Last week, I attended to the third in the series of four EMAPS sprints mapping climate change controversies. The focus of the sprint was on local adaptation projects: how they are defined, what they are, and where funding goes at the local level. This workshop, which took place at the School of Geography and the Environment at … More EMAPS: Oxford Sprint
Source: http://dcentproject.eu/2014/02/the-spanish-lean-inception-workshop/ On the 8th – 14th of February D-CENT partners travelled to Barcelona, Spain, for a workshop organized by the partner University of Catalunya (UOC). The six-day session involved intensive meetings with local communities, drawing tech visions and sharing experiences. In Spain, our goal was to understand the local context better and explore overlaps and … More D-CENT: The Spanish Lean Inception Workshop
From November 10 to 12, I went to London to the kick-off meeting of D-CENT project, selected under the first FP7 call of Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation. The agenda included a meeting where the partners explained the corresponding work packages. In my case, as researcher of Barcelona Media, I explained, with my colleagues … More D-CENT: Kick-off meeting
In May and June 2012 Arnau Monterde, coordinator of the program “Communication and Civil Society” at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Open University of Catalonia) organized two workgroups: Internet, net neutrality, ethical hacker and digital culture Internet, and new institutional crisis I was invited to the first one to discuss with very valuable people as Gala Pin, Carlos … More The reinvention of democracy in the network society
The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid organized the Summer Course “Innovation and social networks in government: transparency, participation and collaboration” between September 4 and 6. This course, directed by the associate professor J. Ignacio Criado, was to make an approach to the use of social networks in the three levels of Spanish public administration, defining its characteristics, identifying some of the best … More UAM: Innovation and social networks in public administrations
The 15M movement is part of a wave of protests that began in 2011 which generated a new global political cycle. This global wave is characterized by the occupation of the urban space and the strategic use of digital communication networks, which express a new self-organized collective behavior and, also, a new paradigm of political … More 15MP2P Conference
In the last two days, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) Law and Political Sciences department under the auspices of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) organised the 9th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics (IDP2013). This edition, held at the Agora Room of the CosmoCaixa Barcelona, was focused on Big Data from … More 9th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics
In June 2012, I was invited by Javier Toret to an initial gather between researchers and activists for starting an ambitious study of the #15M movement (aka. Indignados movement or #spanishrevolution). That meeting evolved into a interdisciplinary research group known as @datAnalysis15M. One year after (while we also organized workshops, lectures and hackatons), we release … More Technopolitics: the potential of connected multitudes
The National University of Distance Education organized the II Conference on CyberPolitics held in the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies. The second edition of this conference was intended to discuss the new forms of communication and the impact of ICT in campaigns election and institutions, including new forms of social mobilization in the following … More II Conference on CyberPolitics
The radio program Directe 4.0 (Ràdio 4) invited Andreas Kaltenbrunner and me to discuss the latest research projects conducted by the Social Media Group of Barcelona Media and the social media trends for 2013. In the debate, directed by Xantal Llavina and Bruno Sokolowicz, we explained some of our recent studies on relationships between articles … More Interview on Directe 4.0
Pablo Aragón 