[JoPP-Public] New member of JoPP board: Francesca Musiani

Thu Nov 1 20:09:48 CET 2012

Hi all

I am pleased to sponsor a new member for the JoPP editorial board, Francesca Musiani. 

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.

cheers

Mathieu

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Something more about me and my interest in JoPP/this issue project
more specifically.
I am having somewhat of a nomadic academic year between Washington, DC
(where I have my "primary affiliation" as this year's Yahoo!
Fellow-in-Residence at Georgetown U), Cambridge, MA (where I'm
affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Paris,
France (where I defended my PhD a couple of weeks ago and where I have
an ongoing research project at Ecole des Mines - and other stuff). The
common basis of all this is an interest in alternative, decentralized
architectures/infrastructures for Internet services and platforms. My
website is painfully in need of an update, but a more recent profile
of me is here: http://isd.georgetown.edu/233483.html.
This project of a journal issue on distributed currency (or, as both
Nate and Mathieu suggest, on P2P and "valuation" of exchange, more
generally, of which distributed currency platforms would be an
important strand) is very interesting for me as I believe that very
recently, it is perhaps the area in which decentralized/P2P systems
(where decentralization is also in the technical infrastructure) has
shown the most interesting developments. Within the frame of my French
research project, ADAM (adam.hypotheses.org), we have done some
preliminary "mapping" work on distributed currency platforms and we
plan to make Bitcoin one of our three case studies for the work
package that is centered on users. A lot of my PhD work has been on
the "new intermediations" in alternative P2P services, so this is yet
another declination of the "P2P valuation" that we might consider when
drafting the call for this issue.

A suivre, as we adopted-Parisians would say... :)

kind regards
Francesca

PS: Mathieu - I realize that I basically just wrote what I would have
written on the mailing list after your introduction - feel free to
forward it right away if you see it fit :)
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