Hi all<div><br /></div><div>I am pleased to sponsor a new member for the JoPP editorial board, Francesca Musiani. </div><div><br /></div><div>I saw Francesca in Paris recently and she told me she would be interested in working on the P2P currency/value issue that Nate has been working on. After some back-and-forth between Nate, Francesca and I it is all OK and going forward. In the course of the conversation Francesca presented some of her research interests and suggested that I forward this to the list, so I'm posting an abridged version below. If after a week no-one opposes then the nomination will be effective.</div><div><br /></div><div>cheers</div><div><br /></div><div>Mathieu</div><div><br />-------- Original Message --------<br /><span class="sender"><div class="mimepart text plain">(snip)<br /><br />Something more about me and my interest in JoPP/this issue project<br />more specifically.<br />I am having somewhat of a nomadic academic year between Washington, DC<br />(where I have my &quot;primary affiliation&quot; as this year's Yahoo!<br />Fellow-in-Residence at Georgetown U), Cambridge, MA (where I'm<br />affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society) and Paris,<br />France (where I defended my PhD a couple of weeks ago and where I have<br />an ongoing research project at Ecole des Mines - and other stuff). The<br />common basis of all this is an interest in alternative, decentralized<br />architectures/infrastructures for Internet services and platforms. My<br />website is painfully in need of an update, but a more recent profile<br />of me is here: <a href="http://isd.georgetown.edu/233483.html." target="l">http://isd.georgetown.edu/233483.html.</a><br />This project of a journal issue on distributed currency (or, as both<br />Nate and Mathieu suggest, on P2P and &quot;valuation&quot; of exchange, more<br />generally, of which distributed currency platforms would be an<br />important strand) is very interesting for me as I believe that very<br />recently, it is perhaps the area in which decentralized/P2P systems<br />(where decentralization is also in the technical infrastructure) has<br />shown the most interesting developments. Within the frame of my French<br />research project, ADAM (adam.hypotheses.org), we have done some<br />preliminary &quot;mapping&quot; work on distributed currency platforms and we<br />plan to make Bitcoin one of our three case studies for the work<br />package that is centered on users. A lot of my PhD work has been on<br />the &quot;new intermediations&quot; in alternative P2P services, so this is yet<br />another declination of the &quot;P2P valuation&quot; that we might consider when<br />drafting the call for this issue.<br /><br />A suivre, as we adopted-Parisians would say... :)<br /><br />kind regards<br />Francesca<br /><br />PS: Mathieu - I realize that I basically just wrote what I would have<br />written on the mailing list after your introduction - feel free to<br />forward it right away if you see it fit :)<br /><br /><br /></div></span></div>