On June 15, 2022, Yadis Vanessa Vanegas Toala defended her thesis entitled: "Active communicational practices in ecoterritorial defense against mega-mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon." This thesis has been supervised by Dr. Pilar Medina Bravo, and Dr. Miquel Rodrigo Alsina. The committee members were  Dr. Núria Almiron, UPF (President), Dr. Emiliano Treré, Cardiff University, (Secretary) and Dr. Alejandro Barranquero, Universidad Carlos III (Member). 

Yadis Vanessa presented the case studies of her thesis, Etsa-Nantu and Cámara Shuar (Ecuador). The theoretical framework of this thesis consists of communication studies, social movements and political ecology. This doctoral thesis follows the compendium modality. It has used four methodologies that correspond to the four research objectives that have materialized in research articles.

As for the results, in the case of #SOSPuebloShuar, Yadis Vanessa Vanegas highlights convergent activism and technopolitics. "Transmedia mobilization and structural opportunities for mediation: "Citizens were summoned", points out Yadis Vanessa, as well as "the hastag forced to make visible how the logic of making traditional media visible was broken."

In the case of Etsa-Nantu/Cámara-Shuar, the results correspond to the audiovisual and the expanded ecoterritorial defense. Both the documentary "Who Killed José Tandetza?" and the fictional short "The Myth of Tsunki" were analyzed.

In the discussion and conclusions, Yadis Vanessa maintains that, in general, these communication practices constitute forms of collective action articulated to the repertoires of contention.