Moisés de Lemos Martins

Full Professor in the University of Minho, Moisés de Lemos Martins is currently the Director of the Communication and Society Research Centre, which contributed to its foundation in 2001. Martins has a PhD in Social Sciences by the University of Strasbourg, in 1984.

His research and teaching focuses on social semiotics, sociology of communication and culture and lusophone studies. In terms of scientific publications, he is the director of Comunicação e Sociedade and Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais.

He was the President of Sopcom, Lusocom and Confibercom. He also published and edited several books: Crise no Castelo da Cultura (2011); L’imaginaire des médias (with Michel Maffesoli, 2011); Portugal Ilustrado em Postais (with Madalena Oliveira, 2011); Comunicação e Lusofonia (with Helena Sousa and Rosa Cabecinhas, 2006); A Linguagem, a Verdade e o Poder (2002); O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista (1990).