Jessica M Retis Rivas

Interests

Research

Journalism Studies, Bilingual Journalism Studies, Latin American Studies, International Migration, Hispanics and the Media, Latinos and the Media, Asian Latinos, Latin American Immigrants in Europe, Latin American Immigrants in Asia, Latin American Immigrants in the United States, Contemporary Diasporas and the Media, Transnationalism, Media Studies, Cultural Studies.

Teaching

Journalism, Spanish-language Journalism, Bilingual Journalism, Hispanic Media, Latino Media, Latin American Studies, International Migration, Media Studies, Spanish-language Reporting, Spanish-language Multimedia Production, Bilingual reporting, Media and Communication theories, Media and Communication research methods

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Retis Rivas, J. M. (2022).

  Reporting on Latino Communities: A Guide for Journalists.

  . Routledge.
• Puente, T., Retis, J. M., Aguilar, A., & Ayala, J. (2022). Reporting on Latino/a/x Communities: A Guide for Journalists. Routledge.
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  No such book like this exists. It is innovative that our book focuses on reporting on a U.S. ethnic group and in Spanish or bilingually. There is a need for this book as there is severe underrepresentation of Latinx people in the media. Most mainstream media coverage about Hispanics is focused on immigration or crime. These are important issues but not the only issues that impact the community. This book examines how to cover the community with accuracy and complexity. As we embark into the new decades to report about the demographic changes of this country, it becomes imperative to provide journalists as well as journalism students and educators with a comprehensive understanding of Hispanics and Latino/a/x/s communities and contribute with lessons to learn about how to better report on these heterogeneous groups. Contributors of this volume have all been journalists and became journalism educators at a certain moment in their professional careers. All have faced the challenge of being sometimes the only Latinx in the newsroom or the only Latinx educator in their journalism school while trying to improve the better coverage of our communities. Moving from the newsroom to the classroom implies bringing an in-depth understanding of newsmaking to the professional preparation of younger journalists. All of us noticed the lack of a textbook that we could use in the classroom to better train journalism students in covering the Latinx communities. As we met in various academic conferences of professional gatherings, we all shared our needs as college educators. We needed a handbook that we could use to better prepare our students. Hence, we convened to write one. This is the result of a collective effort and our very first attempt to provide a handbook to reporting on Latino/a/x/s communities. All contributors are journalism educators, all work with students in English, Spanish or in Spanglish. We are all part of the community we report about and have the cultural competency of sharing the dos and don’ts. But we write this volume not only by and for our communities. We are seeking to contribute with a relevant document that can bring light to every newsroom and every journalism classroom. This is our main goal. While there have been many attempts to educate journalists on how to cover diverse communities, to date there is no textbook that can be used as a guide to preparing journalists in covering the ever-evolving and heterogeneous groups that are becoming the majority-minority of the country. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of Latino/a/x/s and introduce a unique manuscript that can be used in the classroom to advance quality journalism. Yet, as years to come, what we propose here needs to be revisited and we hope that in the next decade when we learn about the new demographic of this country, we will be ready to keep advancing in our understanding of the transnational nature of Hispanics in America. This book is meant to be a practical guide for aspiring journalists or early-career journalists who want to understand how to cover the Latinx community in a more comprehensive way. Each chapter has an introduction, a case study, an interview with a Latinx journalist, tips, discussion questions, and assignments. Each contributing chapter also examines a theme or a topic of coverage.
• Sanchez, A., & Retis, J. (2023). Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English. Routledge.
