Philippe Messier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippe Messier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippe |
| FAMILY NAME | Messier |
| SIGNATURE | MESSIER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4787-7328 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Layered Visuals: Videophotography, AI Content, and the 360° Turn”
Since the early aughts, video production among social scientists has increased due to the ease of technology and multi-use media making. Drawing from our own experiences in these shifts, we discuss how videophotography, artificial intelligence (AI), and the 360° turn allow for what we call layered visuals . Layered visuals are those images, produced by a single shot of the human maker, that have multiple potential images within that single shot, …
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India
In Hyderabad, India, the growing information technology (IT) sector relies on ensuring safe and efficient movements of people and objects, and the city government and private actors have embraced the promise of digital surveillance to reach these goals. The new Telangana State, created in 2014, has built a new city-wide network of smart cameras, and at ‘hackathons’ programmers develop new digital tools, often connected to this network, that will …
Introduction-Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam
Articles in this special issue compare and contrast how secondary roads and wireless communication devices shape mobility and connectivity for four communities affected by economic, political, and ethnic marginalisation in socialist Vietnam and democratic India. Drawing on the concept of ‘infrastructural lives’, two urban case studies explore the ways by which marginalised migrant communities in India’s Hyderabad and Vietnam’s Hanoi use, adapt, o…
Citoyenneté programmée au Télangana: Infrastructures des TIC et rituels d’un nouvel État
Le 2 juin 2014, les travailleurs de Hyderabad célébraient la création du 29e État indien. Scandant ' Victoire pour le Télangana ' à ' HITEC City ', un quartier bâti au travers des ' zones économiques spéciales ' (ZES) et des parcs des TIC (technologies de l'information et des communications), les ingénieurs en informatique de l'association Ingénieurs pour un Nouvel État (INE) brandissaient les couleurs du ' Parti pour le Télangana '. Suivant grèv…
Cameras at Work: Dusty Lenses and Processed Videos in the Quarries of Hyderabad
Ethnographic filmmakers have always looked for new ways to record lives. Drawing from Gilbert Simondon’s ideas on technology, this article explores the technical conditions of filmmaking through the materiality of environments, digital and optical devices, recording formats, and human actions. It considers the work of cameras as participants in the stone quarries of Hyderabad (Telangana, India), and discusses how infrastructures of digital videos…
‘The nice culture and the good behaviour’ state media and ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province, Vietnam
In the northern highlands of Vietnam, a very specific official vision of culture is at the core of the modernisation projects of Vietnam Television VTV5 (Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam), a channel dedicated to educating ethnic minorities, and of the Lào Cai provincial branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST, Bộ Văn hóa, Thể thao và Du lịch). These two state institutions jointly organise film screenings – for instance condemning the …
Pratiques médiatiques et préservation culturelle sélective dans la province de Lào Cai, Vietnam (note de recherche)
Dans la province de Lào Cai (Vietnam), les Hmong et les Yao doivent négocier avec les initiatives de développement social, culturel et économique de l'État vietnamien et avec sa politique de préservation culturelle sélective qui modèle et détermine les comportements qu'il juge acceptables pour les groupes ethniques. Une branche de la télévision vietnamienne (VTV5) a été spécialement fondée en 2002 pour soutenir les projets de développement nation…
Cameras at Work: Dusty Lenses and Processed Videos in the Quarries of Hyderabad
Ethnographic filmmakers have always looked for new ways to record lives. Drawing from Gilbert Simondon’s ideas on technology, this article explores the technical conditions of filmmaking through the materiality of environments, digital and optical devices, recording formats, and human actions. It considers the work of cameras as participants in the stone quarries of Hyderabad (Telangana, India), and discusses how infrastructures of digital videos…
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India
In Hyderabad, India, the growing information technology (IT) sector relies on ensuring safe and efficient movements of people and objects, and the city government and private actors have embraced the promise of digital surveillance to reach these goals. The new Telangana State, created in 2014, has built a new city-wide network of smart cameras, and at ‘hackathons’ programmers develop new digital tools, often connected to this network, that will …
