María del Carmen García Galera is a Full Professor at Journalism and Corporate Communications Department, Rey Juan Carlos University (2006-). Principal researcher of the high-performance research group Particypad (2015-). Degree in Journalism from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1992) and Phd in Information Science from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1997). She teaches Audience Research (Journalism Degree) and Strategic Planning of Public Relations (Advertising and Public Relations Degree). Throughout her academic career, her research has been focused on the uses and responsibilities of new forms of digital social communication; mass media effects on children and youth (Phd Thesis Research award, 1999); the participation and mobilization of young people in the digital media and media literacy (Research award, 2004). Currently, her main lines of research focus on information disorders and the employability of Communication graduates. She was the IP of two national and autonomic research project about these topics (2020-2023). She has three six-year periods of active research and more than 50 publications, both in scientific journals indexed in JCR and chapters of widely disseminated books in her area of study. She is the academic director of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit at URJC (2021-). She is the person in charge to organize Science Week or the European Researchers' Night, among others science dissemination activities, at Rey Juan Carlos University.
María del Carmen García Galera is a Full Professor at Journalism and Corporate Communications Department, Rey Juan Carlos University (2006-). Principal researcher of the high-performance research group Particypad (2015-). Degree in Journalism from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1992) and Phd in Information Science from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1997). She teaches Audience Research (Journalism Degree) and Strategic Planning of Public Relations (Advertising and Public Relations Degree). Throughout her academic career, her research has been focused on the uses and responsibilities of new forms of digital social communication; mass media effects on children and youth (Phd Thesis Research award, 1999); the participation and mobilization of young people in the digital media and media literacy (Research award, 2004). Currently, her main lines of research focus on information disorders and the employability of Communication graduates. She was the IP of two national and autonomic research project about these topics (2020-2023). She has three six-year periods of active research and more than 50 publications, both in scientific journals indexed in JCR and chapters of widely disseminated books in her area of study. She is the academic director of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit at URJC (2021-). She is the person in charge to organize Science Week or the European Researchers' Night, among others science dissemination activities, at Rey Juan Carlos University.