Mayo Fuster Morell

Mayo Fuster Morell
Born Mayo Fuster Morell
(1975-12-08) 8 December 1975
Oliva, Spain
Residence Barcelona, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Alma mater University of Valencia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, European University Institute
Known for Governance of Commons-based peer production
Scientific career
Fields Commons-based peer production, online communities, social movements
Institutions Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Doctoral advisor Donatella della Porta, Joan Subirats
Influences Yochai Benkler, Elinor Ostrom, Howard Rheingold

Mayo Fuster Morell (born 1975, Oliva (Valencia)) is a social researcher. Her research has focused on sharing economy, social movements, online communities and digital Commons, frequently using participatory action research and method triangulation. She has been part of the most important research centres studying Internet and its social effects, including the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the MIT Center for Civic Media or the Berkeley School of Information. As an active citizen, she is the co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital Commons and Free Culture, such as the Procomuns Forum on collaborative economy[1].

Education

Her inter-disciplinary background is grounded in a wide range of academic studies. She has degrees on Economics (University of Valencia) and Anthropology (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), several post-graduate studies (University of London, Universitat Rovira i Virgili), a MPhil in NGO management (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), and MPhil and PhD in Social and Political Science (European University Institute, Florence).[2]

Her PhD thesis, supervised by Donatella della Porta, performed the first large quantitative study on Commons-based peer production communities, providing insights on their governance and infrastructure provision.[3] She combined a large N statistical analysis and case study comparisons (World Social Forum, Flickr, wikiHow and Wikipedia).

Career

During her PhD, in 2008, she was visiting researcher at the School of Information, University of California Berkeley (sponsored by Howard Rheingold and Coye Cheshire) and provided teaching assistance at the Communication Department – Stanford University.[4] In 2010, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and visiting scholar at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia).[5]

In 2011, she became fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University), and during two years she researched there in the dimension, evolution and governance of Commons-based peer production under the supervision of Yochai Benkler.[2] In 2012, she was visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

In 2013 she earned the Juan de la Cierva Spanish postdoctoral scholarship,[6] coming back to the Institute of Government and Public Policies where she founded the IGOPnet research group.[7] In 2014 she won the prestigious 5-year scholarship Ramón y Cajal.[8] Since 2016, she is director of the research group on digital commons Dimmons[9] in the IN3 at Open University of Catalonia.[10] In 2017 (and since 2013) she is Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center.

Activist & Social Engagement

She started her activist engagement in the Anti-globalization movement, participating in the 2000 protests in Prague, engaging with the Catalonia's Movement de Resistencia Global (MRG) and Peoples' Global Action networks,[11] and later actively participating in the series of World Social Forums and European Social Forums. More recently, she joined the 15-M movement and Occupy Wall Street.[12][13]

In 2004, with Jeff Juris and Enric Duran, she co-funded "Glocal, Centre de Recerca" (Glocal, Research Center), an association dedicated to social research and skill creation for activism.[14] Under this frame, she co-created the cooperative space "Infoespai" (or Infospace) and Guia util per la transformació social (Useful Guide for the Social Transformation in Catalonia), both considered precedents of Enric Duran's subsequent popular projects.[15]

Between 2006 and 2009 she co-promoted Networked Politics, a series of international creative seminars remixing people from different generations and political histories as a contribution to the debates and practical experiments concerning new forms of political organisation.[11][16]

She has been co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital commons, such as the IGOPnet research group, the Free Culture Forum (2009 & 2010), the International Commons Conference 2010,[17] the Escuela de los Commons in Barcelona,[18] the Digital Commons Global Forum,[19] while participating or being invited to many others.[20][21][22] In 2011, she appeared in the Wikipedia donation banners.[23] She collaborates with Spanish left-wing newspaper Eldiario.es.[24] She is the promoter of Procomuns Forum on collaborative economy[25].

Work

She has published more than 70 papers in the topics of social movements, online communities, commons-based peer production, Internet and politics, and public policies. Her works on governance of commons-based peer production are considered pioneering in the field.[26][27] Her research on Wikipedia and on its governance is considered a reference on the field by media,[28] and academics.[29][30] and her works comparing the grassroots movements with the digital Commons have attracted international interest.[31][32][33] She has contributed to major pieces of work concerning Open Data[34] and Cultural Commons.[35] She is Principal Investigator in the P2Pvalue European Project,[36] where she has led the creation of the Directory of Commons-based peer production initiatives, a unique contribution to the field.[37]

Scientific and social recognitions

  • Member of the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation[38]
  • Board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation – Spanish Chapter.[39]
  • Editorial board of the Journal of Peer Production[40]
  • Advisory board of the Open Media Cluster (Italy)
  • Affiliate member of The Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
  • Member of the steering committee of the Internet and Politics Standing group of the European Consortium of Political Science

