In 2013 she earned the Juan de la Cierva Spanish postdoctoral scholarship,[6] coming back to the Institute of Government and Public Policies where she founded the IGOPnet research group.[7] In 2014 she won the prestigious 5-year scholarship Ramón y Cajal.[8] From 2016 to 2024 she has director of the research group on digital commons Dimmons[9] in the IN3 at Open University of Catalonia.[10] In 2024 (and since 2013) she is Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center.[11]
Activist and social engagement
Fuster Morell at Wikimania 2012 Opening Ceremony at the Library of Congress
In 2004, with Jeff Juris and Enric Duran, she co-funded "Glocal, Centre de Recerca" (Glocal, Research Center), an association dedicated to social research and skill creation for activism.[15] Under this frame, she co-created the cooperative space "Infoespai" (or Infospace) and Guia util per la transformació social (Useful Guide for the Social Transformation in Catalonia), both considered precedents of Enric Duran's subsequent popular projects.[16]
Between 2006 and 2009 she co-promoted Networked Politics, a series of international creative seminars remixing people from different generations and political histories as a contribution to the debates and practical experiments concerning new forms of political organisation.[12][17]
She has been co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital commons, such as the IGOPnet research group, the Free Culture Forum (2009 & 2010), the International Commons Conference 2010,[18] the Escuela de los Commons in Barcelona,[19] the Digital Commons Global Forum,[20] while participating or being invited to many others.[21][22][23] In 2011, she appeared in the Wikipedia donation banners.[24] She collaborates with Spanish left-wing newspaper Eldiario.es.[25]
She is the promoter of Procomuns Forum on collaborative economy.[26]
She has been the UOC’s lead researcher of the National program project "Gender Digital project on gender equality in the digital sphere", and the European H2020 projects: PLUS: Platform Labor in Urban Spaces[28] and DECODE: Building the next generation of cooperative data platforms for digital sovereignty,[29] and P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production.[30] Furthermore, Dimmons Research Group promoted feminist digitalization of social economy though Matchimpulsa.barcelona, an enterprises promotion program of 130 companies in Barcelona.[31]
She has published more than 70 papers in the topics of social movements, online communities, commons-based peer production, Internet and politics, and public policies. Her works on governance of commons-based peer production are considered pioneering in the field.[32][33] Her research on Wikipedia and on its governance is considered a reference on the field by media,[34] and academics.[35][36] and her works comparing the grassroots movements with the digital Commons have attracted international interest.[37][38][39] She has contributed to major pieces of work concerning Open Data[40] and Cultural Commons.[41] She was Principal Investigator in the P2Pvalue European Project,[42] where she led the creation of the Directory of Commons-based peer production initiatives, a unique contribution to the field.[43] She leads the first COST Action on platform economy, which applies an intersectional feminist approach.[44]
Scientific and social recognitions
Advisory board of the Open Media Cluster (Italy)
Affiliate member of The Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
Fuster Morell, Mayo (1 February 2013). "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia". Information, Communication & Society. 16 (1): 146–147. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2011.602092. S2CID144537283.
^Fuster Morell, Mayo (2010). Governance of online creation communities: Provision of infrastructure for the building of digital commons. Florence: European University Institute (PhD Dissertation).
^Dijck, Jose van (2 January 2013). The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN9780199970797.
^"Fuster Morell: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization". Institute of Network Cultures. 27 March 2010.