Segura, María Soledad
Undergraduate -Postgraduate education:
Licentiate Degree in Communication Studies.Master's Degree in Communication and Contemporary Culture. Ph.D. in Social Sciences.
Teaching position(s) at the FCS:
Associate Professor (working as Head Professor) in Sociological Theory I in the Licentiate course of study in Sociology and the Licentiate course of study in Political Science.
Associate Professor in Political Theory, Democracy and Argentine State in the Licentiate course of study in Social Work.
Research Center:
CIECS - Center for Research and Studies on Culture and Society
CIECS - Center for Research and Studies on Culture and Society
Key words:
Communication rights. Cultural rights. Communication, cultural and digital inequalities. Communication policies.
Lines of investigation:
communication, cultural, and digital inequalities. Community, alternative, and popular media digital media. Community cultural organizations. Community internet networks. Social participation in public policy. Participatory public policy institutions civil society organizations. Social impact on public policy. Public communication issues. Misinformation. Hate speech. Denialism. Alternatives for overcoming Public communication issues.
Bonding capabilities:
Eventually, she works as an advisor to government agencies, NGOs and social organizations and collectives in the formulation of bills and regulations on communication and culture.
She was responsible for programs in several NGOs, where she designed, managed and evaluated communication, education, social organization and development projects in rural and urban areas, in collaboration with national and international funding agencies and with organizations of rural people, women, working children and adolescents, and urban territorial organizations.
She has also worked as a journalist in public, community and private media.
Cyt expertise:
Specialist in communication, cultural and digital rights, policies and inequalities; in self-management and socio-community practices to guarantee those rights (community media, digital media, community cultural organizations and community internet networks); and in social participation and incidence of civil society organizations in public policies in those areas and participatory public institutions.
She also works on the current issues of public communication (disinformation, hate speech, negationism); and the alternatives to overcome these issues proposed by states (public policies and regulations, participatory public institutions), companies (private regulations and private moderation of content), international agencies and civil society organizations (media and information literacy, fact-checking) and by social movements and public institutions.
Current research project/program:
Research Director for the project “Communication, Culture and Digital Rights in Argentina. Changes and Inequalities During and After the Pandemic and the Mandatory Lockdown and Social Distancing, PIP Project (Pluriannual Research Projects) 2020 11220200101120CO, funded by CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), in execution from december 2021 to december 2024.
Research Director for the PICT (Scientific and Technological Research Projects) project (PICT 2021-GRF-TII-00324) Communication, Culture and Digital Rights in Argentina. Changes and Inequalities During and After the Pandemic and the Mandatory Lockdown and Social Distancing”, in execution from July 2023 to July 2027.
◦ Research Director for the PICTO-REDES (Oriented and Associative Scientific and Technological Research Project) project (PICTO-REDES 2022-12-00024) “Work and Organizational Strategies in the Social and Popular Economy Sector in Communication, Cultural and Digital Projects in Argentina regions”, in execution from december 2023 to december 2024.
◦ Research Director for PIDTA (Research & Technological and Artistic Development Projects) project (PIDTA 2023) Consolidar line “Communication, Cultural and Digital Rights and Inequalities in Córdoba, Mendoza and Río Negro Before and After the Pandemic and the Mandatory Lockdown and Social Distancing”, waiting to be funded by SeCyT (Office of Science and Technology), UNC (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) (Act 2023-258-E-UNC-SECYT#ACTIP)."