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Dr Cesar Jimenez Martinez
Lecturer Global Media and Communications
School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- JimenezMartinezC@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29225 10214
- Two Central Square, Room Room 2.42, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am Lecturer in Global Media and Communications at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture. My research interests include Media and Nationalism, Visibility, Public Diplomacy, Nation Branding, Media Representation, Social Movements, and Media and Globalisation. I am interested in how nationhood is mediated, for both domestic and foreign audiences, in order to advance political, economic and cultural goals. My focus is on the different tensions and struggles that arise during this process, especially (but not exclusively) in the context of Latin American societies. Recently, I have also started looking at media representations of violence at times of protest.
My research has been published in the The International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette, Nations and Nationalism, Geopolitics, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Revista Trama Interdisciplinar (Brazil), Liinc em Revista (Brazil), Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo (Spain), and Commons. Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital (Spain). I am also author or co-author of book chapters and reports in my areas of interest. I was assistant editor for the reader Globalization and the Media (Routledge, 2019, with Professor Terhi Rantanen) and I recently authored the monograph Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil's 2013 Protests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
I won the 2021 Anthony D. Smith Award to outstanding article published in Nations and Nationalism for ‘Digital nationalism: Understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism’ (with Sabina Mihelj), and I was runner-up in the 2022 Jay Blumler Best Article Award of the International Journal of Press Politics for 'The instrumental mediated visibility of violence: The 2013 protests in Brazil and the limitations of the protest paradigm.' I also received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 ICA Annual Conference for best paper in Public Diplomacy Interest Group, for ‘Soft Power and Media Power: How Foreign Correspondents react to Brazil’s Nation Branding Initiatives’.
I am currently Vice-Chair of the Popular Media & Culture Division of the International Communication Association.
Before joining Cardiff University, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Loughborough University (working with Professor Sabina Mihelj) and a lecturer at Brunel Univesity.
I hold a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a double MSc/MA in Global Communications from the LSE and the University of Southern California, and a BA in Journalism from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Before becoming an academic, I worked almost a decade as a journalist for newspapers and television stations in Latin America. I also worked for Ogilvy Public Relations on different projects related with Nation Branding for several public and private organisations.
I have contributed with interviews or op-ed pieces to the media, including BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, Monocle, UOL (Brazil), MegaNoticias (Chile), Canal 13 (Chile), Radio Duna (Chile), NTN24 (Colombia) and The Conversation, among others.
My languages are English (fluent), Spanish (native), Portuguese (intermediate) and German (basic).
Publication
2023
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Foreign correspondents and public diplomacy: An understudied relationship. [Online]. CPD Blog: USC Annenberg. Available at: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/foreign-correspondents-and-public-diplomacy-understudied-relationship
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Soft power and media power: Western foreign correspondents and the making of Brazil's image overseas. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 19(1), pp. 103-113. (10.1057/s41254-021-00247-x)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. and Edwards, L. 2023. The promotional regime of visibility: ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance. Communication and the Public 8(1), pp. 14-28. (10.1177/20570473221146661)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. and Dolea, A. 2023. Threats, truths and strategies: the overlooked relationship between protests, nation branding and public diplomacy. Nations and Nationalism
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Imaged communities: the visual construction, contestation and commercialisation of the nation. In: Lilleker, D. and Veneti, A. eds. Research Handbook in Visual Politics. Camberley: Edward Elgar, pp. 94-107.
2022
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2022. The Public as a problem: protest, public diplomacy and the pandemic. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, pp. 33-36. (10.1057/s41254-021-00235-1)
2021
- Vrydagh, F. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Conversando com a direita: polarização perniciosa no Brasil e a filosofia de Paulo Freire. Matrizes 15(3), pp. 223-243. (10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v15i3p223-243)
- Manor, I., Jimenez Martinez, C. and Dolea, A. 2021. An asset or a hassle? The public as a problem for public diplomats. [Online]. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Blog: University of Leiden. Available at: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/2021/blog-post---an-asset-or-a-hassle-the-public-as-a-problem-for-public-diplomats
- Dolea, A., Manor, I. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Protests and national images: the public as an emerging problem in public diplomacy. [Online]. uscpublicdiplomacy.org: USC Annenberg. Available at: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/protests-and-national-images-public-emerging-problem-public-diplomacy
- Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2021. The instrumental mediated visibility of violence: the 2013 protests in Brazil and the limitations of the protest paradigm. International Journal of Press/Politics 26(3), pp. 525-546. (10.1177/1940161220923984)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Claudia Mellado (Ed.), Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. Published by Routledge, London, 2021 [Book Review]. Communication & Society/Comunicación y Sociedad 34(3), pp. 187-189.
