Juan Pablo Cannata

Position:

Teacher and researcher

Subjects:

Public Discourse Management

Academic Unit:

Communication

Location:

CABA HEADQUARTERS, Pilar Headquarters

Study areas:

Communication

Director and researcher at the Center for Studies in Applied Communication (CECAP) of the Graduate School of Communication of the Universidad Austral.

Bachelor of Communication from the Universidad Austral and a Master's degree in Sociology from FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires).

PhD in Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). Research project on public discourse, scandals, controversies and new social agendas.

Professor of Sociology of Mass Communication at the Faculty of Communication of the Universidad Austral and Public Discourse Management and Media Relations at the School of Postgraduate Studies in Communication (EPC) of the Universidad AustralCoordinator of the “Public Discourse Management” program.

He completed postgraduate seminars at the IAE Business School (Universidad Austral), the Università della Santa Croce and at Princeton University (organized by the Witherspoon Institute).

Visiting professor at INALDE (University of La Sabana, Colombia), the University of Montevideo (Uruguay), and the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). He has taught classes and lectured at universities in Latin America and Spain.

In 2015 and 2016 he was in charge of the seminar “The media and public debates: the case of Human Rights” at the International School of Universidad Austral.

Director of the “Cultural Mediation and Social Affairs” project of the NGO Intermedia Social Innovation.

In 2014, he completed a research stay at the Ibero-American Observatory of Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in 2015 at Heythrop College (University of London).

He has published “Movie News: Fiction as a Trigger for Public Discourse” (Crujía, 2018) and “Values ​​in Public Discourse” (Logos, 2013).

He was director of the NGO Solidaria Universitarios para el Desarrollo (2008-2020) and currently serves as a member of the board of directors.

She advises NGOs and educational centers on issues of governance, communication, cultural change, and public discourse in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, and Spain.

Board member of the Barcelona-based communications agency “La Machi” and the educational consultancy firm EsiData.

Member of the Professional Council of Public Relations of Argentina, AISOC (Ibero-American Association of Sociology of Organizations and Communication), and ALICE (Latin American Association of Electoral Campaign Researchers).

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