My research interests include public relations/strategic communication & political communication in the creation and contestation of media content of minority populations. In specific, I take a look on the contextual, sociological and technological factors that influence the news media coverage of minorities’ issues and how minorities create, promote and strategically contest these mainstream media messages. My focus is particularly on Latin American and vulnerable populations.

The methodological approaches I employ have become primarily quantitative. I mostly rely on content analysis and public opinion data, with several of my new projects including experiments and computational analysis of large text data sets.

Current Research Projects

• Domestic Violence advocacy agendas meet journalists’ routines in Mexico.
• Source (minority & female) strategies in non-Western International broadcasts in Spanish (w/Dani Madrid Morales).
• The digital strategies of pro and anti-immigrant advocacy groups (w/Vinicio Sinta). Data collection stage

Recent Publications

• Lovric, Bruno & Hernández, Miriam (2025). “Resilient Femininity and Trauma: Healing from War in Jasmila Zbanic’s Film Quo Vadis, Aida?” In Rose Ferrell & Rosanne Welch (Eds.), Women Who Write Our Worlds: Shaping Global. Screen Culture, Intellect Books, https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835951590_28
• Hernández, Miriam (2023). “Covering feminicidios: How Mexican journalists fight to improve representation of violence against women”. Journalism Practice (Sample), https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2251983
• De la Serna, Ana; Severino, Fernando & Hernández, Miriam (2023). Internacionalización con equidad en instituciones primordialmente hispanas en Estados Unidos. The Journal of International Students: La internacionalización de la educación superior en países de habla hispana, https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jis/issue/view/249/144
• Lovric, Bruno & Hernández, Miriam (2022). “Bosnia and Herzegovina on Screen: Self-Orientalism in Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?” Studies in Eastern European Cinema (Sample), https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350X.2022.2121456
• Hernández, Miriam & Madrid-Morales, Dani (2020). “Diversifying Voice, Democratizing the News? A Content Analysis of Citizen News Sources in Spanish-language International Broadcasting”. Journalism Studies, 21(8), 1076-1092 (Sample) https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1734857
• Hernández, Miriam, Saldierna-Salas, Alma, Muñiz-Muriel, Carlos y Marañón-Lazcano, Felipe (2020). Brecha de género en el conocimiento político infantil: influencia de las redes sociales y la socialización política. Palabra Clave, 23(4), e2343 (Sample) https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2020.23.4.3
• Lovric, Bruno; Hernández, Miriam. (2019). “The House of Black and White: Identities of Color and Power Relations in the Game of Thrones” in Revista Nos Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 2; ISSN: 2448-1793. https://www.revista.ueg.br/index.php/revistanos/article/view/9513
• Hernández, Miriam (2018). “Killed out of love”: A frame analysis of domestic violence coverage in Hong Kong. Violence Against Women, Volume: 24 issue: 12, page(s): 1454-1473. (Sample) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217738581
• Hernández, Miriam & Marañón, Felipe (2017). “Brecha de Género en México: Determinantes de la información política en las mujeres mexicanas”. Revista Legislativa de Estudios Sociales y de Opinión Pública, vol. 10, núm. 20, jul.-dic. 2017, pp. 71-104. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6237326

Selected Conference Participations

• Hernández, Miriam & Seligson, Ken (2026). “From Educators to AI Analysts? Reconsidering Academic Labor in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. AI & Academia: The future of critical thinking in CSU Fullerton (February 2026).
• Madrid-Morales, Dani & Hernández, Miriam (2025). “Latin American Countries in Global Media: A Comparative Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish – Language International Broadcasting”. ICA Annual Conference in Denver. Pre-conference in Media and Communication in Global Latinidades (June 2025).
• Hernández, Miriam & Lovric, Bruno (2024). “‘Nosotros hacemos periodismo feminista’: A gendered approach to the reporting of femicides”. ICA Annual Conference in Gold Coast, Australia. Feminist Scholarship Division (June 2024)
• Hernández, Miriam (2023). “Newsroom support, gender, and coping strategies on journalists covering femicidios in Mexico.” ICA Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada. Pre-conference in Media and Communication in Global Latinidades.
• Hernández, Miriam (2022). “Estrategias de Comunicación de las ONG en temas de violencia de género.” Congreso de Investigadoras del SNI y de Iberoamérica in Puebla, Mexico (November 2022).
• Hernández, Miriam & Hernández Jaime, Juana (2022). “Nonprofits’ Communication Strategies in addressing Violence against Women.” ICA Annual Conference in Paris, France. Pre-conference in Media and Communication in Global Latinidades (May 2022).
• Hernández, Miriam, Madrid-Morales, Dani & Ross, Meredith (2022). “Female Journalists and Sources in State-Funded International Television News: A Five-Country Content Analysis.” ICA Annual Conference in Paris, France [Hybrid]. Journalism Division.