The Audiovisual Studies Research Group —Audiovisual Communication: contents, formats and technology— (GEA) is a Group of Competitive Reference from the University of Santiago de Compostela, coordinated by professor Enrique Castelló Mayo and attached to the Department of Communication Sciences.

The mission and objectives of the group are the analysis of the communication processes as cultural constructors and capital instruments in the formation of societies. Based on different approaches -political, social, economic…- and with special attention to the construction of identity(s) and the preservation of cultural diversity, it offers interdisciplinary research proposals whose results are directed to the scientific community, those responsible of public policies, the professionals of the sectors involved and the citizenship in general.