Leetoy-López, Salvador

Salvador Leetoy (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1203-0939) is a media theory and cultural studies professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Guadalajara Campus. He is a member of the Mexican Researchers System (SNI, Tier I). He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of Alberta (2008) and an MSc in Communication from the Tecnologico de Monterrey (1998). Professor Leetoy was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Drake University in Des Moines, IA (2017-2018). He has been a visiting fellow in the Dept of International Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2010), the Dept of Journalism at the University of Seville (2011), and the Dept of Communication Studies at the University of San Diego (2013). Professor Leetoy was head of the research groups "Applied Ethics and Citizenship" (2013-2014) and "Communication, Globalization and Cultural Studies (2009-2013) at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He was chair of the Department of Humanities and Citizen Education (2014-2015). He was the chief editor of Virtualis, the digital culture journal of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (2019-2022). He was the regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Association for Cultural Studies (2020-2024). His research interests are participatory communication, studies of the subaltern, and technopolitics.