Citoyenneté programmée au Télangana: Infrastructures des TIC et rituels d’un nouvel État
Le 2 juin 2014, les travailleurs de Hyderabad célébraient la création du 29e État indien. Scandant ' Victoire pour le Télangana ' à ' HITEC City ', un quartier bâti au travers des ' zones économiques spéciales ' (ZES) et des parcs des TIC (technologies de l'information et des communications), les ingénieurs en informatique de l'association Ingénieurs pour un Nouvel État (INE) brandissaient les couleurs du ' Parti pour le Télangana '. Suivant grèv…
Pratiques médiatiques et préservation culturelle sélective dans la province de Lào Cai, Vietnam (note de recherche)
Dans la province de Lào Cai (Vietnam), les Hmong et les Yao doivent négocier avec les initiatives de développement social, culturel et économique de l'État vietnamien et avec sa politique de préservation culturelle sélective qui modèle et détermine les comportements qu'il juge acceptables pour les groupes ethniques. Une branche de la télévision vietnamienne (VTV5) a été spécialement fondée en 2002 pour soutenir les projets de développement nation…
‘The nice culture and the good behaviour’ state media and ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province, Vietnam
In the northern highlands of Vietnam, a very specific official vision of culture is at the core of the modernisation projects of Vietnam Television VTV5 (Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam), a channel dedicated to educating ethnic minorities, and of the Lào Cai provincial branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST, Bộ Văn hóa, Thể thao và Du lịch). These two state institutions jointly organise film screenings – for instance condemning the …
Pratiques médiatiques et préservation culturelle sélective dans la province de Lào Cai, Vietnam (note de recherche)
Dans la province de Lào Cai (Vietnam), les Hmong et les Yao doivent négocier avec les initiatives de développement social, culturel et économique de l'État vietnamien et avec sa politique de préservation culturelle sélective qui modèle et détermine les comportements qu'il juge acceptables pour les groupes ethniques. Une branche de la télévision vietnamienne (VTV5) a été spécialement fondée en 2002 pour soutenir les projets de développement nation…
Cameras at Work: Dusty Lenses and Processed Videos in the Quarries of Hyderabad
Ethnographic filmmakers have always looked for new ways to record lives. Drawing from Gilbert Simondon’s ideas on technology, this article explores the technical conditions of filmmaking through the materiality of environments, digital and optical devices, recording formats, and human actions. It considers the work of cameras as participants in the stone quarries of Hyderabad (Telangana, India), and discusses how infrastructures of digital videos…
Citoyenneté programmée au Télangana: Infrastructures des TIC et rituels d’un nouvel État
Le 2 juin 2014, les travailleurs de Hyderabad célébraient la création du 29e État indien. Scandant ' Victoire pour le Télangana ' à ' HITEC City ', un quartier bâti au travers des ' zones économiques spéciales ' (ZES) et des parcs des TIC (technologies de l'information et des communications), les ingénieurs en informatique de l'association Ingénieurs pour un Nouvel État (INE) brandissaient les couleurs du ' Parti pour le Télangana '. Suivant grèv…
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India
In Hyderabad, India, the growing information technology (IT) sector relies on ensuring safe and efficient movements of people and objects, and the city government and private actors have embraced the promise of digital surveillance to reach these goals. The new Telangana State, created in 2014, has built a new city-wide network of smart cameras, and at ‘hackathons’ programmers develop new digital tools, often connected to this network, that will …
Introduction-Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam
Articles in this special issue compare and contrast how secondary roads and wireless communication devices shape mobility and connectivity for four communities affected by economic, political, and ethnic marginalisation in socialist Vietnam and democratic India. Drawing on the concept of ‘infrastructural lives’, two urban case studies explore the ways by which marginalised migrant communities in India’s Hyderabad and Vietnam’s Hanoi use, adapt, o…
“Layered Visuals: Videophotography, AI Content, and the 360° Turn”
Since the early aughts, video production among social scientists has increased due to the ease of technology and multi-use media making. Drawing from our own experiences in these shifts, we discuss how videophotography, artificial intelligence (AI), and the 360° turn allow for what we call layered visuals . Layered visuals are those images, produced by a single shot of the human maker, that have multiple potential images within that single shot, …
Political science (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Geography (2 works)