Britt Paris is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is on the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Executive Council and is chair of the national AAUP ad hoc committee on AI in Academic Professions.
In her academic research she focuses on critical studies of information infrastructure. In 2019, she wrote a landmark paper on deepfakes that set the stage for critical takes on generative AI before it was called that. Strands of her work also address AI uses in education from critical ed-tech studies perspectives pertaining to surveillance, intellectual property, justice, and labor studies. Her new book Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up on University of California Press speaks to broader political economic issues of infrastructure that undergirds AI and provides examples and tactics for ordinary people to take power over technology. She recently discussed her book on the New Books Network podcast, and published an op-ed in Tech Policy Press.
She is currently analyzing labor contract language and negotiation around AI and its impacts. A recent coauthored article in Big Data & Society discusses the utility and missed opportunities of the 2023 SAG AFTRA contract.
For latest updates, follow Britt on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
In her academic research she focuses on critical studies of information infrastructure. In 2019, she wrote a landmark paper on deepfakes that set the stage for critical takes on generative AI before it was called that. Strands of her work also address AI uses in education from critical ed-tech studies perspectives pertaining to surveillance, intellectual property, justice, and labor studies. Her new book Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up on University of California Press speaks to broader political economic issues of infrastructure that undergirds AI and provides examples and tactics for ordinary people to take power over technology. She recently discussed her book on the New Books Network podcast, and published an op-ed in Tech Policy Press.
She is currently analyzing labor contract language and negotiation around AI and its impacts. A recent coauthored article in Big Data & Society discusses the utility and missed opportunities of the 2023 SAG AFTRA contract.
For latest updates, follow Britt on LinkedIn and Bluesky.