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EDUCATION PhD / INFORMATION STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES / 2018 DISSERTATION: "Time Constructs: The Origins of a Future Internet" COMMITTEE: Leah Lievrouw, Geoffrey Bowker, Christopher Kelty and Jonathan Furner CERTIFICATES: Critical Theory / Digital Humanities MA / MEDIA STUDIES / THE NEW SCHOOL / 2014 THESIS: "Speed, Sensation and Crisis: Individuation in Web 2.0" PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED Currie, M., Paris, B. and Donovan, J. (September, 2018). What Difference Do Data Make? Data Management and Social Change. Online Information Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02-2018-0052 Paris, B. (August, 2018). Finding Time in the Future Internet. First Monday. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9407/7573 Currie, M. and Paris, B. (June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273 Paris B. and Pierre J. (January, 2017). Naming Experience: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change with Qualitative Tools. InterActions Journal of Education and Information Studies 13(1). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/02d9w4qd 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. Special Issue on Critical Data Studies, Big Data & Society. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716663566 Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., Pierre, J., Sands, A. E. and Lievrouw, L. A. (25 March, 2015). The Police Officer-Involved Homicide Database Project. Proceedings of 2015 iConference, Newport Beach, CA. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/73781/502_ready.pdf?sequence=2 REPORTS 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/ Paris, B. and Donovan, J. (Forthcoming) Simulacra at Scale: Audiovisual Manipulation and the Distribution of Harm. Data & Society Research Institute. BOOK CHAPTERS Cifor, M. and Paris B. (Forthcoming, 2019). "Throughlines: Social Injustice and Activism in Los Angeles," eds. Deyrup, M. and Baikun. M. Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities, Routledge: London. Paris, B. and Lievrouw L. A. (Forthcoming, 2019). "Information, Technology and Work," eds. Lievrouw and, L. and Loader, B. Handbook of Digital and Communication Media, Routledge: London. Currie, M., Donovan, J., and Paris, B. (2018). "Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving." eds. Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5 BOOK REVIEWS Paris, B. (July, 2018). Construction of Exclusion: the Processes and Outcomes of Technological Imperialism. Metascience 27(2). DOI: 10.1007/s11016-018-0321-3. https://rdcu.be/NHCj Paris, B. (September, 2015). [Review of Journalism and Society, by D. McQuail]. Discourse & Society 26: 630-632, doi:10.1177/0957926515593007 Paris, B. (January, 2015). [Review of Performance, Identity and the Theatre of Undocumentedness, by Gad Guterman]. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 11(1). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nk9j6hp COMMENTARY Donovan, J. and Paris, B., (12 June, 2019). "Beware the Cheapfakes". Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/drunk-pelosi-deepfakes-cheapfakes-artificial-intelligence-disinformation.html Paris, B. (14 November, 2018). "Simulacra at Scale: A Short History of the Audiovisual Fake". D&S Media Manipulation Dispatches. https://medium.com/@MediaManipulation/simulacra-at-scale-c19b62eafa4f Currie, M. and Paris, B. (22 March, 2018). "Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/buried-altered-silenced-4-ways-government-climate-information-has-changed-since-trump-took-office-92323 Paris, B. and Pierre, J. (28 April, 2017). "Bad Data". Cultural Anthropology Field Insights Blog: Infrastructures of Evil. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1107-bad-data Paris, B., Lave, R. and EDGI. (24 April, 2017). "Environmental Injustice in the Early Days of the Trump Administration". Union of Concerned Scientists Blog. http://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/environmental-injustice-in-the-early-days-of-the-trump-administration Paris, B. and Currie, M. (21 February, 2017). "How Guerrilla Archivists Saved History and Are Doing It Again Under Trump" The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-the-guerrilla-archivists-saved-history-and-are-doing-it-again-under-trump-72346 (Republished by Huffington Post, Salon and California Friends of the African American Caucus) Paris, B. (12 September, 2016). Free Recall: search engines tell us everything except how they work. Real Life. http://reallifemag.com/free-recall/ Paris, B. with Hirsch A. (2013). Out of Circulation: An Interview with Antonia Hirsch. Triple Canopy. