Lauren E. Bridges
@LaurenebridgesAssistant Prof @mediastudies |@BKCHarvard | PhD @AnnenbergPenn | environmental politics of the cloud + surveillance infrastructures @laurenebridges.bsky.social
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So excited to share our shiny new website, Geographies of Digital Wasting geographiesofdigitalwasting.com The website is the digital twin of our physical exhibit (currently at @virginia_tech until end of June) and shares insights from our global collaborative project on digital waste
"...real emissions from the “in-house” or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% – or 7.62 times – higher than officially reported." theguardian.com/technology/202…
See our recent publication on a Sociology of AI and AI's relation to inequality and power! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
To the public, Microsoft uses its reputation as an AI & sustainability leader to tell a compelling story: AI will do wonders to help solve the climate crisis. To fossil-fuel firms, Microsoft has a different message: AI will help them drill, baby, drill. 1/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Day 1: let’s go!! Feeling incredibly grateful to be here. Thinking of all the people that guided me, lifted me up, and made me laugh in difficult times. I hope I can do the same for you. Thank you 🙏 #GoHoos
TT position at UMD: for a “scholar who works at the intersection of media, democracy, and technology” with a specialization in journalism. Open rank with a bias toward assistant professor. (everyone on the committee wanted to get heard on this one?) ejobs.umd.edu/postings/120619
I study the global shift from traditional IT to cloud IT and I am doing everything in my power to not be annoying today.
even without considering the environmental costs of the industrial cloud, this level of concentration (&vulnerability) is simply unsustainable nytimes.com/live/2024/07/1…
Excited to be a discussant for @mel_hogan’s keynote ‘“Datalgia”: the pain of datafication (a diagnosis)’ tomorrow at the “Rethinking the Inevitability of AI” conference. Hosted by @histoftech and @ErikLinstrum @uvadatascience @UVA_History Join us (online) at 9am ET!
“The logic of offsetting suggests that carbon intensive activities can continue as long as someone else, somewhere else, cleans up the mess.” 👏 yes! offsetting overlooks the intense local tradeoffs that are made for balancing carbon checkbooks
New essay is out in @e_flux Written with @sam_lavigne, we consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management. e-flux.com/architecture/s…
And huge thanks to the wonderful team at Cause + Matter!! causeandmatter.com
New essay is out in @e_flux Written with @sam_lavigne, we consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management. e-flux.com/architecture/s…
“Friction is not resistance to platform power; it is the site where platform power and the contours of platformization are negotiated” 👏 Honored to be part of this @icsjournal SI with so many other timely articles challenging the inevitability/naturalization of platform power
With our intro to the Special Issue on friction and platform capitalism out, check out the excellent research articles we feature in it:
Members of the History faculty @UVA condemn yesterday's police action and demand an honest explanation from the university. Proud to co-sign this open letter with 34 colleagues and counting.
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