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BIO

Francesca Musiani is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, CSI), a research unit of Mines ParisTech and CNRS located in Paris, France. Her dissertation focuses on features and implications of alternative peer-to-peer technologies for Internet-based services. Her research interests include information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development; the evolution of legal systems and rights in the digital age; and online participatory practices of fan communities. She obtained her first master's degree in organizational communication from the University of Padova, Italy, with which she continues to collaborate. She also holds a master’s 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) of 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).

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