Mayo Fuster Morell is the Dimmons director of research at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia. Additionally, she is faculty affiliated at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and at Institute of Govern and Public Policies at Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOPnet). In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of common-based peer production, and have numerous publications in the field. She is the principal investigator at UOC for the European project DECODE Building the next generation of cooperative data platforms for digital sovereignty. She was PI for IGOPNet of the European project P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production. She is also responsible of the experts group BarCola on collaborative economy and commons production at the Barcelona City Council.
@lilaroja // Personal website // Curriculum // mfuster [at] uoc.edu
PUBLICATIONS
DIGITAL GENDER
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M., & Grau, M. (2021). Gender approaches in the study of the digital economy: a systematic literature review. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00875-x?proof=t
SPECIAL ISSUE. Fuster Morell, M., Espelt, R. & Megias, D. Editors. (2022). Special issue on ‘the gender of the platform economy’ How public policies could favour a feminist transition from the industrial to the digital platform era in a COVID-19 context?. Internet Policy Review Journal. https://policyreview.info/node/1473
KEYNOTE: Fuster Morell, M. Keynote Gender equality and feminist qualities of sharing platforms [Video]. 7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, 24-26th February 2021. Open University of Catalonia – UOC. Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_S9Y6-0FM
BOOK CHAPTER. Imperatore, P., Fuster Morell, M. (2018) “Inclusion and discrimination at the platform economy: A gender focus.” In Fuster, M. (Ed.) In Sharing Cities A worldwide cities overview on platform economy policies with a focus on Barcelona. P. 159-168 ISBN: 978-84-945106-9-4. Barcelona: Sehen – Editorial UOC
REPORT. Fuster Morell, M. (2019) Towards a feminist digital economy: Initiatives, Debates and Policies. Outcomes of the Sharing Cities Stand Lab. Sharing Cities Action 2019. Smart City Expo World Congres. https://www.sharingcitiesaction.net/outcome-towards-a-feminist-digital-economy/
PLATFORM/COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Senabre, E., Fuster Morell, M., Espelt. (2021) Data for Sustainable Platform Economy: connections between platform models and Sustainable Development Goals. Data.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M., Espelt, R., & Renau Cano, M. (2020). Sustainable Platform Economy: Connections with the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability, 12(18), 7640.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Senabre Hidalgo, E., & Fuster Morell, M. (2020). Goteo.org civic crowdfunding and match-funding data connecting Sustainable Development Goal. Scientific Data.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell M., Espelt R. (2019) A Framework to Assess the Sustainability of Platform Economy: The Case of Barcelona Ecosystem. Sustainability – MDPI.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING. Fuster Morell M., Esplet R. (2019) A Framework to Assess the Sustainability and the Pro-Democratization of Platform Economy The Case of Barcelona. Proceedings: UNRISD Conference: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy? Geneve, 25 i 26 de juny.
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. & Espelt, R. (2019). “A Framework for Assessing Democratic Qualities in Collaborative Economy Platforms: Analysis of 10 Cases in Barcelona“. In Sharing Cities Shaping Cities. Giuseppe Salvia, Eugenio Morello and Andrea Arcidiacono (Eds.). P. 61 – 73. 1323 ISBN 978-3-03897-988-3 (Pbk); ISBN 978-3-03897-989-0 (PDF). MDPI.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Senabre, E., & Fuster Morell, M. (2018). Match-Funding as a Formula for Crowdfunding: A Case Study on the Goteo.org Platform. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018, Paris. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital library SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Garriga, M., Gómez-Fontanills, D., Senabre, E., & Fuster Morell, M. (2018) Collaborative Online Writing and Techno-Social Communities of Practice Around the Commons: The Case of Teixidora.net in Barcelona. Journal of Peer Production (11).
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M.; Espelt, R. (2018). A Framework for Assessing Democratic Qualities in Collaborative Economy Platforms: Analysis of 10 Cases in Barcelona. Urban Sci (ISSN 2413-8851).
