Hi, I am Aurélie.
I’m a social and visual researcher of animation and technology.
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I’m a PhD Candidate in the Film Studies department at Concordia University, Montréal, and an upcoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chaire de recherche du Québec sur l'intelligence artificielle et le numérique francophones (IANF).
In my doctoral work Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it, I theorize the role that Japanese animation fandom played in shaping exclusionary practices of the alternative web.
My research examines the intersection of technology and animation, with a focus on gender and sexuality. I’m particularly interested in ethical debates about animated media (whether these be cartoons or AI-generated). How to translate in policies concepts like consent, age, violence when there are no real bodies involved? I explore this as the Guest Editor for Porn Studies Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work.
Last year, I was a PhD intern for the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and in Life (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal) where I researched the tension between AI adult content creators and creative porn workers during platform capitalism. Before that, I was a Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the AI + Society Initiative (University of Ottawa) where I worked on the ethics of moderating AI pornography. In the Summer 2023, I was a PhD intern in Sociotechnical Systems at the Social Media Collective (Microsoft Research New England), where I worked with Tarleton Gillespie on the limits of automated moderation for pornographic animation involving fictional children.
Before my PhD, I graduated with a BA and MA in Film and Media Studies from La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
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