Enric Burgos holds bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy (1998) and in Audiovisual Communication (2002) from the Universitat de València and a PhD in Communication Science from the Universitat Jaume I (2017). His doctoral thesis investigates modern scepticism through the study of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (1998) and the creative project in which the film is framed. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation and History of Art at the Universitat Politècnica de València (2007-2020) and in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I (2010-2023). He has been part of the Department of Language Theories and Communication Sciences at the Universitat de València since 2020.

He has participated in four innovative teaching projects and two international research projects: "Audiovisual Expression, Non-Fiction Film and Cultural Background" (Tra Vinh University & Vietnamese Association of Community Colleges, Vietnam, 2010) and "Transmídia Trânsito Carioca" (Colégio Pedro II - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015). He is currently a member of the team of the R+D+i Project "Disinformation flows, polarization and crisis of media intermediation". His research interests include deviations from the hegemonic model in cinema and television series, the role of music in audiovisuals, the reciprocal exploration of moving image and philosophy or the look of contemporary audiovisual production towards animalism and veg(etari)anism.

Marcos Centeno is specialised in film and media and Japanese studies, particularly interested in documentary film, memory, transnationality, gender, militant cinema and the representation of minorities mainly the Ainu people, for which he uses contributions from visual anthropology and ethnographic studies. He is currently reserach associate at the Nissan Insitute for Japanese Studies, Univesity of Oxford (Wolfson College). Previously, Centeno worked as lecturer for Birkbeck, University of London, where he acted as the BA  Japanese Studies director. Before that he had been lecturer for the Department of Japan and Korea at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London where he coordinated the MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural and since then, he has been associate researchers at SOAS Japan Research Centre. Centeno has led projects funded by British, Japanese, North American and Spanish institutions. He is PI for TRAMEVIC: Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture funded by Generalitat Valenciana, coordiantor of TRADIASIA (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia), and has received grants for projects such asTsuchimoto Noriaki's documentary school, by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, Representations of the Ainu people in the UK, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko with colleagues from the UK and funded by institutions such as Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Foundation, etc. and Japanese Transnational Cinema, funded by the Sasakawa and Daiwa foundations, Waseda University and Monbusho (Ministry of Education of Japan). After studying Ainu language and culture in Japan, his research on the visual representation of the Ainu people was awarded by the former Kokoro journal for Japanese Studies, and his full-length documentary, Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014), directed after having worked as a television director, was translated into several languages and received several prize from international film festivals and other institutions (such as the National Museum of Anthropology, CSIC and the Government of the Basque Country). During his doctoral studies, Centeno was a research fellow at the University of Valencia and an associate researcher at the International Institute for Education and Research in Theater and Film Arts at Waseda University, Tokyo,  with periods in France (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) and Germany (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

Other activities

Among his professional activities, Centeno is currently a board member for the AEJE (Asociacion de Estudios Japoneses en España), and external examiner for the Japanese Studies degree programmes at Oxford Brookes University (2021-2025), editorial board member for Mirai. Revista Estudios Japoneses, has been jury member for ICAS/SEPHIS prize for the best books on Asian Studies written in Spanish and Portuguese, Ivan Morris Memorial Prize on Japanese Studies (awarded by the British Association for Japanese Studies), DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service (research fellowship applications),  convenor for EAJS (the European Association for Japanese Studies) Visual Arts section (2019-2023), board member for BIMI (Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image), the Japan Research Center, SOAS. On culture, memory and representation in museums, Centeno has coordinated the Memorial Sites research seminar at Birkbeck Memorial Sites. Acts of Remember through Media and Visual Culture (2022/2023) and is a member of the Repercri group and on transnational cultural circulation he works with Gregal group at the UAB. Also, Centeno has served as a guest lecturer for Summer Schools at Pittsburgh University,  Ochanomizu University, guest lecturer for the Centre for Japanese Studies at Nanzan University, Nagoya (1^st semester 2021/22), and invited to deliver around 60 talks at universities from Latin America, Europe and Japan. Centeno completed undergraduate studies at the University of Valencia (School´s Extraordinary Award) and Japan (Waseda University scholarship).

