Marta Roqueta Fernández

Becaris de doctorat Escola de Doctorat

Any academic knowledge that is not feminist is partial.

Expert in::

  • new technology adoption
  • communication
  • digital communication
  • audiovisual communication
  • mass media
  • gender
  • gender and ICT
  • gender relations
Research group
GenTIC
Area
Social sciences
Area of specialization
Network society, Creativity and Digital Culture, Internet technologies and artificial intelligence,
Membership Center
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
UNESCO codes:
630707

ODS:

  • 5 - Gender equality
  • 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions

Marta Roqueta Fernández is a predoctoral researcher who focuses on feminist activism and digitalization in the Knowledge and Information Society programme with a grant from the Doctoral School of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She is also the author of the book De la poma a la pantalla. Amor, sexe i desig a l'època digital (From the Apple to the Screen. Love, Sex and Desire in the Digital Age) (Pagès Editors, 2019) and a journalist specializing in feminist topics, contributing regularly to the newspapers La República and El Temps. She has given training courses in gender perspective to teaching staff, government employees and those working in the audiovisual industry.

She is a member of the Researching Gender in the Network Society (GenTIC, https://gender-ict.net/) group in the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). 

 

2020: UOC Doctoral School grant. Information and Knowledge Society Programme.

2016: Nativitat Yarza Feminist Studies grant (Josep Irla Foundation). Study: "Matrimonis forçats i polítiques de prevenció. Campanyes de la societat civil al            Regne Unit i Escòcia i la seva aplicabilitat a Catalunya" (Forced marriage and policies to prevent it. Civil society campaigns in the UK and Scotland              and their applicability to Catalonia).

2015: Young Journalist Award for work on gender violence. Awarded by the Spanish Youth Institute (InJuve) for the Zena blog (2015-2018), which she                  founded. The blog analysed video games, comics, literature and fantasy films from a feminist perspective.