Guillermo Mastrini has a PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a professor of Social Communications at the National University of Quilmes, where he was the Director of the Cultural Industries Masters program. He is also a professor in the Communication Sciences program at the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA). He is a research fellow at the National Scientific Research Council (CONICET).

He was president of the Argentine Federation of Social Communications, and director of the Communication Sciences Program at the University of Buenos Aires. He was the chief coordinator and member of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd Panamerican Congress on Communication at the University of Buenos Aires and vice-president of the Latin Union of Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture.

Martín Becerra has a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a degree in Communication Sciences from the UBA. He is a regular professor at UNQ, where he served from 2001 to 2003 as director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication and, since then, as Academic Secretary.

He has been an editor and contributor to newspapers ( El Cronista , Extra , La Razón ), magazines ( Crisis , Humor , Buenos Aires , among others) and news agencies. He is an associate researcher at Conicet. Author of Information society: project, convergence, divergence (2003) and ofJournalists and Tycoons: Structure and Concentration of Cultural Industries in Latin America , with Guillermo Mastrini (2006) and numerous chapters and articles on the structure and concentration of cultural industries.