Francesca Musiani

Bio

"Italian-born, French-resident PhD candidate and researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI), a mixed research unit (unité mixte de recherche) of Mines ParisTech and CNRS located in Paris, France. Instructor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. Her dissertation research focuses on features and implications of alternative peer-to-peer technologies; her research interests include ICTs for development, the evolution of legal systems and rights in the digital age, and online participatory practices of fan communities. She maintains collaborations with the University of Padova, Italy, where she obtained her first Master's degree in Organizational Communication; she also holds a Master of Arts degree in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica, and has worked as a journalist at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. She is the author of Cyberhandshakes: How the Internet Challenges Dispute Resolution (…And Simplifies It), published with EuroEditions in 2009 thanks to a publication scholarship (beca de publicación) from the European Foundation for the Information Society, and the co-recipient of the 2010 Second Charlemagne Youth Prize of the European Parliament for her contribution to the volume You Are Here (Broken Dimanche Press, 2009)."

P2P Research Summary

- Researcher in socio-economics of innovation - PhD candidate in socio-economics of innovation, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, MINES ParisTech (Ecole des Mines de Paris), degree expected 2012. - Thesis tentative title: "P2P and the decentralised alternative: what implications for tomorrow's Internet?" My thesis research focuses on the development of decentralized alternatives to instruments of daily use to an important mass of Internet users (search engines, social networks, file storage systems, and hybrids between these). I am interested in how P2P systems reconfigure the organization of spaces to which they apply, and in the conditions allowing them to seek greater socio-technical efficiency. - Author of P2P-related articles published in peer-reviewed journals Observatorio, TripleC, Terminal, Prisme à Idées, and in the French book "Mythes et Légendes des TIC" (Forum ATENA, 2011). - Member (2010-present) of the scientific committee of the project ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias (Distributed Architectures and Multimedia Applications, adam.hypotheses.org), funded by the French National Research Agency - Former member (2008-2010, end of the project) of the scientific committee of Vox Internet II - La construction démocratique des normes (Democratic construction of norms on the Internet), funded by the French National Research Agency - Recipient of a publication scholarship (beca de publicación) from the European Foundation for the Information Society (2009) - Serving as Communications Coordinator of ESN-IAMCR (2010-present) and on the Membership Committee of GigaNet (2010-11 term).

More Information

• Listed in the Association of Peer to Peer Researchers

• Contact via

1. Email: francesca.musiani(at)mines-paristech.fr
2. Site: www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani