I am Chankyung Pak, coming from Michigan State University. I am a computational social scientist who’s interested in evolution of public discourse mediated by transforming media ecosystem. I am joining Dr. Wojcieszak’s ERC project on backfire effects that follow exposure to dissimilar views online. While I am an avid learner of economic theory, mathematical argument and machine learning, I started as a cultural study scholar and still am looking to connect my research back with critical theories on algorithms and artificial intelligence.