Biography note

Mercè Oliva holds a Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication (2002) and a PhD in Social Communication (2010) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her doctoral dissertation was: "Disciplinar la realitat: narratives, models i valors dels realities de transformació" (Disciplining reality: narratives, models and social values of makeover reality TV).
Since 2006 she has been a lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a member of the research group UNICA (Unitat d'Investigació en Comunicació Audiovisual).

Research lines
 

- Popular culture and television;
- Reality TV;
- Celerity culture;
- Audiovisual realism;
- Narrative semiotics;
- Audiovisual style and narrative form analysis.

Teaching

- Theories of the Image;
- Analysis of Image Significance;
- Structure of Social Communication.

Web page/Academic networks:
http://www.upf.edu/depeca/unica/pagines/investigadors/merceoliva.htm
http://upf.academia.edu/MerceOliva