Patrick Brodie

Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin

Patrick's research focuses on the environmental politics of digital infrastructures, and specifically the relations and entanglements of internet and other communications technologies with energy systems, global supply chains, and extractivism. He is the author and editor of three forthcoming books: From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland (with Patrick Bresnihan, Bristol UP), situating the environmental politics of data centres within the history of Ireland's FDI-led development regime; an edited collection called Media Rurality (with Darin Barney, Duke UP), which centres on the rural politics of global media systems; and a single-authored monograph entitled Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke UP). His ongoing/future research projects coalesce around the study of environmental datafication and the political ecologies of resource-making through "sustainable" industrial calculabilities in peatland management and fish farming.

His research has been published in Big Data and Society, Media, Culture and Society, New Media and Society, Information, Communication and Society, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, among other venues and public outlets including The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, and Rupture: Eco-Socialist Quarterly. He is also the co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Media.

He was previously FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University and a Scholar-in-Residence in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University.