore 100 Women in Tech 2020 list and is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and the Singapore Computer Society. She frequently offers her expert commentary in international outlets including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, Guardian, Scientific American, South China Morning Post and writes a monthly technology column in Singapore’s largest circulation broadsheet The Straits Times. She has won eight awards for excellent teaching. See https://www.sunsunlim.com/
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Organised by Centre for Media and Communication Research, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.
