Iago Bojczuk is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is broadly interested in the geography of media and communication as well as the interplay between global development, digitalization, and multilateralism.
His doctoral work delineates what he conceptualizes as “Southern Clouds,” with a particular focus on Brazil. Using case studies, he explores the political economy of the data center industry, its ties to other sectors such as energy and sustainability, and its role in expanding cloud regions in Brazil. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this project explores the local, national, and regional vectors of territorialization, as well as the distinct dynamics these infrastructural nodes engender as they chart new paradigms for cloud computing and signal trafficking in the Global South.
Iago holds a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he graduated in 2020 as a Lemann Fellow. Prior to that, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa) in Media Studies from the University of Oregon in 2018. He recently served as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Environmental Media and currently contributes as a research assistant with Sustainable Subsea Networks, an academic-industry research partnership funded by the Internet Society Foundation.
Outside of academia, Iago recently worked as a consultant with the Chief Economist Office of the World Bank’s Infrastructure Vice-Presidency. Prior to starting his PhD, he held internship positions with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies — and with Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises
