Britt Paris

Britt S. Paris studies the political economy of information infrastructure as it relates to evidentiary standards and political action. She has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, AI-generated information objects, digital labor, and civic data, analyzed through the lenses of science and technology studies, political economy, cultural studies, and social epistemology.

Paris’ research, teaching, and service are interconnected and emphasize critically investigating discourse and practice around using data-intensive technology to solve social, political, and environmental problems; uncovering political, ethical, and aesthetic assumptions built into Internet infrastructure; understanding the labor, economics, and systems of power that undergird the information landscape; and organizing alternatives to market-driven information systems design. These streams of research focus on developing a broader understanding of the social and historical forces that have shaped our information and communication environment to envision sociotechnical systems that might better support a future worth fighting for.

Paris is an alumna of the Data & Society Research Institute. She joined the Rutgers Department of Library and Information Science in fall 2019 and was promoted to associate professor in spring 2025. As of spring 2026, she is a fellow with AI Now and her book Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up comes out with University of California Press. She co-chairs the Power and Inequality Working Group, chairs the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) ad hoc committee on AI, and in Rutgers AAUP-AFT serves on the Faculty Executive Council, co-chairs the Media and Communications Committee, and acts as department representative.

Ph.D., Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Media Studies, The New School

Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Faculty Executive Council
Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Media and Communications Committee
Power and Inequality in Technology and Media Working Group