Maria-Jose Masanet is Associate Professor from the Serra Húnter excellence program at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media (Universitat de Barcelona). Her main research interests are media literacy, gender and sexualities, youth studies, transmedia, social media and tv series. She is the Principal Investigator of the ‘Transmedia Gender & LGBTI+ Literacy’ research project (Ministry of Science and Innovation). She has been a visiting fellow at The New School (Fulbright Fellow), the Ghent University, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Loughborough University. She is part of the Centre of Research in Information, Communication and Culture (CRICC), where she coordinates the research line on Gender, Inclusion and Diversities.