Teaching

-Film Direction and Production. BA Audiovisual Communication and BE Multimedia Engineering

-Japanese Cinema. Certificate in Japanese Studies

-Japanese culture and diversity. Certificate in Japanese Studies

-Japanese contemporary society. Certificate in Japanese Studies

Supervision

Marcos Centeno welcomes students interested in research in the fields related to Japanese/Asian Cinemas, ethnographic visual culture, documentary films, transculturality, diversity, representation of minorities, and war memory.

Selected Publications

Centeno, M. and Raine, Michael, eds. (2021) "Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode", Arts, 9 (3).

    Centeno, M. and Morita, Nori eds (2020). Japan beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media, Tokyo: Seibunsha

Centeno, M. and Morita, Nori, eds. (2020), "Japanese Transnational Cinema", Arts 7(4).

Centeno, M., González, I. and Armendáriz, A. (eds) (2024), The Japanese Documentary Cinema of Haneda Sumiko. Art, Gender, Society, and Culture. London, New York: Routledge (forthcoming).    

Centeno, M. and Torres, L. eds, (2023). ReFocus: The Films of Teshigahara Hiroshi. ReFocus: The International Directors Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming)

Sánchez-Biosca. V. and Centeno, M., eds (2023) Memorialising the Ground Zero. Narrating Sites of Mass Crimes and Genocide through the Camera Lens. Museums and Narratives series. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)

Centeno, M. (2022). “The Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image”. In David Desser (ed.) Companion to Japanese Cinema. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2022, pp. 271- 293.

Centeno, M. (2021). "1968 And Rural Japan as A Site of Struggle. Approaches to rural landscapes in the history of Japanese documentary film”, The Sixties. A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 28 Nov 2021, vol. 14, issue2, pp. 151-168.

Centeno, M. (2019). “Postwar Narratives through Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen” in Lozano, Artur; Martínez, Dolores and Guarné, Blai (eds.), Persistently Postwar. Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019, pp. 41-62.

Centeno, M. (2018). "Deceiving ‘Primitivism’. Ainu people in 1910s Travelogues”, Annals of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, vol. 18, no1, June 2018.

 Centeno, M. (2018).”The Limits of Fiction in the Japanese Avant-Garde Documentary. The Case of Hōryūji”, Kokoro, no. 27, 2018, pp. 11-19 (Kokoro Journal Prize for the Dissemination of Japanese Culture 2018, awarded by a panel of professors from Japan, Europe and Latin America)

Centeno, M. (2018). 'The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960)'. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, vol.10, 2018, pp 1-15.

Centeno, M. (2018). “Contextualising N. G. Munro’s filming of the Ainu Bear Ceremony”, Japan Society Proceedings, no 154, 2018, pp. 90-106.

Centeno, M. (2017). “Gazes outside the Representation. Early Film Portrayals of the Ainu People", Orientalia Parthenopea, issue 17, 2017, pp. 189-210.

Centeno, M. (2017). “The Fight for the Self-Representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation”, Aphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 13, 2017, pp. 69-89. No overlap.

 Centeno, M. (2015). “Forms of otherness: Representation of Ainu people in Benjamin Brodsky’s travelogues (1918-1919)”, Kokoro, Revista para la difusión de la cultura japonesa, nº 17, 2015, pp.14-22 (Kokoro Journal Prize for the Dissemination of Japanese Culture 2015 by a panel of professors from Japan, Spain and Latin America).

