José Luís Garcia, researcher and teacher, presents the conference “Design, technology and the dangerous liasons with the market” to PhD students in Design, within the scope of the Seminars discipline. The meeting will take place on November 8th, Friday, at 2pm, in the UBI Library Auditorium.
Bio:
José Luís Garcia is senior researcher with habilitation from the Institute of Social Sciences, and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Lisbon after doing his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics. He has taught at various higher education institutions in Portugal, including ISCTE, UCP, ESCS-IPL and ESEC-IPC, and was a visiting professor/researcher at USP and UNESP in Brazil and at the University of Iowa in the USA. He was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Academic Centre of Medicine of Lisbon (CHLN/FMUL/IMM) between 2015-17, of the National Committee for Ethics in Clinical Research (CEIC, January 2009 – January 2011), president of the Ethics Council of the Portuguese Sociology Association (2010-2012) and of the Portuguese Observatory of Cultural Activities (2009-2015). He was also an elected member of the board of the international association SPT (Society for Philosophy and Technology). He is the author of numerous studies and essays in the fields of critical social theory, social studies of science and technology, communication and media studies, philosophy of technology, political economy and intellectual history. In 2018 he was awarded the University of Lisbon Scientific Prize in Social Sciences. He is currently on the advisory board of the Cybersecurity Observatory of the National Cybersecurity Centre and is the current director of the Social Sciences Press.He published Mário Domingues: A afirmação negra e a questão colonial’ – Textos, 1919-1928 (2022, Ed. Tinta-da-china), a selection of articles preceded by a biographical essay on the journalist and writer who was a pioneer of black emancipation and a critic of colonialism. Other works he has directed, co-edited or published include O Choque Tecno-liberal, os Media e o Jornalismo, 2020; Lições de Sociologia Clássica, 2019; Media and Portuguese Empire, 2017; Salazar, o Estado Novo e os Media, 2017; Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet, 2016; Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century, 2013; Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century, Springer, 2013.