ABOUT

Ghislain Thibault is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University from 2010-2011. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the Université de Montréal, where he was a member of both the SNS lab and the Radical Empiricism Workshop. He completed his dissertation “Éthéréalisation: amorces d’une contre-histoire” (2010) under Thierry Bardini’s supervision, a dissertation at the confluence of cultural history, philosophy of techniques and communication. He has co-authored with T. Bardini “Éther 2.0: Révolutions sans-fil,”  published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, and has given a number of public talks using genealogical approches to technology and cyberculture in general. His current research project is a media archaeology of wireless power transmission (focusing on Nikola Tesla’s experiments in the late 19th century to today’s wireless charging technologies).

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Contact info

http://www.wlu.ca/fac_listing.php?grp_id=286

Publications

Thibault, Ghislain. (2010). Éthérotopies: retour sur des espaces hôtes. Intermédialités, no. 15, Exposer/Displaying, spring 2010, pp. 211-229.

Ghislain Thibault (2010) Qu’est-ce qu’un entretien ? COMMposite, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-21.

Ghislain Thibault & Thierry Bardini (2008). “Éther 2.0: Révolutions Sans-Fil”, Canadian Journal of Communication, 33(3), 257-378.

Ghislain Thibault (2007). Risk Management Related to New Technologies: The Case of Spam in Canada. In Law Commission of Canada (Ed.), Risk and trust : including or excluding citizens? (pp. 102-119). Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Pub.

Public Lectures

Thibault, G. (2011). Wireless Power Transfer and Future Mobilities, Delivered at the Materialities and Imaginaries of the Mobile Internet Conference, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Thibault, G. (2010). Ether and the Clouds : The Problem with Increasing Information Production, Delivered at the Media Ecology Conference, University of Maine, Orono, USA.

Thibault, G. (2009). Post-IT: Nikola Tesla and the Future of Information Technologies, Delivered at the Canadian Communication Association Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Thibault, G. (2009). Etherealization. Guest speaker at Mobile Media Lab, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

Thibault, G. (2006). L’accès des médias électroniques aux tribunaux. Delivered at the 74ème Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir, McGill University, Montréal.

Thibault, G. (2007). Matérialisme et pouvoir: une analyse scientométrique de la théorie de l’acteur-réseau. Delivered at the 74ème Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC.

Thibault, G. (2005). Gestion des risques imputés aux nouvelles technologies. Delivered at the Canadian Political Science Association Conference, University of Western Ontario, London (ON).

Thibault, G. (2005). Sociotechnical Aspects of Spam Fighting Effort. Delivered at the Canadian Communication Association Conference, University of Western Ontario, London (ON).

Thibault, G. (2005). Démocratie technique : le cas du pourriel. . Delivered at the 73ème Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi.

Thibault, G. (2004). Junk Mail: the invasion of whose privacy? Delivered at the Canadian Communication Association Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Thibault, G. (2004). L’utilisation de la métaphore du junk mail comme système perceptuel. Delivered at the 72ème Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal.

Unpublished Work

  • Thibault, G. (2010). Ethéréalisation: une contre-histoire de la technologie. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Thibault_Ghislain_2010_these
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