peer-reviewed
Bridges, Lauren. (forthcoming) “Environmental Impacts of AI.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Rayvon Fouché. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acrefore/9780197791219.013.ORE_STS-00078.R1.
Bridges, Lauren, and Vusumuzi Maphosa. (forthcoming) “The Platformization of Retail and the Global E-Waste Dilemma.” In Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility, edited by Olga Dovbysh, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, and Mervi Pantti. Emerald Publishing.
Bridges, Lauren E. (forthcoming)“Data Centers: The Digital Sustainability Paradox and the Search for Global Renewable Power.” In Planet Digital: A Global Media Reader, edited by Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw, and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press.
Bridges, L. E. (2024) Competing Digital Capacities: Between state-led governance and local data center tradeoffs. Information, Communication & Society. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2331765
Bridges, L. (2021). Infrastructural obfuscation: Unpacking the carceral logics of the Ring surveillant assemblage. Information, Communication & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1909097
Bridges, L. E. (2021). Digital failure: Unbecoming the “good” data subject through entropic, fugitive, and queer data. Big Data & Society, 8(1), 205395172097788. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720977882
Bridges, L. E. (2020) “Material Entanglements of Community Surveillance & Infrastructural Power.” Association of Internet Researchers in Selected Papers of Internet Research, https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir
Bridges, L. E. (2018). Flexible as freedom? The dynamics of creative industry work and the case study of the editor in publishing. New Media & Society, 20(4), 1303–1319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816688920
public scholarship / shorter academic(ish) pieces
Bridges, Lauren. “From AI to PC: Reframing Artificial Intelligence as Parasitic Computation.” In Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity, edited by Jess Reia, MC Forelle, and Yingchong Wang. Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, University of Virginia., 2025. https://doi.org/10.18130/03df-zn30.
Lifset, Reid, Pranava Raparla, Amy Stein, Lauren Bridges, Jim McElfish, and Tim Cywinski. “Local Environmental Impacts of Data Center Proliferation.” Environmental Law Reporter 55, no. 2 (2025). https://www.elr.info/articles/elr-articles/local-environmental-impacts-data-center-proliferation.
Bridges, L.E., Burrington, I., Chen, A., Cooper, Z.G.T., Macherera, M., Mangwana, J., Maphosa, V., Zezai, D. (2023). “Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again.” [Multimodal Exhibit]. https://doi.org/10.17613/xjcx-7b43.
Bridges, L. (2021) "Amazon's Ring is the largest surveillance network the US has ever seen." The Guardian, May 18, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon-ring-largest-civilian-surveillance-network-us
Bridges, L. E. (2020) “Towards a Relational View of Digital Sovereignty”, in Critical Digital Sovereignties, a digital publication by CARGC Press, https://os.pennds.org/digitaldominion/critical-digital-sovereignties-/towards-a-relational-view-of-digital-sovereignty
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