She is a sociologist and holds a PhD in communication from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on alternative communication theory, political economy of communication, and sociology of culture. She is an activist of alternative media and citizen participation in public policies of communication and telecommunications. She authored the book TV digital en Chile: Políticas públicas y democracia and directs a four-year research project on popular culture in Chile in the nineteenth century from the perspective of alternative communication, cultural materialism, and decolonial thinking.