Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Faculty Member, Communication

Other Affiliations: Macquarie University, Media, Music and Cultural Studies

Assistant Professor

Universidad Javeriana

About

I'm an Assistant Professor of Communication at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia.

I have a PhD in Music, Media & Cultural Studies from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). I was awarded a MQRES scholarship from Macquarie, a grant from my home university and a grant from COLFUTURO to study in Australia.

My PhD thesis analysed contemporary commercial Radio programming in Bogota, Colombia. I studied the way that targeted programming and marketing are in fact, technologies of subjectivation and coloniality based on the discourse of truth of demographics and psycographics. I analysed the programming of 10 of the top rated radio stations in Bogota.

While in Australia, I tutored, lectured and convened a course on Research Methodology at the International Communication masters program of Macquarie University. 

In Colombia I have lectured courses on Audio Technology, Radio Audience Research and Cultural Radio at the undergrad program of Communication of Universidad Javeriana.

Currently I'm lecturing two masters courses: one, an introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies and the other on Media Targeting and socio-cultural processes. I will also lecture a session on Music and everyday life at the Social Sciences PhD program.

I have lectured courses on radio journalism at Universidad del Rosario and Universidad de la Sabana in Bogota. I also lectured a masters course on Critical Intercultural Communication at Universidad Autonoma de Occidente in Cali.

I worked for 12 years as programmer of UN Radio (98.5 FM) in Bogota. I also worked for 3 years as programmer and announcer at 2MBS (102.5 FM) in Sydney.

I've worked with topics related to Radio, Sound, Music, Music Videos and Audience Research. I'm very interested in Cultural Studies, Decolonial Theories and Governmentality. My work tends to be critical, although I enjoy studying topics where critical positions are not that common, such as marketing and commercial media.

I'm interested in creating or being part of a network of researchers that explores radio and sound, and new media technologies from a critical, post-structuralist, decolonial perspective, different from the usual humanistic, non-critical, ethnographical/historical approaches.

Interested parties could drop me a line !