Stéphanie Lukasik is an Associate professor in Information and Communication Sciences. She holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences from Aix-Marseille University, and is the author of L'influence des leaders d'opinion. A model for the study of the uses and reception of socio-digital networks, prefaced by Rémy Rieffel, Full Professor at the French Press Insitute of Paris (IFP) at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
After completing a Bachelor's degree in applied modern literature and writing at La Sorbonne Paris IV, and a year's preparation for the competitive journalism exam at the Catholic University of Paris, she passed the competitive exam for the Master's degree in journalism at EJCAM. Following her professional experiences, first as a journalist (La Provence, France Télévisions) then as head of public relations, press relations and communications strategy, she continued her studies and obtained a second Master's degree from EJCAM in advanced studies in communication and media-societal and digital e-com innovations. In 2017, she won the doctoral contract competition of Aix-Marseille University's Doctoral School 356 for the Mediterranean Institute of Information and Communication Sciences (IMSIC). In 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis on the reformulation of the figure of the opinion leader through the prism of young adults' reception of socionumeric networks, under the supervision of Marc Bassoni.
She is a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Information and Communication Sciences (IMSIC) and an associate researcher at the University of Luxembourg. In 2024, she was elected expert to the Council of Europe on online security and the empowerment of content creators and users under the authority of the Committee of Ministers and the Steering Committee on the Media and the Information Society. Her research focuses on the functioning of social and socionumeric networks, the circulation of influence, users, content creators, influencers, news media, journalism and disinformation. She regularly publishes and communicates on these research topics in Hal.
