Editorial Board Members

Hernando Rojas is Helen Firstbrook Franklin professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarship focuses on political communication, in particular examining: (a) the deployment of new communication technologies for social mobilization in a variety of contexts; (b) the influence of audience perceptions of media (and audience perceptions of media effects) on both public opinion and the structure of the public sphere; and (c) the conditions under which media support democratic governance.