MARIA DOLORES BAÑON CASTELLON

Maria Dolores Bañón Castellón is a Professor at the Universitat de València, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication and the Department of Language Theory. Her academic work centers on Journalism, with a strong focus on media representation, historical media narratives, and contemporary audio formats like podcasts.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of journalism, cultural representation, and digital innovation. She explores how media constructs perceptions of sociopolitical phenomena, particularly through long-term historical lenses. Her work also investigates emerging storytelling formats, especially the podcast as a transformative medium in modern journalism.

She is actively involved in multiple research groups: HISCOMECU (Communication and Media Culture History), INNOCAST (innovation in podcast storytelling and radio formats), and O2C (The Two Cultures Observatory). These affiliations reflect her interdisciplinary approach to media studies, bridging humanities, communication, and technological change.

While no publications or awards are listed in the current data, her research trajectory suggests a strong engagement with qualitative media analysis, historical journalism studies, and digital narrative innovation. She contributes to advancing scholarly understanding of how media shapes cultural and political discourse over time.

She earned her doctorate from the Universitat de València in 2016 with the thesis titled La representación mediática de Arabia Saudita y el wahabismo en Televisión Española (1956-2015), supervised by Dr. Gamal Abdelkarim and Dr. Josep Lluís Gómez Mompart. No information is available regarding student supervision or external grants.