Welcome to our 2025-26 Visiting Fellow, Prof. Florence M. Chee – Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago

Florence  Chee, an Associate Professor of Digital Communication and the Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago, will be visiting DISC in November 2025. During her visit, Prof. Chee will be sharing her work on gaming, law, policy and research ethics, in a public lecture and a Masterclass, hosted jointly with Manchester Game Centre.

Masterclass on AI Ethics, 12 November 10:00-12:00 GE 206

In this Masterclass on AI Ethics, we will take an inquiry stance through the lens of games to examine how ethical dilemmas, policies, and governance solutions have taken effect both at individual and institutional levels. The issues in AI Ethics that require the most urgent action implicate systems and regulations that are already in place and affect us in everyday life. We will discuss ways that attendees may apply the insights derived from this session towards fostering more ethical engagement in their respective contexts of work, rest, and play.

Public Talk  Beyond the sandboxes and magic circles: Conversations on the pleasure and pain of what it means to engage in the study of games 14 November 11:00-12:00 GM LT5 and online

In this talk, Prof. Dr. Florence Chee will provide an overview to essential debates in games/gaming as they intersect with ethics, law, and policy–along with what it means to research games through academia, industry and government in today’s global regulatory landscape. Through her studies on game culture, to ethics and data, to AI and governance, she tells a story of navigating an industry as it struggles to define itself locally and globally while those in it advance the narrative of pleasure and play across domains. Looking ahead, she asks the audience to consider the ways constituencies may reclaim what it means to truly play meaningfully and ways to resist “getting played.”