- Mihelj, S. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Digital nationalism: understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 27(2), pp. 331-346. (10.1111/nana.12685)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Human rights protests and mediated violence. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Vestergaard, A. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. London: Routledge
2020
- Tufte, T., Jimenez Martinez, C. and Suzina, A. C. 2020. De-constructing participatory communication and civil society development in 2020: A perspective inspired by Paulo Freire. Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital 9(2), pp. 48-78.
- Suzina, A. C., Tufte, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. The legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary reflections on participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond. International Communication Gazette 82(5), pp. 407-410. (10.1177/1748048520943687)
- Vrydagh, F. and Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Talking with the right-wing: pernicious polarization in Brazil and the philosophy of Paulo Freire. International Communication Gazette 82(5), pp. 456-473. (10.1177/1748048520943695)
- Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Media, protest and the simplification of violence. [Online]. Media @ LSE Blog: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/07/13/media-protest-and-the-simplification-of-violence/
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. Media and the image of the nation during Brazil’s 2013 protests. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. (10.1007/978-3-030-38238-4)
- Skey, M. and Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Coronavirus reveals how important the nation is to our daily lives. The Conversation
- Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2020. Advice for journalists covering Covid-19: Welsh NHS confederation. Documentation. Cardiff: School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.
- Suzina, A. C., Tufte, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. Qual a mensagem de Paulo Freire para os días atuais?: diálogos sobre a relevância do pensamento de Freire para entender o Brasil hoje. Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo 3(11), pp. 11-18.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. The limits of disruption: three lessons from Brazil. UnMediated - Journal of Politics and Communication 2, pp. 75-79.
2019
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2019. Book Review: Stories without borders: The Berlin Wall and the making of a global iconic event. Media, Culture and Society 41(5), pp. 751-753. (10.1177/0163443717741358)
- Rantanen, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. eds. 2019. Globalization and the media. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
2018
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. P Surowiec, Nation branding, public relations and soft power: Corporatising Poland [Book Review]. Media, War and Conflict 11(4), pp. 489-491. (10.1177/1750635218801720)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. Which image? Of which country? Under which spotlight?: Power, visibility and the image of Brazil. Revista Trama 8(3)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. Protests, news and nation branding: the role of foreign journalists in constructing and projecting the image of Brazil during the June 2013 demonstrations. In: Fehimovic, D. and Ogden, R. eds. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance. Lexington Books, pp. 131-157.
2017
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2017. Making Chile visible: purposes, operationalisation and audiences from the perspective of nation branding practitioners. Geopolitics 22(3), pp. 502-524. (10.1080/14650045.2017.1329724)
2016
- Cammaerts, B., DeCillia, B., Magalhaes, J. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2016. Journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn in the British press: From watchdog to attackdog. Project Report. [Online]. London: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67211/1/CAmmaerts_Journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn_Author_2016.pdf
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2016. Integrative disruption. In: Fox, A. ed. Global Perspectives on Media Events in Contemporary Society. Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts (AMEA) IGI Global, pp. 60-77., (10.4018/978-1-4666-9967-0.ch005)
2014
- Cammaerts, B. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2014. The mediation of the Brazilian V-for-Vinegar protests: From vilification to legitimization and back? /' A mediação dos protestos brasileiros "V-de-Vinagre": da vilificação à legitimação e de volta?. Liinc em Revista 10(1) (10.18617/liinc.v10i1.697)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2014. Disasters as media events: The rescue of the Chilean miners on national and global television. International Journal of Communication 8, pp. 1807-1830.
