Elizenda Ardevol

Elizenda Ardevol has academic training in social and cultural anthropology and at present is Assistant Professor at the Humanities Department at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where she also collaborates as Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary PhD. Program on the Information and Knowledge Society.

For her PhD. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), she wrote a doctoral dissertation on Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic cinema: The Anthropological Gaze or the Anthropology of the Gaze; an analysis of the audiovisual representation of cultures and an exploration into the use of the audiovisual image in Ethnographic research.

During her career, she has taught courses and seminars in different Spanish universities and cultural institutions, and has also been Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Visual Anthropology, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is currently collaborating in the Master of Creative Documentary at the UAB, and she has participated as voting member in various Cinema Festivals and as a member of the Scientific Committee in several academic conferences.

She has carried out fieldwork among the gypsy community of Granada, in Afro-American communities of Los Angeles, and in the Courts of Justice of Barcelona. She is currently doing research on the Internet, new media, online sociability and Cyberculture. As other related activities, she belongs to the Research Group of Socio-Legal Studies (Gres, UAB) and has been a researcher member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Virtual Communities (GIRCOM, UOC). Today, she is working with different researchers trying to develop a research line to interweave two main fields: media anthropology and science, technology and society.