Author Presentation

Christelle Chauzal-Larguier

Christelle Chauzal-Larguier is an Associate Professor of Management Sciences at the Clermont Auvergne University and a member of the Laboratoire communication et sociétés (EA 4647). Her research focuses on corporate communication and corporate social responsibility (CSR), including solidarity policy, which she explored from the perspective of paid family caregivers and the schemes devised to help them1.

Laurence Corroy

Laurence Corroy is a Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM, UR 3476) at the University of Lorraine. Her work focuses on two main areas of research: first, critical media literacy, including digital technology and information literacy, and the communicative practices of young people; second, health education, particularly how health issues are formed in the public arena, television dramas and by related media discourse and representations.

Stéphanie Debray

Stéphanie Debray got her PhD at the University of Lorraine and is an associate member of the Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (AHP-PReST) research team. Her thesis investigates the demarcation problem between scientific and non-scientific productions, and the question of values in science in the field of the philosophy of science. Her research focuses on the distinctions between science and pseudoscience, scientific misconduct and other dark practices. She holds a temporary teaching and research position at Gustave Eiffel University as part of the university's Information and Communication Sciences research team (2021-2023). Her dual disciplinary grounding enables her to study issues linked to the production, dissemination and impact of science in society, and to analyze its epistemic, methodological, communicational and organizational aspects, particularly where scientific activity involves different and competing actors (e.g. citizens, advocacy NGOs or industry representatives).

Valérie Delavigne

Valérie Delavigne is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Sorbonne Nouvelle University and a member of the laboratory CLESTHIA (EA 7345). She has worked for several years with the Institut National du Cancer, which offers an information platform and for which she directed the online dictionary for patients. Concerned by linguistics in touch with reality, her research focuses on the uses and social circulation of terminologies and on the forms of scientific, technical and medical popularization, in line with research into socioterminology. She is currently working on a critical dictionary on ecology, while continuing her research into the language aspects of medical expertise.

Lucile Desmoulins

Lucile Desmoulins is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at Gustave Eiffel University and a member of the DICEN-Idf research team. Her research focuses on ICS and cognitive approaches to public policy, more precisely the links between organizational communication and influence, lobbying as well as scientific advocacy strategies. She questions for instance the hybridity of organizational and managerial forms and discourse. She also studies the methods and tools of influencer marketing, notably, through the discursive and organizational dimensions of identity and authority in the digital age and social media. As the head of the master's program in business intelligence (BI), influence, lobbying and social media influence strategies (M2IE-ILMS), she analyzes the evolution of professional deontological standards and codes of ethics, focusing on dark BI and public relations digital methods and strategies.

Oihana Husson

Oihana Husson is a PhD candidate in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Burgundy and a member of the CIMEOS (Communications, Mediations, Organizations, Knowledge, EA 4177) research unit. Her research focuses on healthcare expertise on social media and the professionalization of social media influencers.

Alexis Meyer

Alexis Meyer is the Manager of Bourbon-Lancy's Tourist and Spa Information Office (Office de tourisme et du thermalisme) and an Associate Professor/Lecturer at the Clermont Auvergne University. After studying strategic information and international market policy, he first worked in the marketing department of a Lyon-based retail group, before taking over the management of Bourbon-Lancy's Tourist and Spa Information Office. His research focuses mainly on institutional/corporate communications, with an emphasis on support in relation to strategies applied to the spa/wellness and tourism sectors.

Alexandra Micciche

Alexandra Micciche is a PhD student of Contemporary History at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Namur, and works with ULB's Mondes modernes et contemporains (MMC) research center and the University of Namur's Histoire, sons et images (HiSI) research group. As part of her doctoral project, she is studying the mobilizations of medical and nursing staff in their relationship with Belgian public television programs between 1964 and 1989.

Aurélie Picton

Aurélie Picton has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Translation Technology (TIM) at the University of Geneva since 2011. She teaches terminology, lexicology and language resources, language for special purposes and the use of corpora for translation. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics in 2009 from the University of Toulouse, co-funded by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Laboratoire CLLE-RSS, CNRS, UMR 5263) and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). She is also an associate member of the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST) at the University of Montreal. Her main research interests concern the analysis of dialectal variation in specialized discourse, from a textual and socioterminological perspective. She is also interested in the impact of technologies on the practice/s of language professionals (e.g. the ANR CRISTAL project, 2012-2016). Since 2005, she has been involved in a number of applied projects on terminological variation and term circulation, particularly in the fields of space, humanitarian studies, particle physics and medicine.

Sylvie Pierre

Sylvie Pierre is a Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM, UR 3476) at the University of Lorraine. Her main research interests concern the history, actor's strategies and ethical issues of television. In the past, she was the editor head of the health and education department at La Cinquième Chaîne, Chaîne du savoir et de la connaissance from 1994 to 1998.

Aurélie Pourrez

Aurélie Pourrez is an Associate Professor in information and communication sciences at the University of Lorraine and a researcher at the Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM, UR 3476). Her work focuses on health communication and environmental communication. She also works on the social, environmental and ethical responsibility of organizations, as well as on communication implemented for the safety and health of employees. She directs the ANR GwadaSafeMeat project to reduce chlordecone contamination in the population via the informal beef circuit in Guadeloupe.

Émilie Roche

Émilie Roche is an Associate Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University's Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux (CERLIS, UMR 8070). Her work examines the media coverage of violence (terrorism, war, urban and police violence), health, the environment and presidential campaigns.

Corinne Rochette

Corinne Rochette is a Professor at the Clermont Auvergne University's School of Management (IAE) and a member of its CleRMa (Clermont recherche management) research center. She designed a master's degree in Public Management, as well as one in the management of medico-social and healthcare organizations, and is co-founder and holder of the Health and Territories research chair of Clermont Auvergne University Foundation. She is Academic President of the International Association of Public Management Research and an expert for several public organizations, including the French Public Health Council. She studies the transformations of public organizations and services, as well as access to care, innovative organizational systems, governance and patient pathways. She is currently supervising six theses. Her research output amounts to some 100 academic contributions, including articles and conferences.

Baptiste Schummer

Baptiste Schummer is a PhD student in Political Science at the Centre d'études de recherches administratives politiques et sociales (CERAPS, UMR 8026) at the University of Lille. He is currently writing his thesis, under the supervision of Jean-Gabriel Contamin and Nicolas Kaciaf, comparing French media coverage of glyphosate and violence against women between 2000 and 2020. As an extension of his PhD project, he recently published an article, "Le glyphosate et les journalistes en France: la construction sociale d'un problème public...