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING. Fuster Morell, M. and Espelt, R. (2018) How much are digital platforms based on open collaboration? An analysis of technological and knowledge practices and their implications for the platform governance of a sample of 100 cases of collaborative platforms in Barcelona. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018, Paris. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital library.
BOOK. Fuster Morell, M. (ed) et alt. (2018) Sharing Cities: A worldwide cities overview on platform economy policies with a focus on Barcelona. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
BOOK CHAPTER Espelt, R. & Fuster Morell, M. (2018). “Barcelona sharing ecosystem: Analysis of 100 platforms and 10 paradigmatic cases”. A Sharing Cities. A worldwide cities overview on platform economy policies with a focus on Barcelona. Fuster Morell, M. (Ed.). ISBN: 978-84-945106-9-4. Barcelona: Sehen – Editorial UOC.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2011). The Unethics of Sharing: Wikiwashing. In W. Sützl & F. Stalder (Ed.). International Review of Information Ethics: Special issue: Ethics of Sharing. Vol. 15 September 2011.
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LLIBRE. Fuster Morell M. (ed.) (2019) Sharing Cities: Una visió global de les ciutats i local de Barcelona sobre polítiques d’economia de plataforma i col·laborativa. Sehen – Editorial UOC.
CAPÍTOL LLIBRE. Fuster Morell M., Espelt R. (2019) “Ecosistema col·laboratiu de Barcelona: anàlisi de 100 plataformes i de 10 casos paradigmàtic”. A Una visió global de les ciutats i local de Barcelona sobre polítiques d’economia de plataforma i col·laborativa. Fuster Morell, M. (Ed.). ISBN: 978-84-949712-6-6. Barcelona: Sehen – Editorial UOC.
LLIBRE. Fuster Morell, M. et alt. (2018) Una nova economia per a una nova cultura: Innovacions culturals i econòmiques transformadores a la ciutat de Barcelona. Institut de Cultura de Barcelona. DL B 23442-2018.
CONGRES Espelt, R. i Fuster Morell, M. (2018). Quina relació hi ha entre el model econòmic d’una plataforma d’Economia col·laborativa i la seva governança?. 3r Congrés d’Economia i Empresa de Catalunya: Cap a un model eficient i equitatiu. Barcelona, 17 de maig de 2018. ISBN: 978-84-09-04059-9 DL: B-18014-2018.
ARTICLE. Berlinguer, M. , Martínez, R., Fuster Morell, M., & Subirats, J. (2013) “Més enllà dels diners, noves formes de produïr i col·laborar“, Barcelona: Quaderns del CAC, 39(XVI), pp. 49-56.
PLATFORM COOP
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2017) Cooperativisme de plataforma: regirar l’economia col·laborativa per a un futur sostenible: Nexe, Quaderns d’Autogestió i Economia Cooperativa.
DIGITAL COMMONS
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Moreira, S., Fuster Morell, M. (2020) Food networks as urban commons: Case study of a Portuguese “prosumers” group. Ecological Economics 177 (2020) 106777. 1-14.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M., Salcedo, J. & Berlinguer, M. (2016) “Debate About the Concept of Value in Commons-Based Peer Production”. INSCI 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (LNCS) 9934 proceedings. Florence 12-14 Firenze.
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2014) Digital commons. Int D’Alisa, G., Demaria, F. & Kallis, G. (eds) (2014). Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new paradigm. Routledge -Earthscan. UK. (Published in 10 languages).
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2013). Online creation communities viewed through the analytical framework of the institutional analysis and development.Madison, M. J., Strandburg, K., & Frischmann, B. (2013). Convening Cultural Commons. Oxford University Press.
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2013). The ambivalence of openness. The Open Book. Open Knowledge Foundation.
