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PhD

Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Communication

Master of Arts

Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Communication

Bachelor of Arts

Universidad Panamericana

Communication

Graduate Scholarship in Sciences and Humanities

Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation of Mexico (SECIHTI)

Fulbright García-Robles Scholarship

US-Mexico Foundation (COMEXUS)

Research fellow

Politics, Identities, and Communication Lab - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

• Co-authored "WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools" (Jeon et al., 2025) with the following contributions: theoretical conceptualization, writing, reviewing, and editing.
• Co-authored "The Woman in the Machine: Gendered AI Imaginaries and Folk Theories on TikTok" (Monzer et al., 2025) with the following contributions: computational visual analysis of TikTok data, writing, reviewing, and editing.
• Ongoing participation in research project on political self-presentation in TikTok with the following contributions: theoretical conceptualization, formulation of overarching research goals, methodology design, computational visual analysis, writing, reviewing, and editing.

Teaching fellow

Children and Media - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

• Provided individual assistance and clarification during dedicated office hours.
• Assisted the instructor with logistical tasks, such as managing the online learning platform and maintaining grade and attendance records.
• Graded and provided dedicated feedback for assignments and final papers.
• Assisted in designing and grading exams.
• Taught lecture on racial representations in children's media.

Research fellow

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

• Worked under Dr. Juan Llamas Rodriguez's supervision on the development of a mixed-methods study on the representation of gender and skin color stereotypes in Mexican telenovelas and TV series (a report commissioned by the Luminate foundation).
• Co-authored Poder Prieto: Media, Colorism, and Cultural Activism in Mexico (In press) (Llamas-Rodriguez and Téliz Martínez, 2026) with the following contributions: theoretical conceptualization, formulation of overarching research goals, writing, reviewing, and editing.

Instructor

Quantitative Methods for Communication Research - Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

• Served as the Instructor of Record for an undergraduate-level course, delivering all lectures and directing all class activities for the Communication major.
• Designed all educational materials, including original slides, assignments, tests, and lab activities.
• Introduced the programming language R into the curriculum as the main tool for learning Quantitative Methods.
• Held regular office hours for student assistance and managed the grading of all assignments, including weekly lab activities and final projects.

Poder Prieto: Media, Colorism, and Cultural Activism in Mexico (In press)

Juan Llamas-Rodríguez and Silvia Téliz

Planet Digital (NYU Press)

Agresiones a periodistas y cobertura mediática de la corrupción

Georgina Flores-Ivich and Silvia Téliz

Crisis de estatalidad y violaciones a derechos humanos (FLACSO México)

Picturing Immigration: A Multimodal Computational Analysis of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Silvia Téliz and Gayoung Jeon

Poster presentation

PolNet-PACSS conference - Boston, MA, USA

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Fictions: Visual Political Communication in the Age of Generative AI

Silvia Téliz

Invited talk

CIND Workshop 2025 - Philadelphia, PA, USA

Hues of Victory: Using Computer Vision to Examine Skin Color's Influence on Electoral Success

Silvia Téliz

Conference presentation

ICA Preconference: "A Computational Turn in Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges in a Cross-Disciplinary Field" - Singapore

Status, Color and Race: Dissecting the content of Latin American class stereotypes

Valentina Proust Iligaray and Silvia Téliz

Conference presentation

ICA Preconference: "Media and Communication in Global Latinidades" - Online