Antoine Courmont joins LATTS as a senior lecturer (Gustave Eiffel University/Paris School of Urban Planning).
With a PhD in political science, his research focuses on the restructuring of city government linked to digital technologies, which he analyzes using a political sociology approach to urban data.
Before joining LATTS, he was scientific director of the Cities and Digital Technology Chair at Sciences Po. He has also held positions as project manager at Métropole de Lyon (2012-2017), post-doctoral researcher at Sciences Po's Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (2017-2019), and digital sociologist at the CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory (2019-2022).
His thesis, defended in 2016 at Sciences Po, focused on the open data policy of the Lyon metropolitan area. He then continued his research by working on big data and digital platforms to understand how they challenge and contribute to the transformation of institutions, territories, and public policies. By analyzing these new players in the digital economy, his research aims to enrich work on the transformations of urban capitalism and on the relationships between public actors and companies.
His current research project aims to analyze the place and effects of Google Maps in territorial governance and on local commerce and mobility markets. The dominant position acquired by this digital mapping has transformed individual and professional daily practices and raises regulatory issues. The objective of this research project is to unfold this data infrastructure in order to highlight, on the one hand, the modes of hierarchization and regulation embedded in this informational layer of the city and, on the other hand, the construction of a territorial data market.
At the EUP, he teaches on topics such as digital cities and territorial data, as well as socio-technical controversies in transportation. He will also teach courses on qualitative and quantitative methods.