Severine Arsene, Yahoo-Fellow-In-Residence, Georgetown University Prior to becoming the Yahoo Fellow in Residence at Georgetown, Severine Arsène was an Assistant lecturer at the Universityof Lille. Previously a researcher at Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D), SENSE laboratory in Paris and curator of the annual seminar of the social sciences department in Beijing, Dr. Arsène was active in organizing and promoting discussions on the social stakes of the Internet in China. With a focus on China, Dr. Arsène's current research explores how different notions of "modernity" across the globe are contextually based and shape the uses of technology, more specifically, as a tool for online protests.