DR JENNIFER GABRYS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council starting grant, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Her work investigates environments, material processes and digital technologies through theoretical and practice-based work. Projects within this area include Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University of Michigan Press, 2011), which examines the materialities of electronic waste, and a study currently underway on environmental sensor technologies and practices, Program Earth: Environment as Experiment in Sensing Technology.

Jennifer spoke at Close and Remote’s Social City Talk on 16 May 2013 at Deptford Lounge. An audio recording of her opening presentation is below.