Lauren E Bridges
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren E Bridges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridges |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGES L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2932-3423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Competing digital capacities
Governments worldwide are embracing digital transformation, envisioning limitless data capacities for public policy. However, this paper uncovers a crucial oversight: the neglect of material resources sustaining digital ecosystems. This paper introduces contested ‘digital capacities’ in public policy, to show how the aspiration for unlimited data processing strains local resources. Through a comparative analysis of national digitization strategie…
Constructing the Digital Skills Crisis
There is a digital skills crisis: the digital skills crisis does not exist. Through a conceptual history of skill––a word, concept, and action––this paper analyzes the historical, cultural, and material constructions of skill and how it has come to influence current discourse around the alleged “digital skills crisis”. Rather than an intrinsic quality to be acquired, we show how skill has been deployed as a political concept to order bodies and p…
Infrastructural obfuscation
Amazon’s Ring relies on infrastructural obfuscation to hide their infrastructures through urban camouflage (as doorbells, floodlights, sensors) while simultaneously expanding the carceral state and extending the industrial police-surveillant state. Through a critical analysis of the Ring surveillant assemblage, this paper reveals the way Ring and its associated apps produce fear and paranoia of the racialized Other, promote community buy-in that …
Digital failure
This paper explores the political potential of digital failure as a refusal to work in service of today's dataveillance society. Moving beyond criticisms of flawed digital systems, this paper traces the moments of digital failure that seek to break, rather than fix, existing systems. Instead, digital failure is characterized by pesky data that sneaks through the cracks of digital capitalism and dissipates into the unproductive; it supports run-aw…
Material Entanglements of Community Surveillance & Infrastructural Power
Through the case study of Amazon Ring's cameras, this paper explores the deepening material and discursive alliance between public and private institutions in the building of digital infrastructures that support the development of community surveillance. The analysis reveals a complex supply-chain network entangled with histories of settler-colonialism, racialization and gendered inequities. Bolstered by developments in cloud computing, concealin…
Flexible as freedom? The dynamics of creative industry work and the case study of the editor in publishing
The creative industries have gained the attention of neoliberal policymakers as providing future economic growth. However, these industries are often built on precarious working conditions as a compromise for flexible and more meaningful work. This article uses a mixed-methods approach to investigate the dynamics of flexible and precarious work in the creative industries through the lived experience of the editor. The data reveal a higher toleran…
Flexible as freedom? The dynamics of creative industry work and the case study of the editor in publishing
The creative industries have gained the attention of neoliberal policymakers as providing future economic growth. However, these industries are often built on precarious working conditions as a compromise for flexible and more meaningful work. This article uses a mixed-methods approach to investigate the dynamics of flexible and precarious work in the creative industries through the lived experience of the editor. The data reveal a higher toleran…
Digital failure
This paper explores the political potential of digital failure as a refusal to work in service of today's dataveillance society. Moving beyond criticisms of flawed digital systems, this paper traces the moments of digital failure that seek to break, rather than fix, existing systems. Instead, digital failure is characterized by pesky data that sneaks through the cracks of digital capitalism and dissipates into the unproductive; it supports run-aw…
Flexible as freedom? The dynamics of creative industry work and the case study of the editor in publishing
The creative industries have gained the attention of neoliberal policymakers as providing future economic growth. However, these industries are often built on precarious working conditions as a compromise for flexible and more meaningful work. This article uses a mixed-methods approach to investigate the dynamics of flexible and precarious work in the creative industries through the lived experience of the editor. The data reveal a higher toleran…
Material Entanglements of Community Surveillance & Infrastructural Power
Through the case study of Amazon Ring's cameras, this paper explores the deepening material and discursive alliance between public and private institutions in the building of digital infrastructures that support the development of community surveillance. The analysis reveals a complex supply-chain network entangled with histories of settler-colonialism, racialization and gendered inequities. Bolstered by developments in cloud computing, concealin…
Constructing the Digital Skills Crisis
There is a digital skills crisis: the digital skills crisis does not exist. Through a conceptual history of skill––a word, concept, and action––this paper analyzes the historical, cultural, and material constructions of skill and how it has come to influence current discourse around the alleged “digital skills crisis”. Rather than an intrinsic quality to be acquired, we show how skill has been deployed as a political concept to order bodies and p…
Infrastructural obfuscation
Amazon’s Ring relies on infrastructural obfuscation to hide their infrastructures through urban camouflage (as doorbells, floodlights, sensors) while simultaneously expanding the carceral state and extending the industrial police-surveillant state. Through a critical analysis of the Ring surveillant assemblage, this paper reveals the way Ring and its associated apps produce fear and paranoia of the racialized Other, promote community buy-in that …
Digital failure
This paper explores the political potential of digital failure as a refusal to work in service of today's dataveillance society. Moving beyond criticisms of flawed digital systems, this paper traces the moments of digital failure that seek to break, rather than fix, existing systems. Instead, digital failure is characterized by pesky data that sneaks through the cracks of digital capitalism and dissipates into the unproductive; it supports run-aw…
Competing digital capacities
Governments worldwide are embracing digital transformation, envisioning limitless data capacities for public policy. However, this paper uncovers a crucial oversight: the neglect of material resources sustaining digital ecosystems. This paper introduces contested ‘digital capacities’ in public policy, to show how the aspiration for unlimited data processing strains local resources. Through a comparative analysis of national digitization strategie…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer security (2 works)