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  The aim of this edited volume is to serve as a bridge amongst disciplines, by promoting a dialog between critical language studies and Latinx communication and media scholarship. We are interested in analyzing, from critical perspectives, the genesis, development, and evolution of bilingual spaces. Whether approaching the analysis from sociolinguistics perspectives or media and communication approaches, we are looking to examine and understand contemporary and ever-changing realities. The chapters that comprise this book are written by prominent scholars, experts in a range of sub-areas of research on Spanish, Latinx identity, representation, bilingualism, communication, media, and language policies. Thus, this book is a collective effort to create a much-needed dialogue on bilingualism in the U.S., on complex linguistic networks and currents that underpin our post-digital society, and on Latinx cultural politics and practices. To our knowledge, no other work currently provides a synthesis of this breadth of approaches, particularly written across our disciplines. The demand for interdisciplinary research is particularly significant in the field of Spanish, bilingualism, and Latinx media spaces given the growing U.S. bilingual population. Journalists and communicators should understand language as a system and how it functions in social interactions. Linguists, on the other hand, would benefit from knowing what practitioners in Spanish and Spanish-English bilingual newsrooms and communication areas do and how they approach language use. We hope that this volume will help facilitate this overdue conversation; a necessary dialog as the Latinx population grows and audiences become increasingly bilingual and bicultural.
• Roman, P., & Retis, J. (2020). Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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  Since the 1990s Britain and Spain have become popular destinations for Latin Americans moving to Europe, and London hosts the great majority of this community. Within this context, the proposed cross-disciplinary book (Sociology, Urban and Cultural Studies) focuses on the cultural contributions of Latin Americans in London. In so doing, the book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in this capital city by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. We discuss how networks of solidarity and local struggles are played out, enacted, negotiated and experienced in different spatial spheres, whether this be migration routes into London, work spaces, diasporic media spaces or the urban. We explore these spaces in separate chapters to argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city.Taking as its theoretical frameworks debates about diasporas, identity, place, and transnationalism, the book aims to:Understand migratory flows through the ideas of routes, routines and roots to capture ruptures and solidarity in narratives of migration from Latin American migration to London.Analyse the emergence of local Latin media and the politics of digital diasporas in London. Particular attention is given to the media uses of the web as a fundamental vehicle for transnational networks between local and countries of origin media.Understand the trajectories of Latin urbanism in London; basically to understand how Latin Americans have contributed culturally and economically to the transformation of specific localities and communities by focusing on Elephant & Castle, and Seven Sisters, two areas of London that are under threat due to regeneration processes. The Latin American population in London is estimated at 113,500, representing a 61% of the total Latin American population in the United Kingdom, which has been registered as 250,000 (McIlwaine, et al 2016). Latin Americans are mostly concentrated in the service sector, with one third of Latin Americans working in office or domestic cleaning, with kitchen staff and waiters some way behind (McIlwaine et al 2011). Freedom of movement across the European Union since 2006 has allowed secondary migration of Latin Americans naturalised in the European Union, notably Spain in the face of post-2008 recession (McIlwaine et al 2011). Although substantial quantitative research has been carried out on the conditions of Latin Americans in London and Madrid, these communities have been understudied from qualitative and multidisciplinary perspectives. Drawing on ethnographic research, using participant observation, semi-structured interviews and policy textual analysis, the book will set an increasingly important research agenda for the study of diasporas, identity and place. The significance of diasporic communities in the making of distinct neighbourhoods in London, has been under-researched and under-theorised so this book will highlight the contribution that diasopric groups make to enhance the diversity of cultural offers available in the city. There is also scant literature on the impact that urban regeneration projects have on migrant business clusters in particular areas of London. We will discuss this by focusing on Latin American businesses at Elephant and Castle and Seven Sisters two areas undergoing significant redevelopment and revitalisation initiatives in London. In particular, it does not consider these activities as fundamental for the participation and empowerment of these communities into cultural and policy frameworks (i.e., Guarnizo 2008; Gutierrez 2007; Mcllwaine 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011; Buchck 2006; Lagnado 2004). Thus, the proposed book is unique in its highly multidisciplinary content and approach with no equivalent currently in the market.
