Angel Juan: “Algorithms and big data are the future of transport”
Global Positioning SystemsOpen Science Antoni Pérez joins the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Antoni Pérez-Navarro, a researcher working in both the IN3’s ICSO group and the UOC’s Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, has been made a charter member of OSGeo, an international non-profit fostering global adoption[…]
2020 Workshop on “Sports and Health Analytics Research”
Currently, there is plenty of research showing the correlation between practicing sports and health. However, using big data and artificial intelligence, this raw data can be transformed into information and knowledge, thus allowing[…]
Literary StudiesWorkshop GlobaLS’ experience of the Institute for World Literature (IWL)
By Ana Kvirikashvili, Laura Fólica and Aina Vidal-Pérez. The Institute for World Literature (IWL) is a roaming summer school set up ten years ago by Harvard University. In July, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[…]
Political CommunicationSocial NetworksWorkshop Workshop: 2020 Political Communication Networks (PCNet)
By Emanuele Cozzo & Luce Prignano. Traditionally, news media served as an interface between citizens and politics, eventually influencing political behaviour. In the information age, both politics and communication are transformed. The popularity of[…]
ArticlesCOVID19Social Networks 2020 is the year of (forced) digital sociability
By Daniel Blanche and Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol It seems that recently we have learned a lot about new tools for social meetings such as Zoom, arguably the platform that has garnered the most popularity. Nowadays, they[…]