Sylvain Parasie

Sylvain Parasie (https://sylvainparasie.org/) is professor of sociology at Sciences Po, médialab, in Paris. His most recent book, Computing the News - Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity, was published by Columbia University Press in October 2022. His research explores the interplay between technology, news organizations and democracy, based on qualitative and computational methods. He has previously conducted fieldwork – mostly in the U.S. and France – on legal regulation of the media; digital innovation in news organizations; and the emerging relationships between journalism and computer science. He also explores the use of emerging computational methods in sociology.