Abilio Almeida is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he studies how popular and emotional media can make a positive contribution to society. He holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, awarded with the highest distinction, and is currently an editor of the journal HSS Communications (Q1, Springer Nature).
He is the author of several books, including The Future of Television (2024). In this book, he proposes extending public-service principles from traditional media to social media, an idea later synthesised in Nature (2025).
Over the past 15 years, drawing on his undergraduate degree in Multimedia Design, he has also collaborated with numerous companies on the development of games, apps, websites, social media bots and other digital products.
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