Courses

[Fall 2025] IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century
[Spring 2026] IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century
[Fall 2026] IDS 2144-0001 Information Ethics for the 21st Century
LIS 4930-0001 Special Topics in Information Technology: AI Literacy and Ethics
LIS 5916-0001 Issues in Information Studies: AI Literacy and Ethics

Ph.D. Information Studies, 2025; University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. Big Data in Culture and Society, 2017; King’s College London

Information Bias; AI Literacy and Ethics; Human-AI Governance; AI Education across K-12, Higher Ed, & Information Workforce; Mis/disinfomration; Information Credibility Assessment; Information Retrieval; Social Media; Critical Internet Studies; Social Computing; Digital Humanities

Information Bias; AI Literacy and Ethics; Human-AI Governance; AI Education across K-12, Higher Ed, & Information Workforce; Mis/disinfomration; Information Credibility Assessment; Information Retrieval; Social Media; Critical Internet Studies; Social Computing; Digital Humanities

Publications

• Lee, S. (Under review). A Process-Oriented AI Literacy Education Grounded in Generative AI Mechanisms.
• Lee, S., & Cho, S. H. (2025). Forgotten ‘American Ghosts’: Technical and Ethical Issues in Digitizing Oral Histories of Early Immigrant Communities. In Tamara Štefanac, & Anne Gilliland (Eds.), Archives and Traces of Migration (AToM) A Handbook of Best Practices (pp. 329-345). ICARUS Croatia. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391903744_Archives_and_Traces_of_Migration_A_Handbook_of_Best_Practices
• Lee, S., & Gilliland, A. (2024). Evolving Definitions of Hate Speech: The Impact of a Lack of Standardized Definitions. In Isaac Sserwanga, Hideo Joho, Jie Ma, Preben Hansen, Dan Wu, Masanori Koizumi, & Anne J. Gilliland (Eds.), iConference 2024 Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win (pp. 141-156). Springer Cham. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1_11
• Lee, S. (2024). Navigating Biases Embedded Within the Algorithms and Displays Used by Different Search Engines. In Solodkaya, A., Peterson, A., & Salisbury, M. (Ed.), DLFTeach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacy. DLFteach Publications. Retrieved from https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/pub/sqa3ki79
• Lee, S. (2023). Understanding the Intricacies of Academic Search Engines. In Serena Dewar (Ed.), Digital Humanities Congress 2022, The Digital Humanities Institute, Sheffield, UK. Sheffield, UK: The Digital Humanities Institute. Retrieved from https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2022/understanding-the-intricacies-of-academic-search-engines/
• Lee, S. (2021). Inherent Biases and Complexities of the Use of Historical Digital Archives: Bibliometric Analysis in Digital Archives of Holocaust Victims. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 17(1). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/D417154037 doi:10.5070/D417154037

Talks

• Marty, P., Choi, G. W., Adams, J., Erlebacher, G.., & Lee, S. (March, 2026). Panel on AI and education. Workshop delivered at FSU SC Artificial Intelligence Seminar, Tallahassee, FL.
• Galloway, B., Green, L., & Lee, S. (November, 2025). Youth, Identity, and Extremism. Workshop delivered at Pacific Council on International Policy.
• Daly, D., Jarrette, K., & Lee, S (November, 2025). Sketches for Skepticism Workshop. Workshop delivered at iConference 2025, Bloomington, IN.
• Lee, S. (May, 2025). Information as infrastructure, libraries as infrastructures of trust: Mis/disinformation & community needs during uncertain times. Presentation at Chinese American Librarians Association Southeast and Southwest Chapters Annual Virtual Conference 2025, Chinese American Librarians Association
• Lee, S. (April, 2025). Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing: The Impact of Sample Size Norms on Underfunded Individual Researchers. Presentation at 4th Annual UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) Graduate Conference, UCLA European Languages & Transcultural Studies, Canadian Studies Program, Los Angeles, CA.
• Lee, S., & Ong, C. (December, 2024). The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Project. Workshop delivered at UCLA Information Studies Colloquium 2024, Los Angeles, CA.
• Lee, S. (October, 2024). Fairness and Bias in AI Algorithms and Interfaces. Workshop delivered at 2024 ALISE ACADEMY (Workshop) Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Digital Pedagogy and The Post-Truth Society: Evaluating The Credibility of Information. Presentation at 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) Conference, Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI).
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Untold Stories, Untraveled Paths: Exploring Oral Histories & Micro-Mobility Innovations. Workshop delivered at Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Lee, S. (August, 2024). Youth In The Digital Age: The Subtler Truth Of Adolescents’ Online Hate Speech and Cyberbullying and The Role of Digital Literacy. Workshop delivered at Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), Seoul, South Korea.
• Lee, S. (March, 2024). Evolving Definitions of Hate Speech: The Impact of a Lack of Standardized Definitions. Presentation at iConference 2024: Wisdom, Well -being, Winwin, iConference.
• Lee, S. (July, 2023). A Journey from Many to One through the Early Korean American Community Archive. Delivered at UCLA Library International Council
• Lee, S. (September, 2022). Addressing Inherent Biases in Information Retrieval Systems of Digital Archives. Presentation at Digital Humanities Congress 2022, Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, UK.

• Lee, S. (2026). First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grant: Collaborative Engagement with Generative AI. Funded by FSU Council on Research and Creativity.
• Lee, S. (2025). The Cyber Hate and Antisemitism on Social Media (CHASM) Project. Funded by The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH).
• The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Team. (2024). The Social Media and the Spread of Hate (SMASH) Project. Funded by The UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH).