MAR
IGLESIAS GARCÍA

Mar Iglesias García holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies (Journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid, a PhD from the University of Alicante, and a postgraduate specialisation course in Educational Applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). She worked for ten years at Valencian Regional Radio (Ràdio Nou) and collaborated with several media outlets, including Expansión, Diario Médico, Gaceta Universitaria and El Periódico. She was also part of the editorial team of the online newspaper VilaWeb Alacant from 1997 to 2010. She currently directs ComunicandoUA, an online journal produced by undergraduate students of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Alicante. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Vice-Rector’s Delegate for Cultural and Linguistic Promotion at the Vice-Rectorate for Culture, Sports and Languages of the University of Alicante. Between January 2021 and April 2023, she was President of the Corporació Valenciana de Mitjans de Comunicació (CVMC) and had previously served as a member and Vice-President of its Governing Council, the body overseeing the public media service À Punt Mèdia. She is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology at the University of Alicante and a member of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. Her main research interests focus on online journalism and artificial intelligence, as well as on the application of ICT in education and advertising. In these fields, she has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has participated in numerous competitive research projects, as detailed in her academic curriculum vitae.