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

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").^{[citation needed]}

He teaches as an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences [gl] 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 [gl], Chapter 0.^{[citation needed]}

As a cultural researcher, he directs the Galician Culture Council's [gl] culturagalega.org portal. In 2010, he was curator of the exhibition Ao pé do lar Museum of the Galician People [gl].^{[citation needed]}

Within the field of archaeology, he participated in the research team in the excavations of the castro da Lanzada [gl], and directed, together with the archaeologist Antón Malde, the excavation of the A Pena Furada [gl] complex. In 2011 he created the web site Patrimonio Galego [gl] (English:Galician Heritage), and in 2012 he directed, also with Malde, another archaeological excavation, that of the Torre dos Mouros [gl] in Lira, Carnota  [gl].^[1][2]

In Galician

• Herdeiros pola forza. Patrimonio cultural, poder e sociedade na Galicia do século XXI (in Galician) (2 ed.). 2012.
• Vento e chuvia. Mitoloxía da antiga Gallaecia (in Galician). Illustrator Manel Cráneo [gl]. Edicións Xerais. 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Vento e chuvia. Mitoloxía da antiga Gallaecia (Edición de campo) (in Galician). Edicións Xerais. 2015. ISBN 978-84-9914-903-5.
• O anxo negro (in Galician). Edicións Xerais. 2016. ISBN 978-84-9914-985-1.^[3][4]
• O sangue das pantasmas. Libraría Couceiro. 2021.^[5]
• Nus. Edicións Xerais. 2021. ISBN 978-84-9121-001-6.^[6]
• Xosé López García; José Pereira Fariña., eds. (2002). Novas tendencias do xornalismo electrónico.
• Historia das historias de Galicia. Edicións Xerais. 2016. ISBN 978-84-9121-001-6.

In Spanish

• Sistemas Digitales de Información (in Spanish). Pearson Prentice Hall. 2006. ISBN 978-84-205-4225-6.
• Diseño Periodístico en Internet (in Spanish). UPV. 2007. ISBN 9788483739983.

• Gago giving a talk on the tenth anniversary of Galipedia in 2013.
• 
  Gago (left) next to the archaeologist Xurxo Ayán [gl].

• 100 Galicia centuries, Objects to tell a culture [gl]

• Official website
• patrimoniogalego.net
• Interview with Montse Dopico [gl]
• Intervención en LGx15