EDUCATION
PhD / INFORMATION STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES/ 2018
DISSERTATION: "Time Constructs: The Origins of a Future Internet"
A mixed methods investigation of how "time" is conceived and implemented into the development of Future Internet Architecture (FIA) networking protocol projects.
COMMITTEE: Dr. Leah Lievrouw (chair), Dr. Johanna Drucker, Dr. Geoffrey Bowker, and Dr. Christopher Kelty
MA MEDIA STUDIES / THE NEW SCHOOL / 2011 - 2013
THESIS: "Speed, Sensation and Crisis: Individuation in Web 2.0"
Theoretically-informed analysis of field studies with users of networked communication platforms to explore the habits and affective qualities users correlated with their participation in various forms of digital labor.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED
Currie, M. and Paris, B. (Forthcoming June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts.
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
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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
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). "Information Labor," 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
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/
BOOK REVIEWS
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
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
Ilano, L., Paris, B. and Vega, C. (14 February, 2018). "Editors Note". InterActions: Journal for Education and Information Studies 14(1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t6z080
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
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
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. Exhibit at 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 / LECTURES
Paris, B. (November 9, 2017). Cascading Failures and Alternative Paths: A Conversation on the Politics of Data, Activism, and Justice. COMM 360 – Communication and Technology, Dr. Christina Dunbar-Hester. 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., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (27 February, 2017). Climate DataRescue: Archiving for Freedom in Times of Political Turmoil. UAW2865, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Paris, B. (25 November, 2016). Counter-Data Action: Police Homicide Data, Information Studies 180 – 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 Studies 270 – 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 Studies 10 – Information and Power, Dr. Safiya Noble. UCLA Department of Information Studies, 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., 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.
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
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)
PhD / INFORMATION STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES/ 2018
DISSERTATION: "Time Constructs: The Origins of a Future Internet"
A mixed methods investigation of how "time" is conceived and implemented into the development of Future Internet Architecture (FIA) networking protocol projects.
COMMITTEE: Dr. Leah Lievrouw (chair), Dr. Johanna Drucker, Dr. Geoffrey Bowker, and Dr. Christopher Kelty
MA MEDIA STUDIES / THE NEW SCHOOL / 2011 - 2013
THESIS: "Speed, Sensation and Crisis: Individuation in Web 2.0"
Theoretically-informed analysis of field studies with users of networked communication platforms to explore the habits and affective qualities users correlated with their participation in various forms of digital labor.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED
Currie, M. and Paris, B. (Forthcoming June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts.
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
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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
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). "Information Labor," 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
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/
BOOK REVIEWS
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
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
Ilano, L., Paris, B. and Vega, C. (14 February, 2018). "Editors Note". InterActions: Journal for Education and Information Studies 14(1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t6z080
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
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
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. Exhibit at 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 / LECTURES
Paris, B. (November 9, 2017). Cascading Failures and Alternative Paths: A Conversation on the Politics of Data, Activism, and Justice. COMM 360 – Communication and Technology, Dr. Christina Dunbar-Hester. 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., Currie, M., Pasquetto, I. V., and Pierre, J. (27 February, 2017). Climate DataRescue: Archiving for Freedom in Times of Political Turmoil. UAW2865, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Paris, B. (25 November, 2016). Counter-Data Action: Police Homicide Data, Information Studies 180 – 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 Studies 270 – 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 Studies 10 – Information and Power, Dr. Safiya Noble. UCLA Department of Information Studies, 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., 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.
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
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)
