Associate ProfessorBenedetta Brevini

PhD Westminster, MSc (Communication Policy and Regulation) LSE, LLM/BA Modena

Dr Benedetta Brevini (born 1982) is Associate Professor of political economy of communication at the University of Sydney and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University until 2025. She is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an expert in Critical AI, the relationship between Data Capitalism, AI and the Climate Crisis and Environmental Communication. Before joining academia she worked as a journalist in Milan, New York and London for CNBC, RAI and the Guardian and held tenured positions at City University London and Brunel University London. She writes on The Guardian's Comment is Free and contributes to a number of print and web publications including South China Morning Post, OpenDemocracy and the Conversation. She is the author of several books. Her volume "Is AI good for the Planet ? "(2021) has been named best science book of the week by Nature.Her other books are "Newscorp: Empire of Influence (2024), Amazon, Understanding a Global Communication Giant (2020), Public Service Broadcasting online (2013), Beyond Wikileaks (2013), Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis (2017), Climate Change and the Media (2018). She is currently working on a new book project on Communication, Data Capitalism and the Climate Emergency (Polity, Cambridge).