professor Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges

Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
rrodbor@ull.es

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5787-4812
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4mY0XskAAAAJ&hl=es
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodrigo-Rodriguez-Borges

Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges is a professor and researcher in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain), where he teaches Journalism programs, as well as various master’s and postgraduate programs.
He holds a PhD in Information Sciences with his thesis “News Production on the Radio” and a PhD in Philosophy with his thesis “Immigration, News Discourse, and Journalistic Ethics in the Canary Islands Press.” He has completed research stays at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Institute for Democratic Governance, Globernance, in the Basque Country, and the University of Turin (Italy).
For two decades, his preferred line of research has focused on the ethical and deontological analysis of the immigration phenomenon in Spain and its journalistic coverage, a field in which he has published numerous articles, books, and conference contributions. He is the author of the book The Discourse of Fear: Immigration and the Press on the Southern Border of the European Union, which focuses on the study of Spanish newspapers during the so-called “cayuco crisis” of 2006. He is currently part of the research team developing the project “Vulnerability, Precariousness and Social Gaps. Towards a Redefinition of Fundamental Rights?”, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Research Agency.