Francis Pisani

(Paris, France, 1942)

Author, blogger and columnist. He writes about information and communication technologies and publishes weekly columns in El País (Madrid), Reforma (Mexico), El Universo (Ecuador) and various Latin American media. His blog Transnets.net is one of the most influential in France. An important part of his recent work has been dedicated to the study of networks and the development of online journalism. With Dominique Piotet he has written How the Web Changes the World – The Alchemy of Multitudes, about the culture of participation in new media and its impact on different economic and social sectors (2009). From 1979 to 1995 he covered events in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean as a correspondent for several European media. He has written Muchachos, about the Sandinista insurrection, Sandinistas with Jesús Ceberio and Gabriele Invernizzi and has co-edited International Networks in the Hurricane Basin. He has a doctorate in Latin American studies and political science from the Sorbonne, a teacher at the Foundation for a New Ibero-American Journalism, created by Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena (Colombia), and an associate professor at the Business Institute (Madrid), the Institut d'Études Politiques (Paris) and the Université de Saint Gall (Switzerland).