Christian Licoppe
Social Science department, Telecom ParisTech, France
Christian Licoppe, Professor of sociology. Trained in history and sociology of science and technology, he is currently the head of the Social Science department at Telecom Paristech, after a stretch in industrial research, where he managed social science research at Orange R&D.
Among other things he has worked in the field of mobility and communication studies for several years. He has used mobile geolocation and communication data to analyze mobility and sociability patterns of mobile phone users. He is also interested from a social and juridical perspective in the way systems based on Bluetooth recognition of proximate mobile terminals may provide serendipitous opportunities for spurious and enriched encounters. He has also developed ethnographic approaches of complex activity systems relying on innovative use of communication technologies, at the intersection of sociology of work, organization studies and anthropology of activity, such as call centers (in the telecommunications and banking sectors), or the introduction of video in French courtrooms.
For more information: http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/licoppe/