Aitor Castañeda Zumeta: Presentation

Aitor Castañeda Zumeta

Presentation

Aitor Castañeda-Zumeta—San Sebastian (Spain) 1987—is a Ph.D doctor in Social Communication from the University of the Basque Country—officially UPV/EHU, 2018—. He serves as a contratado-doctor lecturer to the Journalism Department of the University’s Social Science and Communication Faculty (GKZ/CSC) since 2024.

Dr Castañeda-Zumeta’s research fields are visual storytelling, infography and graphic humor in the media. His career began in January 2013 at GKZ/CSC’s Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department. Since then, he has published nine scientific papers in indexed journals—two of them in the Q1-2 (SJR) category. He also participated in 18 international conferences as speaker and manager. His h-index was 5 in March 2025 (GS).

Dr Castañeda-Zumeta started as a lecturer in the curse 2016-17 (UPV/EHU). Since then, he has taught several subjects related to commercial, corporate and institutional communication, as well as marketing, informative writing and documentation. He also collaborates with articles in press, as well as in the online magazine Euskonews of Eusko Ikaskuntza [Society of Basque Studies], of which he is a member.

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Research projects

  • Historia urbana y culturas políticas en el mundo contemporáneo. EHU (2026–2029).
  • Vida cotidiana, sociabilidad y culturas políticas en el País Vasco-navarro contemporáneo. MCIN, AEI, Feder, EU (2023–2027).
  • Member of the European "Horizon" project Deliah (Democratic Literacy and Humor, HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01). University of Ghent (Flanders, Belgium), 2025-2029.
  • Nacionalismos y culturas políticas en el País Vasco en perspectiva comparada. UPV/EHU, 2024-2025 (GIU 23/007).
  • Member of the non-established research group HACIDA (Humor And Conflict In the Digital Age). University of Ghent, 2023-2024.
  • Research fellowship (January-April 2022) in IKER, Research Center for Basque Language and Texts (Campus of Bayonne, University of Pau and Adour Lands, France). UPV/EHU (MOV21/13).
  • Estudio ETA en los archivos nacionales del Reino Unido. UPV/EHU, 2022-2026 (PES22/83).
  • ETA en los archivos nacionales de Reino Unido e Irlanda. UPV/EHU, 2021-2023 (US21/02).
  • Nacionalismos y culturas políticas en el País Vasco en perspectiva comparada. UPV/EHU, 2021-2023 (GIU 20/02)
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Research papers

  • Moreno, C., Engelken-Jorge, M., & Castañeda-Zumeta, A. (2026). Focus-Group Discussions Launched and Implemented. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21028982
  • Engelken-Jorge, M., Moreno, C., Castañeda-Zumeta, A., Astapova, A., Bricker, A., Cingerová, N., Dulebova, I., Fleischhack, J., Godioli, A., Kempynck, A., Motyková, K., Sámelová, A., Suleimanov, I., Vandaele, J., Zobar, O., & Isaza-Ibarra, L.F. (2025). Humour Practices and European Attitudes Towards Democracy - Data Documentation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15756409
  • Zabaleta-Urkiola, I., Arriaga-Azkarate, T., & Castañeda-Zumeta, A. (2024). Television audience in European Minority Languages: Reality, demographic profile, and correlation. Textual & Visual Media, 18(2), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.56418/txt.18.2.2024.1
  • Castañeda-Zumeta A. (2023). The graphic satire in Enbata political journal (1960-1975). Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación, (21), 193-217. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/RIHC.2023.i21.11
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Books & chapters

  • Peñafiel-Saiz, C. & Castañeda-Zumeta, A. (2025). “Vacunarse contra la negación: Batalla informativa y vacunas tras la pandemia de a COVID-19”. In Catalán-Matamoros, D. (coord.). Comunicación y salud. Contribuciones para la consecución de los objetivos 2030. (71–90). UOC.
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Communications

  • Castañeda-Zumeta, A. (2026, 18-jun.). Humour and Public Deliberation. Workshop on Public Opinion and Democratic Civic Engagement: Expanding Reflection in Public Agendas. Pamplona/Iruña, UNAV.
  • Castañeda-Zumeta, A, (2022). Gartxot. Del cómic a la gran pantalla. In Morales, Lucas: Imágenes en Movimiento, vol. II, Ediciones Idea, 101-123.

 

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Other activities

  • Mentor for UPV/EHU’s educative cooperation programs (2020-).
  • Member of the Evaluation Boards of the journals Cuadernos.info (2025), Gizaekoa (2025), Zer (2023) and Sancho el Sabio (2023, 2019).
  • Evaluator of abstracts for the 8th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Radio and Sound Section Conference (Turkey, ECREA & University of Sheffield, UK).
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