Francesca Musiani

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Francesca Musiani is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), with a Habilitation to Direct Research in sociology. She is co-founder and current director of the CNRS Internet and Society Center and is deputy director of the “Internet, AI and Society” research network. She is also vice-president for research of Internet Society France since 2017. Francesca’s work deals with Internet governance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her particular focus is governance “by architecture” and “by infrastructure”, the subject of her latest book “La politique dans les réseaux. Pouvoirs et infrastructures numériques” [Politics in Networks: Digital Power and Infrastructure] (C&F Éditions, 2026). Francesca has received several awards for her work, including the 2023 “Cyber Researcher” Prize of the European Cyber Women Day, the 2023-2024 Prize awarded by the Fondation pour les Sciences Sociales, and a special mention, along with Ksenia Ermoshina, at the Council of Europe's Stefano Rodotà Data Protection Award in 2023 for their book entitled “Concealing for Freedom. The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging, and Digital Liberties” (Mattering Press, 2022). To read more about Francesca and view the full list of her publications, go to https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/francesca_musiani/