Isabel Sarabia-Andúgar
	Department of Communication - Area of Audiovisual Communication Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences San Antonio de Murcia Catholic University (UCAM) Campus Los Jerónimos, 30107, Guadalupe (Murcia, Spain) Tel: 968 278 809 - Fax: 968 278 586 isarabia@pdi.ucam.edu Isabel Sarabia-Andúgar holds an M.A. in Audiovisual production and a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she defended her doctoral thesis (“Television of proximity in the region of Murcia. 1979-2003”) in June 2004. Since 1997 she teaches Communication Policy and Audiovisual industry at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Catholic University of Murcia. Since 2004 she participates in the interuniversity programme entitled “New information technologies” of the University of Malaga and the Catholic University of Murcia, where she teaches “Digital radio and television”. She is currently the Vice-Dean of Audiovisual Communication at the UCAM. Her main line of research is the introduction of DTT in local scenarios, which she develops as a member of the UCAM’s research group on Digital Audiovisual Communication (DIGITALAC). She has co-directed the R&D research project entitled “TDTask”, which is part of the Master Plan for the Development of High Technology of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. In addition, she is the main investigator of the ongoing project entitled “Creación de una plataforma de usuarios reales de TDT en la Región de Murcia” (Creation of a platform of real users of DTT in the Region of Murcia), which is part of the Plan Avanza and the Autonomous Community of Murcia’s Digital Citizenship Programme. She has also been the main researcher in the research project entitled Estudio de conocimiento, percepción y penetración de la TDT en la Región de Murcia (Study of knowledge, perception and penetration of DTT in the region of Murcia), in its 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions, which were developed for the General Secretariat of Audiovisual Communication of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. In addition, she has also directed the study entitled “Apagón analógico en el Proyecto de transición de Ricote (2008): Perspectivas de adaptación” (Analogue blackout in Ricote’s Transition Project (2008): Perspectives of adaptation), and is responsible for the ongoing project “Efectos de la adaptación a la TDT en el proyecto de Ricote 2009”(Effects of the adaptation to TDT in Ricote’s 2009 project), which is funded by the Ministry of Health and Consumption of the Autonomous Community of Murcia. She is part of the research project “Impacto de Internet en la redefinición de servicio público de las televisiones públicas autonómicas españolas” (Impact of Internet on the redefinition of public service of the Spanish regional public television channels), which is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology within the subvention programme for research projects within the national programme of fundamental research of the national plan I+D+i 2008-2011. She has been part of the organising committee of the UCAM International Forum on Digital Terrestrial Television from 2005 to 2009, and of the first and second Workshop of the Multi-platform Audiovisual Industry (2010-2011), which took place in Murcia as part of the Conferences on Information Society, which were organised by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. She has participated in various scientific forums including: I Congreso Latina de Comunicación, AEIC (of which she is member), AIERI, Ulepicc, Comloc, AIJIC, Foro Internacional de TDT, and Alcázar Digital. Between 2005 and 2009 she has undertaken research stays in the Institute of Communication of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Erasmus stays in Siena (Italy), Amiens (France), Turku (Finland) and Wroclaw (Poland), where she has taught seminars related to DTT.