A few lines about myself. My name is Francisco Lupiáñez- Villanueva (or just Paco a typical Spanish name) and I begun this site as a blog following the concept of Personal Research Portal developed by Ismael Peña.

I am Associate Professor at Open University of Catalonia, School of Information and Communication Science, teaching and coordinating issues related to Network Society:

• Information Policies
• Information Society
• Media and Information Society

On 23th January 2009 I have defended my PhD thesis “Internet, Health and Society. Analysis of the uses of internet related to health in Catalonia”. The thesis has been supervised by the IN3’s Director and UOC Research Professor Manuel Castells.

During 2008 I worked as a researcher in  the project “Citizens, Health and the Internet in Catalonia” directed by Prof. Castells. Before this (2007-2005) I was involved  in the Project Internet Catalonia “Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health” directed by the Prof. Manuel Castells.

My research is concerned with the social, economic, cultural and policy issues associated with information and communication technologies; so using Prof. Castells theoretical blueprint I’m interested in the relationship between the new technological paradigm -informationalism- and the current social structure -Network Society-.

My research interests can be written, in a broad sense, this way:

• Health, Government, Welfare and the Internet.
• Digital Economy.
• New Media and Communication.

In 2003, I gave support in every e-learning UOC UNESCO Chair project, and I also had been teaching and doing some contents for the UOC’s E-learning International Master Degree.

You can contact me: flupianez[at]ictconsequences.net