Miriam Hernandez

Dr. Miriam Hernández is an assistant professor in the Advertising and Public Relations program in the Communications Department at California State University – Dominguez Hills. She obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from City University of Hong Kong and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She holds an M.A. in Political Analysis & Media from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. Her research interests include public relations & strategic communication, political communication, Latino and gender issues in the creation and contestation of traditional and online media content. Dr. Hernández’s academic work has been published in journals such as Journalism Studies, Violence against Women and Palabra Clave.

Current Research Projects

• Domestic Violence advocacy agendas meet journalists’ routines in Mexico.
• Examining Contact Theory in Online Environments. The impact of social identities in the interaction with immigrants and LGBT communities in online Singapore environments (w/Dr. Ben Detenber, Dr. Joyce Pang, Lew Zi Jian).
• Source (minority & female) strategies in non-Western International broadcasts in Spanish (w/Dani Madrid Morales).
• The digital strategies of pro and anti-immigrant advocacy groups (w/Vinicio Sinta). Data collection stage

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Hernández, Miriam & Madrid-Morales, Dani (2020). “Diversifying Voice, Democratizing the News? A Content Analysis of Citizen News Sources in Spanish-language International Broadcasting”. Journalism Studies, 21(8), 1076-1092 (Sample)
• Hernández, Miriam, Saldierna-Salas, Alma, Muñiz-Muriel, Carlos y Marañón-Lazcano, Felipe (2020). Brecha de género en el conocimiento político infantil: influencia de las redes sociales y la socialización política. Palabra Clave, 23(4), e2343 (Sample)
• Lovric, Bruno; Hernández, Miriam. (2019). “The House of Black and White: Identities of Color and Power Relations in the Game of Thrones” in Revista Nos Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 2; ISSN: 2448-1793.
• Hernández, Miriam (2018). “Killed out of love”: A frame analysis of domestic violence coverage in Hong Kong. Violence Against Women, Volume: 24 issue: 12, page(s): 1454-1473. (Sample)
• Hernández, Miriam & Marañón, Felipe (2017). “Brecha de Género en México: Determinantes de la información política en las mujeres mexicanas”. Revista Legislativa de Estudios Sociales y de Opinión Pública, vol. 10, núm. 20, jul.-dic. 2017, pp. 71-104.

Book chapters

• Flores, Ruben; Saldierna, Alma & Hernández, Miriam (2021). “Consumo de medios y su impacto en las conductas de preven­ción del contagio.” In Carlos Muñiz (Eds.), Medios de comunicación y pandemia de COVID-19 en México (pp. 185-210). Nuevo León: Tirant Humanidades, ISBN: 978-84-1865-632-3 (Sample copy, please do not distribute).
• Hernández, Miriam; Saldierna, Alma & Marañón, Felipe (2019). “La brecha de género en los niños y niñas de Nuevo León. De la socialización política a la sofisticación política.” In Alma Saldierna y Carlos Muñiz (Eds.), Formación cívica y socialización política en la educación básica (pp. 97-125). Nuevo León: Fontamara. ISBN: 978-607-736-587-7.