Juan Aguado (Ed.)
Juan Miguel Aguado teaches Communication Theory at the School of Communication and Information Studies, University of Murcia (Spain). His publications include:
Mobile Society: Culture, Identity and Technology (Edited with Inmaculada J. Martínez, 2008),
Movilizad@s: Women and mobile Communication in the Information Society (with Inmaculada J. Martinez and Iolanda Tortajada, Spanish Women Studies Institute, 2009),
Technology and Social Complexity (Edited with Eva Buchinger and Bernard Scott, Editum, 2010) and
Mobile Communication: Towards a New Media Ecosystem (Gedisa, 2013). Juan Miguel's research includes mobile communication's ecosystem and its social and cultural implications. He is currently coordinating the final phase of a 4 year research project on the evolution of mobile content and media supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and together with Inmaculada J. Martínez and Claudio Feijóo.
Claudio Feijóo (Ed.)
Claudio Feijóo holds an MSc and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering and an MSc in Quantitative Economics. He is professor at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) where he researches on the future socio-economic impact of emerging information society technologies, in particular, from an ultra-broadband, mobile and content perspective. Currently he serves as Co-Director of the Sino-Spanish Campus at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is also the co-founder and coordinator of the ICT area in the international master programme on city sciences and main responsible of the organizing committee of the International Conference in City Sciences. He spent two years at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the European Commission researching on the future prospects of mobile content and applications. He also directed the Chair in Telecommunications Regulation and Information Society Public Policies at UPM. He participated in the information society development plans and broadband deployment strategies while being adviser for the Spanish State Secretary on Telecommunications and Information Society. On the entrepreneurial side, for three years he was dedicated to launch a university spin-off devoted to the transfer of know-how in technology, media and telecommunications. Since then he has participated in numerous start-up companies. He has also been involved in numerous research, development and consulting projects, both public and private, in Europe, Latin America, North of Africa and Asia. He lectures regularly in international seminars and postgraduate courses and has authored more than 200 publications in books, journals and conferences. He is guest lecturer at IE Business School on digital business and disruptive ICT, and member of the board of the International Telecommunications Society.
Inmaculada Martínez (Ed.)
Inmaculada J. Martinez is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication and Information Studies, University of Murcia (Spain) where she teaches Advertising Ecosystem. Her publications include
Mobile Society: Culture, Identity & Technology (2008),
Mobilized: Women & Mobile in the Information Society (2010), and
Mobile Communications: Towards a New Digital Ecosystem (2013). Her research interests include mobile advertising and marketing, mobile merchandising, the new media impact on consumer behaviour and mobile communications from a gender perspective. Together with Juan Miguel Aguado, she is currently coordinating an international four year research project on the impact of personal information management as an economic asset revolutionizing both the digital media and advertising systems.