Fitxa persona

Àlvar Peris Blanes (Valencia, 1976) is PHD in Media Studies (2016) and Associate Professor at the University of Valencia, where he teaches in the Degree in Audiovisual Communication and in the Official Master in Audiovisual Contents and Formats, of which he is the current Director. He is a member of the Audiovisual Council of the Valencian Community (CACV) since July 2021. He has been the Secretary of the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences of the University of Valencia from November 2018 to February 2024.

His main interests as a researcher are focused on the analysis of audiovisual content and television formats, as well as on the media construction of identities, especially in the relationship between national and global or postnational identities. He is the author or co-author of numerous scientific works published in academic journals, monographs and collective books on communication, cultural studies and history. He has been a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Duke University (USA) and The University of Nottingham (United Kingdom).

He is a member of the Research Group of the University of Valencia Mediaflows (www.mediaflows.es), which is focused on the analysis of communication processes in relation to political mobilization, activism and citizenship. Through this Group, it has been part of several R&D projects, the last of which is titled Flows of disinformation, polarization and crisis of media intermediation (PID2020-113574RB-100), and is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain for the period 2021-2024. The project addresses misinformation in different social areas of interest to public opinion.

Peris Blanes has also participated throughout his academic career in other multidisciplinary and international research projects in the areas of communication and contemporary history financed by different public administrations.

His research activity has been recognized by the CNEAI with a six-year term and he also has a five-year term of teaching.

Regarding Teaching Innovation projects, it has participated in the Accelerated Academy and Teaching Innovation (ACID) projects during the 2021-2022 academic year, Podcasting to learn to offer public service information related to podiatric biomechanics and pathomechanics during the 2023-2024 academic year, and Tota llengua fa paret. A sociolinguistics podcast during the 2024-2025 academic year.

From September 2017 to September 2019, he has been the coordinator of MediaUni (www.mediauni.es), the audiovisual platform of the University of Valencia, and of external internships in the Audiovisual Communication Degree, during the same period. He has also been coordinator of the Second Course of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication from 2013 to 2015.

In addition, he has been a regular contributor to the magazines Caràcters and Lletres Valencianes, where he has written numerous literary reviews, and has participated in other popular ones, such as Saó. He has also published several opinion articles in the main Spanish digital media, has coordinated for two years (2005-2007) the television script courses organized by the Foundation for Audiovisual Research (FIA/UIMP, Valencia) and has worked as a journalist on Radio 9, the Valencian public radio station (2001-2003).