Núria Almiron Roig (born 1967 in Sabadell) ^[1] is a Catalan researcher who specializes in communication and power relations. Since 2008, she has been a professor in the Department of Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and was previously a professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Her main research topics include the political economy of communication, ^[2] the ethics of mediation, interest groups, critical animal studies, and environmental ethics from a non-speciesist perspective. ^{[3] [4] [5]} She is co-founder and co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics ^{[6] [7]} and a member of the CRITIC research group at UPF.

She has previously worked as a political scientist and as a journalist specializing in ICTs, and has researched financial crime. ^{[8] [9]}

Selected works

• Almiron, N. (Ed.) (2024): Animal Suffering and Public Relations. The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal Industrial Complex. London: Routledge.
• Freeman, C.P., and Almiron, N. (Eds.) (2022): Communication in Defense of Nonhuman Animals During and Extinction and Climate Crisis. Basel: MDPI.
• Almiron, N., and Xifra, J. (2021): Repensar los Think tanks. Expertos vs Impostores / Rethinking Think Tanks. Experts vs Impostors". Zaragoza: Prensa Universitaria de Zaragoza.
• Khazaal, N., and Almiron, N. (Eds.) (2021): 'Like an Animal'. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borthers, Displacement and Others. Leiden: Brill.
• Albornoz, L. A., Segovia, A. I, and Almiron, N. (2020): Grupo Prisa. Media Power in Contemporary Spain. New York: Routledge.
• Almiron, N., and Xifra, Jordi. (Eds.) (2020): Climate Change Denial and Public Relations. Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction. New York: Routledge.
• Almiron, N., Cole, M., and Freeman, C.P. (Eds.) (2016): Critical Animal and Media Studies. New York: Routledge.
• Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. (2011): Il miraggio nucleare. Perché l’energia nucleare non è la soluzione ma parte del problema. Milan: Bruno Mondadori.
• Almiron, N. (2010): Journalism in Crisis. Corporate Media and financialization. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press.
• Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. (2010): El miratge nuclear. Barcelona: Llibres de l’Índex.
• Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. (2008): El espejismo nuclear. Por qué la energía nuclear no es la solución, sino parte del problema. Barcelona: Los libros del Lince.
• Almiron, N. and Jarque, J.M. (2008): El mito digital. Barcelona: Anthropos.
• Almiron, N. (2003): Juicio al Poder. El pulso del Santander a la justicia en el mayor fraude fiscal de la democracia. Madrid: Temas de Hoy.
• Almiron, N. (2002): Los amos de la globalización. Internet y poder en la era de la información. Barcelona: Plaza i Janés.
• Almiron, N. (2002): Els amos de la globalització. Internet i poder a l’era de la informació. Barcelona: Rosa dels Vents.
• Almiron, N. (2001): De Vannevar Bush a la WWW. Una genealogia de la humanització de les tecnologies de la informació: els pares de la interfíce humana. València: Ediciones 3 y 4.
• Almiron, N. (2000): Cibermillonarios. La Burbuja de Internet en España. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta.

References

External links

• Official website
• UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics
• Academia Profile
• Researchgate Profile
• UPF Profile
• Profile at the 200 protagonists of the Catalan Internet
• Profile at Producción Científica