Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Bio
Lauren Bridges is an assistant professor of media studies, faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, and faculty affiliate of environmental thought and practice at the University of Virginia (UVA). 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.
At UVA, Bridges lectures and teaches courses on digital media & the environment, AI policy & society, and critical infrastructure studies. Bridges holds a PhD and MA in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in creative writing, publishing, and editing from the University of Melbourne, and a BA in business from the University of Queensland.
