Uxía Carral Vilar

Uxía Carral holds a PhD in Journalism (titled ‘Application of AI tools as a methodology to analyse toxicity in social media conversations’) and teaches in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her lines of research interest focus on toxicity in social media and technological innovation applied to online communication. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in an R+D+I project at the Institute of Cybersecurity (INCIBE) through a link with the Institute of Gender Studies (IEG). She is a member of the research group 'Analytics, Media and Public Engagement: Communication, Journalism and Technology Lab' (UC3M MediaLab), where she has participated in several European and Spanish research projects such as the Jean Monnet Chair "EU, disinformation & fake news". She also actively collaborates with the educational project, Learn to Check, to combat disinformation and promote media literacy. Previously, she has worked as a journalist in the radio station, Cadena SER, and in the fact-checking platform, Newtral; as well as research assistant in the European projects OpenEUDebate (UAM) and EUCOPOL (UC3M). In 2022 she was the winner of the third edition of the Ideograma - UPF Chair Award on Political and Institutional Communication, and in 2024 she participated in the winning team of the "Students speak: a vision of the future" contest of the Telefónica Chairs Network in the framework of the Telefónica Centenary. Carral is the author of several scientific articles, book chapters and co-author of the book 'Comunicación Europea: ¿A quién doy like para hablar con Europa?' (Ed. Dykinson, 2019).