BRITT S. PARIS
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BOOK PROJECT

Paris, B. (2026). Radical Infrastructures: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up.  University of California Press. 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Kirasur, N., & Paris, B. (March, 2026). Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70073
  2. May, E., Paris, B., & Sargent, S. (February, 2026). Dis/Engaging the "Common Sense" of AI: Labor strategies around data driven technologies from the 2023 SAG-AFTRA contract. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421466
  3. Paris, B., Cath, C., & Myers-West, S. (2023). Radical Infrastructure: Building Beyond the Failures of Past Imaginaries for Networked Communication. New Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231152546
  4.  Paris, B., Carmien, K.*, and Marshall, M*. (May, 2022). “We Want to Do More, But…” New Jersey Public Library Approaches to Misinformation. Library and Information Science Research (LISR), 44(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101157
  5.  Reynolds, R., McGowan, C.*, Aromi, J.*, and Paris, B. (May, 2022). Social and Digital Inequality as Factors in K-12 Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic of 2020: Educator Perspectives. Journal for the Association of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24654
  6. Paris, B., Marcello, G., and Reynolds, R. (February, 2022). Disinformation detox: teaching and learning about mis- and disinformation using socio-technical systems research perspectives. Information and Learning Sciences 123(1/2), 80-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-09-2021-0083
  7. Paris, B., (December, 2021). Configuring Fakes: Digitized Bodies, the Politics of Evidence, and Agency. Social Media + Society 7(4) 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211062919
  8. Paris, B., Reynolds, R., McGowan, C. (September, 2021) “Sins of Omission: Critical Informatics Perspectives on Higher Education Learning Analytics”, Journal for the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24575
  9. Dan, V., Paris, B., Donovan, J., Hameleers, M., Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., and von Sikorski, C. (August, 2021). Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(3), 641–664. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990211035395
  10. Paris, B. (January, 2021). Time Constructs: Values in a Future Internet. Time & Society 30 (1), 126-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X2098531
  11. Paris, B. (November, 2020). The Internet of Futures Past: Values Trajectories of Networking Protocol Projects. Science, Technology & Human Values 46 (5), 1021-1047. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920974083
  12. Currie, M., Paris, B., and Donovan, J. (September, 2019). What difference do data make? Data management and social change. Online Information Review 43 (6), 971-985. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02-2018-0052
  13. Paris, B. (August, 2018). Finding Time in the Future Internet. First Monday 23 (8) 1-14, http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9407/7573
  14. Currie, M., Paris, B. (June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts 46 (2), 124-142.  https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273
  15. Paris B., Pierre J. (January, 2017). Naming Experience: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change with Qualitative Tools. InterActions Journal of Education and Information Studies 13 (1) 1-24. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/02d9w4qd
  16. Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (August, 2016). The Conundrum of Police Officer-Involved Homicides: Counter-Data in Los Angeles County. Big Data & Society 3 (2), 1-14. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716663566     

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

  1. May, E.*, & Paris, B. (2024). Divide and conquer the ‘community’: Disinformation to undermine solidarity in higher education labor movement. Association for Information Science & Technology Conference 61(1): 586-592. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1063
  2. Karppi, T., Paris, B., Gehl, R., Myers-West, S., Cath, C. (2023). “If Not, Else: Standards, Protocols, Networks and How They Make a Difference”. Association for Internet Research (AoIR) Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2023.  Philadelphia, PA. AoIR, 1-4.
  3. Paris, B. and Costley-White, K. (2023), Meeting People Where They Are: Hyperlocal Engagements around COVID-19 in New Jersey. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1): 316-326. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.791
  4. Paris, B., Marcello, G. and Reynolds, R. (2022), Cultivating Ecological Literacy: A Critical Framework for Understanding and Addressing Mis- and Disinformation. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59: 479-485. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.656 3rd Place: Short Papers
  5. Pierre, J., Currie, M., Paris, B., and Pasquetto, I. (2021). Searching for the Forgotten: Examining the Online Presence of Victims of Police Killings. Association of Internet Researchers Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021, Remote. AoIR, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12225
  6. Pierre, J., Crooks, R., Currie, M., Paris, B., and Pasquetto, I. (2021). Getting Ourselves Together: Epistemic Burden and Data-centered Participatory Design Research, Association of Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '21), Yokohama, Japan. ACM, 1-11. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445103 Best Paper Award: Top 1% of Reviewed Papers
  7. Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., Pierre, J., Sands, A. E., Lievrouw, L. A. (2015). The Police Officer-Involved Homicide Database Project. Proceedings of 2015 iConference, Newport Beach, CA. iConference, 1-6. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/73781/502_ready.pdf?sequence=2

