The Economics and social sciences department studies the social and economic transformations brought about by digital technology. It belongs to the i3 research laboratory (Interdisciplinary Institute of Innovation, UMR 9217). The department has around 110 staff members, including 35 research professors, around 30 associate professors and 40 postdocs and PhD students, as well as five administrative staff members.
There are three teams in The Economics and Social Sciences Department:
- Economics-Management
- Sociology, Information, Communication, Design
- Sociology, Ergonomics & Psychology
The Economics and social sciences department is made up of researchers from various fields of human, economic and social sciences: Sociology, Economics, Management Sciences, Ergonomics, Design, Psychosociology, Law.
The research activities are held within the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3), CNRS Mixed Research Unit nº9217. They are organized into four main axes.
- Uses, participation, democratisation of innovation
- Theory and models for design
- Regulations of innovation
- Transformations of innovative firms
News
Consumption in crisis time: Real Time Bank Insights
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 15/10/20The French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE) publishes a study on the evolution of consumer habits during the crisis, in [...]
Why facial recognition algorithms can’t be perfectly fair
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 20/07/20By W. Maxwell and S. Clémençon. Facial recognition algorithms have been shown to be less accurate for black [...]
Thesis Prizes 2020: and the winners are…
PhD — 16/07/20On July 3, the 5th edition of the Télécom Paris thesis prize took place. The three winners presented their doctoral work and its prospects in five minutes before a jury from the [...]
Public Controversies: a project awarded by France-Berkeley Fund
Faculty Members — 01/07/20The "Public Controversies in Science, Technology and Medicine" project, carried out in collaboration between Télécom Paris and the CSTMS of the University of California [...]
Facial Recognition: Embodying European Values
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 25/06/20Renaissance Numérique advocates for the creation a strong EU-level standardisation system for facial recognition [...]
Co-investment and network sharing in Europe
Digital Economy — 05/06/20The Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) is an organization bringing together European actors, public (Arcep, CSA…) and private [...]
Health crisis, what safeguards for our fundamental freedoms?
Digital Trust, Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 04/06/20The current pandemic and unprecedented measures taken to slow its spread provide an [...]Why is infrastructure and investment sharing so fraught with difficulty?
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 27/05/20The report authors, Marc Bourreau, Winston Maxwell (Télécom Paris), and Steffen Hoernig (Nova [...]
The Covid-19 containment seen through French consumer transaction data
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 26/05/20Using billions of anonymised French bank card transactions from before and during the COVID-19 [...]
Wikipedia in the time of the Covid-19 crisis
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 25/05/20Wikipedia's aim is difficult to achieve when it comes to providing real-time information about a crisis marked by uncertainty, as is the case with the current [...]
Events
- du 25/10/2020au 26/10/2020
Workshops : Evaluation and beyond – Data visualization
Design interaction perceptionOct.25: international forum to broadly discuss research methods in visualization. Oct.26: Data Visualization Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting. - du 05/11/2020au 07/11/2020
Unboxing AI - understanding AI
Data Science & AIAn online conference about space, body, and materiality of AI, curated by and with Antonio Casilli, professor of sociology at Télécom Paris.