Selected works

  • Fuster Morell, M. (2012). The free culture and 15M movements in Spain: Composition, social networks and synergies. Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), 386-392.
  • Morell, M. F. (2011). The Unethics of Sharing: Wikiwashing. International Review of Information Ethics, 15, 09.
  • Morell, M. F. (2010). Participation in online creation communities: Ecosystemic participation. In Conference Proceedings of JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source, Vol. 1, pp. 270–295.
  • Fuster Morell, M. (2010). Governance of Online Creation Communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons (PhD Thesis). European University Institute
  • Wainwright, H., Berlinguer, M., Fuster Morell, M., & Subirats, J. (2007). Networked Politics: An inquiry into rethinking political organization in an age of movements and networks. Rome: XL edizioni.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Economies Col·laboratives Procomuns | Barcelona – Polítiques, Tecnologies i Ciutat per a les persones. Polítiques i programari lliure per al Procomú". procomuns.net (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-06-10.
  2. 1 2 "Mayo Fuster Morell profile in the Berkman Center". Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University). Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  3. ↑ Fuster Morell, Mayo (2010). Governance of online creation communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons. Florence: European University Institute (PhD Dissertation).
  4. ↑ "Mayo Fuster profile". UC Berkeley School of Information. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  5. ↑ "Mapeo de las comunidades de creación en Internet con el fin de desarrollar "digital commons"". Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia). Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  6. ↑ ANEXO: SUBVENCIONES DEL PROGRAMA JUAN DE LA CIERVA CONCEDIDAS POR LA RESOLUCIÓN DE 05/12/2011 (PDF) (Report). Madrid: Ministry of Science & Innovation. 2011-12-05. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  7. ↑ "IGOPnet: Internet, Politics & Commons". Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  8. ↑ Propuesta de Resolución Definitiva de la convocatoria 2013 del Subprograma Ramón y Cajal del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PDF) (Report). Madrid: Ministry of Economy & Competivity. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  9. ↑ "Digital Commons Research Group – Digital Commons Research Group". dimmons.net. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  10. ↑ Catalunya, Universitat Oberta de. "Mayo Fuster: "The international financial system impedes the growth of the collaborative economy"". www.uoc.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  11. 1 2 "Mayo Fuster Morell in Networked Politics". Networked Politics. 2007-07-13. Archived from the original on 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  12. ↑ Josep Bel, Salvador López Arnal (2009-12-01). "Interview to the researcher Mayo Fuster Morell about ICT and political action". Rebelion.org. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  13. ↑ "El Foro Social constata que las instituciones han adoptado su lenguaje y propuestas". El País. 2005-06-18. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  14. ↑ "Infoespai Assembly minutes". 2009-11-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  15. ↑ "Background". Cooperativa Integral Catalana. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  16. ↑ "Networked Politics". About. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
  17. ↑ "International Commons Conference 2010". Heinrich Böll Foundation. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  18. ↑ "Escuela de Commons". P2P Foundation. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  19. ↑ "Building Digital Commons". 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  20. ↑ Denise Cheng (2002-11-16). "Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' Projects - Idea Lab". PBS. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  21. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell profile in re:publica". re:publica. 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  22. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell - ECC 2013". Economics and the Commons Conference 2013. 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  23. ↑ "La Wikipedia aconsegueix unes donacions de $USD 16 milions. El seu fundador Jimmy Wales agraeix a tots els donants el seu esforç". RacoCatalà (in Catalan). Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  24. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell profile". Newspaper ElDiario.es. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  25. ↑ "Economies Col·laboratives Procomuns | Barcelona – Polítiques, Tecnologies i Ciutat per a les persones. Polítiques i programari lliure per al Procomú". procomuns.net (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-06-10.
  26. ↑ Neal Gorenflo, Michel Bauwens, John Restakis (2014-03-30). "Interview to Enric Duran about the Catalan Integral Cooperative". Kaos en la Red. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  27. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics". NYC General assembly (Occupy movement). 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  28. ↑ Bruce Sterling (2011-05-09). "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader". WIRED. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  29. ↑ Dijck, Jose van (2013-01-02). The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199970797.
  30. ↑ erincsalor (2010-03-27). "Fuster Morell: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization". Institute of Network Cultures. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  31. ↑ Domenico Di Siena (2013-06-05). Think Commons - Mayo Fuster Morell - Digital Commons. Think Commons. Event occurs at 5340 seconds. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  32. ↑ Mayo Fuster: «En el mundo digital hay producción social, pero no economía social» - Vídeo - CCCB LAB. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  33. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell in the P2P Foundation". P2P Foundation. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  34. ↑ "The Institute's Book about Open Knowledge out now". The Finnish Institute in London. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  35. ↑ Fuster Morell, Mayo (2013). "Online creation communities viewed through the analytical framework of the institutional analysis and development". In Madison, M. J., Strandburg, K., & Frischmann, B. Convening Cultural Commons. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-234-56789-7.
  36. ↑ "Mayo Fuster Morell profile in the P2PValue Project". Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  37. ↑ Bruce Sterling (2014-03-13). "The Directory of Commons-Based Peer Production". Wired. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  38. ↑ "Research:Committee". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  39. ↑ "Junta directiva". OKFN Spain. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  40. ↑ "Editorial Board". Journal of Peer Production. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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