Sara Suárez-GonzaloUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya | UOC · Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - IN3
Sara Suárez-Gonzalo
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Introduction
Sara Suárez-Gonzalo holds a PhD on Big Data, Power and Freedom from the University Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests focus on the social and political implications of big data exploitation, Artificial Intelligence and massive surveillance.
Education
October 2015 - December 2019
September 2014 - July 2015
September 2010 - July 2014
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Publications (13)
La transformación digital de la sociedad ha dado lugar al auge de dos corrientes opuestas en su interpretación sobre la relación entre tecnología y democracia. Por una parte, empresas e instituciones recogen y procesan cada vez más información sobre la ciudadanía para optimizar la toma de decisiones. Por otra, la sociedad civil encuentra en las tec...
Desde hace un tiempo, el discurso de la «servidumbre tecnológica voluntaria» ha ganado fuerza en entornos académicos y no académicos. En particular, en relación con las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación. Sin embargo, ¿podemos hablar de siervos y siervas tecnológicos? ¿Podemos decir que esta llamada servidumbre es voluntaria?
Parecería lógico que una mayor capacidad para reconocer y entender los algoritmos que operan en nuestro entorno implicase una mayor capacidad de relacionarse con ellos de forma libre y acorde con la propia voluntad, especialmente cuando estos afecten a cuestiones sensibles. No obstante, hay indicios que contradicen esta intuición. En un nuevo proye...
The rapid development of data-driven technologies has led to manifold concerns on how to protect citizens from the effects of massive data exploitation, especially when “personal data” are at stake, since they are the object of a fundamental right. Personal data are legally defined as any information “relating to” an identified or identifiable natu...
A pocos les sorprenderá que el régimen chino utilice tecnologías digitales para vigilar y sancionar a la población. Lo que puede sorprender más es que este tipo de tecnologías de control también se están utilizando en el seno de democracias avanzadas como la nuestra.
During the last decades populism has become a mainstream ideology in Western democracies (Mudde, 2004; 2016).
At the same time, the popularisation of digital platforms has facilitated the process of political communication while
social networks have become one of the preferred communicative tools for political populists to spread their messages.
Dr...
Suárez-Gonzalo, Sara (2020). Ciudadanía digital: entre la participación activa y la vigilancia masiva [Book Review], Quaderns del CAC, XXIII(46): 107-108. Available at: https://www.cac.cat/sites/default/files/2020-09/Q46_Critica_Suarez_ES.pdf.
This PhD Thesis fulfils 2 main objectives:
1𝘀𝘁: Defines the general context of big data exploitation, through the analysis of: a) logic of big data technologies; b) business model of GAFAM corps; c) media discourse on big data; d) social reactions; e) conceptual foundations of GDPR.
2𝗻𝗱: Discusses to what extent these 5 factors favour or hinder p...
The second-wave feminist critique of privacy defies the liberal opposition between the public-political and the private-personal. Feminist thinkers such as Hanisch, Young or Fraser note that, according to this liberal conception, public institutions often keep asymmetric power relations between private agents away from political discussion and acti...
Social media have changed the communication practices by creating an acute need for continuous interaction. The use of social chatbots is growing as an effective way to communicate with publics. Bots have become social actors and then, someone must account for their actions. Since responsibility is bounded to agency and rationality, it cannot be di...
The newspapers Observer and The New York Times have revealed an alleged massive-scale scandal of data corruption involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that could have benefited the electoral victory of Donald Trump.
This paper explains that the Cambridge Analytica case is the probable consequence of a given scientific-technological structure,...
Big data challenges personal data protection (Boyd, 2012). This paper is a contribution to the debate about the validity of the privacy self-management paradigm prevailing in western countries. I point out some limitations of the model notice and choice in which that paradigm is based in relation to the logic of big data processing. I also analyze...
El análisis de grandes cantidades de datos (big data) se vislumbra como el nuevo paradigma de acceso al conocimiento en campos tan diversos de la ciencia como la medicina, la biología, la física o las ciencias sociales. El procesamiento de los datos obtenidos de buscadores y redes sociales se ha convertido en una pieza esencial para la definición d...
