Samira Ibnelkaïd is the project leader. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is currently working on the Smart Communication Project. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Lyon (France) and her qualifications in “Linguistics”, “Information and Communication Sciences” and “Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Sciences and Technics” from the French National Board of Universities (CNU).

Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing on visual ethnography, multimodal interaction analysis and phenomenology, her research projects aim to shed light on the complex and renewed intersubjective practices of techno-bodily presence enacted in digitally artifacted interactions (in mundane, artistic and workplace settings). Her research focuses on drawing a typology of the techno-bodily ethnomethods used by participants to make their artifacted actions accountable. Therefore, she apprehends social interactions as aesthesiological co-experiences involving three main dimensions: material, socioaffective and aesthetic.

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Valentin Chenier is a Research Assistant in the project. Valentin is a master’s student in Education and Globalisation at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is currently completing a thesis on teachers' use of French rap music as a pedagogical tool in Paris suburban middle-schools. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Poitiers, France, where he studied English Philology: Foreign Languages, Literature and Civilisation.

Antti Siipo is a Project Researcher and Laboratory manager of the Leaf Infrastructure at the University of Oulu, Finland.

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