Books

A. Christin. 2020. Metrics at Work. Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

A. Christin, E. Ollion. 2012. Contemporary Sociology in the United States [La Sociologie Aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis]. Paris, La Découverte, Repères.

A. Christin. 2008. Emergency Hearings : Inquiry on a Judicial Practice [Comparutions Immédiates : Enquête sur une Pratique Judiciaire], Paris, La Découverte, Textes à l’appui.

Academic articles

Bernstein, M. S., Christin, A. Hancock, J. T., Hashimoto, T., Jia, C., Lam, M., Meister, N., Persily, N., Piccardi, T., Saveski, M., Tsai, J. L., Ugander, J., and C. Xu. 2023. “Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms.” Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1-13.

Ali, S., Christin, A., Smart, A., and R. Katila. 2023. “Walking the Walk of AI Ethics: Organizational Challenges and the Individualization of Risk among Ethics Entrepreneurs.” 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’23), June 12–15, 2023, Chicago, IL, USA.

A. Christin, and Y. Lu. 2023. “The Influencer Pay Gap: Platform Labor Meets Racial Capitalism.” New Media & Society: 1-24.

Lewis, R., and A. Christin. 2022. “Platform Drama: ‘Cancel Culture,’ Celebrity, and the Struggle for Accountability on YouTube.” New Media & Society 24(7): 1632-1656.

Christin, A., and R. Lewis. 2021. “The Drama of Metrics: Status, Spectacle, and Resistance Among YouTube Creators.” Social Media + Society: 1-14.

S. Brayne, and A. Christin. 2021. “Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts” Social Problems 68(3): 608-624.

• Honorable Mention, CITAMS Best Paper Award (ASA)

A. Christin. 2020. “The Ethnographer and the Algorithm: Beyond the Black Box.” Theory & Society. 49(5-6): 897-918.

Christin, A., and C. Petre. 2020. “Making Peace with Metrics: Relational Work in Online News Production.” Sociologica 14(2): 133-156.

A. Christin. 2020. “What Data Can Do: A Typology of Mechanisms,”  International Journal of Communication 14: 1115-1134.

K. Kellogg, M. Valentine, and A. Christin. 2020. “Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control” Academy of Management Annals 14(1): 366-410.

• Finalist, Academy of Management Best Paper Award (2021)

A. Christin. 2018. “Counting Clicks: Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France.” American Journal of Sociology 123 (5): 1382-1415.

• Winner, Star-Nelkin Best Paper Award, Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Society (ASA)
• Winner, Granovetter Best Paper Award, Economic Sociology Section (ASA)
• Honorable Mention, Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Paper Award, Journalism Studies (ICA)
• Winner, Shils-Coleman Best Student Paper Award, Theory Section (ASA)
• Winner, Best Student Paper Award, CITAMS section (ASA)

S. Vallas, A. Christin. 2018. “Work and Identity in an Era of Precarious Employment: How Workers Respond to ‘Personal Branding’ Discourse.” Work and Occupations 45 (1): 3-37.

Christin, A. 2018. “Les sites d’information en ligne entre indépendance et course au clic : Une comparaisons franco-américaine.” Sociétés Contemporaines111(3) : 71-96.

A. Christin. 2017. “Algorithms in Practice: Comparing Web Journalism and Criminal Justice.” Big Data & Society 4 (2): 1-14.

A. Christin. 2016. “From Daguerreotypes to Algorithms: Machines, Expertise, and Three Forms of Objectivity.” ACM Computers & Society, 46 (1), 27-32. PDF

A. Christin. 2016. “Is Journalism a Transnational Field? Asymmetrical Interactions and Symbolic Domination in Online News,”  The Sociological Review. 64 (2): 212-234 PDF

A. Christin. 2015. “Sex, Scandals, and Celebrities. Exploring the Determinants of Popularity in Online News.” About Journalism/Sur le Journalisme, 4 (2): 28-47. PDF

A. Christin. 2012. “Gender and Highbrow Cultural Participation in the United States.” Poetics, 40 (5), 423-443. PDF

A. Christin, P. Pasquali. 2011. “Caméra, Terrain et Sciences Sociales. Présentation.” Revue de Synthèse, 132 (6), 3, 319-324. PDF

A. Christin. 2011. “Le Rôle de la Socialisation Artistique durant l’Enfance: Genre et Pratiques Culturelles Légitimes aux États-Unis.” Réseaux, 168-169 (4), 59-86. PDF

A. Christin. 2006. “Jurys Populaires et Juges Professionnels en France. Ou Comment Approcher le Jugement Pénal,” Genèses, 65, 138-150. PDF

Other publications and essays (selected)

A. Christin. 2022. “Au Coeur de la Silicon Valley.” Socio-Logos, Revue de l’Association Française de Sociologie, 17. 

A. Christin. 2022. “Algorithmic Injustice.” Ethnographic Café.

A. Christin. “Algorithmic Ethnography, During and After COVID-19.” Communication and the Public. Online First: 1-4.

A. Christin, and S. Vallas. 2018. “Adventitious Collaboration: On the Value of Blended Research.” Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW) Work in Progress Blog.

