Viviane Serfaty is currently an Associate Professor at Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée (France). Previously she taught at the Strasbourg Political Science Institute and at ENA, the French National School for Government. She has written extensively about the internet in the American public sphere, but is also interested in the private uses of the internet in the U.S. Most of her academic work can be accessed here: http://vserfaty.free.fr/