Collaborators

Rubén Díaz López combines academic research, cultural activism, and his role as a professor of communication and culture in multiple educational institutions, including the International University Center of the Pablo de Olavide University and Verto Education (University of New Haven as their Academic Provider), where he currently holds a full-time position. For the past ten years, he has taught a wide variety of courses related to media, communication, cultural studies, and other social sciences-oriented subjects for international students. He holds a degree in Communication and a Master’s in Communication and Culture from the University of Seville. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral thesis on public memory policies and communication in the Political and Legal Sciences program at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. Until 2012, he served as one of the coordinators of ZEMOS98, a cooperative project for the production of cultural content based on open and collaborative processes. He coordinated publications such as ‘Educación Expandida’ (2009), ‘Control Panel: Critical Switches for a Surveillance Society’ (2007), ‘Television Doesn’t Film It’ (2006), and ‘Creation and Collective Intelligence’ (2005), among other projects. Since 2012, he has been an independent researcher, collaborating with institutions like the European Cultural Foundation. He co-edited the book ‘Remixing Europe: Migrants, Media, Representation, Imagery’ (2014) and participated in projects such as Mediactivism (young European activists representing their Right to the City) and Culture for Solidarity (an artistic investigation into the causes of fragmentation in Europe). From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the ‘Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics, and Social Change’ (COMPOLITICAS) and is currently a member of MEYCOM. He occasionally collaborates with media outlets such as El Salto or El Topo. He is a co-author of ‘Comunicar el pasado. La memoria y sus mediaciones’ (Comunicación Social Ediciones, 2023).

Victoria César is a graduate of Journalism from the University of Seville (2014) and holds a master’s degree in Culture of Peace, Conflicts, Education, and Human Rights from the University of Cadiz. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. on the history of the memory social movement in Andalusia (2000-2023) in the Department of Journalism 1 at the University of Seville. She was a member “Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change” (COMPOLITICAS) from 2020 to 2022 and is a current member of MEYCOM. Her research interests include communication, collective memory, human rights, oral history, and gender studies. In 2021, she got an International Cooperation scholarship from the University of Seville to work at the Ecuadorian Center for the Promotion and Action of Women (CEPAM) in Quito, where she is still based.

Salvador Leetoy (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1203-0939) is a professor of cultural studies at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Guadalajara Campus. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (FS Chia Ph.D. Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2008) and an M.Sc. in Communication (CONACYT Scholarship, Tecnologico de Monterrey, 1998). He was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Drake University (2017-2018). He has been a visiting fellow in the Dept of International Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2010), the Dept of Journalism at the University of Seville (2011), and the Dept of Communication Studies at the University of San Diego (2013). Professor Leetoy is a member of the Mexican Researchers System (SNI, Tier I). He was the chief editor of Tec’s journal in digital culture, Virtualis (2019-2022), and a member of the leading designing team of the Creative Studies undergraduate program at Tecnologico de Monterrey (EAAA). Professor Leetoy is currently a representative for Latin America of the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS, 2020-24). His scholarly profile combines an interdisciplinary approach to media studies, political theory, and sociology with specific research interests in participatory communication, digital civics, and memory studies.