Biography
Teresa de la Hera is Associate Professor of Persuasive Gaming at Erasmus University. Her expertise is particularly related to understanding how digital games and new media technologies can be used as media for communication and tools for engagement, motivation, and persuasion. She conducts research at the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture where she is member of the [Research Cluster Gaming Matters][]. She teaches in IBCoM, the International Bachelor's programme in Communication and Media as well as in the international MA Media and Bussiness.
De la Hera is author of the book Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape (2019) and editor of the volume Persuasive Gaming in Context (2021), both published by Amsterdam University Press. She is also PI of the funded research projects 鈥淒igital Literacy Games: Digital games designed to support digital literacy skills acquisition鈥 and 鈥淚ce-skating game to foster intercultural interaction鈥
Before joining the Department in September 2017, she was a Post-doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. As a Post-doctoral researcher, she was a member of the NWO funded research project "Persuasive Gaming in Context" ([][]) in which she explored the potential of digital games as media for persuasion.
Teresa started her academic career at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 2006 where she conducted research in the fields of new media and serious games. In 2010 she was a visiting PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, where she spent four months under the supervision of Professor Jan Simons. Later on, in 2011, she moved to the Netherlands where she obtained an International PhD Fellowship to finish her PhD 鈥淧ersuasive Structures in Advergames鈥 at Utrecht University. Her thesis has been awarded as the Best Academic Work in the Field of Media Studies by the Consell de l鈥橝udiovisual de Catalunya (Spain) in 2013. She holds a BA in Journalism (track: Digital Journalism), a BA in Audiovisual Communication (track: Direction and Screenplay), and an MA in Communication and Advertising. [Research Cluster Gaming Matters]: /别苍/别蝉丑肠肠/谤别蝉别补谤肠丑/别谤尘别肠肠/谤别蝉别补谤肠丑/肠濒耻蝉迟别谤蝉/驳补尘颈苍驳-尘补鈥 [Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape]: [ [
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- delahera@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Laura Ca帽ete Sanz, Sjors Martens & Teresa De La Hera (2025) - - Media and Communication, 13, 1-19 - doi: -
- Yixiang Que, Teresa De La Hera & Jeroen Jansz (2025) - - Media and Communication, 13 - doi:
- Teresa De La Hera, Laura Ca帽ete Sanz, Nuria Navarro Sierra, Jeroen Jansz, Julia Kneer, Ren茅 Glas & Jasper van Vught (2024) - - Frontiers in Communication, 9 - doi:
- Palesa Mashigo, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Teresa De la Hera & Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves (2024) - - Ethnic and Racial Studies - doi: -
- Jeroen Jansz, Teresa De La Hera, Julia Kneer, Laura Ca帽ete Sanz, Ren茅 Glas & Jasper van Vught (2023) - -
- Laura Ca帽ete Sanz & Teresa De La Hera (2023) - - Frontiers in Communication, 8, 1-12 - doi: -
- Ren茅 Glas, Jasper van Vught, Timo Fluitsma, Teresa De La Hera & Salvador G贸mez-Garc铆a (2023) - - Frontiers in Communication, 8 - doi: -
- Jenniffer Soto De la Cruz, Teresa De la Hera, Sara Cort茅s G贸mez & Pilar Lacasa (2023) - - Media and Communication, 11 (2), 266-277 - doi: -
- Salvador G贸mez-Garc铆a & Teresa De la Hera (2023) - - Media and Communication, 11 (2), 278-290 - doi:
- Marko Siitonen, Felix Reer & Teresa De La Hera (2023) - - Frontiers in Communication, 14 - doi:
- Teresa De La Hera (17 oktober 2018) - Game-industrie verdient miljarden door 鈥榣ootboxes鈥
- Teresa De La Hera (19 mei 2017) - Videojuegos para la salud. Elena Mor谩n y Teresa de la Hera
- Teresa De La Hera, Julia Kneer, Jeroen Jansz, Vivian Chen, Yixiang Que & Argyrios Emmanouloudis (2024) - Dutch DiGRA 2024 Symposium (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Teresa De La Hera (2024) - Game Studies in Spain (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Teresa De La Hera (2024) - Alba Merino Cajaraville (Host)
Activiteit: Hosting an academic visitor 鈥 Academic - Teresa De La Hera (2023) - Effects and Strategies of Digital Literacy Games (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Professional - Teresa De La Hera & Julia Kneer (2023) - Digital Literacy Games (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Professional - Teresa De La Hera (2023) - Empathy Games. DiGRA Spain 2023. Madrid, Spain (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Teresa De La Hera (2019) - Co-designing a methodology to explore the role of digital games to foster social interactions during long-term hospitalization (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Teresa De La Hera (2019) - [Invited speaker] Roundtable discussion: Immersive Technology, Ethics and Digital Literacy (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Professional - Teresa De La Hera (2019) - [Invited talk] Immersive technology for positive societal change (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Professional - Teresa De La Hera (2019) - [Invited speaker] Panel discussion: The role of learning games in the future of education (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Professional
- Jacco van Sterkenburg & Teresa De La Hera (2025) - Everyday racism: How do football video cultures respond?
- Teresa De La Hera (2014) - Best academic work - Persuasive Structures in Advergames (PhD Thesis). Consell de l鈥橝udiovisual de Catalunya
Pan European Game Information (PEGI)
- Start date approval
- maart 2025
- End date approval
- maart 2028
- Place
- BRUSSELS
- Year Level
- BA-2, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM2006
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CM5050
