PhD Programme in Communication
All those interested in applying to the PhD Programme in Communication to develop their doctoral thesis within the MEDIUM group should follow the steps below:
- Visit the PhD Programme in Communication website.
- Carefully review the priority research areas of the MEDIUM group’s researchers, as well as the doctoral theses they have supervised, available further down on this page.
- If there is thematic alignment, contact the relevant researcher, copying the group coordinator, Carlos A. Scolari ([email protected]).
- If you have any questions regarding administrative procedures, contact the PhD Programme in Communication ([email protected]).
- If you have any questions regarding the activities and training processes of the MEDIUM group, contact the group coordinator, Carlos A. Scolari ([email protected]).
Comunicació Audiovisual
Generative Artificial Intelligence, cultural creation and reception.
Guerrero Solé, Frederic
Tenure-Track Lecturer
Fan Cultures, Transmedia Literacy and Generative Artificial Intelligence, Platformitzation
Lecturer
Comunicació Audiovisual
Senior Lecturer
Game Studies
Scientific and health communication, artificial intelligence and creativity, journalism
Salvador-Mata, Bertran
Comunicació Audiovisual
Lecturer
Video games, artificial intelligence, and interactive storytelling.
Lorena Gómez-Puertas
- Social discourses and media discourses (especially in television fiction and society)
- Public opinion, citizenship, and media (gender, youth, and immigration)
- Political communication (rhetorical and semiotic analysis)
Frederic Guerrero Solé
- Generative Artificial Intelligence, creation, and cultural reception
- Analysis and experimentation with Generative Artificial
- Intelligence models for audiovisual storytelling
- Social network structures and political communication
Mar Guerrero Pico
- Fandom and participatory cultures
- Transmedia narratives
- Media education and artificial intelligence
Mercè Oliva Rota
- Popular media culture: reality TV, television fiction, and video games
- Digital popular culture and new abor imaginaries
- Celebrity, fandom and participatory cultures
- Redistributive imaginaries
- Gender studies
Oliver Pérez Latorre
- Video game narratives and sociocultural imagination
- Video game culture (approaches from discourse analysis)
- History of narrative video games
- Narratives in video game history
- Sociocultural video game narratives
Carlos A. Scolari
- Transmedia literacy and artificial intelligences
- Media ecology and evolution
- Mediatizations
- Socio-technological interfaces (analysis of the socio-technological ecosystem as an interface)
- Fandom and participatory cultures
Alan Tapscott Baltar
- Collaborative and technology-assisted creation of digital worlds
- Computational models of narrative based on narratology theory
- Computational creativity, creative and ideation processes
- Video game, role-playing game, and board game design
- Human-Machine Interaction
- Graphics and educational technologies
Bertran Salvador Mata
- Science and Health communication
- Creativity and Artificial Intelligence from a Marxist perspective
- Health chatbots
- News avoidance
- The impact of AI on journalism