Dr. Lucie Chateau is a media scholar and digital culture researcher interested in meme aesthetics. Her PhD entitled Anxious Aesthetics: Memes and Alienation in Digital Capitalism investigates the subversive potential of aesthetics online and argues we are witnessing the emergence of experimental aesthetic forms that negotiate new forms of representation under digital capitalism. Therefore, her work has looked at a variety of meme genres such as depression memes, anti-capitalist memes and climate change memes through the lens of critical theory and contemporary work on digital capitalism. She specifically looks at the meme economy as a phenomenon within digital capitalism that can mobilise and instigate critique through aesthetics, and has written about the place of alienation as a mediator in this process. 

Dr. Chateau's work incorporates interdisciplinary approaches from a wide range of fields, weaving together philosophical traditions, cultural studies heritage, media studies and contemporary theories on digital capitalism and the digital economy. She is interested in how affect theory and aesthetics can frame current and future digital culture, as well as emerging key topics of media and culture studies such as eco-media, sustainability, inclusivity and the impact of AI.