Assistant Professor in Journalism at the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston
Dani Madrid-Morales is an Assistant Professor at the Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, where he researches China’s international broadcasting towards Africa and its reception and impact in Kenya and South Africa. His research interests include global journalism, soft power and public diplomacy, international communications and contemporary East Asian popular culture.
He has written on Japan’s visual culture, the globalization of South Korean pop culture and China’s online public diplomacy. He is co-author of two books and half a dozen academic publications, as well editor of the book Comunicación y poder en Asia Oriental [Communication and Power in East Asia], published in 2017 by Oberta Publishing.
Before pursuing an academic career, Dani worked as a broadcast journalist covering East Asia for Spanish media.
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