PhD. Paloma Contreras-Pulido is Professor of Educational Technology at the International University of La Rioja (Spain). She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Huelva and is also a journalist and social educator. She is a member of the Agora Research Group (HU-M648) and is a member of the Alfamed Network (Euro-American inter-university network for research on media competences). Her line of research focuses on the media skills of citizens, educommunication, and media literacy in areas of social exclusion, ICT applied to education and media for social change.