Dr Gabriel Moreno-Esparza

Assistant Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Dr Moreno received in September 2009 a PhD by UK-based Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) within the University of Westminster, asresult of his investigation about the role of television news in the experiences of immigrant families. In January 2010 he moved to Mexico under the auspices of Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology, as full-time member of the research and teaching staff at Universidad de Guadalajara’s Department of Social Communication Studies (DESC). He then joined Jesuit University of Guadalajara’s (ITESO) Department of Sociocultural Studies (DESO) as lecturer and researcher.

Gabriel’s teaching experience in the UK dates back to his role as visiting lecturer from January 2006 to November 2009 at the University of Westminster’s School of Media, Arts and Design in Harrow Campus. He has a professional background in journalism, which he practiced for 12 years at various news outlets, including Guadalajara’s quality newspapers Siglo 21 and Publico, and as financial and general news correspondent for Reuters’ news bureau in Mexico City.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I am generally interested in the production, circulation and contestation of public discourse in the contexts of polymedia/hybrid economies of attention. At present, I am involved in research projects involving the communicability of healthcare and of international migration.

Transnational communication

Key Publications

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Exploring the Role of GPT-4 in Analysing the Hybrid Communication of Healthcare, Moreno Esparza, G. 2 Jun 2026, AI, Language, and Society, Bloomsbury
Interregional Migration and Hybrid Media: From Postnational Imaginaries to National Contestation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Moreno Esparza, G. 14 Jul 2026, In: Global Media Journal: German Edition
The use of hybrid media in the May 2024 local elections and after, Moreno Esparza, G. 22 Jun 2024, General Election 2024, Oxford, Mair Golden Moments
Transnational Latin American Television: genres, formats and adaptations, Moreno-Esparza, G. 19 May 2022, In: Transnational Screens
Digital diasporas: accounting for the role of family talk in transnational social spaces, Moreno-Esparza, G. 11 Apr 2019, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, Blackwell Publishing
Mobile Journalism: Reflexive storytelling in the co-produced public sphere, Schleser, M., Moreno-Esparza, G., Kapur, A. 1 Jun 2017, Creative Mobile Media: A Complete Course, London, World Scientific
Visualizing Simultaneity in Diasporic Public Spheres: The Case of the Mexican Diaspora in the U.S., Moreno-Esparza, G., Martinez Tellez, R. 12 Jul 2017, In: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Circuitos migratorios y telefonía de larga distancia: hablando de violencia en México, Moreno-Esparza, G. 2011, XXIII Encuentro Nacional AMIC 2011: Violencia, comunicación y vida cotidiana, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (AMIC)
Noticiero Univision: Coverage of the Arizona law as a case study about the construction of diasporic public spheres, Moreno-Esparza, G. 2011, In: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
Televisa and Univision, 50 years of media post-nationalism, Moreno-Esparza, G. Apr 2011, In: Global Media and Communication