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WhatsApp and the mediation of personal relatioships during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic AppsCOVID19Impacte socialImpacto socialInterdisciplinarityResearch

WhatsApp and the mediation of personal relatioships during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic

By Marc Esteve Del Valle. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and an external associate researcher in the Communication Networks & Social[…]

Israel Rodríguez: “Framing the pandemic as a health emergency means overlooking other important effects” CareCOVID19Social impact

Israel Rodríguez: “Framing the pandemic as a health emergency means overlooking other important effects”

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt is a researcher and the coordinator of the IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group. His research explores new ways of understanding and intervening in disaster situations, especially from[…]

The platform economy reinforces gender inequality COVID19GenderPlatform EconomyWorkshop

The platform economy reinforces gender inequality

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[…]

Cybersecurity and privacy: two major social challenges COVID19Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity and privacy: two major social challenges

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[…]

Angel Juan: “Algorithms and big data are the future of transport” Big DataCOVID19Data AnalyticsEnvironmentLogisticsVideosWorkshop

Angel Juan: “Algorithms and big data are the future of transport”

  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.[…]