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Fernando Kuhn
Fernando Kuhn graduated in journalism and worked as a reporter and editor for Brazilian newspapers and magazines. Master in multimedia from the Brazilian Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and Ph.D. in social communication from the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (Umesp), also in Brazil (where he was twice awarded with a fellowship of The State of São Paulo Research Foundation – Fapesp), he was at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2004 as visiting research student for his doctoral research ‘The local and the global radio: Flow, reverse flow and cultural identity on the Internet’. Professor Kuhn coordinated the implementation of the digital media course in the Faculdades Integradas Alcantara Machado (FIAM), in Sao Paulo, and took part in the Global Media research group, based in Umesp. He is currently a researcher at the Community and Local Communication research group of the same university. His other areas of interest are international communication, globalization, diasporas, regional media, ethnic media, intercultural communication,media and sport,media and environment, popular culture and journalism.
He has contributed to communication journals and participated in national and international conferences in the field.