2013
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2013. Chile's quest to improve its image abroad. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 9(4), pp. 279-290. (10.1057/pb.2013.25)
Articles
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Soft power and media power: Western foreign correspondents and the making of Brazil's image overseas. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 19(1), pp. 103-113. (10.1057/s41254-021-00247-x)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. and Edwards, L. 2023. The promotional regime of visibility: ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance. Communication and the Public 8(1), pp. 14-28. (10.1177/20570473221146661)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. and Dolea, A. 2023. Threats, truths and strategies: the overlooked relationship between protests, nation branding and public diplomacy. Nations and Nationalism
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2022. The Public as a problem: protest, public diplomacy and the pandemic. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, pp. 33-36. (10.1057/s41254-021-00235-1)
- Vrydagh, F. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Conversando com a direita: polarização perniciosa no Brasil e a filosofia de Paulo Freire. Matrizes 15(3), pp. 223-243. (10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v15i3p223-243)
- Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2021. The instrumental mediated visibility of violence: the 2013 protests in Brazil and the limitations of the protest paradigm. International Journal of Press/Politics 26(3), pp. 525-546. (10.1177/1940161220923984)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Claudia Mellado (Ed.), Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. Published by Routledge, London, 2021 [Book Review]. Communication & Society/Comunicación y Sociedad 34(3), pp. 187-189.
- Mihelj, S. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Digital nationalism: understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 27(2), pp. 331-346. (10.1111/nana.12685)
- Tufte, T., Jimenez Martinez, C. and Suzina, A. C. 2020. De-constructing participatory communication and civil society development in 2020: A perspective inspired by Paulo Freire. Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital 9(2), pp. 48-78.
- Suzina, A. C., Tufte, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. The legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary reflections on participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond. International Communication Gazette 82(5), pp. 407-410. (10.1177/1748048520943687)
- Vrydagh, F. and Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Talking with the right-wing: pernicious polarization in Brazil and the philosophy of Paulo Freire. International Communication Gazette 82(5), pp. 456-473. (10.1177/1748048520943695)
- Skey, M. and Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Coronavirus reveals how important the nation is to our daily lives. The Conversation
- Suzina, A. C., Tufte, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. Qual a mensagem de Paulo Freire para os días atuais?: diálogos sobre a relevância do pensamento de Freire para entender o Brasil hoje. Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo 3(11), pp. 11-18.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. The limits of disruption: three lessons from Brazil. UnMediated - Journal of Politics and Communication 2, pp. 75-79.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2019. Book Review: Stories without borders: The Berlin Wall and the making of a global iconic event. Media, Culture and Society 41(5), pp. 751-753. (10.1177/0163443717741358)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. P Surowiec, Nation branding, public relations and soft power: Corporatising Poland [Book Review]. Media, War and Conflict 11(4), pp. 489-491. (10.1177/1750635218801720)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. Which image? Of which country? Under which spotlight?: Power, visibility and the image of Brazil. Revista Trama 8(3)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2017. Making Chile visible: purposes, operationalisation and audiences from the perspective of nation branding practitioners. Geopolitics 22(3), pp. 502-524. (10.1080/14650045.2017.1329724)
- Cammaerts, B. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2014. The mediation of the Brazilian V-for-Vinegar protests: From vilification to legitimization and back? /' A mediação dos protestos brasileiros "V-de-Vinagre": da vilificação à legitimação e de volta?. Liinc em Revista 10(1) (10.18617/liinc.v10i1.697)
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2014. Disasters as media events: The rescue of the Chilean miners on national and global television. International Journal of Communication 8, pp. 1807-1830.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2013. Chile's quest to improve its image abroad. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 9(4), pp. 279-290. (10.1057/pb.2013.25)
Book sections
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Imaged communities: the visual construction, contestation and commercialisation of the nation. In: Lilleker, D. and Veneti, A. eds. Research Handbook in Visual Politics. Camberley: Edward Elgar, pp. 94-107.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Human rights protests and mediated violence. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Vestergaard, A. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. London: Routledge
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2018. Protests, news and nation branding: the role of foreign journalists in constructing and projecting the image of Brazil during the June 2013 demonstrations. In: Fehimovic, D. and Ogden, R. eds. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance. Lexington Books, pp. 131-157.
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2016. Integrative disruption. In: Fox, A. ed. Global Perspectives on Media Events in Contemporary Society. Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts (AMEA) IGI Global, pp. 60-77., (10.4018/978-1-4666-9967-0.ch005)
Books
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2020. Media and the image of the nation during Brazil’s 2013 protests. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. (10.1007/978-3-030-38238-4)
- Rantanen, T. and Jimenez Martinez, C. eds. 2019. Globalization and the media. Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
Monographs
- Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2020. Advice for journalists covering Covid-19: Welsh NHS confederation. Documentation. Cardiff: School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.
