History and regulation of media and technology, media industries studies, critical infrastructure studies, digital intermediaries, datafication, privacy, access
Gaëlle is interested in the political economy of the media and technology industries, from the impact they have on regulation and policy to the modes of organization, hierarchies of access, and discursive regimes they create. She has done research on a defunct satellite television initiative by citizens, Facebook’s content moderation and restriction of speech in the Middle East, and the effects of YouTube’s copyright technology on digital policy and user access to the platform in Europe. Broadly, her research seeks to make our media and technological landscape tangible by focusing on the legal and regulatory environments, material and technical processes, and networks of public and private agents that form its infrastructural backbone.
Before starting her PhD at Boston University, Gaëlle taught French for two years at the University of Texas at Austin.