Bio

Angèle Christin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, and, by courtesy, in the Sociology Department at Stanford University. She studies fields and organizations where algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices. She received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and the EHESS (Paris).

Academic Appointments

Program Affiliations

  • Modern Thought and Literature
  • Science, Technology and Society

Contact

  • Academic
    angelec@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Communication Position: Asst Professor

Additional Info

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Angèle Christin studies how algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices.

Her book, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020) focuses on the case of web journalism, analyzing the growing importance of audience data in web newsrooms in the U.S. and France. Drawing on ethnographic methods, Angèle shows how American and French journalists make sense of traffic numbers in different ways, which in turn has distinct effects on the production of news in the two countries. She discussed it on the New Books Network podcast.

In a related study, she analyzed the construction, institutionalization, and reception of predictive algorithms in the U.S. criminal justice system, building on her previous work on the determinants of criminal sentencing in French courts.

Her new project examines the paradoxes of algorithmic labor through a study of influencers and influencer marketing on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

2021-22 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-2013