Francesca Musiani

Francesca Musiani is the 2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (Washington, DC), and an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). She is completing her PhD at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech/CNRS (Paris, France), where she is a research engineer.

Italian-born, French-resident and currently based in the United States, Francesca is a scholar of Internet governance in its broad sense – in the past few years, she has explored the "network of networks" through the lenses of information and communication sciences, law, sociology of innovation, and science & technology studies. She holds MA degrees in organizational communication (University of Padova, Italy) and in international law (United Nations-mandated University for Peace).

 In France, Francesca is involved in a research project on distributed network architectures and multimedia applications, while her current project at Georgetown explores projects and debates concerning the development of a global alternative infrastructure for the Internet (e.g. the "alternative DNS" debates). She is an active contributor to French Internet-and-Society blogs Silicon Maniacs and Labs Hadopi, and has recently co-authored publications on net neutrality [La neutralité de l’Internet, un enjeu de communication, CNRS Editions, 2011] and on authorship in the digital age [L’auteur au temps du numérique, Editions des archives contemporaines, 2012].

Francesca is Section Head and Co-Chair of the Emerging Scholars Network of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (ESN-IAMCR), and outreach officer of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

Both for her research work and in her free time, Francesca tries to be a citizen of the world as much as possible. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish and her native Italian, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. Her website is http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani.