POSITIONS

Rutgers University / New Brunswick, NJ
Library and Information Science Department / School of Communication and Information
Assistant Professor / September 2019 - present

Data & Society Research Institute / New York City, NY
Media Manipulation Initiative
Postdoctoral Researcher / August 2018 - August 2019

EDUCATION

PhD / Information Studies / University of California, Los Angeles / 2018
Dissertation: "Time Constructs: The Origins of a Future Internet"
Certificates: Critical Theory / Digital Humanities

MA / Media Studies / The New School / 2014

PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED

Currie, M., Paris, B. and Donovan, J. (2019), "What difference do data make? Data management and social change", Online Information Review, Vol. 43 No. 6, pp. 971-985. 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. 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/

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

Paris, B. (Forthcoming 2020). "Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development," eds. Stine, K. and Vollmar, A. Hardwired Temporalities, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam.

Cifor, M. and Paris B. (Forthcoming, 2020). "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, 2020). "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

COMMENTARY

Paris, B., and Pasquetto, I. (8 December, 2019) Why do Facebook, others refuse to address the weaponization of fake information?, NJ Star Ledger. https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/12/why-do-facebook-others-refuse-to-address-the-weaponization-of-fake-information-opinion.html

Paris, B. (20, September, 2019). The Deeper Danger of Deepfakes: Worry Less About Politicians and More About Powerless People. New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-real-deepfake-danger-20190920-mnu6w7xbdzgklgfr7ibmq6bcne-story.html

Paris, B. (16 July, 2019). "From Panic to Profit: AI Propaganda Machines". Data & Society Points. https://points.datasociety.net/from-panic-to-profit-cf738c9a5bfd

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

INVITED TALKS

Paris, B. (18 January, 2020). Invited Panelist. The Truth Has Changed with Josh Fox. Public Theater, New York City.

Paris, B., Marshall, B., Mitchell, S. (1 November, 2019). Plenary Panelist. “AI-Driven Disinformation,” at Down for the Count 2020. Berkman-Klein Center, Harvard University.

Chowdhury, R., Citron, D., Cole, S., and Paris, B. (10 August, 2019). Panelist. Deepfakes Policy. DEFCON AI Village, Las Vegas, NV. 

Paris, B. (13 June, 2019). Plenary Panelist. Media and Manipulation, ACM Collective Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA.

Doctrow, C., Paris, B., Roberts, S.T., Waheed, S. (12 April, 2019). Panelist. After Disruption: worker-centered futures and the rise/demise of platform systems. README, LA Cryptoparty, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.

Paris, B. (12-13 December, 2018). Plenary Speaker. Simulacra at Scale: A History of the Fake. Open News’ SRCCON: POWER, Philadelphia, PA.

Paris, B. (29 October, 2018). Plenary Speaker. 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). Panelist. What is the FATE of Platforms? Concordia University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, Montréal, QC.
 
Paris, B., (1-2 June, 2018). Panelist. "The Technics of Time in the Future Internet", Hardwired Temporalities, University of Siegen, Germany.
 
Paris, B. (November 9, 2017). Invited Speaker. "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). Invited Panelist. "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). Invited Speakers. "Climate Data Rescue: Archiving for Freedom in Times of Political Turmoil," UAW2865, Los Angeles, CA.

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. (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.

TEACHING /MENTORSHIP

Rutgers University / Department of Library and Information Science
Fall 2019 - present / Professor
Gender and Technology / Ethical Decision-making in Information Professions

University of California, Los Angeles / Computer Science Department
Kleinrock Center for Internet Studies / Internet Research Initiative
2017 - 2018 - Research Coordinator

University of California, Los Angeles / Department of Information Studies
Winter and Summer 2017 - Instructor / Information Studies 30: "Internet and Society"

University of California, Los Angeles / Undergraduate Division
Undergraduate Research Center
2016 - 2017 - Graduate Research Mentor

Truman State University / Department of Communication
Spring 2014 - Instructor / Comm 251 "Media Lab", Comm. 250 "Media History", Comm. 350 "Media Criticism"

The New School / School of Media Studies
Fall 2013 - Graduate Teaching Associate / Understanding Media Studies
Spring 2013 - Teaching Assistant / Media Studies Ideas

The New School / Undergraduate Division
Fall 2013 - Teaching Assistant / Who New: The History of the New School

ORGANIZED COMMUNITY 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.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

2017-18 / UCLA Information Studies Doctoral Program Committee
2016-17 / UCLA Information Studies Faculty Executive Committee/Student Governance Board

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2016-2019/ Reviewer / Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
2015-2019 / Reviewer / iConference
2016-2019 / Reviewer / Digital Humanities (DH) Annual Conference
2016-2019 / Reviewer / International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference
2016-2018 / Reviewer / Feminist Media Histories
2017-2019 / Reviewer / Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference

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)