Dani Madrid-Morales

Courses: Quantitative Text Analysis I & II (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)

Dani Madrid-Morales is a Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication at the Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, where he also serves as Director of Postgraduate Research. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University, holds MA degrees in East Asian Studies and International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Free University of Berlin, respectively, and received his PhD in Media and Communication from the City University of Hong Kong. A scholar of global political communication and disinformation studies, he uses computational text analysis to study state-sponsored news, public opinion, and digital diplomacy, with a geographic focus on East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a contributing author to newsmap, an R package that uses semi-supervised machine learning for geographical document classification, and the editor of Comunicación y Poder en Asia Oriental (2017), a comparative volume on political communication in East Asia. His latest co-edited volume is Disinformation in the Global South (2022). His research has appeared in such leading academic journals as Journalism Studies, Information, Communication and Society, and the International Journal of Communication. He is an alumnus of the IPSA-NUS Methods School and has extensive teaching experience, having previously taught at the City University of Hong Kong, Pompeu Fabra University, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Open University of Catalonia, where he lectured online for a decade.