Professor Sun Sun Lim
Professor of Communications and Technology, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Email: sunsunlim@smu.edu.sg
Profile
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, focusing on technology domestication, future of work and AI ethics. She authored Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society (Oxford University Press, 2020). A Fellow of the International Communication Association, she was a Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore and an honoree of the Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2024 and Singapore 100 Women in Tech 2020 awards. She frequently offers her expert commentary in international outlets including Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, South China Morning Post and writes a monthly technology column in Singapore’s largest circulation broadsheet The Straits Times.
Research
Publications
Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) ; Digital Parenting Burdens in China: Online Homework, Parent Chats and Punch-in Culture (Emerald, 2024)