This week, the article “DaTactic, Data with Tactics: Description and evaluation of a new format of online campaigning for NGOs“, written by Saya Sauliere, Rebeca Díez Escudero, Alberto Abellán and me, will be presented at City Labs Workshop – SocInfo 2014. According to the organizing committee, the workshop is devised to bring together researchers and … More City Labs Workshop
This week, I have attended the 4th plenary meeting of the Network of Excellence in Internet Sciences (EINS), which has taken place at the School of Engineering of Bologna. My relation with this network started in 2012 when I participated in its 1st Summer School. Since then, I became an affiliate of EINS and I’m currently involved in the … More EINS: Plenary meeting & Workshop
Yesterday, I participated in the #DaTactic2 workshop which took place simultaneously in Barcelona (Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya) and Madrid. The workshop was an initiative launched to boost voter awareness in upcoming EU Election due to the expected abstention caused by the disaffection towards European institutions. To this purpose, the event gathered professionals from diverse fields such as social media, data journalism and programming. … More #DaTactic2 workshop
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
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
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
In the last weekend, the first 15Mdata Hackathon was held at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (theoretical session on Friday) and Ateneu Candela (practical session on Saturday). The event on Friday began with a presentation of our research group (datAnalysis15m) by Arnau Monterde and Javier Toret. Arnau Monterde detailed the following goals for the present year: To establish a … More 15Mdata Hackaton
Pablo Aragón 