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/out-of-circulation AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS 2018 UCLA Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee Travel Grant 2017 UCLA Information Studies Department Dissertation Proposal Award 2016 UCLA Information Studies Department Diversity Paper Award, Co-author 2016 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship / Travel Grant 2016 UCLA Information Studies Department Travel Grant 2015 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship / Travel Grant 2015 iConference Social Media Expo Research Grant 2014-2018 Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Dean's Fellowship 2011-2013 The New School Media Studies Merit Scholarship REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Paris, B. (24 October, 2017). "Modes of Counter-Data Action: the Police Officer Involved Homicide Data Project", Digital Library Forum Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Paris, B., Currie, M. E., and Donovan, J. M. (20 October, 2017). "Grand Intentions, Small Interventions: A Case Study of Climate Data Rescue", Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Tartu, Estonia. Paris, B. (30 August, 2017). Climate Data Rescue's "Guerilla Archiving" as Counter-Data Action. Paper presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. Boston, MA. Cifor, M. and Paris, B. (8 August, 2017). Throughlines: Mapping a History of Resistance and Freeway Development in Los Angeles. Paper and project presented at the 2017 American Digital Humanities Organization Conference. Montreal, QC. Paris, B. and Pierre, J. (23 June, 2017). Data Management for Social Justice: Three Case Studies. Paper presented at Data Power 2017 Conference. Ottawa, ON. Paris, B. and Currie, M. (22 June, 2017). Data-mirroring as Archival Activism - A Case Study of DataRefuge. Paper presented at Data Power 2017 Conference. Ottawa, ON. Paris, B. (25 May, 2017). Countermeasures: Surveillance, Flawed Policing Reform and Modes of Resistance. Paper presented at the International Communications (ICA) Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. Paris B. (2 September, 2016). Managed Mobility: The Transformation of Time in Named Data Networking. Paper presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. Barcelona, Spain. Paris B., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (2 September, 2016). Critical Civic Data: Examining Semantic Inconsistencies in Police Homicide Data. Paper presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. Barcelona, Spain. Ascher, D. L. and Paris, B. (2 December, 2015). Fast Forward—The Temporal Implications of IVF. Paper presented at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Agence Nationale de la Recherche Web 90 Conference, Temps et Temporalitiés du Web Symposium. Paris, France. Paris, B. and Way, K. B. (13 November, 2015). Affecting the Interface, Paper presented at The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. Houston, TX. Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (28 May, 2015). Interrogating Police Officer Involved Homicide Data in Los Angeles County. Poster presented at the UCLA Education & Information Studies Research & Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (1 June, 2015). Interventions with Police Officer Involved Data in Los Angeles County. Project presented at the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities & Association for Computation in the Humanities Conference, Ottawa, Canada. Currie, M., Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., Pierre, J., Sands, A. E., and Lievrouw, L. A. (25 March, 2015). The Police Officer Involved Homicide Database Project. Project presented at the annual iConference Social Media Expo, Newport Beach, CA. Paris, B. (10 February, 2015). Speed, Sensation and Digital Labor in Web 2.0 Environs. Paper presented at The UCLA Digital Humanities Symposium, (Digital) work on (digital) labor, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B. (14 November, 2014). Speed, Sensation and Crisis: Individuation in Web 2.0. Paper presented at Digital Labor '14 Conference, New York, NY. Paris B. (January 17-February 5, 2014). The Manhattan Bridge Becoming. Sound @The New School's 2014 Showcase, New York, NY. Paris, B. (March, 2013). Vibrant Materials: The Manhattan Bridge. Exhibit and paper presentation at Stony Brook Philosophy & Art Conference: Soundscapes and Territories. New York, NY. Paris, B. (12 April, 2012). Social Network Economy: Immaterial Labor and Information Culture. Paper presented at the New School's Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference. New York, NY. INVITED TALKS Doctrow, C., Paris, B., Roberts, S.T., Waheed, S. (12 April, 2019) After Disruption: worker-centered futures and the rise/demise of platform systems. README, LA Cryptoparty, Electornic Frontier Foundation, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B. (12-13 December, 2018) Simulacra at Scale: A History of the Fake. Open News’ SRCCON: POWER, Philadelphia, PA. Paris, B. (29 October, 2018) Practices and Principles of Audiovisual Manipulation. Cognitive Defense (CogD): Understanding and Combating Human Vulnerabilities Exploited by Misinformation, Information Science and Technology Study Group, Seattle, WA. Paris, B. (11 October, 2018) What is the FATE of Platforms? Concordia University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, Montréal, QC. Paris, B., (1-2 June, 2018). The Technics of Time in the Future Internet, Hardwired Temporalities Workshop, University of Siegen, Germany. Paris, B. (November 9, 2017). Cascading Failures and Alternative Paths: A Conversation on the Politics of Data, Activism, and Justice. USC Department of Communication, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., and Pierre, J. (March 3, 2017). Building Just Tools: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change, InterActions Symposium on Big Data, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (27 February, 2017). Climate Data Rescue: Archiving for Freedom in Times of Political Turmoil, UAW2865, Los Angeles, CA. GUEST LECTURES Paris, B. (25 November, 2016). Counter-Data Action: Police Homicide Data. Algorithms and Activism, Dr. Leah Lievrouw. UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (13 January, 2016). Police Homicide Data in Los Angeles County. Doctoral Colloquium UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., and Currie, M. (December 1, 2015). Interrogating Data Infrastructures: Police Homicide Data in Los Angeles. Information Infrastructures, Dr. Jean-François Blanchette. UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., and Pierre, J. (October 15, 2015). Counter-Data Justice: Police Homicide Data in Los Angeles”, Information and Power, Dr. Safiya Noble. UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B. (10 February, 2015). Speed, Sensation and Digital Labor in Web 2.0 Environs. The UCLA Digital Humanities Symposium, (Digital) work on (digital) labor, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., (November - December, 2013) Time, Technology, Representation and Critique, Parsons Undergraduate Foundation Year Course, Rory Solomon. Parsons School for Design, New York, NY. ORGANIZED EVENTS Paris, B., Donovan, J., Hinds-Garcia, S. (Forthcoming, 2019). Simulacra@Scale Theory and Methods Symposium, Data & Society Research Institute, New York, NY. Paris, B., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (20 January, 2017). Protecting Climate Data in Times of Political Turmoil, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (12 May, 2016). Panel on Surveillance, Data and Policing in Local Communities, UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (14 February, 2015). Hackathon Against Police Brutality. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Paris, B., Trager, L., and Bliss, H. (Spring, 2013). Art and Event: A Series of Conversations. The New School, New York, NY. Paris, B., & Trager, L. (April, 2013) Digital | Affect: Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference. The New School, New York, NY. TEACHING / MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE 2017 - 2018 / RESEARCH COORDINATOR / INTERNET RESEARCH INITIATIVE / KLEINROCK CENTER FOR INTERNET STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES WINTER & SUMMER 2017 / INSTRUCTOR / INFORMATION STUDIES 30: "INTERNET AND SOCIETY" / DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 2016 - 2017 / GRADUATE RESEARCH MENTOR / UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SPRING 2014 / INSTRUCTOR / COMM. 251 "MEDIA LAB"; COMM. 250 "MEDIA HISTORY"; COMM. 350 "MEDIA CRITICISM" / DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION & CULTURAL STUDIES / TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY FALL 2013 / GRADUATE TEACHING ASSOCIATE / UNDERSTANDING MEDIA STUDIES: "SOUND STUDIES" / THE NEW SCHOOL FALL 2013 / COURSE ASSISTANT / FOUNDATION YEAR COURSE: "WHO NEW? THE HISTORY OF THE NEW SCHOOL" / THE NEW SCHOOL SPRING 2013 / TEACHING ASSISTANT / MEDIA STUDIES: IDEAS / THE NEW SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Representative—UCLA Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee Representative—UCLA Information Studies Faculty Executive Committee/Student Governance Board Reviewer—Digital Humanities (DH) Annual Conference Reviewer—International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference Reviewer—Feminist Media Histories Reviewer—Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference Reviewer—UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference Reviewer—InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies Reviewer—UCLA Center for Gender Studies' "Thinking Gender Conference" Committee Member—Bricollab, The New School, NYC PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) International Communication Association (ICA) Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts (SLSA) Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) |
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