CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council)

Post-Doc, CCHS-Instituto de Historia

PhD candidate

Thesis Title: Ensamblajes de Esperanza. Un estudio antropológico del bloguear apasionado (Hope Assemblages. An anthropological Study of Passionate Blogging)

About

Working as an anthropologist, in between anthropology and social studies of science and technology. My topics of current interest are digital cultures, social movements and the city as well as the methodological aspects of ethnography, specifically the research ethics and digital research techniques. Currently working for the Spanish National Research Council(CSIC).

[Currently]. Since early 2010 I am doing field work in collaboration with Alberto Corsin Jiménez in Madrid. The first part of this work deals with the prototyping culture that circulates around Medialab-Prado, a cultural public center working in the intersection of art, science, technology and society (more on the project at Prototyping.es). A second part of this ongoing fieldwork deals with various practices of political innovation and their relation with traditions in the digital cultures and free culture.

[Before]. Previously I worked as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (2004-2009) where I conducted my thesis.

My doctoral thesis entitled 'Hope Assemblages. An anthropological study of passionate blogging' is an ethnography focused on the analysis of hopes that emerge in the practice of people who blog passionately and whose practices are informed by intense expectations of transform society through the Internet and digital technologies. It is based on fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2007 in Spain.

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