Mrs. De Gournay studies political science at the Université Laval, Québec (Canada) and sociology and urban planning at the Université Paris XII, Institute d’Urbanisme de Paris. Since 1983, she has been a researcher of the social use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in France Telecom Labs (CNET). She is the author of several books, including Information Technology: Impact of the Way of Life (Commission of the European Communities, Tycooly International Publishing, Dublin, 1982), Télévisions déchaînées (with P. Musson and G. Pineau; La Documentation Française, 1985), “1984” et les presents de l’univers informationnel (with J. L. Weissberg, as editors; CCI-Centre Georges Pompidou, collection Alors, 1985), and “Telephone Networks in France and Great Britain” (with G. Dupuy and J. A. Tarr, eds.) in Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America (Temple University Press, 1988). She has also widely published articles on social aspects of telecommunications.