Participants

Sans titreGéraldine Castel is the project coordinator. She works as an associate professor in British civilisation at Stendhal University in Grenoble. She defended in 2005 a PhD entitled “Labour in the 20th Century: Identity, Strategy and Communication”. Her initial interest for political communication from a historical perspective has evolved to include issues related to the introduction of ICTs in this field. She is the author of the following publications: David Cameron and the Web: The Parallel Evolution of Two Newcomers in the Run-up to the 2010 Election. LISA (To be published). The Evolution of UK Parties in the Web 2.0 and Post-Spin Era, in E. Avril et C. Zumello (Dirs), In Search of Organisational Democracy: Convergence and Divergence in Models of Economic and Political Governance. Palgrave (2013) From Spin to Spam : Promises and Limits of Web 2.0 Campaigning in Britain”.Observatoire de la Société Britannique N°9, Université du sud. 2010 She belongs to the CEMRA laboratory.
SONY DSCGenoveva Vargas-Solar is a senior researcher of the French Council of Scientific Research (CNRS) and the deputy-director of the Franco-Mexican Laboratory of Informatics and Automatic Control (LAFMIA, UMI 3175). She is also a member of the HADAS group of the Informatics Laboratory of Grenoble (France), and an invited research fellow of the Data and Knowledge Management Group of the Research Centre of Information and Automation Technologies at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. She defended in 2005 a PhD in literature, and had already obtained in 2000 another PhD in Computer Sciences. In this sector, she is particularly interested in distributed and heterogeneous databases, reflexive systems and service-based database systems. One of her objectives is to design data management services guided by Service Level Agreements (SLA) so as to provide methodologies, algorithms and tools for integrating, deploying and executing a service composition for programming data management functions. She combines fundamental and applied research.
Javier EspinosaJavier A. Espinosa-Oviedo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Franco-Mexican Laboratory of Informatics and Automatic Control (LAFMIA, UMI 3175). He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science in 2013 at the University of Grenoble and his Master and Bachelor Degrees in Computer Science at Universidad de las Américas in Puebla in 2009 and 2006. He is a member of the Data and Knowledge Management Group of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP, Mexico) and an invited research fellow at the HADAS group of the Informatics Laboratory of Grenoble (LIG, France). His research interests concern distributed systems and service based database systems.