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]).

Thesis supervisors

LORENA GOMEZ PUERTAS
GOMEZ PUERTAS, LORENA
Comunicació Audiovisual

GOMEZ PUERTAS, LORENA

Departament de Comunicació

Frederic Guerrero Solé
Guerrero Solé, Frederic
Generative Artificial Intelligence, cultural creation and reception.

Guerrero Solé, Frederic

MAR GUERRERO PICO
GUERRERO PICO, MAR
Fan Cultures, Transmedia Literacy and Generative Artificial Intelligence, Platformitzation

GUERRERO PICO, MAR

Tenure-Track Lecturer

MERCÈ OLIVA
OLIVA, MERCÈ
Lecturer
Comunicació Audiovisual

OLIVA, MERCÈ

Departament de Comunicació

Lecturer

ÓLIVER PÉREZ LATORRE
PÉREZ LATORRE, ÓLIVER
Comunicació Audiovisual

PÉREZ LATORRE, ÓLIVER

Departament de Comunicació

CARLOS ALBERTO SCOLARI
SCOLARI, CARLOS ALBERTO
Comunicació Audiovisual

SCOLARI, CARLOS ALBERTO

Departament de Comunicació

Alan Tapscott Baltar
Tapscott Baltar, Alan
Video games, artificial intelligence, and interactive storytelling.

Tapscott Baltar, Alan

Lines of research

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

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