Contexto, experiencia y conclusiones del Free Culture Forum

Mayo Fuster Morell

Researcher

Mayo Fuster Morell is promotor of Networked Politics Collaborative research (http://www.networked-politics.info), organiser of the Free culture forum (http://www.fcforum.net) and developed techno-political tools at the frame of the Communication Commission of the World Social Forum and European Social Forum (http://fse-esf.org). Currently Mayo is finishing a doctoral research on "The Governance of platforms of participation for the building of digital commons" at the European University Institute. She explores the democratic logic of the Internet in knowledge-making processes and the relationship between governance model and community growth. She compares World Social Forum, Flickr and Wikipedia governance models (http://www.onlinecreation.info). Last year she was visiting researcher at the School of Information " UC Berkeley and provided teaching assistance at the Communication Department " Stanford University. She co-wrote the books "Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks" (XL Editorial: Rome 2007); "Activist research and social movements" (Spanish) (El Viejo Topo: Barcelona 2005); and "Guide for social transformation of Catalonia" (Catalan) (Edicions Col.lectives: Barcelona 2003). Mayo is co-founder of the Infoespai at Barcelona (http://www.infoespai.org).