Jesús Martín-Barbero, one of the great theorists of communication and the media, has died

Martín-Barbero was born in Spain but since 1963 he was based in Cali (Colombia), where he founded the Faculty of Social Communication at the Universidad del Valle. Among his best-known books and studied by students in this field and journalism are From the media to mediations, Television and melodrama and cartographer’s office. Latin American crossroads of communication in culture.