Entries tagged: research

A Community of Practice: Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research GenderICTSocial impactWomen

A Community of Practice: Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research

By Rachel Palmén and Jörg Müller, researchers from the IN3 group GenTIC (Gender & ICT: Researching Gender in the Network Society), presenting the 1st Edition of ‘A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality[…]

The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) Manuel Castells’ Information Age Trilogy InterdisciplinarityInternetOpen dataResearchSocial Networks

The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) Manuel Castells’ Information Age Trilogy

Publication of The Network Society Today special issue By Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, researcher from Communication Networks & Social Change (CNSC) IN3 research group. Her main area of study is Mobile Communication since combined with sociological and[…]

Interdisciplinarity

Kison: What does interdisciplinary mean to your research group?

In this series of video interviews, we explore the meaning of interdisciplinarity at the IN3. “In our research topic ­—information security and privacy— our group needs to work together with social scientists (for example, with[…]

Ideas and practices for non-ageist research in a digital world AgeismArticlesICTInterdisciplinarity

Ideas and practices for non-ageist research in a digital world

Masked under the veil of rigor and objectivity, scientific research on older and younger generations often replicates ageist assumptions, going unnoticed and remaining unchallenged. Researchers from the life sciences have noted the homogenizing and excluding[…]