Research
How do continuous news channels decide what counts as news, and who gets to speak about it?
I work on the sociology of media and journalism with the methods of computational social science: large broadcast corpora, built and documented so that each measurement can be traced and reproduced.
The Laudisi Observatory
A pipeline I designed and maintain to record, transcribe and analyse French continuous news channels: stream capture, automatic speech recognition, speaker diarisation and OCR of on-screen banners.
- Channels
- BFMTV, CNews, franceinfo and LCI: on-screen banners on all four, speech on the first three
- First corpus
- March 2026, about 2,230 hours of broadcast
- Methods
- Topic segmentation, unsupervised clustering, sentence embeddings
The project examines agenda and framing dynamics across channels: how far they converge in the topics they cover and the words they use, which channel takes up a topic first, and who gets to speak on air, including the gap between how often women are seen and how often they are heard.
Theses
- In progress
Master’s (M2) thesis on the mediated construction of socially relevant reality on continuous news channels: professional routines, framing structures and news formats. Supervised by Marshall A. Taylor (ENSAE-CREST).
- Mar 2026
L’Observatoire Laudisi : sociologie computationnelle de l’information en continu française. Master’s (M1) thesis, supervised by Samuel Bouron and Antoine Mazières (IRISSO). Prix de la Recherche Impact Tank × L’Ascenseur.
Earlier projects
- 2025
Farming channels on YouTube: digital ethnography of farmer vloggers, brands and aesthetic creators, and text analysis of about two million comments. LISIS, with Baptiste Kotras and Sylvain Brunier.
- 2022–25
Bachelor’s research projects: the colonial dimension of knowledge relations in the chlordecone scandal in Martinique and Guadeloupe; the role of soil in urban development at Porte de Montreuil, Paris.
Talks
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AI & NLP Workshop, ACSS-PSL Institute (online).
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Montrées plus qu’entendues ? Mesurer en continu l’écart entre présence à l’écran et accès à la parole des femmes sur les chaînes d’information françaises
Study day « Mesurer la diversité de genre dans les contenus médiatiques : l’apport des sciences sociales computationnelles », Grenoble.
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The Laudisi Observatory: A computational pipeline for framing and agenda dynamics in French continuous news
Computational Humanities Research Group Seminar Series, King’s College London (online).