Monica Murero is a Project Leader and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Infonomics. Her research interests revolve around the intersections among new technologies, new media, and social change. In particular, she is interested in the interdisciplinary field of Internet research, its effects upon individual behavior and social networks, and its steady encroachment into crucial aspect of every day life (i.e., e-health). She is interested in new methodologies of research. She had taught courses in new media and multimedia, communications and culture, sociology of consumption, and Internet Research, in the USA and in Europe.  

Monica’ s interdisciplinary work has appeared in international Journals (Journal of Medical Internet Research, Cardiac Surgery Forum, etc.) and televisions.  In October 2002 she will chair the third worldwide conference of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Maastricht. Since 1998, Monica has been building the E-Life International Network of Excellence in Research, a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of the mutual impact of Internet on every day life and social change.

Before joining Infonomics in the Netherlands, at the University of Maastricht, Monica received her PhD in Communication Science (specialization in Internet and Social Psychology) from the State University of New York and, before that, her doctoral Laurea and BA in Communication and Public Relations from IULM University of Milano. She had received several international awards and grants as outstanding student and teacher from European and American Universities.  
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