José Carlos Lozano Rendón

José-Carlos Lozano-Rendón is a researcher in the area of Latin American media studies and in the social history of cinema who has done extensive empirical research on international and political communication based on critical theoretical approaches such as political economy and cultural studies. He is the author of one of the most popular and influential textbooks in Latin American communication schools: "[https://books.google.com/books?id=3RX6zepLH7sC Mass communication theories and research", published by Pearson] since 1996.

Having born and grown up in the Texas-Mexican border has also motivated him to work on issues related to media, culture and identity in this region. Lozano-Rendón is a professor and researcher at Texas A&M International University, in Laredo, Texas (United States) since 2012, and Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León, Mexico since 2020. He was Professor of Communication from 1992 to 2012 and Research Fellow from 2012 to 2020 at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. Since 1993 he has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico, being appointed [https://datos.gob.mx/busca/dataset/sistema-nacional-de-investigadores National Researcher Level 3 for the period 2018 to 2028]. He was admitted as a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has a Ph.D. in International Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master's in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester, and a BA in Social Communication from the Universidad Regiomontana. Provided by Wikipedia