The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) Manuel Castells’ Information Age Trilogy
Interdisciplinarity Desired immobility and hypermobility
Gig economy in highly skilled tasks: the invisible link with migration patterns, desired immobility, and hypermobility By Alisa Petroff, postdoctoral researcher at the IN3 research group Gender and ICT (GenTIC). Petroff has developed a research[…]
Big DataCybersecurityImpacte socialImpacto socialInterdisciplinarity The effects of mass surveillance
The “Data Society Research Seminar: Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies” took place last week on 16 June at Malmö University. There to speak at the event were Andrea[…]
Interdisciplinarity “Many activists enjoy climate change”
“It’s a climate paradox. There’s a widespread and broadly shared consensus about the climate as a real danger. However, despite the mobilization of all kinds of social, technical and institutional mechanisms, climate change continues apace.”[…]
GenderImpacte socialImpacto socialInterdisciplinarityLiterary StudiesRecercaResearchWomen Transnational networks of Ibero-American women in the silent era
By Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut, researcher at the IN3 group GlobaLS (Global Literary Studies Research Lab). She is a doctoral student in the Information and Knowledge Society program at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She is writing[…]
The UOC is taking part in the development of a European certificate for gender equality in research and innovation
Only a third (33%) of the research staff in all the countries of the European Union are women – 39% in Catalonia and 40% in Spain The project is part of the European Commission’s commitment[…]