Research Programmes

Negrisc is a research programme of the Inter-University Research Centre (UOC-IN3/UAB-FEPSI) directed by Dr. Ramon-Jordi Moles Plaza, on risks and mediation in the sphere of new information and communication technologies. The main thrust of this line of research is investigating the mechanisms for analysing and resolving conflicts generated in the field of ICT.

The social changes brought about by the communications revolution place the instruments that make this possible right at the centre of people's lives. These changes instigate new means of interaction between technology and society, a phenomenon which, historically, has not been free from controversy. Ours is a context with a markedly socio-technical nature, in that its structure is made up of both technical artefacts and the set of relations established between the different social players who take part in the processes of drawing up and taking decisions on the implementation of new technologies.

It is in this complex sphere of socio-technical interrelations, in which risk management becomes an action of negotiation, that the hybrid nature of risk management highlights the need to apply mechanisms and devices of resolution and social consensus which facilitate and help us to integrate the existing plurality in terms of new technologies and their effects on social organisation. The changing dynamics sparked off by technologies in society, and the social responses to these technologies, mean that they are necessarily associated with the use of tools and procedures which bring them in line with the multidisciplinary and multidimensional reality that characterises the socio-technical situation in our societies. NEGRISC aims to carry out research that reflects the multidisciplinary nature of using and disseminating ICT in our societies.