Jennifer Gabrys

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Jennifer Gabrys (* 1973 ) is an American professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Cambridge .

Since October 2008 she has been professor of Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and visiting professor at Goldsmiths, University of London . Gabry's research focuses on topics such as the environment , digital technologies and citizen science .

Life

Gabrys received her PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University in Montreal. Previously, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Minnesota .

research

In her research, Gabrys deals with a number of critical interfaces between digital technology, citizen data, environmental media and new forms of political engagement .

Since 2013 she has been Principal Investigator of the European Research Council- funded project “Citizen Sense” - a groundbreaking study of public engagement for environmental sensor technologies and the generation of citizen data in the USA and Great Britain. She is a principal investigator in the AirKit project.

Gabrys was a fellow at the IKKM Weimar and at the Center for Digital Cultures at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

In Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics , Gabrys describes the materiality of electronics from the perspective of the waste it generates. In doing so, she relies on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin and thus develops an investigation of electronics that is neither limited to technological progress nor to the stories of great inventors, but rather focuses on the failure and decay of electronic media.

Awards

  • ERC Proof of Concept grant “AirKit” 2018–2019
  • Ziman Award 2018, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), as part of the Citizen Sense project.
  • Goldsmiths Warden's Annual Public Engagement Award 2018, for Citizen Sense's “Deptford Data Stories”.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • How to Do Things with Sensors . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Forerunners Series, 2019, ISBN 978-1517908317 .
  • Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0816693122 .
  • Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0472117611 .

items

  • “Citizen Sensing, Air Pollution and Fracking: From 'Caring about Your Air' to Speculative Practices of Evidencing Harm.” Sociological Review , 65, no. 2 (2017) “Care and Policy” monograph series, 172–192.
  • "Just Good Enough Data: Figuring Data Citizenships through Air Pollution Sensing and Data Stories." Big Data & Society , 3, no. 2 (2016), 1–14.
  • "Programming Environments: Environment and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32, no. 1 (2014), 30–48.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joe Cotton: Professor Jennifer Gabrys. October 17, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Visiting fellows and emeritus in the Department of Sociology. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ About. In: Jennifer Gabrys. Retrieved December 5, 2011, July 11, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ Jennifer Gabrys - IKKM Weimar. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jennifer Gabrys. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  6. ^ Digital Rubbish . ISBN 978-0-472-11761-1 ( umich.edu [accessed July 11, 2020]).
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SURNAME Gabrys, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American media and cultural studies scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1973