Center for InterAmerican Studies

"Mexican television productions in Netflix USA: More complexity and diversity in the depictions of Mexicans and Mexico or Reinforcemente of the Same Old Stereotypes?"

José Carlos Lozano, Texas A&M International University

Dr. Jose Carlos Lozano is Chair of the Department of Psychology and Communication and  Professor of Media Theories and Research at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas).  He got his M.A. in Communication Research from Leicester University, England and his Ph.D. in International Communication and Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was Director of the Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Communications, and Director of the Research Center in Communication from 1992-2012 at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. There, he founded the Observatory of Media and Culture of Lawfulness, devoted to the monitoring of Mexican news media coverage of organized crime and the War on Drugs, coordinating long-term analyses of many different daily newspapers and television news shows. Lozano is the author of numerous books and journal articles in the areas of mass an international communication, in particular a textbook in mass communication theories widely used in Mexican and Latin American schools. He is a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2007.

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS Colloquium in-person session, on Tuesday June 14, from 18 to 20hrs (CET)! Room: T2-226 | Bielefeld University's main building (UHG)