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Lidia Valera Ordaz holds a PhD in Communication (University of Valencia, Special Honours, 2014) and she is specialist in Social Research Methods (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2016). She currently works as Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Valencia. Before, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Valladolid, and a postdoctoral researcher between Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and the University of Valencia (Spain), funded by the Valencian Regional Government. Her lines of research are at the crossroads between communication studies and political science, with a special interest in the construction of media and public discourse, the digital public sphere, and sociology of media consumption. She has published more than 30 scientific articles in a variety of international journals, and attended more than thirty national and international conferences. She has also joined several nationally and internationally funded research projects, and she has been a visiting scholar in French, Italian, Swedish and American institutions (Institut d'Estudes Avancées de Paris, Suffolk University, Sciences-Po, Boston College, Università degli Studi di Milano, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study y Université Paris 8). Moreover, she has taught different courses in the Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Valladolid, the Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Valencia, and the Master in Political Marketing at the Catholic University in Valencia.