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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political communication, populism, media and power, freedom of expression and democracy, Latin American media, frame analysis, visual analysis, and argumentation analysis

CURRENT RESEARCH

Current research includes finalising a dissertation on the role of media in the political conflict of Venezuela during the last years of President Chavez’s era in 2010-2012. Theoretically the research is about power, hegemony, populism, and democracy including especially theories of Gramsci, Foucault, Mouffe and Laclau.