Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat, M. A.

Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat, M. A. (born 1975) studied Media Studies (UAB, Barcelona), Communicative Strategy and Political Science (ICPS, Barcelona, 1999), Political Communication and Strategy (UAB, Barcelona, 2000) and Qualitative Methods of Social Research (UdG, Girona, 2001). In 2006 he wrote his MA thesis on the meaning of theories of nationalism in media studies. He has taught since 2001 in the Department of Digital Communication at the University de Vic (Barcelona, Spain). In the summer and winter semesters 2007 he also worked as a lecturer a the Institute of Intercultural Business Communication (IWK) at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Previously he taught in 2006 in France (INFOCOM University Lyon II) and in 2004 in Great Britain (University of Surrey-Roehampton, London). His research interests concern media culture, discourse analysis, the history of communication as well as political communication and the main emphasis of his work rests on national discourse and national mythologies, on which he also wrote his doctorate “Nationalisation of the Public Sphere: the Role of the Media in the Construction of National Mythologies”. Ramon Rodríguez was a guest researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute from March to September 2008. He was particularly interested in current research outputs and projects of the Institute on European Media and Public Spheres (EuroMaPS) and the projects in the area of media offerings and media culture.