On November 20 (21:30)
"Como TVer" released in Fnac-Braga
The first booklet, entitled "Como to TVer”, which runs the project" Media Education in Booklets Learning, Knowing and Acting ", written by three researchers at the Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho), recently awarded in Italy, will be launched on the 20th of November at 21.30, at Fnac-Forum, in Braga. The event, which is part of the celebrations of 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, will be attended by Teresa Paixão, responsible for children's programming from RTP (public channel Portuguese broadcast TV).
This booklet is the first of a collection produced under the award given by the "Evens Foundation (Belgium), who had the patronage of European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. It follows the publication of two: one on "Video Games" and another on"Internet and Social Networks."

IAMCR'10 presented in Mexico

The 28th annual conference of IAMCR ended last July 24, in Mexico City, with the presentation of the university and the country that in 2010, will receive the next edition (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal).

The Director of the Communication and Society Research Centre, Manuel Pinto (see speech and powerpoint), and the Head of the Communication Sciences Department, Helena Sousa accompanied by the president of the Association, Annabelle Sreberny (left in photo), presented the proposal to general theme (Communication and Citizenship), logistics and details about the event's visual identity.


For more information please visit the IAMCR2010 official website.
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Click here to see the IAMCR2010 visual identity's conference.

Communication and Society Research Centre

Director:
Manuel Pinto

This unit is a permanent research structure affiliated with the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho. It was created in September 2002 to provide an institutional framework for integrating the growing body of research and the increasing number of researchers in the Department of Communication Sciences. CECS aims to promote and strengthen the status of Communication Sciences within the framework of Social Sciences; to develop research on Communication Sciences within the Portuguese Speaking Countries; and to reinforce relations with similar organisations in Portugal and abroad.

More information about Communication and Society Research Centre

Communication and Society Research Centre spreads its action through two main research groups: