Award: Postdoctoral fellowship renewal
CNSC postdoctoral researcher, Andrea Rosales, has been granted the Juan de la Cierva fellowship to continue postdoctoral research at the...
Tag: Spain
News article: A review of the #8M feminist strike in Spain
Last March 8, 2018 marked an historical milestone for the feminist movement in Spain. On this day, hundreds of feminist...
Publications released: Working papers on 15M and Occupy movements
The journal UOC R&I Working Papers published two working papers about recent cases of what is now known as “networked...
Media: Grannies on the Net on older people newspaper
The Grannies on the Net Project was highlighted in the national newspaper Entre Mayores; a newspaper specifically oriented towards older people. In the...
Conference: Ageing in the era of datafication
Andrea Rosales will be offering a presentation at the 5th International Conference on the Elderly and New Technologies. The conference will...
Publication released: Apps use by the young and old
Older people show more common practices with younger ones than most people might think, but they also show some distinct ones...
Media: Appearance in Catalan Television
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol appeared in a television program of the Catalan national television, TV3. The show “Els dies claus” (“The key...
Longitudinal analysis of smartphone usage
Period: 2014 – 2019 Source of funding: Wave 1: IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Wave 2: Social Science and Humanities Research Council del Canadà (SSHRC). Project framework: ACT Project Team: Principal investigator: Andrea Rosales, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Collaborator: Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Research assistants: Lluís Teixidó, Aram García. Abstract: The increasing use of mobile devices is changing the ecology of digital artifacts of daily use. In this multiphase project, we are exploring smartphone users’ behaviors among different age groups, with a special focus on older people. The first wave was conducted in 2014 under the title “Intergenerational comparison of online activities”. In this wave, we gathered...