She has an MA in History for the University of Ghent (Belgium) and in Audiovisual Communication for the UB (Catalonia, Spain). Currently she is working on a PhD in the field of Digital and Media Literacy. As a researcher she has been involved at the Interactive Media Lab (LMI) of the University Barcelona since 1999, where she manages several European and national projects on eLearning, ICT in Education and Media Literacy. At the moment, she is coordinating eCLIPse/XenoCLIPse, an action-research project in the frame of the eLearning initiative (European Commission) about the portrayal of ethnic and cultural minorities in the media, and how these minorities are empowered by digital media.