A. Christin. 2018. “The Mistrials of Algorithmic Sentencing.” Logic 03 : Justice.

A. Christin. 2016. “Models in Practice. Reading Weapons of Math Destruction.” Points, October 26, 2016.

A. Christin. 2016. “The Hidden Story of How Metrics Are Being Used in Courtrooms and Newsrooms to Make More Decisions.” Ethnography Matters, “Co-Designing With Machines” Special Issue.

A. Christin, A. Gramain, and F. Weber. 2016. “Money & Value. Twenty Years after Viviana Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money” Books & Ideas / La Vie des idées.

A. Christin, A. Rosenblat, and d. boyd. 2015. Courts and Predictive Algorithms. Primer for the Data & Civil Rights Conference: A New Era of Policing and Justice (Washington, D.C., October 27, 2015).

A. Christin. 2015. Web Analytics in the Workplace: What Amazon and Web Newsrooms Have in Common — and Where They Differ. LSE Impact Blog, “Politics of Data” Series.

C. Borch, A. Christin. 2015. “Using, Making, and Rediscovering “The Classics”: A Conversation Between ASA Award Winners.” Perspectives: ASA Theory Section Newsletter, Spring issue.

A. Christin. 2014. “When it comes to chasing clicks, journalists say one thing but feel pressure to do another,” Nieman Journalism Lab, August 28, 2014

A. Christin, O. Donnat. 2014. “French and American Cultural Participation. Elements of Comparison.” Culture Etudes, 2014 (1): 1-16. PDF

A. Christin. 2008. “Juger dans l’urgence,” Sciences Humaines, December issue.

Book chapters

2018. “Predictive Algorithms and Criminal Sentencing.” Pp. 272-294 in The Decisionist Imagination, N. Guilhot and D. Bessner (Eds.), Berghahn Books.

2018. “Mesures d’audience ou mesures de valeur ? La réception différenciée des ‘clics’ dans le journalisme en France et aux Etats-Unis.” Pp. 207-222 in De l’autre côté du miroir :Comparaisons Franco-Américaines, D. Sabbagh and M. Simonet (Eds.), Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

2017. “Circulations transnationales et traductions malaisées: Le cas de la presse en ligne en France et aux Etats-Unis.” Pp. 33-50 in Enquêter sur l’internationalisation des biens médiatiques et culturels, J.-B. Comby (Ed.), Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Book Reviews

2022. Book Review of R. Benjamin. Race After Technology (Polity, 2019). In American Journal of Sociology 127(3): 1004-5.

2021. “Powerful Metrics.” Book Review of S. Mau. The Metric Society. On the Quantification of the Social (Polity, 2019). In European Journal of Sociology 63(1): 486-489.

2018. Book Review of P. Boczkowski and C.W. Anderson (Eds). Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2017). In Contemporary Sociology 47(6): 685–687.

2018. Book Review of I. Gershon. 2017. Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (University of Chicago Press, 2017). In Work & Occupations 46(1): 94-96.  

2011. Book Review of R. McChesney and V. Pickard (Eds). Will the Last Reporter Please turn out the Lights (The New Press, 2011).  Le Monde Diplomatique, 24.

Unpublished Papers (Oldies but Goodies)

“From ‘Champs’ to ‘Fields’: The Transnational Circulation of a Sociological Concept“(with Marianne Blanchard). 2016. SSRN Working Paper.

“Omnivores versus Snobs? A Comparison of Musical Taste in the United States and France.” 2014. CACPS Working Paper #40. SSRN Working Paper.

In Progress

• Christin, A. 2023. Follow Me: Influencers, Platforms, and the Rise of the Follower Economy. Book Manuscript (Advance Contract with the University of Chicago Press).

• Christin, A, Bernstein, M., Hancock, J.T., Jia, C., Mado, M.N., Tsai, J.L., and C. Xu. 2023. “Social Media Platforms as Evaluation Machines” (under review)

• Christin, A. 2022. “Fields of Social Media Production: Drama, Extreme Content, and the Case of Vegan Influencers” (in progress)

• “The Jargon of Community: Pastel Obfuscation in the Influencer Marketing Industry” (In Progress)