Gilles BASTIN
University Professor
SOCIOLOGY
Laboratory(ies): PACTE
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Keywords
- Culture
- Media
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Sociology
Biography
Gilles Bastin’s research focuses primarily on the sociology of culture and media, the algorithmic structures of society, journalism and information, sociological theory and the history of the social sciences, and the methodological, political, and ethical aspects of data use in the social sciences, particularly data drawn from social media and the web. Since February 2025, he has served as Deputy Director of Sciences Po Grenoble and Vice President for Research at the institution.
Responsibilities
- Elected member of the National Council of Universities (Section 19)
Current Projects
FeedingBias - A multi-platform, mixed-methods approach to information exposure on digital social networks
FeedingBias aims to provide data and analytical tools to better understand exposure to information on social media and how individuals interact with that information. Our objective is a) to understand the influence of users’ sociodemographic characteristics, political orientation, and level of algorithmic awareness on their exposure to information, and b) to measure the contribution of these exposure and engagement biases to polarization in the modern public sphere. FeedingBias will be based on the recruitment of a large sample of social media users who complete a questionnaire survey, as well as on the collection of information regarding these users’ use of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
GenderedNews: a computational social science approach to uncovering gender imbalances in the media
GenderedNews is a research project aimed at developing new methods to measure and explain the extent of gender bias in the news media in France. Numerous empirical studies have demonstrated the existence of such biases and have helped to better understand them on an international scale. This project aims to provide large, stable datasets over time for the French context and to explore new methods for documenting gender bias in the media. It includes a significant partnership component with leading media outlets such as Agence France-Presse and Mediapart.
Publications
Measuring Gender Bias in Contextual Embeddings through Wasserstein Distance
Salah Zrigui , François Portet , Gilles Bastin
IC2S2, July 2025, Norrköping, Sweden
Journalists' authority and its bounded trade
Gilles Bastin , Clément Bert-Erboul
Journalism, 2024, 10.1177/14648849241255941
FeedingBias_media: an open-access database of 894 French general-interest media active on socio-numerical networks
Jérôme Pacouret , Emmanuel Marty , Emma Orsolini , Gilles Bastin
2024
The social space of social networks: a relational approach to the use of digital platforms in France
Jérôme Pacouret , Gilles Bastin , Emmanuel Marty
Sociology, 2024, 15 (2), pp. 119–146. 10.3917/socio.152.0119
Flexible employment, entry-level tournaments and the likelihood of staying in the world of journalism
Antoine Machut , Gilles Bastin
Sociology of Work, 2023, 65 (3), 10.4000/sdt.44138
Thesis supervision
Guillaume LE LAY
Learning Artificial Intelligence: The Social Production of Algorithmic Knowledge
Anastasia MAGAT
The participation of residents in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the creation and reception of the image of their community on social media
Ange RICHARD
Gender Bias in Media Coverage
Guillaume COLLAIN
Conflictual dynamics in the collaborative production of information on Wikipedia
Jules BRION
French Media and the Ecological Transition: A Study by the Sources Network of Journalists.