Projects

These are some projects I am or have been actively involved in as a professional, researcher, instructor or volunteer.

Tarragona m'esborrona
2006-. A local news website aimed at young adults, produced by Journalism students at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. I promoted the project and oversaw the online newsroom, which was part of the Online Journalism course. A partnership with local company Editio Software provided the content management system and hosting.

International Symposium New Research for New Media
2004. I participated in the 2003 first edition and co-directed the second one, held at URV, Tarragona. Nora Paul was the promoter of this interdisciplinar researchers meeting where innovative methodologies to deal with online studies were presented.

Participa 1.0
2003-. Online open-source software tool for efficient management of decision-making processes, in order to foster participation and consensus. Contributed to the conceptual design and usability testing, and organized the annual conference as a member of Vegga, the NGO that develops Participa.

International Online Journalism Seminar
2003-. Professional seminar that gathers at Vilanova i la Geltrú (near Barcelona) the most innovative personalities in online journalism each year. I am responsible of designing the program and coordinating the event. GPD, Neapolis and CUM are coorganizers.

Inter@ccion
2002-. Online news site for the Online Journalism professional development course at UOC. Students produce stories and edit the homepage at the final stage of this 9 month online course, June-July every year. I overview the virtual online newsroom. Web content management system provided by Lavinia.

Open Directory Project
2002-. Editor of the Catalan Media category at this volunteer web directory.

laMalla.net
2001. While I was research manager at Lavinia, I contributed to the conceptual design of this Catalan online news site, pioneer in user-generated content and multimedia production.

Dexvio.org
2000-2001. Experimental broadband portal developed at the I2Cat project. I coordinated the interface design and contibuted to the conceptual design. Users were defined as active participants, that could upload, comment and get together virtually to watch to audiovisual content.