Alumnus

Britt Paris

Britt Paris is an alumnus of Data & Society. She is an information studies scholar studying how changes in information and communication infrastructure influence how evidence is mobilized into political action. While at D&S, she investigated the trajectory of, and technological imaginaries present in, current debates over artificial intelligence-generated audiovisual products. Previously, she has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, digital labor, and civic data, analyzed through the lenses of critical, feminist, and de-colonial theory.

She has her MA in Media Studies from the New School in New York City and her PhD in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she is an assistant professor of library and information science at Rutgers School of Communication and Information.