Sebastián Valenzuela

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica, PhD in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, United States (2011). He has been an associate researcher at the Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN) and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. His research focuses on public opinion, political communication, digital social networks, and journalism, topics on which he has written more than 60 academic publications. His work has been awarded by international associations, including ICA, AEJMC, and WAPOR. He is currently editor-in-chief of Cuadernos.info, the leading Latin American communications journal, and Director of Research and Creation at the Faculty of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica.