Dr. Mercè Oliva  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Mercè Oliva is a Serra Húnter Associate Professor in Media and Popular Culture Studies in the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She is the Head of Department and a member of the Medium Research Group. Her work focuses on the analysis of media celebrities, economic and labor imaginaries, and digital culture. She is the co-author of La imagen incesante: Anatomía de los formatos audiovisuales (Anagrama, 2024) and Telerrealidad, disciplina e identidad: Los makeover shows en España (UOC, 2013). She has also co-edited the volume Espejos Rotos: Narrativas distópicas y sociedad de entrecrisis (Gedisa, 2023). Special collaborator on the TV program 3 vides on 3CAT.


 

Dr. Reinald Besalú i Casademont  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Tenure-track professor in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and deputy director of the Ideograma-UPF Chair in Political Communication and Democracy. He holds a PhD in Public Communication from UPF (2015) and bachelor's degrees in Sociology (University of Barcelona, 2010) and Audiovisual Communication (UPF, 2005). He is a member of the recognized research group POLCOM-GRP. His research interests include news credibility, anti-media discourse, political communication and public opinion, as well as studies on television and audiences, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.


 

Dr. Alan Tapscott  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (2017), Master’s in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (2011), and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (2009). His main research focuses on how people write and share fictional worlds and stories in digital environments. He has worked in human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and interface design, as well as in research groups in archaeology. His research areas are collaborative creation of digital worlds; co-creation of consistent and coherent digital stories; computational creativity and narrative models; design and storytelling in video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games.


 

Dr. Ona Anglada i Pujol  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Ona Anglada-Pujol is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Library and Information Science and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Communication from Pompeu Fabra University. Her research interests include digital and popular culture, queer studies, and fan and gamer cultures.


 

Mr. Aleix Martí-Danés  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Aleix Martí Danés is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. He holds a degree in Political Science and Administration from UPF, specializing in Political Communication and Public Management.

He coordinated the Ideograma-UPF Chair in Political Communication and Democracy from 2020 to 2025, and teaches in both the Department of Communication at UPF and the Master's in Political and Institutional Communication at UPF-BSM. His research focuses on political communication, new media, and information credibility. He has also collaborated with fact-checking platforms like Verificat and various media outlets.


 

Mr. Jordi Justicia Linkedin

Jordi Justicia holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and is studying a Master’s in Digital Culture and Emerging Media (DiCEM) at Pompeu Fabra University. Their academic interests include digital culture, video games, and queer studies. In their undergraduate final project, they explored queer representations in history and video games, using an approach inspired by archaeology.



 

Dr. Carles Pont-Sorribes  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Carles Pont Sorribes is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). As a researcher, he specializes in political communication, crisis and emergency communication, as well as journalism. He has published scientific contributions in prominent journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and SCOPUS, and is the author of several books, including Comunicació i Opinió Pública (2015) and Comunicar las emergencias (2013), among others. He is currently the director of the Ideograma-UPF Chair in Political Communication and Democracy and has served as Dean of the Faculty of Communication at UPF.


 

Dr. Isabel Villegas-Simón  Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Isabel Villegas-Simón is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research focuses on the analysis of the construction of media and social imaginaries, with particular attention to digital culture, popular culture, and queer studies. Her work has been published in international scientific journals such as the European Journal of Communication, Poetics, and the Journal of Communication.

Dr. Maria Castellví   Linkedin Google Schoolar ORCID

Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University, and member of the MEDIUM research group. Her research focuses on the analysis of popular culture, digital culture, and young audiences, with a gender-aware, critical, and intersectional perspective. She also explores new forms of digital labour and the dynamics of the contemporary audiovisual sector. She combines her academic work with an active role in the audiovisual industry, directing the Reteena Festival, dedicated to youth audiovisual culture, and serving as executive producer of +RAINFF, focused on filmmaking with generative artificial intelligence.