Journal Articles
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. Forthcoming. “Data Sinks, Carbon Services: Waste, Storage, and Energy Cultures on Ireland’s Peat Bogs.” New Media and Society, special issue The Infrastructural Temporalities and Imaginaries of Data Centres, edited by Julia Velkova and Jean-Christophe Plantin.
Brodie, Patrick. 2021. “Hosting Cultures: Placing the Global Data Center ‘Industry.’” Canadian Journal of Communication, special issue Materials and Media of Infrastructure, edited by Rafico Ruiz and Aleksandra Kaminska, vol. 46, no. 2: 151-176.
Brodie, Patrick and Julia Velkova. 2021. “Cloud Ruins: Ericsson’s Vaudreuil-Dorion Data Center and Infrastructural Abandonment.” Information, Communication and Society, special issue AOIR2020, edited by Jonathan Hutchinson and Aphra Kerr, vol. 24, no. 6: 869-885.
Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “’Stuck in Mud in the Fields of Athenry’: Apple, Territory, and Popular Politics.” Culture Machine, special issue Media Populism, edited by Giuseppe Fidotta, Joshua Neves, and Joaquin Serpe, vol. 19.
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. 2020. “New Extractive Frontiers in Ireland and the Moebius Strip of Wind/Data.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (online first).
Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “Star Wars and the Production and Circulation of Culture along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 53, no. 4: 667-695.
Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “Climate Extraction and Supply Chains of Data.” Media, Culture and Society, vol. 42, issue 7-8: 1095-1114.
Brodie, Patrick. 2019. “Seeing Ghosts: Crisis, Ruin, and the Creative Industries.” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 33, issue 5: 525-539.
Book Chapters
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. Forthcoming. “Waste, Improvement, and Repair on Ireland’s Peat Bogs.” In Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict, edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Maddalena Tacchetti. Bristol University Press.
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. 2021. “Emerging Rural Geographies of Data and Energy in Ireland.” States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape. Edited by Annex. Actar Publishers.
Other Publications
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. 2021. “Opinion: Ireland's green energy plans have a big tech data centre problem.” Journal.ie (March).
Brodie, Patrick and Patrick Bresnihan. 2020. “Energy Vacuums: Data Centres, Renewable Energy, and Rural Politics.” Rupture: Eco-Socialist Quarterly (November).
Brodie, Patrick and Julia Velkova. 2020. “Dissolved Clouds: Ericsson’s Vaudreuil Data Center and Infrastructural Abandonment.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research 2020.
Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “The Former Ericsson Data Centre in Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC.” Grierson Research Group: Fieldnotes (October).
Brodie, Patrick. 2020. “TikTok’s Ireland Data Center and the Future of Energy.” In Media Res (September-October).
medialabour collective. 2019. “Introduction – The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, Industry.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 8, no. 2: 1-6.
Bresnihan, Patrick and Patrick Brodie. 2019. “High-energy data centres not quite as clean and green as they seem.” The Irish Times (September 11).
Brodie, Patrick, Lisa Han, and Weixian Pan. 2019. “Introduction – Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological Change.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 8, no. 1: 6-13.
Brodie, Patrick. 2019. “A Conversation on Media and Logistics with Deborah Cowen and Kay Dickinson.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 8, no. 1: 104-110.