Hernando Rojas is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Chair, and Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarship focuses on political communication, in particular examining: (a) the deployment of new communication technologies for social mobilization in a variety of contexts; (b) the influence of audience perceptions of media (and audience perceptions of media effects) on both public opinion and the structure of the public sphere; and (c) the conditions under which media support democratic governance. Rojas has served as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and multiple editorial boards. He has held leadership positions as Director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program and in professional associations including ICA, WAPOR and AEJMC. Rojas holds courtesy research affiliations with the Colombian Center for Political Communication Research, the Universidad Catolica in Chile, and the Singapore Internet Research Center. Rojas received his doctorate in Mass Communication in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin, has an MA in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota, and a law degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia.