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Diana Rios

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences
(Ph. D, University of Texas- Austin)

 

The University of Connecticut
Communication Sciences Building Unit 207

Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-3187
E-mail: diana.rios@uconn.edu

 

 


Area of Speciality:
Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies

Biographical Note:

Her research cuts across specialties in communication by considering human (intercultural) and mediated communication (media). Her inquiries are necessarily interdisciplinary and embrace Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o, Ethnic and Women Studies. She advances her research by scrutinizing the interplay of ethnicity/race, culture and gender in communication processes--particularly in Audience Media Use. Dynamics change over time and across groups of study. Her multimethod approaches have included bilingual (English-Spanish) multi-item telephone and self-administered surveys, journalistic style and ethnographic interviews, field and participant observation.

 

 

 

 
   
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