Manuel Boutet

Born 1976 in Châtenay-Malabry/France.

Manuel Boutet studied sociology at the Université Paris X Nanterre. In 2008, he published his first article »S’orienter dans les espaces sociaux en ligne. L’exemple d’un jeu«, in: Sociologie du travail, vol. 50. He organises scientific meetings such as Avatars in the Realm of Gargoyles. Incongruity and Orientation in Digital Worlds on the occasion of the 8th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society at Clemson University, Clemson, SC/USA, and Game Studies? À la française! at Campus Jourdan de l’École normale supérieure, Paris.

Currently, Manuel Boutet is working as a post-doc at laboratory CESAER (Centre d’Economie et Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux), Dijon/France.