About the Authors

Sun Sun Lim is Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement, and Professor of Communication and Technology at the Singapore Management University. She has extensively researched the social impact of technology, focussing on technology domestication by families, future of work, and artificial intelligence ethics. A prolific scholar, she has over 100 academic publications including Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her articles have been published in top journals such as Nature, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and Big Data & Society. She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and winner of the inaugural Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leader Award 2024. From 2018 to 2020, she was Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore, raising issues such as governance of the use of big data, priorities in digital literacy education, and digital rights for children. She frequently offers her expert commentary in international outlets including Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Guardian, Scientific American, and 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.

Yang Wang is a Research Fellow in Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore. She received her PhD in Communications and New Media from National University of Singapore, and master’s degree in Mass Communication from Peking University. Her research interest lies at the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs), family, gender, and migration. She has conducted research on household ICT domestication, transnational communication and mediated intimacy, mobile parenting, workplace digital transformation, digital inequality, as well as social media and online community building. Her research integrates insights from multiple disciplines, including media and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography and migration studies, cultural studies, psychology, social work, and organisational and management studies. She has published in leading international journals including Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Journal of Children and Media, and Frontiers in Psychology.