A 2023-2024 fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Lauren Bridges researches the sociotechnical, political economic and environmental politics of big data infrastructures. Her academic writing has been published in journals such as Information Communication & Society, Big Data & Society and New Media & Society. Her work has received academic awards and honorary mentions from the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association and the Association of Internet Researchers. In addition to her academic writing, Bridges has written for The Guardian, and she has been interviewed on PRX The World (NPR Boston), CBC Spark, BBC Newsday, NPR's 1A, the Anti-Dystopians podcast and NBC. 

Bridges is co-PI of a grant awarded by the Internet Society Foundation, for “Geographies of Digital Wasting,” a global collaborative project tracing the global flows and practices of digital wasting throughout the tech supply chain. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in creative writing, publishing and editing from the University of Melbourne, and a B.A. in business from Queensland University of Technology. Prior to academia, she worked in academic publishing and the nonprofit sector with a focus on social policy. She is currently writing a book on the limits of digital growth and the elemental politics of digital infrastructure expansion in Northern Virginia and Southern California.  

This Fall, Dr. Bridges will teach a course titled “Digital Media & the Environment.”