Vincenzo Pavone and I published a report in the EASST Review on the First Meeting of the STS Network in Spain (Red de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Red esCTS) that was held on 25-27 May (Madrid) under the title ”Making Visible the Invisible, STS Field in Spain’. You can read it [...]
It has been a long way since I spent four months in the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam in 2008. It was a great time for me and for my professional development. I worked there with Anne Beaulieu in the topic of research ethics, particularly in the challenges we face when using Internet technologies and/or [...]
#spanishrevolution is the title of a draft discussing very briefly a few topics of the 15M movement in Madrid that Alberto Corsín and I prepared for a journal. Below the text: Over the past two months thousands of people have gathered in plazas and public spaces across local neighbourhoods in Spain. They have come together [...]
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 [...]
Our panel in the Visual Methods Conference in Leeds was a success. The title is clear enought to give a glimpse ot the topic: Internet and visual methods: Researching the Internet using visual methods & Using the Internet for visual methods research. We opened the conference in the main room, and all the panelists enjoyed [...]
Going on with the topic of ethics that I have been working in the last two years, I presented a paper in collaboration with Anne Beaulieu in the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science. The title: ‘Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings’, based on the work and discussions that we maintained during my stay at [...]
I will be doing a research stay in Amsterdam in the Virtual Knowledge Studio where I will work with Anne Beaulieu in different topics related to mediating ethnographies, a non-problematic way to refer to the Internet ethnography. Anne is working on the interaction between new technologies and scientific research practices. She recently started a blog [...]
Media as practice: Introducing Symmetry on the Ethnographies of the Internet (PDF). A presentation at the Digital Media: European Perspectives workshop that took place in Sussex between November 1st and 3th, organized by the Digital Culture and Communication of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) and the Centre for Material Digital Culture.
Field Ethics: Towards Situated Ethics for Ethnographic Research on the Internet. A paper written in colaboration with Elisenda Ardèvol and publised in Forum Qualitative Social Research, 8(3), in a thematic issue devoted to ‘virtual ethnography’ that I have co-edited.