I have been invited (kind of obliged indeed) to present my ongoing research to first year Ph.D students at the Department of Social Psychology (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona; UAB) where I belong. This seminar will take place at 16H on January, 21st @ seminario Martín-Baró, in UAB, Bellaterra, Sapin.

It is a joint seminar with colleagues from FIC research group. They will be presenting other research topics that are not dealing with wifi. being “carrying a research project” our common linkage. The overture is announced as follows;

guifi.net people on water deposit

16H – Yann Bona – Gestión Ciutadana de la Tecnología. Un estudio de la apropiación tecnológica de las redes WiFi a través de sus usos y prácticas en Barcelona.

16.45 – Jimena Carrasco – Transformaciones en la intervención social con personas con problemas de salud mental y enfermedades psiquiátricas en Chile: Procesos de re configuración de lo social y de la subjetividad en el marco del discurso neo liberal ??

17. 30 – Ana Cristina Aguirre – Los nuevos movimientos sociales transnacionales, el sujeto político civil, una alternativa a la institución. ??

* I will substitute the “??” for proper titles when I get more info. However, this kind of info uses to be last minute delivered.

So, 45 minutes to present something about Citizen Management of Technology | Gestió Ciutadana de la Tecnologia. As far as we have been told, the idea is to get the students to know how they can sort out some issues regarding their future Ph.D projects. We are expected to present our results as a way to show how we have overcome some problems, I guess. Well, good luck… LOL!

from phdcomics.com 16/6/2008

Ok, more seriously now…Let’s start here with a tentative list of things we could talk about:

- research question. This might get a little messy (but it should not).

- examples such as; fixmystreet (recent), free radios (aka radio Alice) (past)

- distinction between research project to be presented elsewhere and research being done. Look and feel issues.

- results form interviews.

- avoid extending beyond 45 minutes / allow 10 for questions and comments…

RAX!