• Retis, J., & Tsagarousianou, R. (2019). The Handbook on Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119236771
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  DESCRIPTIONA multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field.Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studiesThis innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world.The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book:Presents new and original theory, research, and essaysEmploys unique methodological and conceptual debatesOffers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchersExplores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and mediaApplies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.
• Retis, J., Lamuedra, M., & Garcia Matilla, A. (2010). Los informativos diarios en BBC y TVE. Los discursos de sus profesionales y receptores. Madrid: Editorial De la Torre.
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  The book gathers results of a research project carried out by the Carlos III University's Public Television Research Group (GITEP), between 2006 and 2009. It is a comparative study carried out in Spain and the United Kingdom.The BBC has always produced its programming in democracy and has for many decades been a true model of public television, becoming a benchmark of good practices for all countries in the world. Its newscast have been taken as a model of impartiality, credibility and professional excellence.In the case of Spain, TVE was for decades a television identified with Franco's dictatorship ideology and during the democratic transition and much of the most recent democratic period, its news reports were denounced as an instrument at the service of successive governments in power. State public television professionals have had to work against the flow to demonstrate that public service objectives far from any partisan interest can be met.The BBC appears, in the way in which its professionals and recipients speak of it, as an institution that enjoys the support and commitment of its managers, its professionals and society in general, and whose internal architecture is aimed at serving the same citizenship that supports it. In the Spanish case, TVE professionals show that their public service mission is as internalized as those of the BBC, but many of the “structural” elements that allow developing, treasuring and privileging the best journalistic practices are lacking. Citizens, on the other hand, demand more impartial information, better differentiated from the private offer and oriented to the public.
• Retis, J. (2007). Inmigración y medios de comunicación en España. Aproximaciones y propuestas para las buenas prácticas periodísticas. Madrid: Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales.
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  Este texto se presenta como un manual de consulta, como un documento de trabajo y como una herramienta a ser utilizada tanto en un entorno educativo como en el marco del ejercicio profesional. Como consecuencia, el contenido está organizado temáticamente en artículos que abordan diversos asuntos relacionados con el binomio inmigración y medios de comunicación.Cada capítulo puede ser leído y trabajado de manera independiente, aunque se sugiere la lectura gradual de la obra completa. El sentido práctico de este manuscrito nos llevó a considerar un mapa de recursos útiles para periodistas, estudiantes y ciudadanos en general. El listado no pretende ser definitivo y probablemente desde el cierre de esta edición ala publicación del libro ya se hayan producido nuevas fuentes a las que acceder cuando se trata de conocer, reconocer las formas de desplazamiento de población, los modos de convivencia intercultural y los entornos sociales,económicos y políticos de nuestra cada vez más compleja fisonomía. Proponemos este resumen, pues, como un punto de partida que cualquier lector ávido de información seguirá enriqueciendo con el paso del tiempo.
• Retis, J. (2006). Espacios mediáticos de la inmigración en Madrid: Génesis y evolución.. Madrid: Observatorio de las Migraciones y la Convivencia Intercultural de la ciudad de Madrid.

