Magdalena Saldaña Villa

Proyectos adjudicados (últimos cinco años)

• 2025-2027: Núcleo Milenio para el Estudio de la Política, Opinión Pública y Medios en Chile, MEPOP (Renovación, NCS2024_007). Investigadora Principal y Directora Alterna.
• 2022-2024:  Núcleo Milenio para el Estudio de la Política, Opinión Pública y Medios en Chile, MEPOP (NCS2021_63). Investigadora principal y Directora Alterna.
• 2021-2025: Fondecyt Regular “Políticas educativas en la esfera pública: Información y actitudes sobre el Sistema de Admisión Escolar en un contexto educacional mediatizado” (Nº 1210097). Co-investigadora.

 

Premios y reconocimientos (últimos cinco años)  

• 2025: Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship, reconocimiento entregado por la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Viena a investigadores/as destacados por su trabajo innovador en teoría y metodología dentro de las ciencias sociales empíricas.
• 2025: Distinción ciudadana entregada por la Ilustre Municipalidad de San Carlos a ciudadanos/as ilustres de San Carlos que se han destacado en sus respectivas disciplinas.
• 2021: Top Faculty Paper Award, premio al mejor paper en el congreso anual AEJMC, Commission on the Status of Women (primer lugar).
• 2021: Latin American Communication Research and Researchers Award (LARA), premio al mejor paper sobre América Latina en el congreso anual AEJMC, International Communication Division (segundo lugar).

 

Publicaciones en revistas de corriente principal (últimos cinco años)

• Pavez, I., Saldaña, M., Lagos, C., & Gheza, K. (2025). My private-public sphere. Women’s information strategies in times of news mistrust. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251364777
• Westlund, O., Carlson, M., Hamada, B., Helberger, N., Lecheler, S., Lewis, S.C., Quandt, T., Reese, S.D., Salaverría, R., Saldaña, M., Thomson, T.J., Wahl-Jorgensen, K., & Wu, S. (2025). Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies. Digital Journalism. 13(5), 869–892. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2527997
• Saldaña, M., Proust, V., Cabalin, C., & Fernandez, B. (2025). Bridging Inequality Gaps: Sustainable Journalism in the News Coverage of Education Policies. Journalism Practice, 19(12), 2811–2831.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2481446
• McGregor, S. C., Coe, K., Saldaña, M., Griffin, R. A., Chavez-Yenter, D., Huff, M., McDonald, A., & Smith, T., White, K., Valenzuela, S., & Riles, J. M. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Identity and political communication. Communication Monographs, 92(2), 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2025.2459648
• Westlund, O., Boyles, J. L., Guo, L., Saldaña, M., Salaverría, R., Thomson, T. J., & Wu, S. (2025). Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future. Digital Journalism, 13(2), 179–194. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2474530
• Saldaña, M., Orchard, X., & Rivera, S., & Bustamante-Pavez, G. (2024). “Your house won’t be yours anymore!” Effects of misinformation, news use, and media trust on Chile’s constitutional referendum. The International Journal of Press/Politics. OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241298853
• Pavez, I., Saldaña, M., Cabalin, C., & Scherman, A. (2024). “The more official, the less I believe”: Using focus groups to explore public opinion formation in politically polarized contexts. Social Science Quarterly, 105(5), 1587-1599. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13421
• Westlund, O., & Saldaña, M. (2024). A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome. Digital Journalism, 12(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2309090
• Fuentealba-Carrasco, P., Saldaña, M., González-Fuente, R., & Barriga, O. (2024). Public adherence to the principles of criminal law in Chile: Shaping factors and consequences for trust in the criminal justice system. Revista Política Criminal, 19(38), 340-366. https://politcrim.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Vol19N38A13.pdf
• Saldaña, M. & Santos, M. (2023). Sherlock-wannabes or when the audience fact-checks. How ideology, education, and alternative media use explain individual fact-checking behaviors in Chile. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 29(4), 795-805. https://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.88097
• Rosenberg, A., Saldaña, M., & Porath, W. (2023). Engaged and Uncivil? Incivility and Engagement on Twitter over a Televised Presidential Debate in Chile. International Journal of Communication, 17, 6129–6153. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18496
• Orchard, X., Saldaña, M., Pavez, I., & Lagos, C. (2023). ‘Does she know how to read? ’An intersectional perspective to explore Twitter users’ portrayal of women Mapuche leaders. Information, Communication & Society, 26(13), 2554-2574. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2252895
• Cabalin, C., Saldaña M., & Fernández, B. (2023). Framing school choice and merit: news media coverage of an education policy in Chile. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44(6), 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2218272
• Jaramillo, M., & Saldaña, M. (2023). Radiografía de un mito: la representación estereotipada de los videojugadores puesta a prueba en Chile. Comunicación y Medios, 32(47), 38-50. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2023.69107
• Westlund, O., Hess, K., Saldaña, M., & Tandoc, E. C. (2023). 10 years of digital journalism (studies): The past, the present, the future. Digital Journalism, 11(4), 595-608. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2201469
• Westlund, O., Hess, K., Saldaña, M., & Tandoc, E. C. (2023). Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here. Digital Journalism, 11(4), 719–725. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2200198
• Proust, V., & Saldaña, M. (2022). “What a nasty girl!” Incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions. Feminist Media Studies, 23(8), 3866-3883. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2142640
• Saldaña, M., & Proust, V. (2022). Comments that hurt: Incivility in user-generated comments about marginalized groups. Mediální Studia/Media Studies 3/2022, 286-308. https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/04/medialni_studia_3_2022_1.pdf
• Proust, V., & Saldaña, M. (2022). Another violent protest? New perspectives to understand protest coverage. Media and Communication, 10(4), 18-29. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5796
• Saldaña, M., & Vu, H. (2022). You are fake news! Factors impacting journalists’ debunking behaviors on social media. Digital Journalism, 10(5), 823-842. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.2004554
• Saldaña, M. (2022). Who is to Blame? Analysis of Government and News Media Frames During the 2014 Earthquake in Chile. Journalism Studies, 23(1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1997152
• Santos, M., Saldaña, M., & Tsyganova, K. (2021). Subversive affordances as a form of digital transnational activism: The case of Telegram’s native proxy. New Media & Society, 26(1), 131-153. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211054830
• Johnson, T.J., Saldaña, M., & Kaye, B.K. (2021). A Galaxy of Apps: Mobile App Reliance and the Indirect Influence on Political Participation through Political Discussion and Trust. Mobile Media & Communication, 10(1), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579211012430
• Cueva Chacón, L. & Saldaña, M. (2021). Stronger and safer together: Motivations for and challenges of (trans)national collaboration in investigative reporting in Latin America. Digital Journalism, 9(2), 196-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1775103
• Saldaña, M., McGregor, S., & Johnson, T. (2021). Mind the gap! Attitudes and belief gaps toward climate change and Syrian refugees. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 33(3), 607–625. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edab006
• Vu, H. & Saldaña, M. (2021). Chillin’ effects of fake news: Changes in journalism practices under the influence of misinformation and accusations against the news media. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(3), 769-789. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020984781