Nicole Starosielski is an American author, researcher, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts research on global internet and media distribution, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. . She is a Principal Investigator for the Sustainable Subsea Networks research project, an academic-industry partnership by the SubOptic Foundation and funded by the Internet Society Foundation.
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