Núria Araüna is a lecturer on Media Studies and a researcher at the Department of Communication Studies at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona). She holds a Media Studies BA degree, an Anthropology BA degree and her Ph. D. dissertation on gender representations and love relationships in Spanish music videos was awarded by the Catalan Audiovisual Council. Her current research focuses on adolescents' use of social networking sites, gender relationships and representations online, and the prevention of violence through the construction of alternative masculinities and femininities. Besides, she is working on the representation of identities and social memory, as well as on political documentary.