Núria Almiron


Núria Almiron Roig is a Catalan researcher who specializes in communication and power relations. Since 2008, she has been a professor of Ethics and Political Economy of Communication in the Department of Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and was previously a professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Her main research topics include the political economy of communication, the ethics of mediation, interest groups, critical animal studies, and environmental ethics from a non-speciesist perspective. She is co-founder and co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics 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.

Selected works

  • Almiron, N. : Animal Suffering and Public Relations. The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal Industrial Complex. London: Routledge.
  • Freeman, C.P., and Almiron, N. : Communication in Defense of Nonhuman Animals During and Extinction and Climate Crisis. Basel: MDPI.
  • Almiron, N., and Xifra, J. : Repensar los Think tanks. Expertos vs Impostores / Rethinking Think Tanks. Experts vs Impostors. Zaragoza: Prensa Universitaria de Zaragoza.
  • Khazaal, N., and Almiron, N. : 'Like an Animal'. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement and Others. Leiden: Brill.
  • Albornoz, L. A., Segovia, A. I, and Almiron, N. : Grupo Prisa. Media Power in Contemporary Spain. New York: Routledge.
  • Almiron, N., and Xifra, Jordi. : 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. : Critical Animal and Media Studies. New York: Routledge.
  • Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. : Il miraggio nucleare. Perché l’energia nucleare non è la soluzione ma parte del problema. Milan: Bruno Mondadori.
  • Almiron, N. : Journalism in Crisis. Corporate Media and financialization. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press.
  • Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. : El miratge nuclear. Barcelona: Llibres de l’Índex.
  • Coderch, M. and Almiron, N. : 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. : El mito digital. Barcelona: Anthropos.
  • Almiron, N. : Juicio al Poder. El pulso del Santander a la justicia en el mayor fraude fiscal de la democracia. Madrid: Temas de Hoy.
  • Almiron, N. : Los amos de la globalización. Internet y poder en la era de la información. Barcelona: Plaza i Janés.
  • Almiron, N. : Els amos de la globalització. Internet i poder a l’era de la informació. Barcelona: Rosa dels Vents.
  • Almiron, N. : 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. : Cibermillonarios. La Burbuja de Internet en España. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta.