Lauren Bridges is an Assistant Professor of media studies, faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab, and faculty affiliate of Environmental Thought and Practice (ETP) at the University of Virgina. She is also Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Bridges researches the sociotechnical, political economic, and environmental politics of digital infrastructures. She has published in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Big Data & Society, and New Media & Society, public news outlets such as The Guardian, and has been interviewed on NPR, BBC, CBC, NBC and podcasts such as the Anti-Dystopians and People & Things on the social and environmental impacts of digital infrastructures.
Bridges is co-PI of Geographies of Digital Wasting and she is currently writing a book on the local land use politics of digital industrial expansion in Southern California and Northern Virginia.
