Dr Cherie Hu is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Her research explores how data, algorithms and digital technologies mediate everyday life. She is particularly interested in datafication and algorithmic governance across public and private domains within the context of posthuman and cyborgised digital practices of fun. She examines how seemingly light digital practices are entangled with broader systems of data economies, algorithmic governance and the materiality of AI.

Cherie has extensive industry experience, having worked as producer and digital media consultant for media networks, think tanks, and NGOs. She currently serves as an advisory board member for leading Kenya-based tech start-up TH.i.NK.

Beyond academia, Cherie is an amateur stand-up comedian and a content creator on TikTok, where she shares the life of her spoiled micro-influencer dog.

Research interests and PhD supervision

Cherie’s current work develops the concept of the data governance of mediated fun and posthuman intimacy – a framework for understanding how data, algorithms, and digital infrastructures extend systems of control into affective and embodied life.

She is particularly interested in:

• Datafication and algorithmic governance
• Digital practice of fun
• Digital singlehood and posthuman intimacy
• Digital mood economy
• Materiality of AI

Teaching

Cherie teaches a wide range of topics in digital culture and the digital economy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching has been recognised with nominations for the King’s Education Award in consecutive years.