Guillaume Latzko-toth

Biography

Guillaume Latzko-Toth has been passionate about computers and new technologies since the age of eleven. He was designing programs that he would test in places where computers were accessible to the public. Professor-researcher at the Department since 2011, he develops teaching and research on emerging digital media. His passion, he likes to share, with his students and with his peers. As far as he can remember, Guillaume Latzko-Toth has always been interested in all aspects of communication, including audiovisual production, written expression, teaching, theater, popularization of science, and technical aspects transmission and processing of information. Thus he hesitated between several careers: computer scientist, scientific journalist, author of science fiction novels ... After completing the preparatory classes for the major engineering schools in Paris, he turned to journalism and obtained his diploma from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris. After a jump over the Atlantic, they have a master's degree and a doctorate in communication at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where he specializes in the socio-cultural aspects of communication technologies and contributes to several projects research on computer-mediated communication and on-line socialization. He is particularly interested in how individuals and groups integrate digital communication technologies into their everyday lives. As part of his doctoral thesis, he highlights the role of users in the genesis and evolution of digital media, Guillaume Latzko-Toth's research is based on the desire to understand the complex relationship that human beings have with "communication machines", through the diversity of uses and objects: from the cat to the microblog, to the codes QR and social networks. He is a member of the Center for Inter-University Research on Science and Technology (CIRST) and co-directs the Computer-mediated Communication Lab ( LabCMO ), which provides an environment conducive to the training of students interested in research. All of Guillaume Latzko-Toth's life - professional and personal - goes through the computer. "I'm everywhere at home if I have my computer and an Internet connection," says the one who admits to be able to do without access to the Network. And not only to be connected, it connects those whom it likes: leaving his home of origin, he gave his computer to his grandmother so that she can stay in contact with him by e-mail.

Research Interest

Uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) - Socio-cultural issues of digital technologies and emerging media - Sociology of innovation applied to communication technologies - Methodology and ethics of online