Magdalena Saldaña, Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, will be the Lazarsfeld Guest Professor at our department during the month of October. As part of her stay in Vienna, she will give a presentation at the Department's Research Talk series, to be held on October 13 and entitled Chile's 2022 constitutional referendum: Unpacking voting behavior in times of misinformations. Further, she will also teach a class on Traditional and automated content analysis: A theoretically-driven integration as part of the doctoral program in social sciences.
CV: Magdalena Saldaña (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, US) is an Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests include digital media, political communication, opinion formation, and Latin American studies, with a particular focus on disinformation, incivility/hate speech, and public trust in the media. She has long been involved in various professional associations (such as the AEJMC), editorial boards (Communication Theory, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and International Journal of Press/Politics), and as current associate editor of the journal Digital Journalism.
Her research has been published in well-known journals such as New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, the International Journal of Press/Politics, Social Media + Society, or Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, with her work being honored with multiple awards.
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