Centeno, M. (2015). Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014, 82min). Documentary on the history of cultural assimilation of the Ainu people. Prizes: Best Full-length Documentary by National Museum of Anthropology and CSIC (The Spanish National Research Council, 2015); Best Film category of “Human Rights”, FICVI México 2014; Best Film category “Interculturality”, Cine Invisible Bilbao, Spain 2014; Best Foregin Director, Zlatna Ethnographic Film Festival, Romania, 2014; Audience Award Clam Festival, Barcelona, 2014; Special Mention Intimate Lens Film Documentary, Italy 2014.Selected in fifty international film festivals. 

Centeno, M. (2011). “Discovering Minorities in Japan: First Korean Representations in Japanese Cinema” in ACCS. The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka, IAFOR, 2011, pp. 125-13

[Biography, english version]

José Carlos Díaz Martí (Segovia, 1964) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication, a Master's Degree in Audiovisual Contents and Formats, a specialist Technician in Image and Sound and a Higher Degree in Artistic Photography. He is currently a professor at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló and at the Universitat de València.

He has developed his professional activity in the audiovisual field as executive producer and film and television producer for more than three decades. He has directed television series and the creative documentaries “Los pastores del bosque flotante”, “La Caixa Negra”, "Bienvenido, Mister Loach" and "Territorio Boom, la defensa d'El Saler".

After 30 years dedicated to photography, he held his first solo exhibition in 2015, ‘Onironautas’. ‘Idolatría’ is his final degree project in artistic photography at the EASD in Valencia and his first work in the field of post-photography. His work has been exhibited at the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia, at the Fundación Mutua Levante in Alcoy, at the Universidad de Alicante and at the Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Sierra Norte en la Cabrera (Madrid). His work “Adan y Eva en el paraiso” has received an Honourable Mention at the 3rd II Bienal de las Artes Ciutat Vella Abierta 2017. Some of his works are on display at the Corpus Christi Museum and the Museum of Marinera Holy Week in Valencia.

Vicente Fenoll holds a PhD in Communication (2015) from the University of Valencia, where he has served as Associate Professor at the Department of Language Theory and Communication Science since 2014. He has broad professional experience in broadcast television news and in election campaigns. He is member of the research groups Mediaflows (www.mediaflows.es) and CamforS (https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de/camfors). His research interests are populism, social media, and political communication. In doing so, he has been visiting researcher at various American and European universities. He has authored numerous book chapters and articles in various scientific journals and is co-editor of Campaigning on Facebook: Political Parties’ Digital Communication Strategies in Europe (2021, Palgrave Macmillan).

Degree in Audiovisual Communication (UV, 2005) and Journalism (UV, 2007). Ph.D. in Communication (UV, 2016) with Extraordinary Award.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Theories and Communication Sciences. Teaching in the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, in the Master's Degree in Audiovisual Contents and Formats, and in the Master's Degree in New Journalism, Political Communication and Knowledge Society.

Coordinator of the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising teaching unit, and of the Audiovisual Communication Degree.

Member of the interuniversity R&D group Mediaflows. 

Lines of research: political communication, media economics, disinformation, and new media.

Papers:

