Rate My Professor Laura Cervi

Laura Cervi is Serra Húnter Professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she has served as faculty since 2006. She holds a degree in Political Sciences from the Università di Pavia in Italy and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pavia and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis examined micronationalism and the electoral market in the Catalan case. Cervi is a member of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación research group at UAB.

Her research focuses on political communication, journalism, and their intersections with new media ecologies, including the role of TikTok in political communication and online activism. She has authored the book Identitat i futbol and more than twenty book chapters published by Springer and Routledge, along with over sixty-five articles in indexed international journals such as Journalism Practice, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Social Media + Society. Cervi has participated in multiple Spanish and European research projects on media literacy and citizen participation, including serving as co-lead researcher on the European project Y-NEX (European Youth News Exchange, 2015–2017). She was a visiting researcher at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2014. Among her honors are the 2008 Esport i Ciutadania prize, the 2021 Best Paper Award from the Islam and Media Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, and the 2023 Premio Roblón for the most cited article in Scopus.