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

Teaching