Author Archives: Adolfo

Hope infrastructure: enacting expectations in bloggers’ material practices 0

I attended my first EASA conference, it was great! many friend and new interesting people I met. This is the abstract of my presentation at the Digital Anthropology workshop: Based on 18 months of fieldwork focused on the study of intensive bloggers in Spain this paper discusses how expectations are enacted in the everyday material [...]

Prototyping cultures: social experimentation, do-it-yourself science and beta-knowledge 0

Fieldwork is going really well, and after six months, we have many idea that we want to share with more people working in close areas, so with Alberto Corsin, I am co-organizing a workshop under the title: Prototyping cultures: social experimentation, do-it-yourself science and beta-knowledge. You can read the abstract below.
Prototypes have acquired certain prominence [...]

Presente inscrito, esperanzas de revolución 0

Se celebró el primer encuentro estatal de ANT, y presenté una comunicación titulada: ‘Presente inscrito, esperanzas de revolución. Dinámica material de la esperanza en el bloguear apasionado’; parte del material en el que estoy trabajando actualmente. Hay una reseña del encuentro a cargo de Francisco Tirado, y más abajo el resumen de mi intervención.

Pre-prints, an option for the Social Sciences Comments Off

I received the result of the review process of one article on e-research that I submit last year to a journal. It has been ten months since then. There is another paper going through a long and problematic review process that has lasted more than 18 months for now so the option is to publish [...]

Hope infrastructure: enacting expectations in bloggers’ material practices Comments Off

I will be presenting (dios mediante) a paper in the next conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Practicing science and technology, performing the social. I will discuss a part of my PhD dissertations currently under work. Here it is the abstract:
This paper discusses the material dynamic of expectations [...]

Common values, controversial facts: enacting dialogical ethics Comments Off

Last week I gave my first lecture titled Common values, controversial facts: Enacting dialogical ethics It was an honor for me to share part of the work that I have been doing on the topic of Internet Research Ethics in the 11th Annual Workshop of the Center for Qualitative Psychology. I spent two nice days [...]

Laboratory Life: Back to the Fieldwork Comments Off

New project, new city, new house and, the most exciting, new fieldwork. I have just started to work with Alberto Corsin in an ethnography focused on the study of… well, we are just defining the topic but it is oriented towards the analysis of new forms of innovation, new experimental practices based on digital technologies, [...]

Internet dreams: ethical challenges researching digital technologies Comments Off

I presented a seminar at Barcelona Media title ‘Internet dreams: ethical challenges researching digital technologies‘ (PDF) on februrary the 3th (2010). I have to thank Ricard Díez de Querol and Andreas Kaltenbrunner for inviting me. What I did was introduce some basis of research ethics and discuss the particular problems that the Internet poses for [...]

Ética en la investigación de Internet, consideraciones iniciales Comments Off

Hace algún tiempo preparé este documetno, a modo de ‘faq’, para plantear algunas consideraciones básicas sobre la ética en la investigación de Internet, su título es Ética en la investigación de Internet. Algunas consideraciones iniciales (PDF).
¿Qué es la ética de la investigación en Internet?
Internet pone a un clic de distancia una enorme cantidad de información [...]

Ética en la investigación de Internet, una bibliografía Comments Off

En los últimos tiempos he estado trabajando en el tema de la ética en la investigación de Internet. Aquí van algunas referencias genéricas de guías éticas, y algunos artículos específicos que tratan la probelmática de la ética en de la investigación en el estudio de Internet.
Guías éticas para la investigación
AAA. (1998). Code of Ethics of [...]