Dr Iñaki Garcia-Blanco
Overview
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Iñaki Garcia-Blanco is a media scholar interested in the study of the relationships and interplays between media, politics and citizenship.
His research appears in international, peer-reviewed journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice or Feminist Media Studies. At JOMEC, Iñaki teaches BA modules on journalism, new media and politics, and MA modules on political communication and social research methods. Iñaki is vice-chair of the Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).
Iñaki Garcia-Blanco graduated in Journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and holds an MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He got his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a dissertation analysing the discursive construction of democratic politics through the media.
Prior to his appointment as a lecturer in Cardiff University, Iñaki worked as a research associate for the EUROSPHERE project (funded by the European Commission), and as an associate lecturer at the UAB. During the academic year 2007-08, Iñaki carried out research at the Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Research Interests
Iñaki Garcia-Blanco’s current research focuses on the relationships between journalism and new media, and citizens’ political participation.
Publications
Articles in international peer reviewed journals
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki – Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (forthcoming) “The Discursive Construction of Women Politicians in the European Press”. Feminist Media Studies
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2011) “The Discursive Construction of Voters in the Spanish General Election Campaign 2008”. Journalism Practice 5(2).
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki – Stephen Cushion (2010) “A Partial Europe without Citizens or EU-Level Political Institutions: How Far Can Euronews Contribute to a European Public Sphere?”, Journalism Studies 11(3).
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2009) “The Discursive Construction of Democracy in the Spanish Press”, Media, Culture & Society 31(5).
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki – Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (2009) “Migrant Women and the Representation of Immigration” in Feminist Media Studies 9 (2).
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2005) “Democratisation, Elections and the Press. Some Notes from Spain” in Critical Arts 19 (1-2).
Chapters in books
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki, Sofie Van Bauwel and Bart Cammaerts (2009) “The Realm of Contemporary Media Agoras” in Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki, Sofie Van Bauwel and Bart Cammaerts (eds) Media Agoras: Democracy, Diversity and Communication, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2006) “Blurring the Boundaries. The Dismantlement of the Institutional and Non-Institutional Politics Dichotomy through the Media-Oriented Strategies of New Social Movements and Political Parties" in Carpentier, Nico, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Maren Hartmann, Peeter Vihalemm, Bart Cammaerts (eds) Researching Media, Democracy, and Participation, Tartu: Tartu University Press.
Edited books
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki, Sofie Van Bauwel and Bart Cammaerts (eds)(2009) Media Agoras: Democracy, Diversity and Communication, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Reports
Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin and Iñaki Garcia-Blanco (2010) Diversity and the European Public Sphere: The Case of the United Kingdom, Report for the Eurosphere project (funded by the 6th Framework Project).
De Cleen, Benjamin, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (2009) The ECREA Summer School Survey. Results and Reflections, published as a book chapter in Carpentier, Nico, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Tobias Olsson, Hannu Nieminen, Ebba Sundin and Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds) Communicative Approaches to Politics and Ethics in Europe, Tartu: Tartu University Press.
Book reviews
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (forthcoming) Silverstone, Roger (2010) La moral de los medios de comunicación (Spanish translation of Media and Morality), Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, in Quaderns del CAC.
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2010) Paschal Preston (2009) Making The News: Journalism and News Cultures in Europe, London: Routledge, in Journalism Studies 11(6).
Garcia-Blanco, Iñaki (2007) Curran, James (2005) Medios de comunicación y poder en una sociedad democrática (Spanish translation of Media and Power), in Anàlisi 35.
Biography
Iñaki Garcia-Blanco holds an MSc in Politics and Communication (London School of Economics and Political Science) and a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
Previous to his appointment as a research associate to work as a media analyst for the EUROSPHERE project at Cardiff University, he was an associate lecturer at the UAB, where he taught BA modules on media theory and public opinion. Iñaki’s research focuses on the relationships between the media and the political, understanding the political in its broadest possible sense.
Since 2008, he is Vice-Chair of the Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).