Divina Frau-Meigs

 

Divina Frau-Meigs is a Fulbright scholar and student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, is professor of media sociology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. With degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania), she is a specialist of media and information technologies in a comparative perspective.

She is currently working on issues of cultural diversity, media and information literacy and internet governance in a human rights perspective. She has held the UNESCO chair for information-communication at the Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, giving a doctoral course on globalization and cultural diversity (Autumn 2006); she has also created an international Master’;;s programme on “e-learning engineering and media education engineering” at the Sorbonne nouvelle. She is an expert with UNESCO, the European Union, the Council of Europe and a variety of governmental agencies.