Chapters

• Gonzalez, C., & Retis, J. (2020). Paraguay and Uruguay: 21st century challenges in an evolving global media landscape. In Latin American Communication and Journalism. Palgrave.
• Retis Rivas, J. M. (2023). The critical understanding of Latina/o/x/s and the News Media in the global scenarios. In Mujeres de la Comunicación, 2nd Edition. FES Comunicacion.
• Retis, J., Cueva, L., & Takahashi, B. (2020). Peruvian Media Scenario: Between Corporate Media and Chicha Media. In Latin American Communication and Journalism.
• Retis, J. (2022). Latino News Media. In Encyclopedia of Journalism. 2nd Edition. SAGE.
• Retis, J. M., & Revilak, S. (2021). “¿Por qué los centroamericanos huyen en caravana hacia EE.UU.?” La representación discursiva de los ‘otros’ inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa española. In Discurso lingüístico y migraciones(pp 125-156). Madrid: Arco.
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  Este capítulo analiza la representación discursiva de los latinoamericanos en la prensa española. El estudio se centra en la cobertura periodística de los ‘otros’ migrantes latinoamericanos, aquellos que provienen de Centroamérica y se dirigen a Estados Unidos. El objetivo del estudio es examinar la cobertura informativa y comparar las narrativas periodísticas sobre migración y refugio. El corpus de la investigación está compuesto por las notas periodísticas publicadas por los periódicos El País, El Mundo y ABC, acerca de las caravanas ocurridas en el 2018. Aplicando la metodología del Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ACD) se busca analizar y comprender los principales tópicos, metáforas y actores de la cobertura periodística.
• Retis, J. M., & Roman, P. (2022). Latin Americans in London: Mapping digital diasporas. In Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement. Boston: Brill.
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  This chapter presents preliminary findings of a larger research project that examines the voices of Latin American communities living in the United Kingdom. We seek to capture the narratives through which Latin Americans in London recognize themselves as British Latinx in diasporic and transnational spaces and how they develop strategies to navigate the city and the system while also capturing how they claim their space in the global city. We argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this contribution we present a preliminary attempt to examine Latin American digital diasporas with a focus on social media activism in local campaigns against gentrification.
• Retis, J., & Cueva Chacón, L. (2022). Bilingual strategies on news media production in the post-digital age. In Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English. Routledge.
• Retis, J., & Cueva Chacón, L. (2022). Reporting on Latin/a/x Communities: Lessons to Learn. In Reporting on Latino Communities: A Guide for Journalists. New York: Routledge.
• Sanchez Muñoz, A., & Retis, J. (2022). A much-needed dialog between linguistics and communication/media studies. In Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English. Routledge.
• Retis, J. (2020). Understanding Ethnic journalism in an extinguishing print news media landscape: How the oldest Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil confronts generational change. In Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Pagrave.
• Retis, J. (2021). Understanding Ethnic journalism in an extinguishing print news media landscape: How the oldest Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil confronts generational change. In Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Palgrave.
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  On January 1, 2019, the oldest Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil, Journal São Paulo Simbun, printed its last issue. It was founded in 1946 in the heart of Liberdade, the main Japanese neighborhood in the city of São Paulo. For seven decades, it represented one of the key references for Brazil’s Japanese community; however, at the end of 2010s, this ethnic news print publication faced two concomitant challenges: on the one hand, the vicissitudes of the print news media industry, such as the effects of the big recession in the decline of advertising investment, and the advent of the digital era and social media; on the other hand, the sociodemographic transformation of the Japanese-language readership, the aging of the first-generation Japanese immigrants and the growth of the language and technological gaps in bilingual ethnic news media consumption. By reviewing the case of São Paulo Shimbun, this chapter seeks to examine the challenges that ethnic journalism face in the Global South.
• Gonzalez de Bustamante, C., & Retis, J. (2019). Latina/o Millenials in a Post TV Network World. Anti-Stereotypes in the Transmedia Edutainment Web TV Series East Los High. In Media, Myth, and Millenials. Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture(p. 282). New York: Lexington Books.
