Loup Cellard (Student Researcher)
Loup Cellard
Supervisors: Dr Nathaniel Tkacz and Professor Noortje Marres.
Research Topic
Loup’s thesis is an ethnography of algorithmic transparency in French public organisations. His methodological framework is drawing on science & technology studies, anthropology and design research.
Working title: Theatres of algorithmic transparency: a post-digital ethnography.
Background
Loup joined Warwick in 2016 as a full-time PhD researcher. Prior to coming at Warwick, Loup worked at FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération) a think-tank based in Paris where he improved the “data literacy” of citizen communities thanks to research-action workshops. He also has an experience as a data visualisation designer at Medialab Sciences-Po (Paris, FR) as well as the Digital Humanities Lab at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, CH), two centres focused on the development of digital methods for social science and humanities. Loup holds a BA in Digital Storytelling from Université Paris 13 (2013) and an MA in Information Architecture from Ecole Normale Supérieure (2015).
Publications
Loup has three tracks of research:
1)The politics of transparency, accountability and openness:
- [Peer-Reviewed Journal Article] “Le design de la transparence : une rhétorique au coeur des interfaces numériques”. Loup Cellard and Anthony Masure. Revue Multitudes, 2018/4 n° 73 | pages 100 à 111. Special Issue by Yves Citton and Emmanuel Alloa.
- [Public Policy White-Paper] "Les demandes citoyennes de transparence au sujet des algorithmes publics". White-Paper by Loup Cellard for Etalab, french open data task force. 2019.
2) Inventive methods compounding science, art, design, and tech sensibilities:
- [Essay in artist monograph] “7 gestes pour performer dans le théâtre du social ”. Essay by Loup Cellard in Prose Postérieure. Le courrier électronique d’une instructrice d’aérobic sauvage et grotesque.A book by the artist Laëtitia Jasserand. Edited by Les Commissaires Anonymes. 2018.
- [Item in collection] “Interface Détournement” in The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation. Compiled by Peggy Pierrot, Anita Burato, Christoph Haag, Michael Murtaugh, Femke Snelting, Seda Gürses. Edited by Constant. 2018.
3) Datavisualisation theory and practice from a humanities and social science perspective:
- [Peer-Reviewed Journal Article] "Self-Recognition in Data Visualization. How members see themselves in social visualizations". Dario Rodighiero & Loup Cellard. Espacetemps.net. 2019
Grants
ESRC PhD Grant, 2016-2020.
Contact
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Email: L dot Cellard at warwick dot ac dot uk
Website : loupcellard.com
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