Rate My Professor María Dolores Fernández

María Dolores Meneses Fernández serves as Profesora Titular Universidad in the Área de Periodismo within the Department of Ciencias de la Comunicación y Trabajo Social at the Universidad de La Laguna. She obtained her doctorate in Ciencias de la Información, specializing in Periodismo, from the Universidad de La Laguna in 2002, with a thesis titled 'Aspectos de periodismo especializado ciencia, cultura y canariedad en la prensa insular canaria, años 1975 y 1982,' supervised by Dr. Humberto Hernández Hernández. Additionally, she earned a doctorate in Geografía e Historia from the same institution in 1990, focusing on 'Propuesta metodológica para el análisis de la industria ósea del neolítico en Andalucía. Un ejemplo: la cueva del Toro (Antequera, Málaga).' She has been a professor of Periodismo at the Universidad de La Laguna since 2003. Previously, she worked as a professor and researcher in Prehistoria y Arqueología Prehistórica at the Universidad de Barcelona. Her academic stays include periods at the Université d'Aix-Marseille in Provence, France, as well as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain.

Her research specializations include the public communication of science and historical heritage, the integration of visualization technologies in university teaching, museum practices, and journalistic content production. She is the responsible for the research group 'Comunicación, periodismo, tecnologías emergentes e inteligencia artificial' at the Universidad de La Laguna. Notable projects under her involvement are VIDEM (2013), which developed educational motor video games to promote healthy habits and physical education among hospitalized children and adolescents, and SALUD-in (2014), a platform for interactive virtual rehabilitation using social video games and natural interaction techniques for health and physical education. Her contributions extend to numerous scientific publications in national and international journals and books on journalism research and development. She maintains an active presence in academic discourse on ethical uses of artificial intelligence in journalism and digital literacy.