The University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Student, School of Journalsim

College of Communication

About

I am a doctoral candidate in journalism and communication and the Mike Hogg fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. I have a M.A. in Latin American Studies with a major in communication from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in journalism from Catholic University of Chile.

My broad areas of interest are new technologies, digital media access and media sociology. Specifically, my current program of work focuses on two areas: 1) digital media access and the social, cultural, and psychological factors that affect the usage of information and communication technologies, and 2) the factors that affect media coverage of disadvantaged groups. My research has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Information, Communication, & Society,  Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism: Theory Practice and Criticism, International Communication Gazette, Newspaper Research Journal, and Computers in Human Behavior, among others. 

For my dissertation, I'm working on how youths act as technology brokers in their families and include older generations in the digital world. That is, the bottom-up influence from children to parents in the adoption and domestication of digital media.

While at UT-Austin, I was named Mike Hogg fellow and I've received numerous fellowships and grants, including the American Association of University Women International Doctoral Fellowship, twice the UT Continuing Fellowship, twice the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, the D. Elizabeth Williams International Graduate Fellowship, the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Graduate Fellowship and the Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship. 

Before joining graduate school, I spent almost three years as a news reporter for Chile’s main daily newspaper, El Mercurio, where I wrote in-depth stories on foreign affairs, politics, economics and social issues. While in graduate school, I worked for "Ahora si!," the Spanish-language version of the Austin-American Statesman. 

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