• Retis, J. (2019). Homogenizing heterogeneity in transnational contexts. Contemporary Latin American Diasporas and the Media in the global North. In The Handbook of Diaspora, Media, and Culture(pp 115-136). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Backwell.
• Retis, J. (2019). Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese-Brazilians in Tokyo and São Paulo. In The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration(pp 297-308). London: SAGE.
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  This chapter focuses on a scarcely explored area in migration and media research: the liaisons between Asia and Latin America. The proposal generates from a precedent critique on the reiterated trend to homogenize the idea of Latin Americans and Latinos in the Global North, and is part of a larger project that seeks to contribute to the academic discussion with the analysis of Asian Latinos in the digital era. This essay focuses on Latino Nikkeijins (Latin Americans of Japanese descent) diasporic formations, with specific attention to Nipo-Brasileiros (Japanese Brazilians), and the role of media within these dynamics. Drawing on transnational perspective, the study of these synergies tackles theoretical and methodological challenges. On the one hand, the theoretical approach questions bounded conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, class and nationalism by exploring the construction of migrants’ transnational and diasporic identities. It seeks to understand diasporic formations and re-conceptualization of migration and media by incorporating a larger historical perspective in the scope of the analysis. On the other hand, the empirical approach implements multi-sited fieldwork to examine relationships between diasporic populations and the media in transnational contexts. It interrogates the ways in which transnational communication and media practices have and are enabling spaces for community interaction beyond geographical borders and language barriers.
• Tsagarousianou, R., & Retis, J. (2019). Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Exploring Dimensions of Human Mobility and Connectivity in the Era of Global Interdependency. In The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture(pp 1-20). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
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  This chapter introduces key debates and state-of-the-art research on the intersection of diasporic phenomena, media and cultural studies. It reflects on the ascendancy of the term diaspora in social sciences and the broader theoretical debates within different, mainly interdisciplinary fields such as cultural and media, postcolonial and area studies. It examines how we are not facing a terminological fad but the desire, and need, among scholars to explore new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity, that were not adequately addressed through the use of existing conceptual frameworks that had particular histories and connotations. By outlining contributions of this edited volume, it seeks to provide a compass to navigate its 39 chapters compiled in seven parts: 1) Roots and routes: The nature of ‘diaspora(s)’, their relation to nation, ethnicity, religion, societies of provenance and societies of settlement ;2) Home and away: Transnationalism, localism and the construction of diasporic identity; 3) Cultural politics in the Diaspora: Diasporic public spheres/spaces, identity politics and diasporic activism; 4) Nation and Diasporas: Diasporas, nationalism and the making of national cultures; 5) Gender and generation: How do gender and generation intersect with the diasporic condition and impact on diasporic cultural politics; 6) New technologies, new experiences: Changing media, information and communication technologies and their impact on diasporic cultures; 7) Redefining Social spaces in the Diaspora: The transformation of urban, physical and virtual spaces.
• Retis, J. (2018). Hashtag Jóvenes Latinos: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Civic Advocacy Journalism in “Glocal” Contexts. In Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski (Eds.) Learning from Diverse Latina/o Communities: Social Justice Approaches to Civic Engagement(pp 229-250). New York: Peter Lang.
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  This chapter examines the process of implementing critical pedagogy in teaching journalism to bilingual and bicultural college students in California. Based on the principles of civic advocacy journalism and communication for social change, this approach utilizes liberatory pedagogies, community engagement, and service learning approaches to (a) prepare journalism students to become engaged citizens (b) train students in critical analysis of the news media practices and (c) incorporate the consciousness of social injustices when covering diversity and minorities (Boyer, 1990; Butin, 2007; Freire, 1973, 1994; Giroux, 1992,1997, 2010; Gumucio & Tufte, 2006; Massey, 1998; Schaffer, 1996; Tufte & Mefalopulos, 2009; Waisbord, 2008, 2009; Wilkins, Tufte, & Obregón, 2014). This essay reviews a two-semester project that prepares students to analyze contemporary history of underserved minorities and the role of mainstream and ethnic media in portraying them and/or serving these groups. Students start in Fall semester with a lecture course. Part of them continues during Spring semester in a laboratory/production class.
