About Irati Agirreazkuenaga
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Irati Agirreazkuenaga is Assistant Professor in information genres, radio speech and corporate communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the University of the Basque Country. She obtained an international PhD in Media in 2
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Irati Agirreazkuenaga is Assistant Professor in information genres, radio speech and corporate communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the University of the Basque Country. She obtained an international PhD in Media in 2013, written in Basque and English. She performed part of her thesis at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research in the University of Glasgow (2011) and she afterwards stayed as a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the same centre for six months (2014). She has developed her research on public media and participation during a postdoctoral stay in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. She has published articles on communication strategies for public radios and the role of the media in empowering minority identities among others (Media, Culture & Society) and co-authored books on audience participation and media convergence; she has also published a book on the first relevant Basque-language radios during Francoism (2016). She is nowadays involved in issues of public media and citizen engagement in civic and political life and she is member of two research groups financed by the spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the University of the Basque Country on audience participation and political communication respectively.
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University of the Basque Country
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