• Palau-Sampio, D., Mukhortikova, T., Fenoll, V., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2025). Intereses informativos y calidad: Preferencias y percepción de la audiencia en España. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, (83), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2025-2374 
• Fenoll, V., Gamir-Ríos, J., & Alonso-del-Barrio, E. (2024). Política, ideología, populismo y desinformación. La verificación de la comunicación política de los partidos españoles. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 30(4), 843-856. https://doi.org/10.5209/emp.96629
• Fenoll, V., Alonso-del-Barrio, E., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2024). Anti- and pro-environmental disinformation: Fact-checking Spanish political parties’ discourse. Observatorio (OBS*), 18(6), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS18520242582
• Cano-Orón, L., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2024). “Informativo matinal para ahorrar tiempo”: Un noticiario alternativo con fandom propio. Revista de Comunicación, 23(2), 17–34. https://doi.org/10.26441/RC23.2-2024-3488
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L., & García-Casas, D. (2024). Twitch’s Second Phase of Development: Analyzing Streamer Profiles and Content Trends That Boost Its Evolution into a Mass Media. Games and Culture, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241257030 
• Lava-Santos, D., Gamir-Ríos, J., & Llorca-Abad, G. (2023). Crude, anonymous, partisan, sectorial and anti-elitist: Electoral disinformation in Spain (2019-2022). Profesional de la Información, 32(5), e320506. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.sep.06
• Estrada-Garcia, S., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2023). Soft news in original videos. Adaptation to TikTok of the main Spanish online media. Profesional de la Información, 32(2), e320222. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.mar.22
• Malquín-Robles, A., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2023). Desinformación y sexismo digital. El feminismo y su agenda como objeto de engaño en español. ICONO 14. Revista Científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías Emergentes, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v21i1.1963
• Llorca-Abad, G., & Gamir Ríos, J. (2023). La sociedad de las turbas, la sociedad de la incomunicación. InMediaciones de la Comunicación, 18(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.18861/ic.2023.18.1.3303
• Gamir-Ríos, J., & Lava-Santos, D. (2022). Desinformación sobre historia, memoria democrática y simbología del Estado en redes sociales. Estudio de los bulos desmentidos por los fact-checkers españoles. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 28(4), 777-788. https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/esmp.82846
• Gamir-Ríos, J. & Ibáñez-Cuquerella, M. (2022). Fascist Heroes’ vs. progressive policies and political correctness. Agenda and framing of the Spanish Alt-lite micro-celebrities on YouTube. Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 14(2), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00068_1
• Gamir-Ríos, J. & Cano-Orón, L. (2022). Characteristics of the Spanish podcast sphere. Between democratization and commercial logic. Profesional de la Información, 31(5), e310505. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2022.sep.05 
• Tarullo, R. & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2022). Evolución de la desinformación sobre COVID-19 en Argentina a través de los desmentidos del verificador Chequeado. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, (161), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi161.6978
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L., & Baviera, T. (2022). Análisis del aumento de seguidores y de la presencia multiplataforma de la clase política en Facebook, Twitter e Instagram en campañas electorales (2011-2019). Fonseca, Journal of Communication, (24), 211–231. https://doi.org/10.14201/fjc.28295  
• Tarullo, R. & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2022). Asustar para desestabilizar: desinformación sobre la COVID-19 en Argentina y España. Cuadernos.info, (52), 47–68. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.52.42915  
• Gamir-Ríos, J. & Tarullo, R. (2022). Características de la desinformación en redes sociales. Estudio comparado de los engaños desmentidos en Argentina y España durante 2020. Contratexto, (37), 201-226. https://doi.org/10.26439/contratexto2022.n037.5343
• Gamir-Ríos, J. & Sánchez-Castillo, S. (2022). The political irruption of short video: Is TikTok a new window for Spanish parties? Communication & Society, 35(2), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.35.2.37-52
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L., Fenoll, V., & Iranzo-Cabrera, M. (2022). Evolución de la comunicación política digital (2011-2019): Ocaso de los blogs, declive de Facebook, generalización de Twitter y popularización de Instagram. Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, 16(1), 90-115. https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS16120221879
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L., & Lava-Santos, D. (2022). De la localización a la movilización. Evolución del uso electoral de Instagram en España de 2015 a 2019. Revista de Comunicación, 21(1), 159–179. https://doi.org/10.26441/RC21.1-2022-A8
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Pop, A.-I., López-García, G., Llorca-Abad, G., & Fenoll, V. (2022). Unidireccionalidad, promoción partidista y polarización. Actividad en Twitter de los candidatos a la presidencia del Gobierno de España en las elecciones generales de 2019. Profesional de la Información, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2022.mar.03
• Gamir-Ríos, J. & Tarullo, R. (2022). Predominio de las cheapfakes en redes sociales. Complejidad técnica y funciones textuales de la desinformación desmentida en Argentina durante 2020. AdComunica, (23), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.6035/adcomunica.6299
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Tarullo, R., & Ibáñez-Cuquerella, M. (2021). Multimodal disinformation about the otherness on the internet: The spread of racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic fake news in 2020. Anàlisi: Quaderns de comunicació i cultura, (64), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/analisi.3398  
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2021). El uso político de Facebook en la campaña de las Elecciones Locales de 2015 en la ciudad de València. Revista Dígitos, (7), 211-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/rd.v1i7.218
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2020). La transmisión digital de las agendas políticas en las Elecciones Locales de 2015 de la ciudad de Valencia. Revista de Comunicación Política, (2), 55−79. https://doi.org/10.29105/rcp2-3  
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2019). El uso político de Twitter en la campaña de las Elecciones Locales de 2015 en la ciudad de València. Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, (11), 35-54. https://doi.org/10.21134/mhcj.v11i0.329
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2016). Blogs, Facebook y Twitter en las Elecciones Generales de 2011: Estudio cuantitativo del uso de la web 2.0 por parte de los cabezas de lista del PP y del PSOE. Revista Dígitos, (2), 101-120. https://revistadigitos.com/index.php/digitos/article/view/53
• López-García, G., Gamir-Ríos, J., García-Ull, F. J., Llorca-Abad, G., Cano-Orón, L., & González-Esteban, J. L. (2015). El debate sobre Europa en Twitter: Discursos y estrategias de los candidatos de las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2014 en España. Revista de Estudios Políticos, (170), 213-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.170.07
• Valera-Ordaz, L., Gamir-Ríos, J., & López-García, G. (2015). La blogosfera política española en las Elecciones Generales 2011: Una comparación entre blogs de candidatos, periodistas y ciudadanos. Doxa Comunicación, (21), 79-11. https://revistascientificas.uspceu.com/doxacomunicacion/article/view/771
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2006). Poder político y estructura mediática: La comunicación en la Comunidad Valenciana durante la presidencia de Eduardo Zaplana (1995-2002). Aposta Digital, (23). http://www.apostadigital.com/revistav3/hemeroteca/gamir.pdf

Books:

• López-García, G., Gamir Ríos, J., & Valera Ordaz, L. (2018). Comunicación política: teorías y enfoques. Editorial Síntesis.

Chapters:

• Gamir-Ríos, J., & Tarullo, R. (2023). Conspiranoia y negacionismo, síntomas de la infodemia. En A. Carratalà, M. Iranzo-Cabrera & G. López-García (eds.), De la desinformación a la conspiración: política y comunicación ante un escenario mediático híbrido (pp. 217-235). Tirant Humanidades.
• Fenoll, V., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2023). Mentiras, ideología y medios sociales. Topografía de la desinformación en la comunicación política digital. En G. López-García (ed.), Ecología de la desinformación y su impacto en el espacio público (pp. 137-155). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20308
• López-García, G., Llorca-Abad, G., Fenoll, V., Pop, A. I., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2022). Europe and Euroscepticism on Twitter During the 2019 European Parliament Elections: An Analysis of the Spanish Candidates. En D. Palau-Sampio, G. López-García, & L. Iannelli (eds.), Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy (pp. 171-185). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8057-8.ch010
• López-García, G., Fenoll, V., Llorca-Abad, G., Gamir-Ríos, J., & Pop, A. I. (2021). Los debates de las elecciones generales de abril y noviembre de 2019: Discursos políticos y mediáticos. En G. López-García & E. Campos-Domínguez, Redes en campaña: Liderazgos y mensajes en las elecciones de 2019 (pp. 41-60). Comunicación Social.
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Fenoll, V., & Iranzo-Cabrera, M. (2021). Las cifras de la cibercampaña de las Elecciones Generales de abril de 2019. En G. López-García & E. Campos-Domínguez, Redes en campaña: Liderazgos y mensajes en las elecciones de 2019 (pp. 83-104). Comunicación Social.
• Calvo, D., Cano-Orón, L., Llorca-Abad, G., & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2021). La campaña subterránea: Sesgos informativos y noticias falsas. En G. López-García & E. Campos-Domínguez, Redes en campaña: Liderazgos y mensajes en las elecciones de 2019 (pp. 105-122). Comunicación Social.
• Gamir-Ríos, J. (2019). Los medios valencianos en el contexto español. En G. López-García (ed.), La comunicación en la Comunitat Valenciana (2010-2018): Crisis y cambio (pp. 47-66). Institució Alfons el Magnànim.
• Gamir-Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L., & Calvo, D. (2017). La campaña electoral de 2015 en cifras: La presencia en la blogosfera, Facebook y Twitter de los cabezas de lista provinciales de PP, PSOE, Podemos y Ciudadanos. En G. López-García & L. Valera-Ordaz (eds.), Pantallas electorales: El discurso de partidos, medios y ciudadanos en la campaña de 2015 (pp. 41-58). Editorial UOC.
• López-García, G. & Gamir-Ríos, J. (2011). Los medios españoles en la campaña de 2008. En G. López-García (ed.), Política binaria y SPAM electoral. Elecciones Generales 2008: nuevas herramientas, viejas actitudes. (pp. 89-114). Tirant lo Blanch.
• Bernardo-Paniagua, J. M., Gamir-Ríos, J., & Martínez-Sanchis, F. (2010). La comunicación en la Comunidad Valenciana y su contexto. En G. López-García (ed.), El ecosistema comunicativo valenciano: Características y tendencias de la primera década del siglo XXI (pp. 35-54). Tirant lo Blanch.