PEER-REVIEWED REPORTS

  1. Paris, B., May, E., Justie, B., Greene, D., Cook, C C., Reynolds, R., Weinberg, L., Jones, K. M. L., Widder, D., Kresge, L., Nguyen, A., Myers-West, S., Kirschenbaum, M., Sargent, S. (22, July, 2025). Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions. American Association of University Professors (AAUP). https://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/aaup-policies-reports/topical-reports/artificial-intelligence-and-academic
  2. Paris, B. and Donovan, J. (September 18, 2019). Deepfakes & Cheap Fakes: The Manipulation of Audio and Visual Evidence. Data & Society Research Institute. https://datasociety.net/output/deepfakes-and-cheap-fakes/
  3. Paris, B., Dillon, L., Pierre, J., Pasquetto, I. V., Marquez, E., Wylie, S. A., Murphy, M., Brown, P., Lave, R., Sellers, C., Mansfield, R., Fredrickson, L., Shapiro, N., and EDGI, (September 19, 2017). Pursuing a Toxic Agenda: Environmental Justice in the Early Trump Administration, The First 100 Days and Counting, Environmental Data Governance Initiative. https://100days.envirodatagov.org/pursuing-toxic-agenda/

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Paris, B. (2025). "Digging up a Buried Body: Theories of Change for Internet Infrastructure," eds. Rosa, F. and Maxigas, Critical Internet Governance: From Positions to a Field. Critical Infrastructure Lab, Amsterdam. https://zenodo.org/records/15627726
  2. Paris, B. (2023). "Seeing Through the Fog of War: Epistemic Burden and Manipulated Audiovisual Evidence in Geopolitical Crisis," eds. Harsin, J. and Westley, H. Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust Globality, Culture, Affect. Routledge: Oxfordshire, UK. https://www.routledge.com/Re-thinking-Mediations-of-Post-truth-Politics-and-Trust-Globality-Culture/Harsin/p/book/9781032484198
  3. Paris, B. (2023)."Mining for Alternatives in Silicon Holler". ed. Cath C. Eaten by the Internet. MeatSpace Press: Cambridge, UK.  https://shop.meatspacepress.com/products/eaten-by-the-internet
  4. Paris, B. and Pasquetto, I. (2023). "Hidden Virality and the Everyday Burden of Correcting WhatsApp," eds. Sanfillipo, M. and Ocepek, M. Everyday Misinformation Governance. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/126256
  5. Paris, B., Pierre, J., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. (2022). “Data burdens: Epistemologies of evidence in police reform and abolition movements,” eds. Currie, M., Callum, M., and Knox, J. Data Justice and the Right to the City, University of Edinburgh Press: Edinburgh. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9781474492973/html?lang=en
  6. Paris, B. (2021). "Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development," eds. Stine, K. and Vollmar, A. Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time Essays on Hardwired Temporalities, 295-305. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50573
  7. Lievrouw L. A. and Paris, B. (2020). "Information, Technology, and Work: Proletarianization, Precarity, Piecework," eds. Lievrouw and, L. and Loader, B. Handbook of Digital and Communication Media, 214-242. Routledge: London. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Digital-Media-and-Communication/Lievrouw-Loader/p/book/9781138672093
  8. Cifor, M. and Paris B. (2020). “Throughlines: Social Injustice and Activism in Los Angeles," eds. Deyrup, M. and Baikun. M. Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities, 1-14. Routledge: London. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429399923/chapters/10.4324/9780429399923-4
  9. Currie, M., Donovan, J., and Paris, B. (2018). "Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving." eds.  Munshi, U. and Veema, N. Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols, 67-78. Springer.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5
* indicates graduate student co-authors
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