Dr Joan Ramon (Mon) Rodriguez-Amat
BA (UAB-Barcelona); MA, PhD (UAB-Barcelona)
School of Journalism, Media and Communication
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communication
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School of Journalism, Media and Communication
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91探花
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Mon joined the school in September 2024 as a Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communication. Previously, Mon had been Research and Innovation Lead for the Department of Culture and Media at 91探花 Hallam University (2015-2024); and before that he was postdoctoral assistant in the chair of Media Governance and Media Industries of the Institute of Communication Science at the University of Vienna (2011-2014). He was a 2023 Research Fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Muenster (Germany). Mon has taught Media and Communication at higher education since 2001 and has guest researcher and teacher experience in more than a dozen universities including Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Catalonia, Argentina, and Malaysia.
Mon has a track record of publications in leading international journals including Communication Theory, New Media and Society, or the International Journal of Communication.
- Research interests
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Mon insists that he researches people talking to each other; but actually his work spreads across the factors that shape the communicative spaces: this is, the integration of social interactions with mobile and digital social platforms, with the physical-geographic space.
He is intrigued by the misfits between data, geographies, and culture; that is why sometimes he researchers on the governance of culture and media policies (such as , or censorship, or media ownership, platforms, or local cultural strategies); sometimes he researches on politics of technology, data infrastructures and algorithms, and geographic inequalities (working on concepts like , or , , , or surveillance); and sometimes he dares to explore hybrid communities (including piracy and fandom, commuters, , or ). Sometimes he works with the three fronts at once often by combining computational methods, quantitative, and radical qualitative approaches.
As a social scientist, Mon fights monsters of social injustice, social discrimination and social inequalities reproduced by technologies and by wrong decisions; and as a teacher he finds personal pleasure in learning, that is for him a form of changing the ways of thinking. Perhaps this explains why he studies technology, and why science is for him also a way of creativity more than a Techne, or why he is so terribly scared of monkeys with weapons.
- Publications
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Books
- Mediatization(s): Theoretical conversations between Europe and Latin America.
Journal articles
- . Information, Communication & Society, 27(12), 2215-2221.
- . OBRA DIGITAL-REVISTA DE COMUNICACION(25), 10-24.
- . MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, 12.
- . Culture Unbound, 16(1), 86-116.
- Platforms, influencers and distributed narratives. OBRA DIGITAL-REVISTA DE COMUNICACION(25), 24-24.
- . Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social, 2024(82).
- . Media and Communication, 11(3).
- . MedienJournal, 47(1), 40-58.
- . International Journal of Strategic Communication, 17(4), 301-324.
- . Porn Studies, 10(3), 233-251.
- . Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(11).
- . Revista de la Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Investigaci贸n de la Comunicaci贸n, 9(18), 45-74.
- . Palabra Clave, 24(3), 1-27.
- . First Monday, 26(10).
- . Media and Communication, 9(3), 16-27.
- . Communication Theory, 28(2), 131-154.
- . TripleC, 15(2), 526-542.
- . New Media & Society, 19(4), 542-559.
- . Obra digital(11), 2-19.
- Occupy the squares with tweets. A proposal for the analysis of the governance of communicative spaces.. OBRA DIGITAL-REVISTA DE COMUNICACION(11), 1-19.
- New "danger zone" in europe: Representations of place in social media-supported protests. International Journal of Communication, 10(1), 299-320.
- . New Media & Society, 18(6), 1027-1046.
- . First Monday, 19(3).
- . International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 8(1), 127-135.
Chapters
- , Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues (pp. 109-131). Springer International Publishing
- Conclusion: On the possibility of intellectual trading zones, Mediatization(s): Theoretical Conversations between Europe and Latin America (pp. 200-212).
- Introduction: Resuming the conversation, Mediatization(s): Theoretical Conversations between Europe and Latin America (pp. 1-13).
- , Ethik in mediatisierten Welten (pp. 221-239). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- , Media and Convergence Management (pp. 337-350). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- , Communication and Media Policy in the Era of the Internet (pp. 147-159). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Conference proceedings papers
- COPYRIGHT "POLICY LAUNDERING": NOTES ON AN EVASIVE OBJECT OF RESEARCH. MEDIA, POWER AND EMPOWERMENT: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CONFERENCE CEECOM PRAGUE 2012 (pp 33-38)
- Mediatization(s): Theoretical conversations between Europe and Latin America.
- Teaching activities
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Mon is module leader for JNL233 Journalism and Political Communication and delivers lectures and seminars in a variety of other modules both in the IPPC MA and in the MA in Global Journalism.
- PhD supervision
Mon is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students interested in aspects crossing the following areas:
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Media Governance and Industries (including ownership, public sphere, and power inequalities)
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Data, surveillance, and digital technologies (including algorithms and data literacy)
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Media Technologies and Infrastructures of Communication (including Artificial Intelligence, media materialities and geographic inequalities)
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Cultural governance and datafication
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Media Mobility and Geographies and Media.
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Social Movements and Social Media
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Computational Methodologies for Social and Communication Science.
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