In 2020, Loup Cellard finished his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK). From 2021 till 2023, he was a postdoctoral research fellow working on the ecological implications of the digital. His work took part in the Melbourne Law School node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (based at RMIT, Melbourne). His research is situated in Science & Technology Studies (STS) and materialist approaches to media studies, and focused on subsea telecom cables, AI environmental impacts as well as public sector algorithmic decision-making. Starting in September 2023, he is now researcher at the French coop Datactivist where he is helping organisations explaining and documenting their algorithms. Loup is the author of scientific articles in journals like Science, Technology & Human Values, New Media & Society, and Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances. His work has been featured in major French media such as Le Monde, Médiapart, Radio France, l’ADN, Acteurs Publics, Reporterre, Socialter and cited by the German NGO Algorithm Watch. Loup presented his work to policy makers such as the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism team (SAPEA) as well as the French Commission for access to administrative documents (CADA).
Current projects:
♦ I am writing a book about AI environmental impacts and the need for accountability on this issue.
♦ I am leading the ALGO->LIT project. We aim at improving the algorithmic literacy of EU digital inclusion workers to better support citizens’ understanding of algorithms as well as effectively exercise their right to transparency.
♦ I am conducting an empirical inquiry in Marseille to understand how companies, public agencies and civil society address the environmental conditions and limitations facing the establishment of data centres and telecom subsea cables.