• Gonzalez de Bustamante, C., & Retis, J. (2017). Underrepresented Majorities: Latin@s and the Media in the Digital Age. In Christopher Campbell (Ed.) The Routlege Companion to Media and Race. New York: Routlege(pp 22-36). New York: Routledge.
• Retis Rivas, J. M. (2017). The transnational restructuring of communication and consumption practices. Latinos in the urban settings of global cities. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media(pp 22-36). New York: Routledge.
• Retis, J. (2018). La condición transnacional de los latinoamericanos: reflexiones en torno a las industrias culturales, las políticas públicas y las estrategias comerciales. In Francisco Sierrra, Franceso Maniglio and Daniela Favaro Garrossini (Eds.), Políticas de Comunicación e Integración Económica Intercontinental(pp 301-311). Quito: Ciespal.
• Retis, J. (2014). Latino Diasporas and the Media: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Transnationalism and Communication. In Fabienne Darling-Wolf (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies: Research Methods in Media Studies(pp 570-594). New York: Wiley Blackwell.
• Retis, J. (2014). Latinos Online: Acceso e inclusión digital de los inmigrantes internacionales en contextos diaspóricos. In Giancarlo Carbone and Oscar Quezada (Eds.), Comunicación e industria digital. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad de Lima.
• Retis, J. (2013). Immigrant Latina Images in Mainstream Media: Class, Race, and Gender in Public Discourse in the United States and Spain. In Discourses On Immigration In Times Of Economic Crisis: A Critical Perspective(pp 28-58). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Retis, J., & Galan, E. (2012). Discursos en torno a la inmigración en España: Análisis comparado de la cobertura periodística y los programas de ficción. In Al descubierto. El poder democrático de los medios(pp 93-125). Madrid: Fragua.
• Retis, J. (2011). Los retos del periodismo intercultural: periodistas españoles ante la inmigración extracomunitaria. In Jaime Atienza (coord.), De ida y vuelta. Inmigración: Reto del Pluralismo cultural(pp 93-125). Madrid: Fragua.
• Retis, J. (2010). ¿Cómo reflejan los medios de comunicación a las mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas? Análisis de la prensa española y estadounidense. In María Lirola (Ed.). Migraciones, discursos e ideologías en una sociedad globalizada claves para su mejor comprensión(pp 57-78). Alicante: Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert.
• Retis, J., & Garcia, P. (2010). Jóvenes e inmigración en la prensa española. La cobertura mediática de los conflictos sociales. In Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigador@s Migrantes (Coord.) Familias, niños, niñas y jóvenes migrantes. Rompiendo estereotipos(pp 183-196). Madrid: Iepala.
• Retis, J. (2009). En torno a las políticas informales de inmigración en España: el espacio mediático del discurso legal. In Francisco Parra (Ed.), La migración en España. Algunos datos para el debate(pp 109-152). Madrid: Tirant Lo Blanch.
• Retis, J. (2009). Mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas en el reciente cine documental de Estados Unidos. In Denize Araujo (Org.). La migración en España. Algunos datos para el debate(pp 164-194). Porto Alegre: Editora Plus.
• Retis, J. (2008). Génesis y evolución de la ‘latinoamericanización’ de España. El rol de los medios de comunicación en la construcción de la realidad migratoria. In Antonio Bañon and Javier Fornieles (Eds.), Manual sobre Comunicación e Inmigración(pp 215-230). Murcia: Tercera Prensa.
• Retis, J. (2006). Latinoamericanos en la prensa española, entre la compasión y el miedo. In Manuel Lario (coord), Medios de comunicación e inmigración(pp 145-169). Murcia: Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo.
• Retis, J. (2005). Hijos de la «Madre Patria»: imágenes de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España. In Migraciones e interculturalidad. Experiencias europeas y latinoamericanas(pp 31-58). Varsovia: Latin American Studies Center, University of Varsovia.
• Retis Rivas, J. M. (2003). La construcción de la imagen de la inmigración latinoamericana en la prensa española. In F. Contreras, R. González, F. Sierra, (Eds.), Comunicación, Cultura y Migración(pp 123-162). Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, Junta de Andalucía.
• Retis, J., & Quintero, C. (1997). Guerra en los medios. Cómo vendió el gobierno su visión de Chiapas. In Francisco Sierra (Coord.) Comunicación e insurgencia: la información y la propaganda en la guerra de Chiapas(pp 239-315). Hondarribia: Editorial Hiru.