- Cammaerts, B., DeCillia, B., Magalhaes, J. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2016. Journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn in the British press: From watchdog to attackdog. Project Report. [Online]. London: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67211/1/CAmmaerts_Journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn_Author_2016.pdf
Websites
- Jimenez Martinez, C. 2023. Foreign correspondents and public diplomacy: An understudied relationship. [Online]. CPD Blog: USC Annenberg. Available at: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/foreign-correspondents-and-public-diplomacy-understudied-relationship
- Manor, I., Jimenez Martinez, C. and Dolea, A. 2021. An asset or a hassle? The public as a problem for public diplomats. [Online]. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Blog: University of Leiden. Available at: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/2021/blog-post---an-asset-or-a-hassle-the-public-as-a-problem-for-public-diplomats
- Dolea, A., Manor, I. and Jimenez Martinez, C. 2021. Protests and national images: the public as an emerging problem in public diplomacy. [Online]. uscpublicdiplomacy.org: USC Annenberg. Available at: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/protests-and-national-images-public-emerging-problem-public-diplomacy
- Jiménez-Martínez, C. 2020. Media, protest and the simplification of violence. [Online]. Media @ LSE Blog: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/07/13/media-protest-and-the-simplification-of-violence/
Research
My research interests include Media and Nationalism, Visibility, Public Diplomacy, Nation Branding, Media Representation, Social Movements, and Media and Globalisation. I am interested in how particular representations of the nation are created and communicated through the complex contemporary media space, for both domestic and foreign audiences. My focus is on the different tensions and struggles that arise during this process, especially (but not exclusively) in the context of Latin American societies. Recently, I have also started looking at media representations of violence at times of protest.
I won the 2021 Anthony D. Smith Award to outstanding article published in Nations and Nationalism for ‘Digital nationalism: Understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism’ (with Sabina Mihelj), and I was runner-up in the 2022 Jay Blumler Best Article Award of the International Journal of Press Politics for ' The instrumental mediated visibility of violence: The 2013 protests in Brazil and the limitations of the protest paradigm.' I also received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 ICA Annual Conference for best paper in Public Diplomacy Interest Group, for ‘Soft Power and Media Power: How Foreign Correspondents react to Brazil’s Nation Branding Initiatives’.
Teaching
I convene the undergraduate modules 'Branding and Identity', and 'Media and Democracy'. I also teach quantitative methodologies for postgraduate students.
I serve as course director of the MA Political Communication.
Biography
Education and qualifications:
- 2017: PhD in Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2012: MSc/MA Global Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Southern California
- 2003: BA in Journalism Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chille
Other qualifications:
- 2008: Diploma in Advertising and Corporate Communications, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- 2007: Course in Documentary Filmmaking, International School of Film and TV, Cuba
Academic career:
- 2019: Lecturer in Global Media and Communication, Cardiff University, School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- 2018: ESRC Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
- 2017: Lecturer in Promotional Cultures, Brunel University
Non-academic professional experience:
- 2007-2010 Nation Branding projects for Ogilvy Public Relations
- 2003-2008: Researcher and producer for television series and documentaries for Nueva Imagen Productions, Chile
- 2000-2002: Reporter for El Mercurio Newspaper, Chile
Honours and Awards
- Runner-up in the 2022 Jay Blumler Best Article Award of the International Journal of Press Politics for 'The instrumental mediated visibility of violence: The 2013 protests in Brazil and the limitations of the protest paradigm.'
- Anthony D. Smith Award 2021 to outstanding article published in Nations and Nationalism for ‘Digital nationalism: Understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism’ (with Sabina Mihelj).
- Honourable mention best article ICA Public Diplomacy Interest Group, 2021, for 'Soft Power and Media Power: How Foreign Correspondents react to Brazil's Nation Branding Initiatives'.
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018, 'Communicating the Nation in Troubled Times: From the Brazilian June Journeys to Brexit Britain'.
Memberships:
- ICA (Current Vice-Chair of the Popular Media & Culture Division)
- IAMCR
- SLAS
- LASA
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- Media and the Nation
- Nation Branding, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power
- Violence, social movements and the media
