I am Deborah Castro, an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and a research fellow at ITI-LARSyS (Portugal).

In 2015, I received my PhD in Communication at Autonomous University of Barcelona (awarded summa cum laude) funded by the Spanish Government. During this period, I spent a few months as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, in the USA.

In 2016, I moved to Portugal as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Interactive Technologies Institute. There, I was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Madeira (2017-2018).

I came to the Netherlands in 2018 to join the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam as a lecturer (2018-2020). I also received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to work on my project “Living in the media” (2020-2023).