Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy
I will be exploring the rise of ‘green data capitalism’ – the ways digital tech companies intend to profit from climate action by positioning themselves as essential platforms for environmental data management – and its role in larger climate policy forums. I will study documents in current and past submissions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, as well as public statements and briefs submitted by tech companies on climate and energy questions.
I plan to draft the initial chapters of a book on this topic.
Main Research Topics
- Climate Change
- Digital Infrastructure
- Energy Humanities
- Artificial Intelligence
- Political Economy
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2025: Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment, Trent University
- 2020–2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment, Trent University
- 2020–2030: Tier II Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
- 2019–2020: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Transitions in Energy, Culture, and Society University of Alberta
Publications and Presentations
- Anne Pasek and Mél Hogan, “Misunderstanding AI and Energy.” In Misunderstanding AI, eds. Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Mél Hogan, Paola Ricaurte. Routledge. Forthcoming 2027.
- Meg Weisser, Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Hunter Vaugan. “Green Data Capitalism and its Rural Extractions.” In Media Ruralities, ed. Patrick Brodie and Darrin Barney, under contract with Duke University Press, forthcoming 2026.
- Anne Pasek, Cindy K. Lin, Zane Talley Cooper, and Jordan Kinder. Digital Energetics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
- Hunter Vaughan, Anne Pasek, Nick Silcox, Nicole Starosielski. “ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game.” Journal of Language and Politics 22.2 (2023): 640-660. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22125.vau.
- Anne Pasek, Hunter Vaughan, and Nicole Starosielski. “The World Wide Web of Carbon: Towards a Relational Footprinting of ICT’s Climate Impacts.” Big Data & Society 10.1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158994.