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2011). An Introductory Historical Contextualization of Online Creation Communities for the Building of Digital Commons: The Emergence of a Free Culture Movement. In Hellmann, S., Frischmuth, P., Auer, S. & Dietrich, D. (ed.). OKCon 2011. Open Knowledge Conference Proceedings of the 6th Open Knowledge Conference Berlin, Germany, June 30 & July 1, 2011. Universität Leipzig, Germany and Technical University Berlin, Germany.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING. Fuster Morell, M.; Hill, B. M. (2010). Socio-political approaches to open collaboration. Proceeding WikiSym ’10 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-0056-8 doi>10.1145/1832772.1832808).Available at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1832808
THESES. Fuster Morell, M. (2010). Governance of online creation communities. Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons. PhD Thesis. Social and Political Science Department. European University Institute (Florence).
Catalan
ARTICLE. Berlinguer, M., Martinez, R., Fuster Morell, M. J. Subirats. (2013). Models emergents de sostenibilitat del procomu audiovisual. Quaders del Consell Audiovisual Catala. Juny de 2013.
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ARTICULO. Berlinguer, M., Martinez, R., Fuster Morell, M. J. Subirats. (2013) Modelos emergentes de sostenibilidad de procomunes audiovisuales. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales.
ARTICULO. Fuster Morell, M. (2012). Horizontes del procomun digital. Revista documentacion social: revista de estudios sociales y de sociologia aplicada. Monografias. 165, Abril-Junio 2012. Retrieved from Mayo Fuster_Documentacion_Social
WIKIPEDIA
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Iosub, D., Laniado, D., Castillo, C. Kaltenbrunner, A. & Fuster Morell, M. (2014) Emotions under Discussion: Gender, status and communication in online collaboration. PLOS ONE.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2013). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Journal Information, Communication and Society. Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Pages: 146-147.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Aibar, E., & Fuster Morell, M. (ed.). (2012). Special issue: Wikipedia research. Introduction. Journal Digithum: Les humanitats en l’era digital.
BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2011). The Wikimedia Foundation and the Governance of Wikipedia’s Infrastructure: Historical Trajectories and its Hybrid Character. In Lovink, G., Tkacz, N. & Roberts, I. (eds). Critical Point of View Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011.
PUBLIC POLICIES
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M., Senabre, E. (2020) Co-creation applied to public policies: A case study on collaborative policies for the platform economy in the city of Barcelona. CoDesign.
BOOK CHAPTER Fuster Morell, M. (2012). Emerging conception of participation and democracy in online settings: Lessons and challenges for digital democracy experiences. (p. 129-188). In E. Campos and I. Ramos (Ed.). 3D Citizen. Madrid: Fundación IDEAS.
BOOK CHAPTER Fuster Morell, M. (2011, October). Rethinking government in the light of the emerging organisational principles of online collective action. In E. Aibar (Ed.) European Journal of ePractice. No 12. ISSN: 1988-625X. (pp. 81-93).
BOOK. Fuster Morell, M., Wainwright, H. & Berlinguer, M. (2007). Networked Politics Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. Rome: XL edizioni.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Fuster Morell, M. (2010). Participation in Online Creation Communities: Ecosystemic Participation?. Conference Proceedings of JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source (p. 270).
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CAPITUL LLIBRE Fuster Morell, M. & J.L Rubies (2019) “Internet: nova societat creativa, nova economia col·laborativa, nova política tecnològica a Catalunya?”. Pag 523 – 543. Goma, R. & J. Subirats (Coord) “Canvi d’època i de polítiques públiques a Catalunya” Ed. Galaxia Guterberg
LLIBRE. Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2012). Més enllà d’Internet com a eina “martell” – eina de la vella política: Cap un nou Policy Making?. Els casos del Moviment de Cultura Lliure i pel Procomú Digital i el 15M a Catalunya (Beyond the Internet as a tool “hammer” – tool of the old politics: Towards a New Policy Making?. Cases the Free Culture Movement and the digital commons and 15M in Catalonia). Research report. Institute de Govern i Politiques Publiques (UAB) per l’Escola d’Administracio Publica de Catalunya. (139 pages). Retrieved from http://bit.ly/HhGzcJ
Spanish
ARTICULO. Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2013, April). Gobierno abierto y políticas publicas. Los dilemas de un proceso inevitable. Telos cuadernos de comunicación e innovación. Fundación Telefónica. Numero 94.
