Harvard University

Post-Doc, Berkman Center

Fellow

Thesis Title: Online Creation Communities Governance

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Mayo Fuster Morell has developed research in the field of the Internet and politics; social movements (Global Justice Movement, Free Culture Movement and recent mobilization wave of "indignated" in Spain); online communities; common-base peer production; and public policies. She specializes in online methods and action-participation research.  

Mayo recently concluded her PhD thesis (Title: Governance of online creation communities. Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons) at the European University Institute in Florence (2006-2010) under the supervision of Professor Donatella della Porta. She analyzed models of governance of common-based peer production and the relationship between governance, participation size and collaboration complexity. She combined a large N statistical analysis and case study comparisons (World Social Forum, Flickr, Wikihow and Wikipedia).

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.

In 2010, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona http://igop.uab.es/) and visiting scholar at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia http://www.uoc.edu/).

She is currently a Berkman fellow. At the Berkman Center, she is part of the Cooperation group overseen by Yochai Benkler. She will be researching the dimension, evolution and governance of common-based peer production; and the meta-politics derivatives and movement of free culture and digital commons. She collaborates in research projects with Science Po and Barcelona Media.

Furthermore, she is a member of the steering committee of the Internet and Politics Standing group of the European Consortium of Political Science (ECPR); the research group on Democracy, Elections and Citizenship (Department of Political Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona); the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation; and the scientific committee of critical studies in  peer production journal.

Mayo holds a degree in Economics (specializing in Economic Analysis and Quantitative Studies) (University of Valencia, Spain) and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain). Mayo also holds a Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute; a post-graduate degree in advanced studies on Social Movements and Urban Studies (University of Rovira i Virgili, Spain); and a Masters in Management and Promotion of Non-Governmental Organizations (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain).

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