Journals/Publications

• Retis Rivas, J. M., & Cogo, D. (2023). Special Issue: Communication and Migrations in the Contexts of South-South Mobility. Mediaciones.
• Retis Rivas, J. M., & Cueva Chacon, L. (2023). ¿Qué pasa with American news media? Digital Latinx media serving communities information needs using messaging apps. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
• Retis Rivas, J. M., & Zanforlin, S. (2023). Guest Editor. Special Issue: Migrations, Diasporas and Media: Human Rights and (In)mobility during the Pandemic. Journal of Global Diaspora and Media.
• Retis, J. (2021). Understanding Latin American diasporic transnationalism and the media in the post-digital era: The interstices of invisibility. Questions de Communication, 357-380. doi:https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.50.27321
• Retis, J., & Jamil, S. (2022). Media Discourses and Representation of Marginalized Communities in Multicultural Societies. Journalism Practice, 17(1), 1-4. doi:10.1080/17512786.2022.2142839
• Retis, J., Kanashiro, L., & Domenack, W. (2021). Retos metodológicos en el estudio del sistema de medios informativos en el Perú. Cuadernos Info, 50, 1-21. doi:https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.50.27321
• Cardenas, L., Bustamante, C., & Retis, J. (2020). To tweet for solidarity or just report the news? Comparing social media strategies of Spanish language and English language TV networks. Television and New Media, 3(21), 1-24. doi:10.1177/152747764198937921
• Retis, J., & Ferrández-Ferrer, A. (2020). Hegemonía y resistencia en el espacio mediático: los medios de minorías étnicas. Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, 131-141. doi:10.3145/ae-ic-epi.2020.e08
• Retis, J., Cárdenas, L., & González de Bustamante, C. (2020). To Tweet for Solidarity or Just Report the News? Comparing Social Media Strategies of Spanish- and English-language TV Networks. Television & New Media, 22(5), 546-569. doi:10.1177/1527476419893792
• Ferrandez, A., & Retis, J. (2019). Ethnic Minority Media: Between Hegemony and Resistance. Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 4(3), 1-13.
• Retis, J., & Ferrer, A. F. (2019). Ethnic minority media: Between hegemony and resistance. Journal of Alternative & Community Media, 4(3), 1-13. doi:10.1386/joacm_00054_1
• Amy Schmitz Weiss, A., & Retis, J. (2018). I don’t Like Maths, That’s Why I am in Journalism’: Journalism Students Perceptions and Myths about Data Journalism. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 28(1), 1-15. doi:10.1177/1326365X18780418
• Retis, J. (2018). Inmigrantes latinoamericanos en ciudades globales: aproximaciones interdisciplinarias en el análisis de las practices comunicativas, mediáticas y culturales. Contratexto, 19-40. doi:10.26439/contratexto2018.n030.3147
• Retis, J. (2017). ¿Consumidores o ciudadanos? Prácticas de consumo cultural de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España. Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo, 14(41), 53-83. doi:10.18568
• Retis, J. (2016). The Portrayal of Latin American Immigrants in the Spanish Mainstream Media: Fear of Compassion?. International Journal of Hispanic Media, 9, 32-45.
• Retis, J., & Badillo, A. (2015). ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de los “hispanos”?. Política Exterior, 29(167), 116-125.
• Retis, J. (2014). Consumers or citizens? Practices of cultural consumption of Latin American immigrants in Spain. Fronteras, 1(1), 71-96.
• Retis, J. (2014). El rol de los medios en los procesos de estratificación social en el contexto migratorio. Espacios mediáticos y consumos culturales. Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación, 13-22. doi:https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i125
• Retis, J. (2012). El poder del documental: Representación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos. Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire. Les Cahiers ALHIM, 1-15.
• Garcia, P., & Retis, J. (2011). Jeunes et minorités ethniques dans la presse européenne: Les médias et les émeutes parisiennes de 2005. Global Media Journal : Canadian Edition, 4(1), 77-92.
• Retis, J., & Sierra Caballero, F. (2011). Rethinking Latin American Communicology in the Age of Nomad Culture. Transnational Consumption and Cultural Hybridizations. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), 8(1), 102-130. doi:10.16997/wpcc.164
• Retis, J., & Garcia, P. (2010). Jóvenes inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa española. Narrativas mediáticas de la alteridad: el caso de las violencias urbanas. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 52(209), 135-159.
• Walzer, A., & Retis, J. (2007). Modelos de servicio público en Europa: Análisis comparativo de TVE y BBC. Comunicar. Revista Científica de Educomunicación, 16(31), 715-726. doi:10.3916/c31-2008-03-072
• Retis Rivas, J. M. (2006). La construcción social de la inmigración latinoamericana en España: Discursos, imágenes y realidades. Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire, 12, 75-97.
• Retis, J., & Benavides, J. L. (2005). Miradas hacia Latinoamérica: La representación discursiva de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa española y estadounidense. Palabra Clave, 8(13), 93-114.
• Retis, J. (2004). La imagen del otro: inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa nacional española. Sphera Pública, 119-139.
• Retis, J. (2004). La percepción mediática española de la inmigración extracomunitaria: Víctimas y victimarios del 11M. Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación, 46-53.
• Retis, J. (1996). Fabricación del consenso a través de los medios. Los secretos de la propaganda salinista. Revista Mexicana de Comunicacion, 9(46), 28-34.

Case Studies

• Retis Rivas, J. M., Arocha, Z., Cueva Chacon, L., & Subervi, F. (2023. NAHJ members in journalism and media education. Report commissioned by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.(pp NA).
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  Retis, J., Arocha, Z., Cueva, L. & Surbervi, F. (2023). NAHJ members in journalism and media education. Report commissioned by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.