Nicole Starosielski, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, is author and co-editor of many books on media, infrastructure, and environments: The Undersea Network (2015), Media Hot and Cold (2021), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015), Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016), and Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021).
Her research focuses on the history of the cable industry, the social aspects of submarine cable construction and maintenance, and the paths toward industry sustainability. She is the co-convener of SubOptic’s Global Citizen Working Group and Lead Researcher on the SubOptic Foundation’s Sustainable Subsea Networks Project.