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Claudia Mellado

Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile

Professor, School of Journalism, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Biography

Claudia Mellado is Professor of Journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. She is the Principal Investigator of the Journalistic Role Performance cross-national project www.journalisticperformance.org. Her research focuses on journalistic cultures, professional roles, social media performance, and comparative research. Her last two edited books are Journalistic Role Performance: Concept, Contexts, and Methods (Routledge, 2017), and Beyond Journalistic Norms. Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2020).

Scholarly beginnings

A research idea

Envisioning possible futures in the field of communication and media studies

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Selected readings

Mellado, C (Ed). 2020. Beyond Journalistic Norms. Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. London: New York.

Mellado, Claudia & Hermida, Alfred. (2021). A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit. Digital Journalism.

Mellado, Claudia & Hermida, Alfred (2021). The Promoter, Celebrity, and Joker Roles in Journalists’ Social Media Performance. Social Media +Society. 1-21. 

Mellado C, Mothes C, Hallin DC, et al (2020). Investigating the Gap between Newspaper Journalists’ Role Conceptions and Role Performance in Nine European, Asian, and Latin American Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics 25(4):552-575.

Mellado, C; Hellmueller, L, M rquez-Ram rez, M; Humanes,M L; Sparks, C; Stepinska, A; Pasti, S; Schielicke, Anna-Maria; Tandoc, E & Wang, H. (2017). The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance. Journal of Communication 67 (6): 944–967.

Watch Prof. Mellado present on “Journalistic performance and identity construction on digital media spaces” at the Center for Latinx Digital Media

Listen to Prof. Mellado’s insights about her professional journey in El Café Latinx podcast