CAPITULO LIBRO Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2013) Políticas locales en la sociedad 2.0 movilizada. (Local politics in 2.0 society) R. Canals (Ed.). Ciudades y pueblos que pueden durar: Políticas locales para una nueva época. (pp. 387-398). Icaria Editorial, Barcelona.
CAPITULO LIBRO Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2013) Políticas locales en la sociedad 2.0 movilizada. R. Canals (Ed.). Ciudades y pueblos que pueden durar: Políticas locales para una nueva época. (pp. 387-398). Icaria Editorial, Barcelona.
ARTICULO. Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2012) Crisis de representación y de participación. ¿Son las comunidades virtuales nuevas formas de agregación y participación ciudadana?. (Crisis of representation and participation. Are virtual communities new ways of aggregation and citizen participation?). Arbor. Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura. CSIC. Vol. 188 – N 756. julio-agosto (2012). (pp. 641-656). Madrid. ISSN: 0210-1963.
CAPITULO LIBRO Fuster Morell, M. (2012). Derechos urbanos digitales y políticas públicas en la era digital. En Josep Maria Montaner and Joan Subirats (Ed.). Repensar les politiques Urbanes. Apunts per a l’agenda urbana. Diputacio de Barcelona: Barcelona.
CAPITULO LIBRO Fuster Morell, M. (2012). El surgimiento del concepto de participación en entornos en línea: Lecciones y retos para las experiencias de democracia digital . (p. 139-203). en E. Campos y I. Ramos (Ed.). La ciudadanía en 3D: democracia deliberativa digital. Un análisis exploratorio. Madrid: Fundación IDEAS.
LIBRO Wainwright, H., Berlinguer, M., Fuster Morell, M., & Subirats, J. (Ed.) (Colectivo politica en red) (2008). Repensar la politica en la era de los movimientos y las redes. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial.
Italian
Wainwright, H., Berlinguer, M., Fuster Morell, M., & Subirats, J. (2007). Networked Politics: Ripensare l’organizzazione politica in un’epoca di movimenti e reti. Rome: XL edizioni.
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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BOOK CHAPTER. Fuster Morell, M. (2018). From digital commons to society commons: influence of the free culture movement in the 15M mobilization. At Tejerina, B. and I. Perrugoría (ed) (2018) Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement. Routledge, UK.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2012).Composition of 15M Mobilization in Spain: Free Culture Movement a layer of 15M ecosystem movement. ‘Occupy’ special edition. Social Movement Studies,Volume 11, Issue 3-4. Availeble at
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2012). Special section: A new wave of European mobilizations?. “The season of revolutions: the Arab Spring. Interface: A journal for and about social movements. Issue 4/1.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Feixa, C., Ferraìndiz, F., Pleyers, G., Fuster, Morell, M., Pereira, I., & Oliart, P. (2021). Jeffrey J. Juris (1971-2020): investigador de los movimientos sociales en red. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.ninÞez juv, 19 (1), 1-14.
ACTION RESEARCH
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JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M., Senabre, E.(2019) Co-designed strategic planning and agile project management in academia: case study of an action research group. Palgrave Communications.
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2012) E-Research Collaboration of International Scope in Social and Political Sciences: Scale and Complexity Linkage with the Requirement of Physical Encounters (by hernandez at dh online). In Juan, A. Daradoumis, T., Roca Sales, M., Grasman, S. & J. Faulin
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2011). Advantages, Challenges and New Frontiers in Using Information Communication Technologies in Societal and Social Movement Research. Journal tripleC i(i): Cognition, communication, co-operation. Special Issue: ICTs and Society – A New Transdiscipline? . Advantages, Challenges and New Frontiers in Using Information Communication Technologies in Societal and Social Movement Research. Vol 9, No 2 ISSN 1726-670X.
BOOK. Fuster Morell, M. (Eds) (2012). Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. (pages 330-346).
JOURNAL ARTICLE. Fuster Morell, M. (2009). Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action. Interface Journal. Issue one (1). (pp. 21-45).