This Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. (local time in Spain), you can follow the live Masterclass through our YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook channels, with Alberto Quian — an expert in hacker culture, information ethics, and digital journalism. Alberto Quian holds a Ph.D. in Media Research from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for the first thesis in Spain on WikiLeaks and hacker culture. He is currently a journalism professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and an active researcher in the Novos Medios group. His academic work focuses on the intersection between hacker culture, digital ethics, information activism, and the challenges of the networked society.
He is also the author of books such as The Media and Political Impact of WikiLeaks (UOC, 2013) and Hacker Civilization (Anaya Multimedia, 2022). In this event, Alberto Quian will offer a critical and well-founded perspective on this year’s central theme: the role of encryption as a bulwark against social, political, and technical uncertainty. In a world where the risks of authoritarian surveillance, data breaches, and state or corporate attacks multiply, encryption is not just a technical tool but an essential means to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and individual autonomy.