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco has a PhD in Audiovisual Communication (Extraordinary Award, 2014), a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Hispanic Philology and a Master's degree in Language Sciences and Human Relations. Full Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia. Currently she is the Director of the R&D+i project "Gender representations in 21st century Spanish cinema. Film imaginary and social discourses" (GV/2021/086), financed by the Conselleria d 'Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society. She has been a professor at the Universidad Internacional Valenciana and the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a guest researcher at UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz), UMASS (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and at the Università di Bologna (Italy). Her research is focused on the intersection between semiotics, feminism, gender theory and Spanish cinema.

Latest publications: (2020) “Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain”, Communication & Society, Vol. 33(3); Guillamón Carrasco, S. y Belmonte Arocha, J. (2020) “Sexualidad, política del cuerpo y función socioeducativa del cine en Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie, 2018)”, Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía, Nº 21; Guillamón Carrasco, S. y Belmonte Arocha, J. (2020) “Figuraciones de lo siniestro en Parents (Bob Balaban, 1989)”, Tropelías. Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada, Nº 34; (2018) “El monstruo femenino. Lo siniestro y la construcción de lo materno en Furtivos, Fonseca. Journal of Communication, nº 17; (2017) “Gender Discourse & National Reconstruction. The Narrative of Historic Debt in Raza”, Communication & Society, 30 (2); (2017) “La representación de la femme fatale en el universo narrativo de Muerte de un ciclista (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)”, Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria, Vol. 17 (3); (2016) “The Doll in the Imaginary of the Late Francoist Period: an Analisys of No es bueno que el hombre esté solo”, L’Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, nº 21.

Vicedean of Communication and Innovation in the School of Filology, trad. and Communication. Degree in Hispanic Philology (Spanish Literature) and Audiovisual Communication, as well as PhD Cum Laude (Extraordinary Award) from the University of Valencia. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theory of Languages and Communication (UV).
He has also taught in different degrees and postgraduate courses related to audiovisual in universities, such as Jaume I de Castellón (UJI), Cardenal Herrera (CEU), la Univ. Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) or the University of Virginia (USA).

