My current research focuses on two main areas

• The role of the media in the constitution and governance of sub-national (state) public spaces
• The resilience of authoritarian forms of governance and conflict management, and their renewal under new political conditions

Latest research projects

Media and Subnational Democracy: A Comparison of Bahia (Brazil) and Veracruz (Mexico), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2017–2024)

Professional Values in Journalism and Political Adaptation of Hyperlocal Media: Blogs from the Interior of Bahia (Brazil) – ongoing

Media, Democracy and Violence: The Formation of the Public Sphere in Veracruz (Mexico) – ongoing

Social Vulnerability and the Public Sphere: The Role of Migrants in Colombia, Central America, and Mexico – in preparation

Latest publications

The Media, the Public Sphere and Neopluralism in Veracruz (Mexico), en F. Montambeault et T. Hilgers (éds.), Unequal Democracy: Civil Society, Neopluralism, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America and Beyond, Montreal – Kingston, McGill – Queens University Press (sous presse).

La sphère publique comme enjeu de citoyenneté », en Françoise Montambeault, Nora Nagels et Dan Furukawa Marques (éds.), L’Amérique latine : Gouvernance, inclusion et citoyenneté, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2024, pp. 53-68.

Destaque para “pluralismo de elite”, valores profissionais e valor-notícia, dans Lia Seixas et Laura Molina (dirs.), Fundamentos e práticas jornalísitcas: aulas-entrevistas com acadêmicos, Florianópolis, Insular, 2024, pp. 115–136.

Études régionales et politique comparée. Une réflexion à partir de l’Amérique latine, en J.-G. Prévost et P. May (éds), Problèmes politiques contemporains, Montréal, JFD Éditions, 2023, pp. 77-86 —avec Nora Nagels.

Olhares cruzados: África e América Latina perante a integração regional, en Julián Durazo Herrmann et Odair Barros Varela (orgs.), Olhares cruzados. Os processos de integração regional na África e na América Latina em perspectiva comparativa, Florianópolis, Insular, 2021, pp. 17-34.

Vers un fédéralisme nord-américain : Rapprochements formels et informels entre le Canada et le Mexique, en Catherine Vézina et Maurice Demers (orgs.), Amérique du Nord, une histoire des identités et solidarités partagées, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020, pp. 33-54.

What is News no interior da Bahia? », Contracampo, 43:2 (2024), https://doi.org/10.22409/contracampo.v43i2.62240 —avec Lia Seixas

Framing the public sphere: A study of print media in Veracruz (Mexico) », International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 37 (2024), pp. 353-371. DOI:10.1007/s10767-024-09467-4 —avec Charles-Antoine Lebœuf

Gatekeeper y líneas editoriales en el estado de Veracruz, México, LATAM Revista latinoamericana de ciencias sociales y humanidades, 4 :6 (2023), pp. 1011-1018. DOI :10.56712/latam.v4i6.1496 —avec Rodrigo Hernández, Guadalupe Mar, Teresa Arroyo et Miguel Barragán

A comment on ‘Expressions of dependency: Green crimes and the phantasmagoria of “development” in the extreme west of Bahia, Brazil’, Criminological Encounters, 5 :1 (2022), pp. 215-218. https://doi.org/10.26395/CE22050116

Political Stability and Subnational Media Systems: Comparing Bahia and the Federal District of Brazil » Communication Practice and Research (2022). DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2022.2056423 —avec Fábio Henrique Pereira

Populism, Media and Journalism. An Introduction to the Special Issue, Brazilian Journalism Research, 17:3 (2021), pp. 522-535 DOI:10.25200/BJR.v17n3.2021.1487—avec Tania Gosselin et Allison Harell

Os determinantes da cobertura jornalística: as eleições federais canadenses em jornais do Quebec, Interfaces Brasil/Canadá, no. e21.12 (2021) p. 1-27 —avec Arthur Araújo (33%). DOI : 10.15210/INTERFACES.V21I0.21385

Mídia e Política: Perguntas a partir do Brasil », Carta FOMERCO, Fórum Universitário Mercosul (février 2021), avec Eduardo da Nóbrega Monteiro

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