Manuel Gago Mariño

Manuel Gago Mariño (born 22 June 1976, in Palmeira, Galicia, municipality of Ribeira, Spain) is a Galician journalist and scholar.

Background
He holds a doctorate in Information Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2011 he presented his doctoral thesis Deseño editorial e arquitectura da información nos cibermedios internacionais de referencia ("Editorial design and information architecture in international reference cyber media").

He teaches as an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of Santiago de Compostela at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He teaches on subjects related to cyberjournalism. He is a member of the USC New Media Research Group. It maintains what is considered the oldest active blog of the blogomillo, Chapter 0.

As a cultural researcher, he directs the Council on Galician Culture culturagalega.org portal. In 2010, he was curator of the exhibition Ao pé do lar Museum of the Galician People.

Within the field of archaeology, he participated in the research team in the excavations of the castro da Lanzada, and directed, together with the archaeologist Antón Malde, the excavation of the A Pena Furada complex. In 2011 he created the web site Patrimonio Galego (English:Galician Heritage), and in 2012 he directed, also with Malde, another archaeological excavation, that of the Torre dos Mouros in Lira, Carnota.

Published works

 * In Galician




 * In Spanish