Roser Beneito-Montagut is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (UK) and researcher at CareNet research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts (Universidad Miguel Hernández) and an MRes in Sociology (University of Bath, UK). She is a sociologist working at the crossroads of media, communication and technology studies. Her research interests include the study of digital technologies, particularly in relation to the topics of social connectedness, later life and care infrastructures in the networked society. She has written extensively about the socio-cultural and material dimensions of ‘being’ and interacting online; emotions and affects; methodological innovations in relation to the availability of digital data; and about later life and about later life and ageing.

• Digital Sociology
• Ageing
• Disasters