He has been a researcher and visiting professor in other universities such as the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) with BEST scholarship, l'Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy) with Castillejo scholarship, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) or Roehampton in London and Glasgow (UK). He has also worked as a journalist, producer, editor and news anchor for 25 years in different audiovisual media, such as Antena 3 Televisión, Canal 9 RTVV or À Punt.
His line of research focuses on podcast and new narrative possibilities about audio programmes, public television -especially in the protection of news programs within the European environment- in the new possibilities that cross-platform and transmedia technologies open in this field and the communicatives implications of democratic memory.

Antonio Méndez Rubio (1967) is PhD and Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia since 1999. His main lines of research are critical theory, popular culture and musical communication. Author of numerous articles and works in specialized magazines, monographs and collective books. Guest and visiting professor at various national and international universities. He has published the reference manuals Perspectives on Communication and Society (2008) and Musical Communication and Popular Culture (2016). His most recent essay books on cultural criticism are Abordajes (2019), Fascismo de Baja Intensidad (2021) and La escucha actual (2022).

Degree in Information Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Doctor in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat de València (UVEG) - (Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2006). Currently professor of Audiovisual Communication and Publicity of the Universitat de València since 2012. Previously, associate professor of the same degree between 1995 and 2012. He teaches the subjects of "Ideation and television production" and "Television reporting". He also teaches in the Master's Degree in Content Production and Audiovisual Formats at the UV. Since 2010 he has been teaching the television module in the Postgraduate course in Scientific Journalism at UNED and the Master's Degree in Comprehensive Corporate Communication at Ramon Llull University since 2017.

In addition, journalist-editor of staff in the area of ​​news of the Ràdio-Televisió Pública Valenciana-Canal 9 during the years 1993-2012, with the accomplishment of works of writing, edition, script and production of news, reports and documentaries, as well as in the production of debate programs and documentary programming. Previously, carrying out different activities in the press (La Vanguardia, El Temps, Mediterráneo-delegation Valencia) and radio (Ràdio 9). Correspondent in Valencia of the newspapers El Observador de la actualidad, Diari de Barcelona and El Mundo-cultura section.

His main lines of research focus on the analysis of media discourse, with special emphasis on opinion discourse in the press, the analysis of audiovisual production and political discourse on networks. The results of these works are published in Quaderns de Filologia, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, Quaderns del CAC, Zeitschrift für Katalanistik, Comunicació, Mètode, Afers, Cultura, idioma y Representacion, Zer, Cuadernos.Info, Revista de Investigación Lingüística, among others. others. He is also the author of the books Martí Domínguez i Barberà: la passió per la paraula (2004), El solc de l'escriptura: anàlisi del discurs periodístic de Martí Domínguez Barberà (2011), and co-author of Las comisiones parlamentarias de investigación: “El accidente de la Línea 1” (2019). He is also the author of various book chapters published, among other publishers, in Tirant Lo Blanch, Gedisa, Thomson-Reuters Aranzadi, Biblioteca Nueva, Comunicación Social, Nau Llibres and PUV, and co-editor of the volumes Mutaciones discursivas en el siglo XXI: la política en los medios y en las redes (2019), Notes d'un desficiós (2017), Ser Joan Fuster; 33 visions sobre l'escriptor (2008), El debate de la cultura de la imagen (2003) and Justicia y representación mediática (2001). She has participated in various financed research projects related to the thematic agenda of the media, the media treatment of gender violence, the regulation of audiovisual and political discourse through social networks, in addition to other educational innovation projects. The research work has been recognized by the CNEAI with two six-year terms. He has also made stays at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2013) and at the Institut de Journalisme de Bordeaux Aquitaine (2018).

