Jose Luis Garcia

José Luís Garcia is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He received his PhD in Social Sciences from the same University. His research interests focus on social and critical theory; philosophy of technology; social studies of science and technology; communication and media studies. Garcia has held visiting positions and lectureships at various universities in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and the USA. Amongst his most recent publications as editor, co-editor and author are Media and Portuguese Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Salazar, o Estado Novo e os Media [Salazar, The New State and Media] (Ed. 70, 2017); Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet (Springer, 2016 (ed.)); La Contribution en Ligne: Pratiques Participatives à l’Ère du Capitalisme Informationnel (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2014); and Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century (Springer, 2013). Since May 2017, he has served as an elected member of the Executive Board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT).