Research interests
- technology
- digital culture
- knowledge production and circulation
- media and communication
- social theory
- digital methods
Academic education
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) - Ph.D. in Sociology – Feb. 2012 - Jun. 2017
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon - Master of Research in Sociology – Sep. 2006 - Dec. 2010
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon - BS in Sociology – Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2006
Professional experience
2022 - heute | Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute – The University of Edinburgh Research associate.
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2022 - heute | Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) – The University of Edinburgh Training fellow. |
2019 - 2022 | Sociology department – The University of Edinburgh Senior Research Fellow. “ARTICONF - The smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment”. Coordinated by Kate Orton-Johnson. |
2018 - 2019 | Edulab – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Research assistant in “EPICA – Strategic partnership for the co-design of an innovative and scalable ePortfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills”. Coordinated by Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina and Albert Sangrà. |
2017 - 2019 | Edulab – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Research assistant in “DECODE – Develop COmpetences in the Digital Era. Expertise, best practices and teaching in the XXI century”. Coordinated by Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero |
2017 | Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Research assistant in “Democratic Legitimacy Crisis”. Coordinated by Manuel Castells |
2017 | Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Research assistant in “Cross-national Longitudinal Study: Older Audiences in the Digital Media Environment”. Coordinated by Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol |
2016 | Research project “Agility, Work and the Quantified Self (AWQS)” Research assistant (qualitative analysis). Coordinated by Phoebe Moore and Lukasz Piwek, funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Foundation. |
2012 - 2017 | Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Researcher and PhD candidate. |
2011 - 2012 | CIES-IUL – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon Researcher in the working group “Aftermath - After the Crisis. Towards a New Economic Culture”. Coordinated by Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso, funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. |
2011 | CIES-IUL – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon Methodological consultant in the project “Género, Empreendedorismo e Qualificações em Portugal: tendências, contextos e experiências individuais” (Gender, entrepreneurship and qualifications in Portugal: trends, contexts and individual experiences), 2011. Coordinated by Maria das Dores Guerreiro, funded by FCT. |
2011 | CIES-IUL – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon Methodological consultant in the project “Estudo Piloto Integrado no Processo de Acompanhamento e Monitorização do Programa de Modernização das Escolas Destinadas ao Ensino Secundário” (Pilot Study integrated in the evaluation and monitoring process of the Secondary School Modernisation Programme), 2011. Coordinated by Luísa Veloso and João Sebastião, funded by FCT. |
2010 - 2011 | CIES-IUL – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon Methodological consultant in the project “As Forças Armadas Portuguesas Após a Guerra Fria” (The Portuguese Armed Forces after the Cold War), 2010-2011. Coordinated by Helena Carreiras and Raquel Freitas, funded by FCT. |
Journal Articles
Jacobetty, P., & Orton-Johnson, K. (2023). Blockchain imaginaries and their metaphors: Organising principles in decentralised digital technologies. Social Epistemology, 37(1), 1-14.
Guàrdia, L., Mancini, F., Jacobetty, P., & Maina, M. (2021). Graduates' employability skills in East Africa. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 12(2), 169-184.
Fondo, M., & Jacobetty, P. (2020). Exploring affective barriers in virtual exchange: the telecollaborative foreign language anxiety scale. Journal of Virtual Exchange, 3, 37-61.
Guitert, M., Romeu, T., Romero, M., & Jacobetty, P. (2019). Digital Technologies: Identification of Patterns and Teachers’ Profiles in the Catalan Context. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning, 22(2).
Blanco, J. L. T., Leyva, F. M. R., Fernández, S. V., & Jacobetty, P. (2018). La interdisciplinariedad en los artículos de comunicación de las revistas de salud pública de SCIELO [Interdisciplinarity in communication articles of SCIELO’s public health journals]. Communication Papers, 7(13), 31-54.
Terrón Blanco, J. L., Ramírez Leyva, F. M., Vialás Fernández, S., & Jacobetty, P. (2017). La comunicación en las revistas de salud pública de la biblioteca virtual SCIELO. Revista Española de Comunicación en Salud, 8(2).
Vialás, S. & Jacobetty, P. (2016) Entrevista a Jérémie Zimmermann [Interview with Jérémie Zimmermann], Portal de la Comunicación InCom-UAB, Dossiers (ISSN 2014-1475). Available at http://portalcomunicacion.com/monograficos_det.asp?id=352.
Cardoso, Gustavo, Miguel Caetano, Rita Espanha, Pedro Jacobetty and Tiago Lima Quintanilha (2012) "P2P in the Networked Future of European Cinema", International Journal of Communication (IJOC), vol. 6, pp. 795-821. Available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/693.
Book Chapters
Fondo, M., & Jacobetty, P. (2019). The lights and shadows of intercultural exchange projects for 21st-century skills development: analysis and comparison of two online case studies. In A. Plutino, K. Borthwick & E. Corradini (Eds), New educational landscapes: innovative perspectives in language learning and technology. Research-publishing.net.
Blanco, J. L. T., Leyva, F. M. R., Fernández, S. V., & Jacobetty, P. (2017). Los contenidos sobre comunicación en las revistas de salud pública. El caso de SCIELO. In Del verbo al bit (pp. 613-642). Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
Jacobetty, Pedro and João Querido (2015), "Ciência, Texto e Tecnologias Digitais" [Science, Text and Digital Technologies] in Cardoso, Gustavo (ed.) O livro, o Leitor, e a Leitura Digital (Digital Books, Readers, and Reading), Lisboa, FCGulbenkian.
Cardoso, Gustavo and Jacobetty, Pedro (2012), Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change in Castells, M., Caraça, J. and Cardoso, G. Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 177-209.
Books
Cardoso, Gustavo, Pedro Jacobetty and Alexandra Duarte (2012), Para Uma Ciência Aberta [For an Open Science], Lisboa, Editora Mundos Sociais/CIES-IUL, 144 p.