Laura Bullon-Cassis

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Research fellow, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

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Laura Bullón-Cassis is a Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. Working at the intersection of political sociology and media studies, she examines how media and technological infrastructures shape the distribution of visibility, knowledge and authority in climate politics. Her ethnographic research moves across scales, from youth movements contesting concentrated media power to activism in UN negotiations and the private companies increasingly shaping how the planet is observed and understood.

From 2027, she will lead The New Stewards, an SNSF Ambizione project examining how the growing role of private companies in Earth observation is transforming the production of environmental knowledge and reconfiguring public authority over the planet.

Her first book, The Time for Talk Is Over: Youth, Climate, and the Attention Economy of Global Politics (in preparation), examines how young people became the communicative face of UN climate diplomacy, and what happens when visibility stands in for political influence. Her research has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, the Journal of Youth Studies, Societies and Global Perspectives. She also co-leads the DECODE project on disinformation and youth media literacy and is an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po's médialab.

Her research draws on more than a decade of experience inside multilateral negotiations, including as lead author of UNEP's Frascati Principles on environmental data systems and as a team leader and senior writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. She holds a PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, an MSc in Global Politics and a BSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge, George Washington University, the EHESS and Sciences Po.

Experience

• –present Chercheuse post-doctorale, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

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