[HDR Defense] 29/09/2025 - Lise RENAUD - Information and Communication Sciences (UMR CNE)

Lise Renaud will defend her habilitation to direct research (HDR) on Monday 29 September at 2pm at Avignon University.

Date and place

Monday 29 September at 2pm in the thesis room at Avignon University, Campus Hannah Arendt.

Manuscript titles

Three manuscripts make up the habilitation file:

Manuscript 1 original : CIS research and the figuration of computerised media (256 pages)

Manuscript 2 Biographical details and scientific career : Dissonance and crossing paths. Trajectory of a teacher-researcher on board. (176 pages)

Manuscript 3: Volume of selected published works (381 pages)

Laboratory

Norbert Elias Centre (UMR-CNRS 8562)

Discipline

Information and Communication Sciences

Composition of the jury

• Julia Bonaccorsi, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (guarantor)
• Vincent Bullich, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (examiner)
• Joëlle Le Marec, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, (rapporteur)
• Guillaume Marrel, Professor of Political Science, University of Avignon (examiner)
• Eleni Mouratidou, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université Paris Nanterre (rapporteur)
• Aude Seurrat, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université Paris Est Créteil (rapporteur)

Summary of the manuscript - original : 

Taking seriously the invitation made in 2001 by Yves Jeanneret to resist the "discourses accompanying NICTs", the original manuscript is presented as a test of the relationship between communication ideology and the communication practices of researchers. What does the ideology that accompanies computerised media do to the posture of CIS research and to the production of knowledge about them? How do researchers participate in the escorting discourses in the context of transformations in the ESR?

On the one hand, the approach adopted takes a close look at the formulas, formats and figures that circulate in relation to computerised media in ordinary research media (posters, calls for papers and projects, conference programmes, etc.). On the other hand, it takes a sensitive approach to the figurations of research that can be seen in on-screen writings (video capsules, Hal CVs, spreadsheets, etc.). It was found that researchers in information and communication sciences use arguments, motifs and expressions similar to those promoted by the digital industries in their mainly non-academic written work. They are embroiled in discursive registers that endorse a certain conception of computerised media and their effects, a conception that runs counter to their own position and to the founding work of the discipline.

This manuscript gradually brings to light the constant and growing tensions faced by CIS between the imposition of a view of concrete objects and the maintenance of a critical stance in a context of transformations in ESR policies and injunctions (for operationality, interdisciplinarity, programming) that frame research practices. In a context of project-based research management, encouragement of commissioned research and promotion of computerised media, how can we maintain a critical stance on computerised media? How can we keep our distance from the communicational and managerial turns taken by knowledge institutions?

The challenge is then to identify tactics for resisting the prevailing injunctions within the ESR. Using a research trajectory (from discourse analysis to the theory of screen writing to museology) and through the analysis of collective research experiences, the manuscript traces the gradual development of a strategy for transforming the focus. The latter is seen as a means of resistance, capable of taking account of the power of visual representations and doxas around computerised media. Above all, however, it invites CIS to take a fresh look at the reflexivity of researchers in their ordinary research communication practices.