Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Faculty Member, Psychology and Educational Sciences
Thesis Title: El gir simètric en l'estudi de l'acció col·lectiva. Les mobilitzacions per la controvèrsia ecològica de Doñana (The Symmetrical Turn in the Study of Collective Action. The Mobilizations against Doñana's Ecological Disaster)
Miquel Domènech
About
Though trained in Social Psychology, I consider myself an STS academic. In this sense, I have experience in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.
My research career began at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with work on the social and cultural consequences of scientific and technological development. From here I moved onto the relationship between the implementation of ICT and the virtualization of institutions and organizations, which also led to my interest in the virtualization of social movements and new forms of technopolitics (in collaboration with Loughborough University).
As a result of this work, my PhD thesis concerned the implications that an STS approach has for the analysis of contemporary collective action.
At the same time, I was involved in other researchs on the social and cultural consequences of technoscientific innovations: on how professional women reconcile work and family life with ICT, and on bio-medic information in telemedicine services.
My more recent research has been in an ongoing project regarding the technosciencetific controversies and public participation in social care policies in Spain, the objective of which is to analyze the ethical, political and cultural consequences of the technification of care policies and assistance devices.
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