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Britt S. Paris is a critical informatics scholar studying the political economy of information infrastructure, as it relates to evidentiary standards and political action. She is currently thinking about community-run Internet infrastructure and current debates over artificial intelligence-generated information objects. Previously, she has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, digital labor, and civic data, analyzed through the lenses of critical political economy, cultural studies, and feminist social epistemology.

She 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 did her postdoctoral research at Data & Society Research Institute and remains affiliated there. She joined the faculty at Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science in Fall 2019.

At Rutgers University, she is an active member of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, and serves as a department rep. She co-organizes the Rutgers SC&I Power and Inequality Working Group and in 2020, co-organized the Rutgers COVID-19 Communication & Misinformation Working Group with the Institute for Quantitative Biology.