Two researchers from the IN3’s KISON (K-riptography and Information Security for Open Networks) research group, which studies new technologies for improving people’s security online, presented a couple of their current projects at the UOC’s[…]

By Asun Pié Balaguer, researcher of the IN3’s CareNet group.   According to the European Parliament’s Report (2004) on the situation of women from minority groups in the European Union, almost 80% of women with[…]

By Marta Roqueta-Fernàndez, doctoral candidate of the IN3’s GenTIC group.   Over the last ten years, Catalonia and Spain have witnessed a revitalization of their vibrant – and increasingly plural – feminist movement. Feminists have[…]

By Cristina Sánchez, communications manager for the IN3’s GlobaLS research group.   There are a variety of disciplines whose work is based on a global, historical or contemporary perspective. Examples include literary studies, film, political[…]

  Antonio Calleja, researcher and coordinator of the Technopolitics research unit of the IN3’s Communication Networks & Social Change (CNSC) group, has recently published a fascinating article on transhumanism, technological humanism and posthumanism. The piece,[…]

With the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen an acceleration of the digitization and “platformization” of the economy. From the beginning, the platform economy has been celebrated as a more open, inclusive and democratic model than[…]

Translated into over 20 languages, The Information Age is an international standard for understanding how society has changed as a result of the digital revolution and the globalization of the economy. This trilogy of books[…]

By David Megías, director of the IN3 and researcher of IN3’s KISON research group.   The “network society”, the “knowledge society”, the “information age” and the “digitization of society” are among the terms that have[…]

We are currently faced with a broad spectrum of social and environmental problems, ranging from climate change and the loss of biodiversity to the enormous inequalities that exist between countries and within our societies. Education[…]

Interview with Milagros Sainz, principal investigator of the IN3’s Gender and ICT group (GenTIC) and expert in social psychology of gender differences in STEM career pathways and digital competences   Technology is increasingly prevalent and[…]

For this year’s Sant Jordi’s day, GlobaLS research group offers some heterodox reading suggestions to reflect on the value of the humanities in our post-pandemic, 21st century societies   By Diana Roig-Sanz, Laura Fólica, Neus[…]

By David Megías, researcher of IN3’s KISON research group.   The digitization of society is advancing at an accelerated pace, increasingly embracing more and more areas of human activity. The COVID-19 pandemic has not been[…]

“Cloud servers consume the same amount of electricity as a medium-sized industrialized country like Spain. Therefore, in terms of energy consumption, this type of infrastructure is like having another country in the world,” explained researchers[…]

  The study of cultural organizations has kindled the interest of a growing  number of researchers who work in diverse fields, disciplines, and perspectives. Despite the potential  of this object of study, it poses several[…]

Women have had a remarkable impact on scientific progress, but many of them have been written out of history. The Matilda effect was coined as a way to denounce the bias against acknowledging the achievements[…]

The year 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of the The Information Age trilogy authored by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Professor of Sociology, Manuel Castells. It is one of the most influential works for[…]

Researcher Diana Roig-Sanz, leader of the IN3’s Global Literary Studies (GlobaLS) group, has been made an ICREA senior research professor. The researcher adds this recognition to the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant she received[…]

  The 2020 Workshop on Sustainable & Intelligent Transportation (2020 SI-Trans Workshop), the official meeting point of the Spanish R&D Network in Sustainable and Intelligent Transport, was held online on the 10 and 11 November.[…]

  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[…]

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,[…]

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[…]

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[…]

By Daniel Rhoads, doctoral candidate of the CoSIN3 (Complex Systems @ IN3) group.   What does it mean for two social groups to be integrated? Is it enough for  them to live in the same[…]

By Organizing Committee   We designed the digital mutation of the planned face-to-face Workshop The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) the Information Age Trilogy. In doing so, we have tried to avoid converting a face-to-face conference[…]

By Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Concepción Piñeiro, María López-Rodríguez, María Heras, Hug March and Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, members of TURBA research group.   As part of the ENVISION international research project, a group of people gathered on 9[…]

By Paolo Cardullo, researcher at TURBA Lab research group of the IN3.   My first monograph, “Citizens in the ‘Smart City’ Participation, Co-production, Governance”, has been just published by Routledge, Studies in Urbanism and the City. The[…]

By Javer Luis Cánovas Nowadays, Open Source Systems (OSS) has become a vital part of our society and its digital transformation. It lives in almost every device we use, ranging from mobile devices or personal[…]

Angel A. Juan, head of the IN3’s ICSO (Internet Computing & Systems Optimization) research group and full professor at the UOC’s Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, has been chosen to sit on the[…]

By Andrea García-Santesmases & Joan Moyà   In an interview for the morning programme on Spain’s national radio station on 20 March, Carlos Baute stated that “this virus brought the word equality: in the face[…]

Ricard Espelt, an expert in platform cooperativism, is a researcher with the DIMMONS (Digital Commons) research group at the UOC’s Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. In light of the health crisis linked to COVID-19, he believes that[…]

By Abel Gómez   In the global context, the European electronic industry faces stiff competition. Electronic systems are becoming more and more complex and software intensive, which calls for novel engineering practices to tackle advances[…]

By Julián Salas & Cristina Pérez.  Now that in many countries the lockdown measures and restrictions on the mobility implemented to control the COVID-19 pandemic are being relaxed gradually, contact tracing is taking place as[…]

By Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol Amid the pandemic, we realize that we don’t know how to count the deceased. We see this in every mistake. And it’s happening everywhere as if each country had to (re)invent the[…]