Homero Gil de Zuniga
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Assistant Professor
Contact Information:
CMA 5.112
512-471-0553
hgz@mail.utexas.edu
Personal Website
Homero Gil de Zúñiga Navajas is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at University of Texas-Austin and currently directs the Center for Journalism and Communication Research within the College of Communication. He joined the UT faculty after receiving a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008), where he also minored in New Media.
He showed an interest in journalism and communication early in his career, pursuing a B.A. in Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1999) and working as a reporter and freelance writer for various media outlets in Spain. His education also includes a Master’s degree in Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003) and a second doctoral degree in European Studies at the Universidad Europea de Madrid (2006).
Gil de Zúñiga has also been a participant of the National Communication Association’s Doctoral Honors Seminar at University of Oklahoma (2005) and the Summer Doctoral Program at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (2006).
His research interests revolve around digital media, the Internet in particular, and its influence in three distinct realms: 1) Internet and everyday life, 2) Internet and political/civic engagement and 3) Internet and its intersection with distinct circles of geo-identities in the European context. He has presented his research in professional associations and Universities in different countries around the globe such as USA, Spain, Canada, Mexico, UK, Cuba, Germany and Colombia.
Similarly, articles illustrating his research framework have been published in a diverse number of peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Communication Research, IT & Society, New Media & Society, Mass Communication & Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Computers in Human Behavior, Human Communication Research or Comunicación y Ciudadanía among others. He is an editorial board member or serves as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, New Media & Society, Mass Communication & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Comunicación y Ciudadanía and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Gil de Zúñiga has received a number of grants and awards totaling over $60,000, including the European Union Center of Excellence Research Grant, the Neil Shively and the Fodder & Starching Society Scholarship, the Walden Jay and Clara Charlotte Damm Research Award, the Joe W. Neal Centennial Fellowship in International Communication and a College of Communication Summer Fellowship, among others.
Prof. Zúñiga teaches classes in digital media, political communication and quantitative research methods. He is honored to be part of the UT-Austin School of Journalism and to be able to do what he enjoys the most: researching and teaching.
Recent classes: J331-Web Publishing, J321-Fundamentals of Multimedia Journalism, J381-Experimental Design in Mass Communication, J363-Theories of Mass Communication, J395-Web Publishing: Theory & Practice.