Dr. Florence Chee

Florence M. Chee is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy (CDEP) at Loyola University Chicago. Internationally and nationally sought out as a speaker, writer, and advisor, her sociotechnical interventions inform and influence decisions made in design, development, and policy arenas that include games at the forefront of the most pressing issues facing digitally mediated communities. This year, she has been named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for 2025-2028 and has recently focused on the US and Swiss game industries while serving on grant funded work in Switzerland. Florence Chee is founding director of the Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) based in Chicago, USA. Her book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play (Bloomsbury), critiques commonly held notions of online game addiction by taking an ethnographic look at the social and cultural roles that games fulfill in everyday life.

Dr. Chee has published award-winning and internationally recognized research in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Popular Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Games and Culture.

Florence Chee serves as Associate Editor at flagship publication Communications of the ACM (CACM) and has guest edited a number of special issues in academic journals such as the International Review of Information Ethics, Journal of Games Criticism, and Human Technology.