Film and television director and editor. After obtaining a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia in 2000, he developed an extensive career in the industry. He took his first steps as an editor at RTVV before taking charge of his own production company, La Taca Produccions, where he directed a wide range of content, including advertising, documentaries, fiction, and web series. He completed his training in documentary filmmaking at EICTV, the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. From 2013 to 2016, he worked in Ecuador, where he served as the production director for the national channel Gama TV and produced several documentaries for the production company En el Ojo Films. Upon returning to Valencia, he became the director of the university channel MediaUni at the University of Valencia and worked as a filmmaker for the university’s Audiovisual Workshop. In 2017, he embarked on a new phase as Head of Image at À Punt Mèdia. He has combined his professional work with teaching, lecturing in the Audiovisual Communication degree program at the University of Valencia and in the Master’s in Audiovisual Content and Formats. In Ecuador, he was a professor at INCINE, a prestigious film institute recognized across Latin America, and at the University of the Hemispheres. Among his most notable documentaries as a director and editor are the feature films Més enllà del mur. Cançons contra l’apartheid (2010), which won the Audience Award at the Festival Inquiet, Assaltant el paradís (2006), which received the Enderrock Award for Best Musical DVD, and Sempre al tall (2015). His short documentary Indígenes (2013) was recognized as the Best Short Film at the València Crea Festival. He has also directed other documentaries, including Cant al ras, la nit del poble (2018), Bustamante en primer pla (TVE, 2022), Fuster i la meua família (2023), and Les mans del Genovés (À Punt, 2023). In 2023, he directed the television program Tàp Zàping for À Punt Mèdia. In November 2024, he will premiere the documentary Sobreviure a l’incendi (Ambra Llibres) in cinemas, which will become the most-watched Valencian documentary of 2024.

Vanessa Roger Monzó holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication (2010) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She holds a degree in Information Sciences - Visual and Auditory Image - (2000), with an Extraordinary Award; in Journalism (2005) and in Advertising and Public Relations (2015). For more than 20 years she has developed her professional activity in various media and as a consultant in the area of ​​marketing and communication. RTVV (2000-2014) concentrates most of her professional experience on news spaces, programs and broadcasts.

Her teaching work began in 2008 at the Valencia campus of ESIC Business & Marketing School in the areas of Undergraduate and Postgraduate. She subsequently also held the functions of Head of Media Relations, various academic management positions and was IP of the Society, Digital Economy and Sustainable Development (SEDDeS) research group. She also taught for eight years in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate areas of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), participating in teaching projects, as well as in activities for the transfer of service provision (article 83, LOU).

Her lines of research focus on the analysis of social discourse in the media, sustainable development and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on communication and higher education. Since 2015 she has been part of the ScienceFlows research team, participating in various national projects (ESTENAS, ESMODA ECO and CONFIDES), as well as the European COALESCE project.

She is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University of Valencia, where she coordinates the PIEE IAcom (Artificial Intelligence in Communication) whose second edition has been funded with 1,500 euros. She has carried out stays as a visiting researcher at the Universidade da Beira Interior on AI in Higher Education. In 2020 she was recognized as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has a six-year research period.

More information about publications, projects and collaborations at: UV Scientific Production Portal

Professor Dr. Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo. He has a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the University of Valencia, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences. Graduate in Audiovisual Communication and Art History.

He is ready to mentoring and directing Doctoral Theses on Audiovisual Communication.

His lines of research include:

• Audiovisual production and new formats

• The study of social discourses and information flows of disability in digital media.

• The analysis of audiovisual publications on political communication.

• Lines of research on Transmedia, structure of the audiovisual system, television production, media, etc.

He is specialized in statistical processes in communication research (bivariate, bivariate analysis, regressions, meta-analysis, etc.)

He is Principal Investigator of the R&D Project “Identification of the socio-health needs of patients with rare diseases: processing of the communicative flow in social networks”, a project financed by the Department of Education, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana. (CIAICO/2022/188).

He has published more than 130 publications in national and international journals, of which 30 articles are indexed in Q1 of the JCR and SJR. It has two six-year CNEAI research periods and three recognized five-year research periods. Coordinator of a Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group at the UV. National research award at CEU San Pablo University.

He has carried out research stays at the University of Kent (UK); Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland, UK); Austral University (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Maule University (Talca, Chile), among others.

sebastian.sanchez@uv.es