Homero Gil de Zuñiga

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Homero Gil de Zúñiga (2014)

Homero Gil de Zúñiga (born August 19, 1975 ) is a Spanish - American communications scientist . He is professor for journalism and communication studies with a focus on media change and media innovation at the University of Vienna .

Life

In 1999, Zúñiga worked at the United Nations as a research assistant. In 2001 he came to the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he received a Masters degree in Journalism and Communication in 2003, and in 2006 he obtained a Ph.D. in Mass Communication . Until 2006 he worked at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, then he moved to the private European University in Madrid. There he did his Ph.D. in European Studies .

In 2007 he became an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin . In 2007 he worked there as founding director of the Center for Journalism & Communication Research (CJCR), from 2012 as director of the Digital Media Research Program.

He worked as a visiting scholar at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University , at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile . Gil de Zúñiga received the 2013 Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication . In the same year he received the Baskett Mosse Award for his services in the field of mass communication.

In 2014 he started his work at the University of Vienna , where he founded the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab), a research group in the Faculty of Social Sciences that deals with the topics of media innovation, media technology , social media , communication and journalism. His research deals with the influence of new technologies and digital media on everyday life, as well as the effects of these technopogies on democratic processes. He has published numerous books and book chapters as well as over 70 scientific articles.

In November 2019, Gil de Zúñiga announced that he would be transferring to the Pennsylvania State University and the Universidad de Salamanca .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the award winners. Retrieved August 27, 2020
  2. ↑ Homepage at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. Archived from the original at archive.org on October 13, 2019
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/_hgz_/status/1194758664722231296. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zúñiga, Homero Gil de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-American communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1975