Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Postigo. PDI (Coordinator)
NAME AND SURNAME: Inmaculada Postigo Gómez
POSITION: Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and University Lecturer UNIVERSITY/ORGANISATION: University of Malaga. www.uma.es
COUNTRY: Spain
E-MAIL: ipg@uma.es
Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Malaga, PhD in Communication and Master in New Information and Communication Technologies. She is currently the Dean of the Centre.
Its lines of research contemplate the creation and analysis of discursive productions with a gender focus, from a critical perspective.
She is the Coordinator of the Ibero-American Network of Research in Communication and Feminism for Social Justice (IBERFEMCOM), which brings together more than thirty researchers from 18 universities and 11 countries (www.iberfemcom.uma.es). She is the head of the research group Feminism, Communication and Cooperation for Social Justice (FEMCOM), and directs the Gender and Communication section of AE-IC (https://ae-ic.org/secciones-y-grupos-de-trabajo/genero-y-comunicacion-2/).
He has carried out pre- and post-doctoral stays in European and Latin American universities, in countries such as Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Austria, Italy, Holland, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, among others.
She has directed the "Observatorio del tratamiento informativo de la violencia de género", a project of excellence of the Junta de Andalucía and the research project "Produsage juvenil en las redes sociales y manifestaciones de las desigualdades de género: nuevas formas de violencia", within the Programa Estatal de Investigación Científico y Técnica de Excelencia (MINECO). She participates as a researcher in several European projects focused on hate speech through social networks and media literacy.
She has written articles in indexed journals and book chapters including "La violencia machista a la luz de las interpretaciones de las noticias aparecidas en los informativos"; "Observatorio andaluz de la violencia machista en los medios audiovisuales (Ob-Vio); "Mujeres P'urhépecha: defensoras de la palabra, el territorio y la autonomía"; "Indigenous communication in Latin America for social re-existence: communicative experiences in the Colombian Cauca; "Building a Culture of Peace: The San José de Apartadó Peace Community".
Since 2009, it has been carrying out international cooperation projects in Latin America (Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, among others) focused on communication as a tool for the empowerment of women and the fight against gender violence.