Biography

PhD in Social Communication (UPF, 2010) and BA in Audiovisual Communication (UPF, 2002). Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and P.R. at UPF since 2006. His work is focused on game studies, studies of visual language and audiovisual narrative and trends of popular culture in audiovisual media. He has published the books "El Lenguaje Videolúdico. Análisis de la significación del videojuego" (Laertes, 2012) and “El arte del entretenimiento. Un ensayo sobre el diseño de experiencias en narrativa, videojuegos y redes sociales” (Laertes, 2015). He has also published academic articles on videogames, culture and society in journals such as Games & Culture, Convergence, Social Semiotics and The European Journal of Communication.

Research lines

- Videogames, culture and society

- Theory and analysis of videogames

- Game design as an expressive medium 

- Entertainment and popular culture in audiovisual media 

- Semiotic analysis of discourse