Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce

Professor, Texas State University

Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce is professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University and a senior faculty research associate with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Her research focuses on the evolution of journalism in a digital, interconnected world, concentrating on transnational and Latin American media and the relationship between journalism, democracy and consensus building. Her most recent monograph, Digital-Native News in South America Building Bridges with Diverse Audiences in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, was published in 2024 by Palgrave MacMillan. She is also the co-author of the book From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America (2021). She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and her BS from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica – SP, Brazil