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Professor and researcher at the Department of Communication of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Uruguay, where she is also responsible for the Master’s Degree in Communication. Her emphasis on reception and culture. She is a member of the National System of Researchers of Uruguay (SIN-ANII). She is the national coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (OBITEL).
She is PhD in Political Science (UDELAR), Master in Social Communication (UCU) and Professor of Literature (IPA). Her academic work has been focused on communication theories and reception studies and she has been busy investigating the media genres and social representations that circulate in her narratives. Some publications that account for these developments are: Everyday Dreams. Telenovela and Orality, Taurus-UCU, Montevideo, 2000; Narratives of Childhood and Adolescence. Research on their representations in the media, BICE, Montevideo, 2005; Childhood and violence in the media. A look at the informative agenda, UNICEF, Montevideo 2007, in addition to the Uruguayan chapters published in the OBITEL Yearbooks 2009 to 2014. She also published several articles that account for the investigation into the appropriation of computers by families that are beneficiaries of Plan Ceibal. Some productions in this last line are: Possibilities and limitations for the appropriation of XO computers in families and communities of critical context”, 2013, Agesic and “The appropriation experience of XO computers in families and communities benefiting from Plan CEIBAL in Uruguay” , in Digital Literacy, technology and social inclusion: making sense of one to one computer programs around the world. University of Minho-Portugal (2014) (co-authored with Rosalía Winocur).
In recent years, she has dedicated herself to investigating the media narratives of politics, proposing a disciplinary intersection of political science and communication, which was a foundation of the book How do we talk about democracy? Media narratives of politics, Catholic University of Uruguay-Manosanta Editorial, Montevideo, 2014.
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Lucía Gadea, Tania González (Universidad Católica del Uruguay).
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