Juan-José Igartua#
| Membership Number: | 6372 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://diarium.usal.es/jigartua/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9865-2714 |
| Twitter: | @jjigartua |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present (Full) Professor of Media Psychology (Media Effects and Processes and Communication Research Methods). Faculty of Social Sciences. University of Salamanca
- 1999 - 2009 Associate Professor of Media Effects and Processes and Communication Research Methods. Faculty of Social Sciences. University of Salamanca
- 1997 - 1999 Assistant Professor Media Effects and Processes and Communication Research Methods. Faculty of Social Sciences. University of Salamanca
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting Professor Media Effects and Processes and Communication Research Methods. Faculty of Social Sciences. University of Salamanca
- 1992 - 1996 Research and Teaching Fellow. Scholarship from the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Country Government. University of the Basque Country. Faculty of Psychology. Social Psychology and Methodology of Behavioural Sciences Department
Fields of Scholarship
- Health communication
- Theory of media entertainment
- Media and immigration
- Media psychology
- Media effects
- News frames and framing effect
- Narrative persuasion
Honours and Awards
- 2022-2026 Transitional characters in entertainment-education narratives designed to reduce prejudice against immigrants: Attributes, boundary conditions and explanatory mechanisms (TRANCHAR). Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 119,185 euros. Principal Investigator.
- 2021-2024 Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives (BRIDGES). European Commission. Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme. 2,999,695,41 euros. (Member)
- 2020-2023 Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective (HumMingBird). European Commission. Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme. 2,992,035 euros. (Member)
- 2020-2022 Preventing Hate Against Refugees and Migrants (PHARM). European Commission - Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme. 362,131.85 euros. (WP-Leader)
- 2021 The Observatory for Content Analysis (Observatorio de los Contenidos Audiovisuales) obtains the Roblón Award 2020 as “Communication Research Group of the Year” (Spanish Prize)
- 2016 2020 Narrative tools to reduce prejudice. Effects of similarity, imagined contact, empathy and narrative voice. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 49,126 euros. Principal Investigator.
- 2015 First Prize in the call of XVI Premio Santo Padre Rubio S. J. para avances en el conocimiento de la inmigración, organized by the University Institute of Migration Studies of the Pontifical University of Comillas (January 28, 2015). Research study: Procesos de recepción y efectos socio-cognitivos de películas sobre inmigración. El papel moderador del prejuicio hacia inmigrantes.
