Britt S. Paris is a critical informatics scholar studying the political economy of information infrastructure, as it relates to evidentiary standards and political action. Previously, she has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, artificial intelligence-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 the following themes:

• Critically investigating contemporary discourse and practice around using data-driven technology to solve growing 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 today’s information and communication landscape. 
• Organizing alternatives to market-driven information systems design.

These streams of research focus on developing a broader understanding of the social, political, economic, and historical forces that have shaped our current information and communication environment to allow us to envision sociotechnical systems that might better support a future worth fighting for.

Paris has her MA in Media Studies from the New School in New York City and her PhD in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an alumni of Data & Society Research Institute. She joined the faculty at Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science in Fall 2019. She was promoted to Associate Professor in Spring 2025. As of Spring 2026, she is a fellow with AI Now. 

She is chair of the national American Association of University Professors (AAUP) ad hoc committee on AI in the profession. She is also an elected member of her local Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Executive Council, co-chairs the union Media and Communications Committee, and serves as a department representative. She co-chairs the Rutgers SC&I Power and Inequality Working Group.

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