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Women and digitalization: reducing the digital gender gap ArticlesGenderTechnology StudiesWomen

Women and digitalization: reducing the digital gender gap

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[…]

Looking back at Castells’ trilogy, The Information Age ArticlesICTInternetWorkshop

Looking back at Castells’ trilogy, The Information Age

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[…]

2020 is the year of (forced) digital sociability 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[…]

Big Data to reduce segregation of Syrian refugees in Turkey ArticlesBig DataData AnalyticsSocial impact

Big Data to reduce segregation of Syrian refugees in Turkey

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[…]

Online Workshop “The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) the Information Age Trilogy” ArticlesWorkshop

Online Workshop “The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) the Information Age Trilogy”

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[…]