Jacqueline Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College, where she runs the Digital Justice Lab. She specializes in mathematic and computational media and their histories, using humanistic and creative methods in her histories and analyses. Her books include Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media and the co-edited Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (with Elizabeth Losh). Her current projects include creative considerations of the energy consumption of data centers and twenty-first-century streaming, cloud computing, and data storage, as well as a book on the machines and systems of mortality in the United States. She and Elizabeth Losh are the series co-editors for MIT Press’s Media Origins series, which focuses on histories of our media through sociocultural lenses, including the practices and politics of digital labor.
