The first session of the Doctoral Seminars 2016-2017, organized by the CECS and the Communication Sciences Department of UMinho, was held on February 24, at 10:30 am in the ICS-UMinho Sala de Atos. This session was protagonized by Isabel Macedo, research manager and researcher at CECS, awaiting PhD in Cultural Studies, and Mariana Lameiras, a recent doctoral student in Communication Sciences, CECS researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy- Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV).