Carlos Entrena is a PhD Researcher at the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation in the Brussels School of Governance at VUB and the European Commission Joint Research Centre Seville. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada and a Master’s degree in Digital Communication Leadership from the University of Salzburg and Aalborg University Copenhagen. He has previously worked as a software developer, a communication specialist, and a researcher.
His PhD research focuses on understanding how AI-powered social media platforms afford content curation, and the agency users have over their media diets. It takes a threefold approach to the topic where it looks at social media technical design, user practices and socio-economic context as components that mutually shape each other.