Pilar Carrera, PhD
Director of LABàPART. Vice-Dean of Journalism & Associate Professor of Communication Theory at Carlos III University, Madrid.

We are a group of scholars from Carlos III University currently working on the research project NEPON (Journalism & Online Participation). We are also members of the PASEET Group.

In addition to scholars, LABàPART consists of a group of journalists and other professionals working in different fields of communication.

In short: We are a wild bunch of academics in grey suits, journalists, advertising men
and women, students and communicators of all kind.

Beatriz Calvo, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow at Carlos III University, Madrid. Blogger at "De redes y otros caldos"

Eva Herrero
Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Mª Ángeles Moya
Adjunct Professor of International Journalism
at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Clara Sainz de Baranda
Assistant Professor of Television Journalism
at Carlos III University, Madrid.

From Academia, from the Media, from the messy world.

To a better understanding of our digital environment (we’ll try, at least).

"Part" stands for “Participation” of course, but for a full understanding better ask Jean Luc...

LABàPART is our virtual chambre de bonne, built to collect fragments and information on the state of online participation and interactivity. Some of the materials you will find here will be our own, NEPON’s work, some will just be recycled, and some we just don’t remember (in the end, aren’t we all, even those who call themselves “creators”, actually “quotators” who usually forget (or pretend to) they are quoting?)

In this sense, we are equally interested in User-Viralized Content as in User-Generated Content, as far as we consider the Web much more under the sign of Echo than under the sign of the Muse.

We are deeply interested in all kinds of journalistic and informational “echoisms”. Echo is starting to surround us completely, while the Sources -those who give birth to the news that journalists pick up, to the “information” that we, users, kindly and for free agree to viralize- are more and more deeply hidden behind a thick misty of secrecy and anonymity (“deep throats” -incarnated in lobbies, corporations, governments, the avatar of the next door neighbour, and all kind of purposive emitters- are popping up at a pace that had no equivalent in the analogical era. Siren songs multiply and we call it “transparency”.

As you may have noticed, our English is not perfect, But we have decided to line up with Hype, and paraphrasing the ecumenical message of mobile operators, we too believe in global communication. And of course in Jorge Luis Borges, who once said, while speaking about translation and treason and the derailment of understanding: “Something always remains.”

info@labapart.org | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual. C/ Madrid 133. 28903 Getafe.

info@labapart.org | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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Enrico Marini
Doctoral Student at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Alba Calvillo
Doctoral Student at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Nieves Limón
Assistant Professor of Television Journalism
at Carlos III University, Madrid.

María Luengo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication Theory
at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Raul Magallón, PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication Theory
at Carlos III University, Madrid.

Bárbara Yuste, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Online Journalism at Carlos III University, Madrid. Journalist for abc.es (Responsible for Medios y Redes)