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Jean-Christophe Plantin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research investigates the increasingly infrastructural role that digital platforms play in society. His book, 'Participatory Mapping: New Data, New Cartography' (Wiley, 2014), details the use of web-based mapping platforms that allow non-experts to participate in socio-technical debates, particularly focusing on radiation mapping initiatives related to the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. He has also studied invisible labor in knowledge infrastructures and the processing work involved in data archives, particularly in the context of platformization research on data repositories. His current work includes writing a monograph on how large tech companies shape global communication infrastructures. He co-edits the SAGE Handbook of Data & Society with Amelia Acker, Tommaso Venturini, and Antonia Walford. Jean-Christophe joined LSE in 2015 after completing his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD in Communication & Information Studies from Université de Technologie de Compiègne in France, along with master's degrees from Université Paris 8 and the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Jean-Christophe's work has been published in leading journals and funded by notable foundations such as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Gordon Betty Moore Foundation.
Department of Media and Communications, LSE • London
Teaches postgraduate courses and conducts research on the role of digital platforms in society.
Standard English requirement applies to most programs in Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, and Media.