Sebastián Valenzuela
Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University (Chile)
Sebastián Valenzuela (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is associate professor in the School of Communications at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) and chief science officer of the Swiss-based International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). He is principal investigator in two interdisciplinary research centers in Chile: the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), where he leads the area of mis/disinformation studies, and the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), where he studies information-related inequalities. He is associate editor of Human Communication Research and sits on the editorial board of several communication journals.
He is an expert in political communication, journalism and social media, topics on which he has written more than 90 scientific publications, including the third edition of “Setting the Agenda: The News Media and Public Opinion” (co-authored with Max McCombs, published by Polity Press, 2021). His research has been awarded by the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison (School of Journalism & Mass Communication) and Amsterdam (ASCoR). Previously, he worked as a journalist specializing in economic affairs.