Biography note

He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and member of the DigiDoc Research Group and Grup de Recerca en Periodisme.
During his academic career he has participated and/or led various research projects.

Research lines

His main research areas of interest are:
- Cibermedia;
- Social media communication strategies;
- Analysis and evaluation of websites;
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO);
- Information Retrieval;
- Technologies of the Semantic Web

Teaching

He teaches at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, and Advertising and Public Relations studies.

In addition, he participates as a guest lecturer at major Spanish universities, such as: Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universidad de Granada, or Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

He has taught various subjects, such as:
- Documentation and Journalism;
- Documentation and Audiovisual Communication;
- Museum Informatics;
- Information Architecture;
- Information Retrieval;
- SEO and Web Analytics;
- Fundamentals of Electronic Publishing;
- Fundamentals of Internet;
- Information Management;
- Introduction to Statistics

Web page/Academic networks:
http://www.rafaelpedraza.net/