Bio

Angèle Christin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication (and, by curtesy, of Sociology), a Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Scholar, and Senior HAI Fellow at Stanford University. She studies the social impact of algorithms and AI.

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award, Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association

Program Affiliations

  • Modern Thought and Literature
  • Science, Technology and Society

Professional Education

  • PhD, Princeton University, Sociology (2014)

Contact

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

Additional Info

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Angèle Christin studies the social and cultural impact of algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Her award-winning book, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020) examined the dramatic transformations of journalism with the rise of social media platforms, metrics, and algorithms. Drawing on ethnographic methods, Angèle compared how American and French journalists made sense of traffic numbers, which in turn came with distinct effects on the production of news in the two countries.

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

2025-26 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

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