Ibnelkaïd, S. (Forthcoming) Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings: From Oppression to Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield, Bloomsbury Publishing.Develotte, C., Ibnelkaïd, S., et al. (2023).Interactions and Screens in Research and Education (enhanced edition). Les Ateliers de [sens public]: Montreal.Ibnelkaïd, S. & Avgustis, I. (Eds) (2023) Situated agency in digitally artifacted social interactions Special issue of Social Interaction – Video- based studies of Human sociality.Ibnelkaïd, S. & Colón de Carvajal, I. (Eds) (2018) Le corps et ses métamorphoses à l’ère numérique [The body and its metamorphoses in the digital age], Special Issue of Interfaces Numériques (7)2.Ibnelkaïd, S. (Forthcoming) “Racialized resilience and unapologetic joy within neocolonial Europe” In Icaza, R., Işleyen, B., Orbie, J., Tripathi, S. (Eds) Doing European Studies Otherwise: Empire, Colonialism and Race. Routledge.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2024) “Migrants and screens: A decolonial and anti-racist approach to mobility in the digital era” In Digital Culture and Education, 15(2), pp. 41-64.Avgustis, I. & Ibnelkaïd, S. & Iivari, N. (2024) “Occupying Another’s Digital Space: Privacy of Smartphone Users as a Situated Practice” In Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).-Oloff, F. & Ibnelkaïd, S. (2024) “Video-vermittelte Interaktion [Video-mediated Interaction]” In Androutsopoulos, J. & Vogel, F. (Eds) Handbuch Sprache und digitale Kommunikation.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2023) “Technobodily literacy in video interaction” In Duranti, A., George, R., Conley Riner, R. (Eds) New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell.Ibnelkaïd, S. & Furnon, D. ([2021] 2023) “Artefacted intercorporeality, between reification and personification” In Develotte, C. et. al. Interactions and Screens in Research and Education (enhanced edition). Les Ateliers de [sens public]: Montreal.Ibnelkaïd, S. & Vincent, C. ([2021] 2023) “Digital bugs and interactional failures in the service of a collective intelligence” In Develotte, C. et. al. Interactions and Screens in Research and Education (enhanced edition). Les Ateliers de [sens public]: Montreal.Develotte, C., Domanchin, M., Ibnelkaïd, S. ([2021] 2023) “Theoretical and methodological framework for reflexive visual ethology” In Develotte, C. et. al. Interactions and Screens in Research and Education (enhanced edition). Les Ateliers de [sens public]: Montreal.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2021) “Caring from afar: Video interaction as a safe heterotopia?” Full paper for the 71st annual International Communication Association Conference on the topic of ‘care’.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2019) “L’agentivité multimodale en interaction par écran, entre sujet et tekhnê” [Multimodal agency in digital interaction, between subject and techne] In Mazure-Palandre, A. & Colón de Carvajal, I. (Eds) Mulimodalité du langage dans les interactions et l’acquisition, Université de Grenoble Alpes Editions.Jeannin, L. & Malessard, F. & Ibnelkaïd, S. (2019) “Le rapport à l’espace au CDI, une donnée structurante” [The relationship to space in institutional libraries, a structuring factor], In RevueCOSSI, n°6/2019.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2018) “De l’intérêt d’une ethnographie visuelle de la présence transmédiatique” [The necessity for a visual ethnography of transmedial presence] In Ibanez-Bueno, J. & Chabert, G. & Lamboux-Durand, A. & Wanono, N. (Eds) Applying visual methods to digital communication, Cuadernos Artesanos de Communicación 136.Ibnelkaïd, S. & Colón de Carvajal (2018) “Introduction: The Body and its metamorphosis in the digital era” In Interfaces numériques, (7)2, “Le corps et ses métamorphoses à l’ère numérique”.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2018) “Corporéité partagée et agentivité distribuée en interaction par écran” [Shared corporeality and distributed agency in digital interaction], In Interfaces numériques, (7)2, “Le corps et ses métamorphoses à l’ère numérique”.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2017) “Enacting the scenography of a video call within its opening sequence” In Kern, R & Develotte, C. (Eds) Screens and scenes, multimodal communication in online intercultural encounters, Routledge.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2017) “Présence par écran, entre action et perception” [Digital presence, between action and perception], In Culture Numérique.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2017) “Les modalités ontophaniques de l’interaction par écran: de la protophanie à la transphanie” [Ontophanic modalities of digital interaction: From protophany to transphany] Postface In Vial, S. L’être et l’écran. Seconde édition. Paris: PUF.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2015) “Scénographie d’une ouverture d’interaction vidéo” [Scenography of a video call opening sequence] In Réseaux n°194 “La communication à travers les écrans”, pp 124-168.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2015) “Pour une analyse phénoménolinguistique de l’identité en interaction numérique” [Towards a phenomenolinguistic analysis of identity in digital interaction] In ICODOC 2015. Ibnelkaïd, S. & Develotte, C. (2012) “Le webinaire, ou quand communications distancielle et présentielle s’articulent” [The webinar, or when remote and face-to-face communications are articulated], In Actes du colloque JOCAIR 2012, pp. 55-71.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2012) “Développement de la compétence interculturelle par l’autonomie et l’interaction : Étude de cas d’enseignants de FLE d’une université finlandaise” [Developing intercultural competence through autonomy and interaction: A case study of FFL teachers from a Finnish university], In Synergie France n°09, pp.103-112.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2016) Existing on screen: modalities of intersubjectivity in digital interaction. Doctoral Thesis in Linguistics. University of Lyon.Ibnelkaïd, S. (2024) “Migrant Bodies: From Oppression to Emancipation” At the International Associationfor Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). July 2024. Christchurch, New-Zealand.
MY PUBLICATION TRAJECTORY
I was first introduced to qualitative research when completing my Master’s degree in Finland in 2011, exploring the concept of “intercultural competence.” This qualitative empirical study highlighted the dynamic aspect of identity construction. This in turn sparked my curiosity to delve further into the intersubjective dimension of our being-in-the-world. I also realized that this exploration must be coupled with the analysis of the digitalization in our societies, as a significant portion of our daily interactions are digitally mediated to varying degrees.
In line with this awareness, my initial academic publications reflected my interests and inclinations. I even undertook the ambitious task of authoring my PhD thesis as an online platform, incorporating hyperlinks and audiovisual empirical material. Within the domain of interpersonal interaction, my research increasingly prioritized the role played by the body, particularly in relation to digital artifacts. This line of inquiry led me to develop concepts such as ‘artifacted intercorporeality’, ‘technobodily literacy’, ‘chain of distributed agency’, etc.
However, the course of my research took a profound turn with the onset of the global pandemic. During this time, I engaged in fieldwork that focused on high-skilled racialized migrants residing in Finland. Through my ethnographic observations, I uncovered unsettling realities indicating that even within the framework of “elite migration,” individuals were not shielded from experiences of discrimination and marginalization in Nordic societies. It became abundantly clear that one’s educational qualifications and professional accomplishments did not provide immunity against racism.
Motivated by these findings, I redirected my research pursuits towards migration in the digital era, with a specific emphasis on its historical and contemporary relation to colonialism. Despite the challenges faced by a racialized female scholar broaching such issues within Eurocentric academia, I chose to openly engage in an anti-colonial and anti-racist research program, which has since paved the way for an upcoming book. The trajectory of my scholarly publications authentically reflects my personal and academic growth, evolution, and commitment to reconciling my personal self and my academic self.
Samira Ibnelkaïd 