Louise Merzeau was a former student of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (L1982 promotion) and a qualified teacher of contemporary literature (1985).

[4] She was a co-director of the Nanterre research laboratory Dicen-IDF and member of the e.laboratory on Human Trace Complex System Digital Campus UNESCO.

She has designed the concept of hypersphere to extend the list of mediaspheres initially proposed by Debray, to characterize sociological and technical ecosystems associated with the development of the internet.

In the article "Copy and paste",[8] Louise Merzeau proposed a vision that aims at overcoming the simple notions of plagiarism and theft associated with this practice.

This conception is to be put in relation to her engagement in the movement of common goods, in which she participates through the Savoirscom1 collective group, which fights for the user's rights against the risks of informational enclosure.