Thesis: Nationhood, Visibility and the Media: The Struggles for and over the Image of Brazil during the June 2013 Demonstrations (2017). View here.
Supervisor: Dr Shani Orgad
After the PhD
César is lecturer in Global Media and Communications at Cardiff University. His research interests include Media and Nationalism, Visibility, Public Diplomacy, Nation Branding, Media Representation, Social Movements, and Media and Globalisation. He is interested in how particular representations of the nation are created and communicated through the complex contemporary media space, for both domestic and foreign audiences, in order to advance political, economic and cultural goals. His focus is on the different tensions and struggles that arise during this process, especially in the context of Latin American societies.
His research has been published in the International Journal of Communication, Geopolitics, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo (Spain), Revista Trama Interdisciplinar (Brazil), and Liinc em Revista (Brazil). He is also author or co-author of book chapters and reports in his areas of interest.
He authored the monograph Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil's 2013 Protests (2020, Palgrave MacMillan), and was assistant editor for the reader Globalization and the Media (Routledge, 2019, with Professor Terhi Rantanen).
César was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for the year 2018-2019 at Loughborough University, where he worked with Professor Sabina Mihelj. Before that, he worked as a Lecturer in Promotional Cultures, as well as in Propaganda, Spin and Public Relations at Brunel University. He was also Assistant Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, on the module Money and the Media, convened by Dr Liz Moor.
He passed his viva without corrections on 12 June 2017.
Research Interests
César's research interests include Media and Nationalism, Visibility, Public Diplomacy, Nation Branding, Media Representation and Media and Globalisation. He is interested in how particular representations of the nation are created and communicated through the complex contemporary media space, for both domestic and foreign audiences, in order to advance political, economic and cultural goals. His focus is on the different tensions and struggles that arise during this process, especially in the context of Latin American societies.
Biography
César is a journalist from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and graduated with Distinction in MSc/MA in Global Media and Communications from LSE and the University of Southern California.
He worked as a journalist for the newspaper El Mercurio in Chile and did research and production for several documentaries and television series broadcasted in Chile and Latin America. After this, he joined Ogilvy Public Relations Chile to work on different projects related with Nation Branding for several Chilean public and private organisations.
As a journalist, he has written for Chilean newspapers El Mercurio and La Tercera, as well as for foreign magazines such as DAMn and Latin American Newsletter.
He also worked as Research Support Assistant for the project Parenting for a Digital Future, based in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.