Homero Gil de Zuniga
Photo by Michael Muller
Assistant Professor
Contact Information:
CMA 5.112
512-471-0553
hgz@mail.utexas.edu
Homero Gil de Zuniga Navajas will be joining the faculty at University of Texas-Austin in the Fall of 2007 after receiving a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also minored in New Media.
He showed an interest in communications and journalism 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 Zuniga has also been a participant of the National Communication Association’s Doctoral Honors Seminar (2005) and the Summer Doctoral Program at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (2006).
His research interests revolve around new 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 published articles illustrating this research framework in a diverse number of peer-reviewed journals such as Webology, Communication Research, IT & Society, Mass Communication & Society, Binaria or Human Communication Research. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Information Technology & Politics and also serves as a manuscript reviewer for New Media & Society and Textos de la Cibersociedad.
While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he received a number of grants and awards, such as the European Union Center of Excellence Research Grant, the Chancellor’s Extension Award for Excellence, the Neil Shively and the Fodder & Starching Society Scholarship, the Tinker Nave Field Research Grant, the Walden Jay and Clara Charlotte Damm Research Award and the Department of Information Technology's Engage Award, among others.
Gil de Zuniga will be teaching classes in new 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.