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

B.Sc., Computer Science, Université de Montréal.
M.Sc., Computer Science (cryptography), Université de Montréal.
Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, U. of British Columbia.

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.

Selected Publications

Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents.
Forthcoming May 2012, The MIT Press. [MIT Press] [Amazon]

“A Material History of Bits,” Journal of the American Association 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]