Françoise Paquienséguy
Françoise Paquienséguy is a full-time Professor of Communication Sciences at Sciences Po Lyon and Director of the ELICO Research Team (Équipe de recherche de Lyon en sciences de l’information et de la communication), affiliated with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon–Saint-Étienne.
Her research examines the relationships between digital technologies, society, and user practices. Over the course of her career, she has developed influential work on the uses and appropriation of information and communication technologies, contributing to theoretical and methodological debates on digital media, sociotechnical systems, and the evolving nature of digital environments. Her research interests include digital platforms, data governance, artificial intelligence, and the social, cultural, and political implications of digital transformation. She has led and contributed to several interdisciplinary research projects on smart cities, urban data ecosystems, open data, and the governance of digital services, exploring how data infrastructures reshape public action, innovation, and citizen participation.
More recently, her work has focused on the intersections between artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and intangible cultural heritage. She investigates how cultural memory, heritage practices, and forms of collective knowledge are transformed through algorithmic systems, social media, and emerging AI technologies.
Alongside her empirical research, she pursues a sustained reflection on the epistemological and methodological challenges raised by digital technologies for the social sciences and humanities. Her work lies at the crossroads of digital studies, platform studies, data studies, and digital humanities, with particular attention to the societal consequences of contemporary digital transformations.
Publications
Paquienséguy, F. (2026). Marco teórico de la sociología de los usos y el trabajo sobre sus conceptos. En I. C. Ángel-Uribe, L. M. Cano Vásquez, & A. Uribe Zapata (Eds.), Fundamentación conceptual y contextual (pp. 194-207). Medellin : Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. ISBN 978-628-500-190 1 https://repository.upb.edu.co/items/71306396-8fc5-4d47-858c-d998ed1b86a2)
Pélissier, N., & Paquienséguy, F. (Eds.). (2025). Dynamiques des recherches en sciences de l'information et de la communication : Défis contemporains. MKF Éditions. https://hal.science/hal-05368625v1/document
Paquienséguy, F., & Guo, Q. (2025). Douyin and the Digital Spread of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Transforming Cultural Dissemination in the Short Videos Age. Emerging Media, 3(2), 343–366. https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543251344976
Paquienséguy, F. (2025). 现代功夫茶: 传统、传承、创新 (Modern Gongfu Tea: tradition, transmission and innovation). Cultural Heritage, 5, 93–100. https://book.yunzhan365.com/deahy/botr/mobile/index.html?1762928566755=#p=1
Paquienséguy, F. (2024). Digital: The Promise of the Unlimited? Emerging Media, 2(1), 1–23.
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