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EDUCATION PhD / INFORMATION STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES/ 2014 - 2018 DISSERTATION: "Time Constructs: The Origins of a Future Internet" COMMITTEE: Dr. Leah Lievrouw (chair), Dr. Geoffrey Bowker, Dr. Christopher Kelty and Dr. Jonathan Furner CERTIFICATES: Experimental 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. (Forthcoming, 2019). What a Difference Does Data Make? Data Management and Social Change. Online Information Review. Paris, B. (August, 2018). Finding Time in the Future Internet. First Monday. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i8.9407 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 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 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. (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 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) |
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