1. Research
2023- Associate professor (maître de conférences) of communication and media, ICM (Institute of Communication and Media), Sorbonne Nouvelle University
2022-2023 Assistant professor (ATER) of digital communication, ICM (Institute of Communication and Media), Sorbonne Nouvelle University
2022 Researcher, ISR (Institute of Religious Studies), Bruno Kessler Foundation
2021-2022 Research associate (wiss. Mitarbeiter), IZEW (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities), University of Tübingen
2018-2020 Associate professor (maître de conférences) of ethics and philosophy of technology, ETHICS Lab (EA 7446), research chair « Ethics, technologies, and transhumanism », Lille Catholic University
2017-2018 Research associate, ETHICS Lab (EA 7446), research chair « Ethics, technologies, and transhumanism », Lille Catholic University
2016-2017 Assistant professor (ATER) of contemporary philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Burgundy (Dijon)
2017 (January-March) Visiting Professor, MICA Lab (Mediation, Information, Communication, and Arts), University of Bordeaux Montaigne
2014-2016 Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto
2016 (January-June) Visiting Researcher, COSTECH (Knowledge, Organization, and Technological Systems), University of Technology of Compiègne
2011-2012 (September-March) Postdoctoral researcher, Fonds Ricœur/EHESS Paris
2. Education
2008-2011 Ph.D. in Philosophy (hermeneutics), University of Verona
3. Research Projects
2023-2026 Co-PI (with M. Hennig and W. Loh) of the project “The Interactive Gaze – On the Status and Ethics of Surveillance Images in Digital Games”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), call for projects “Das Digitale Bild (The digital image)” (≃ 500,000 euros).
The aim of the project is to study with quali-quantitative methods the way in which surveillance practices are represented and simulated in video games and the effects on perception and public practices, in order to propose an ethical and normative framework.
2021-2022 Participation in the LOUISA project (“Learning model for the multidimensional quantitative analysis of movement”), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (≃ 1,200,000 euros), as responsible for the ethical assessment of its phases, from the design and training of the AI algorithm to the design of the application for telephones and connected watches.
2018-2022 Co-PI (with F. Sebbah) of the project “The new technological imaginaries of the self, the world and others”, funded by the ArTeC University Research School (≃ 30,000 euros).
The purpose of the project was twofold. First, it was a question of proposing a theorization of the concept of technological imaginary opposing the empirical attitude dominating the contemporary epistemology and philosophy of technology. Second, the aim was to empirically study emerging technological imaginaries among staff and patients in a complex socio-technical environment such as the Institut Faire Faces in Amiens (France).
2018-2022 Co-PI (with J. Higuera and J. Meirinhos) of the project “From Data to Wisdom: Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century)”, funded by the Portuguese Research Foundation ( FCT), generic call for projects (≃ 250,000 euros).
The project developed on three levels: (1) a collection of diagrams for the visualization of knowledge in manuscripts from the 13th to the 17th century, notably from the Iberian Peninsula; (2) the development of a system based on IIIF for the annotation of these images, enriched with an AI algorithm for analysis and automatic visualization, based on PixPlot; (3) an epistemological meta-reflection on the similarities and differences between visualizations of knowledge in the Middle Ages and visualizations of contemporary data.
4. Teaching
More than 800 hours, both for undergraduate and graduate students in communication and media studies, game design, philosophy, and political sciences. The courses taught include epistemology and ethics of AI, digital subcultures, veille internet (Internet monitoring), data visualization, digital communication for business, theory and uses of social media, philosophy and ethics of technology, and data governance.
5. Some Relevant Publications
Romele, A., Severo, M. forthcoming. “The Algorithmization of Microstock Images: the Case of the Images of Artificial Intelligence on the Shutterstock Catalog”, Convergence: The International Journal of Research in New Media Technologies.
Romele, A. 2023. Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence, New York and London: Routledge.
Romele, A. 2021. “Technological Capital: Bourdieu, Postphenomenology, and the Philosophy of Technology Beyond the Empirical Turn”, Philosophy & Technology 34, 483-505.
Romele, A. 2020. Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies. New York and London: Routledge.
Romele, A., and Terrone, E. (eds.). 2018. Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Romele, A., Gallino, F., Emmenegger, C., Gorgone, D. 2017. “Panopticism Is Not Enough: Social Media as Technologies of Voluntary Servitude”, Surveillance & Society 25/1 (2017): 221-244.
Romele, A., Severo, M. 2016. “The Economy of the Digital Gift: from Socialism to Sociality Online”, Theory, Culture & Society 33/5: 43-63.
6. Other experiences, competencies, and outputs
Qualification à la fonction de maître de conférences in CNU’s sections 71 (sciences de l’information et de la communication), 72 (épistémologie, histoire des sciences et des techniques), 17 (philosophie)
Co-supervisor of 2 Ph.D. thesis (Emili Rossetti, University of Porto; Rémy Demichelis, Paris Nanterre University)
Participation in 5 thesis jury (Samuel Lelièvre, EHESS; Richard Lewis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Angelo Milhano, University of Evora; Emili Rossetti, University of Porto; Dakota Root, ENS Paris)
Member of three thesis monitoring committees (Samuel Lelièvre, EHESS; Ekaterina Justin, Université Bordeaux Montaigne; Alessandro Colleoni, EHESS)
Member of the scientific council of the Fonds Ricoeur
Member of the editorial board of the journal Philosophy & Technology
Member of the scientific committee of the journal Etudes Digitales
Member of the editorial board of the journals Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia and Azimuth. International Journal of Philosophy
Member of the scientific committee of the book series I Quaderni di Mechane (Mimesis)
Associate member of CEPS, Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
Associate member of MICA (Mediations, Information, Communication & Arts), University of Bordeaux Montaigne
Abilitazione nazionale professore seconda fascia sezione 11/C1 (theoretical philosophy)
Abilitazione nazionale professore seconda fascia sezione 11/C3 (moral philosophy)
Reviewer for journals and publishers such as Philosophy & Technology, TOPOI, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Palgrave, Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Design and Science, and Journal of Posthuman Studies, Bloomsbury, etc.
Reviewer for the NWO, the Netherlands Organization for the Scientific Research; KU Research Council; ANR France
Languages: Italian (mother language), French (C2), English (C2), German (B2), Portuguese (B2), Latin, ancient Greek