Deborah Castro

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

Deborah Castro is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Portugal). Her research interests lie in the fields of television studies, digital media and audience studies. She received a Ph.D. in Communication Studies (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Radio-Television-Film (University of Texas at Austin, USA), and a researcher with the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel). Her work has been presented at several venues, such as the annual conferences of the International Communication Association and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research is also available in peer-reviewed journals like El Profesional de la Información and Palabra Clave (forthcoming in 2018).