Social Networks
ArticlesICTInternetSocial Networks Manuel Castells: “I’ll redo a lot of things, I haven’t finished yet”
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[…]
Political CommunicationSocial NetworksWorkshop Workshop: 2020 Political Communication Networks (PCNet)
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[…]
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[…]
AppsCOVID19Social NetworksTechnology Studies 7 Privacy related questions about contact tracing apps
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[…]
AgeismICTSocial Networks Opinion article: On data and pandemics
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[…]