Jean-François Blanchette
Assistant Professeur, Department of Information Studies, UCLA
218 GSE&IS Building, 300 North Charles E. Young Drive,
Box 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Tel: +1 310 267 5137; Fax: +1 310 206 4460
Email: last name at ucla dot edu
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, U. of British Columbia.
Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
M.Sc., Computer Science (cryptography), Université de Montréal.
B.Sc., Computer Science, Université de Montréal.
Research Interests
Authenticity of electronic information. Social and political dimensions of information security. Digital preservation.
Sociology of mathematics. Privacy and data retention. Materiality and computing. Technology, memory, and oblivion.
Recent and upcoming presentations
Information Technology and Archives, Archival Education and Research Institute, UCLA, July 10, 2012.
L'écrit électronique: Les règles de l'art, Centre de recherche information, droit et société, Brussels, June 1, 2012.
La force de la recherche juridique, CNRS, Paris, May 11, 2012.
From Materials to Materiality, CHI worshop, Austin, May 6, 2012.
What's New about New Materialities?, Center for Science, Technology, Medecine and Society, Berkeley, May 5, 2012.
Déchiffrer les mutations de l'écrit : Infrastructure et dématérialisation, École des Chartes, Paris, March 27, 2012.
Heavy Clouds, Oxford Internet Institute,
March 20, 2012.
Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, University College London, March 19, 2012.
Is information material? Digital materialities and mediated logics, iConference, Toronto, February 8, 2012.
''Infrastructural Thinking'' as Core Computing Skill, Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford, June 21, 2011.
Selected Publications
- Running on Bare Metal: Towards a Material Theory of Computation.
Under contract, The University of Chicago Press.
- Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents.
Forthcoming May 2012, The MIT Press.
[MIT Press]
[Amazon]
[Summary]
- “A Material History of Bits,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
62 no. 6 (2011): 1042-1057
[Journal version]
[PDF preprint]
- “The Noise in the Archive: Oblivion in the Age of Total Recall,” in Privacy and Data Protection :
An Element of Choice. (Serge Gutwirth, Yves Poullet, Paul De Hert, and Ronald Leenes, Eds.),
pp. 25-38. Springer, 2011.
[Springer]
[PDF preprint]
- “The Digital Signature Dilemma,” Annals of Telecommunications, 61 no. 7-8 (2006): 903-918.
[Journal version]
[PDF preprint]
- “La « dématérialisation » du livre foncier d'Alsace-Moselle: Archivistique et preuve électronique,”
Document Numérique, special issue on “Archivage et pérennisation,” 8 no. 2 (2004): 63-72
(with Françoise Banat-Berger)
[PDF preprint]
- “Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness,” The Information Society,
18, no. 1 (2002): 1-13 (with Deborah Johnson)
[Journal version]
[PDF preprint]
Teaching
- [IS-240] Electronic Records
[syllabus]
- [IS-270] Introduction to Information Technologies
[syllabus]
- [IS-282] Systems Analysis and Design
[syllabus]
- [IS-289] Digital Preservation
[syllabus]
- [IS-291C] Academic Work
[syllabus]