EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City- Ph.D. (Expected 2025)
Political Science
Dissertation: The Merging of Social Movement Organizations' agendas with Twitter users: Support networks and URLs use.
Advisory committee: Dr. Raúl Trejo Delarbre (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM); Dr. Ernesto Calvo (Government and Politics department, University of Maryland) and Dr. César Augusto Rodríguez Cano (UAM Cuajimalpa)
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla City- M.A. (Nov 2019)
Public Opinion and Political Marketing
Thesis: “Procesos comunicativos y deliberativos en Facebook durante campañas Electorales: Caso Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018”[1]
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla City-B.A. (Feb 2016)
Public Administration and Political Sciences.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Current member of the Editorial, Global Media Journal México, Monterrey, México (25/11/2024)
● The Editorial Committee is responsible for evaluating whether the submitted manuscripts align with the journal’s thematic focus and meet the standards of a scientific article for potential peer review, ensuring a rigorous and specialized review process.
Visiting scholar, University of Maryland, College Park-Station, United States (26/08/2024-26/11/2024)
● Supervisor: Dr. Ernesto Calvo.
● Research stay at the Department of Government and Politics, where I developed a generalized linear mixed model for my doctoral dissertation.
Research Stay, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Mexico City (02/2024-06/2024)
● Sponsored by Dr. Ricardo Massa Roldán.
● Research stay at the Department of Public Policy to develop a statistical model for my doctoral dissertation project.
Research Assistant, School of Communication, University of Miami (11/2020-03/2022)
● Professor Sallie Huges
● Created a Mexico News Media Database 2021 by identifying, verifying, and characterizing more than 2600 local news media outlets in Mexico.
Research Assistant, Department of Sociocultural Studies, (ITESO) (03/2020-08/2021)
● Dr. Juan S. Larrosa
● Analyzed the Mexican Federal Government’s communication system during conferences regarding the advance of the pandemic in Mexico using social-digital networks and digital ethnography.
Research Stay, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara (ITESO), Guadalajara (01/2019-03/2019)
● Sponsored by Dr. Juan Sebastián Larrosa Fuentes.
● Developed theoretical framework for my master's thesis.
PUBLICATIONS
Toxtle Tlachino, A. (2024). Agenda melding. En Sosa Hernández, G. y Gilas, K. (Ed.), ¿CÓMO ESTUDIAR LA COMUNICACIÓN POLÍTICA? NUEVAS MIRADAS A LOS CONCEPTOS CENTRALES, (pp. 45-50). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
González Macías, R. A., García, L., Toxtle, A., Hughes, S., Del Palacio, C., & Buxadé, J. (2023). Panorama de los medios informativos en México: Una mirada a los subsistemas regionales. Global Media Journal, Mexico 20 (39), (pp. 89–109). https://doi.org/10.29105/gmjmx20.39-508
Toxtle Tlachino, A. y González Macías, R. (2021). Facebook, una extensión de marketing y no un espacio deliberativo: Caso de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en elecciones presidenciales de México en 2018. Global Media Journal, Mexico 17 (33), (pp. 72-95). https://doi.org/10.29105/gmjmx17.33-4
Toxtle Tlachino, A. (2021). Procesos comunicativos y deliberativos en Facebook durante campañas electorales: caso Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018. Breviarios de la Cultura Política Democrática núm. 45. Toluca, México: Instituto Electoral del Estado de México, Centro de Formación y Documentación Electoral.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Administrative Assistant, Coronango City Hall, Puebla, Civil Registration Department (02/2016-02/2017)
● Entered data on birth, marriage, and death certificates.
● Advised citizens on judicial proceedings for the rectification of certificates.
Administrative Assistant, Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT), Puebla (2015)
● Advised citizens on filing income taxes.
PRESENTATIONS (*Invited)
*The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Graduate Lecture Series, Maryland, United States (November 2024)
● Presentation of doctoral research progress: Merging the agendas of social movement organizations with Twitter users: The displacement of the professional media by prosumers.
2024 International Conference on Social Media & Society, London, England (July 2024)
● Presentation of the paper entitled Agenda Melding of Social Movement Organizations with Twitter users: Support networks and URLs usage.
27th World Congress of Political Science IPSA-AISP, Buenos Aires, Argentina (July 2023)
● Presentation of the paper entitled Fusión de agenda en Twitter: La hibridación de medios.
*Seminario sobre Métodos y Técnicas de Investigación en Comunicación, Yucatán, Mexico (September 2023)
● Presentation of the conference entitled Análisis de contenido: Facebook, una extensión de marketing y no un espacio deliberativo: Caso de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en elecciones presidenciales de México.
*Book presentation, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (October 2021)
● Procesos comunicativos y deliberativos en Facebook durante campañas electorales: el caso de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)/ Conference 2021, United States (July 2021)
● Presentation of Co-Authored paper entitled: Desarrollo mediático subnacional en una democracia territorialmente desnivelado: Un acercamiento a las condiciones que determinan la densidad de los medios en los estados de México.
Congreso Virtual LASA2021: Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, online (May 2021)
● Presentation of Co-Authored paper entitled La comunicación pública del gobierno mexicano como estrategia de combate al COVID-19: conocimientos científicos, organización colectiva y propaganda.
World Association for Public Opinion Research LATAM, Salamanca, España (October 2020)
● Presentation of the paper entitled Procesos comunicativos y deliberativos en Facebook durante campañas Electorales: Caso Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018.
4to Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Posgrado en Ciencias Sociales-FLACSO, Mexico City (July 2020)
● Presentation of the paper entitled Procesos comunicativos y deliberativos en Facebook durante campañas electorales: el caso de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018.
AWARDS
Visiting scholar at the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Station
UNAM Grant (2025)
International Conference on Social Media & Society UNAM-Grant (2024)
IPSA-FLACSO MEXICO SUMMER SCHOOL, 6ta edition UNAM-Grant (2022)
IPSA Conferences-UNAM Grant (2021)
CONACYT Doctoral Fellowship (2021-2025)
Santander Scholarship IE Digital DNA (2020)
Thesis Completion Scholarship CONCYTEP (2019)
Atlas.ti scholarship (2019)
CONACYT Masters Fellowship (2017-2019)
Jovenes Tomando Decisiones Premio[2] (2015)
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & LANGUAGE SKILLS
DataCamp (online) (March 2024)
● Curse: Introduction to R, Introduction to Importing Data in R, Introduction to Tidyvers, Intermediate Regression in R, Data Manipulation with dplyr.
IPSA-FLACSO MEXICO SUMMER SCHOOL, 6ta edition, Mexico City (September 2022)
● Curse: Data processing and text analysis/scrapping and big data.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City (October 2020)
● Course: Quantitative text analysis with Rstudio.
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City (September 2020)
● Curse: Data science, Rstudio package management.
IE Business School (Online) (January 2020)
● Curse: Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age.
IPSA-FLACSO Mexico Summer School, Mexico City (June 2019)
● Curse: Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and case study research.
Technical:
● Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Search, Zotero, ATLAS.TI (qualitative coding software), and Rstudio.
Languages:
● English: Intermediate level of English B2 (Duolingo English Test).
[1] Communicative and deliberative processes on Facebook during Electoral campaigns: Andrés Manuel López Obrador Case in 2018
[2] Youth Making Decisions Award. Made a policy recommendation to improve citizen participation in Mexico.