Viviana Rojas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Viviana Rojas taught at the Universidad de Chile and Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, before coming to The University of Texas at Austin to pursue a doctoral degree in journalism in 1997. She has been at The University of Texas at San Antonio since 2002. Her teaching areas have centered on communication theory, intercultural and international communication. She has recently published the article The gender of Latinidad: Latinas speak about Hispanic television in The Communication Review (7:2) and is the leading author in the book chapter Communities, cultural capital and the digital divide published in Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use (Bucy & Newhagen, Eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associated). Dr. Rojas is currently working with interdisciplinary teams in three pilot studies for NIH grant proposals: 1) The effect of media on adolescent sexual behavior; 2) The role of the male minority parent in the communication of sexual knowledge to their children; and 3) The international migration of US retirees to less developed countries.