I am a sociologist, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at ENSAE and a researcher at Crest in the CSS research group in Palaiseau, France. Before this, I earned a PhD in Sociology from ENS Lyon in 2016, and then worked for five years as a digital researcher at telecommunication company Orange in Paris.

I work on cultural consumption, cultural inequalities, and digital culture, using computational social science and mixed methods. I have studied museum visitors, video game players, Twitch and Twitter influencers, digital advertisers, and users of streaming platforms.

My main current research project is Records, a collective endeavour with music streaming platform Deezer to look at digital music consumption using log data, surveys and interviews. In the project, I use detailed consumption data to take a new look at cultural inequalities; I also study the uses of recommendation algorithms and the way users come to adopt new music.

Main recent publications (link to full list):

Samuel Coavoux & Abel Aussant (2025), “Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity”. Sociological Science, 12(24).

Étienne Ollion, Julien Boelaert, Samuel Coavoux, Estelle Delaine, Altaïr Despres, Sibylle Gollac, Narguesse Keyhani, & Adèle Momméja (2025), La part du genre. Genre et approche intersectionnelle dans les revues de sciences sociales françaises au XXème siècle. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 258-259, p. 126-145.

Julien Boelaert, Samuel Coavoux, Étienne Ollion, Ivaylo Petev & Patrick Präg (2025), “Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?”. Sociological Methods & Research, 54(3), 1156-1196.

Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Samuel Coavoux & Jean-Baptiste Garrocq (2023). “Listening to music videos onYouTube. Digital consumption practices and the environmental impact of streaming”. Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(3), 654-671.