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Credits:
Director: Moisés de Lemos Martins :: Vice-Directors: Luís António Santos e Rita Ribeiro :: Editor: Vítor de Sousa, Ricardina Magalhães, Fábio Ribeiro
”7 Days with the Media” initiative is fast approaching
The fifth edition of the annual initiative "7 days with the Media" is back, will take place from 3rd to 9th May. Organized by the GILM - Informal Group on Literacy for Media, in association with CECS, the activities to be developed must be previously registered on the site.![”O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista” [“The Eye of God in the Salazarist Discourse”]: a book to analyze the present](http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mlm_olho_de_deus_apr.jpg)
”O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista” [“The Eye of God in the Salazarist Discourse”]: a book to analyze the present
José Bragança de Miranda (Universidade Nova de Lisboa [New University of Lisbon]) and Bernardo Pinto de Almeida (Univeridade do Porto [University of Porto]), presented the second edition of the book "O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista" ["The Eye of God in the Salazarist Discourse"], by Moisés de Lemos Martins, coincided with the idea that the publication - whose first version was published more than 25 years ago - summons us to the analysis of the present. The iniciative took place at the Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva [Lúcio Craveiro da Silva Library] in Braga (April 5, 21:30).
Implementation of DTT “penalized a lot Portugal”
Sérgio Denicoli has no doubts that "DTT was made not to work, to fail, to offer few channels and limited interactive services, in order to encourage the migration of the population to subscription TV services". The researcher of CECS was the guest of the RUM program "UM I&D" on 6 April. The author of the doctoral thesis on the implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television in Portugal regrets the consequences for the country of the whole process.
CECS in the latest special issue of the European Journal of Communication
The last special issue of the European Journal of Communication (Vol. 32-1, 2017), runs as a direct outcome of the Symposium on Social Media, held in the Communication & Society Research Centre, on 27th May 2016, in the University of Minho, in the campus of Gualtar, Braga. Intitled "Social media – New challenges and approaches for communications research", the editorial is signed by Peter Golding (Northumbria University, UK), Karin Raeymaeckers (Ghent University, Belgium) and Helena Sousa (University of Minho/CECS).
4th Conference on Literacy, Media and Citizenship discusses new shapes of the public space
The 2017 edition of the Literacy, Media and Citizenship Congress, which will take place on May 5 and 6 at the António de Almeida Foundation in Porto, will gather more than 200 participants in an event on the theme "For a new awareness of public space". In the opening session will be José Manuel Pérez Tornero, professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Autonomous University of Barcelona]. During the fourth edition of the LMC Congress, a posthumous tribute will be made to José Manuel Paquete de Oliveira. It will take place, also, four workshops. The Congress Literacy, Media and Citizenship is organized by the Informal Group of Literacy for the Media, to which the CECS is associated.
VII AIM Meeting: from10 to 13 may at University of Minho
The VII AIM Annual Meeting will take place from at the University of Minho, in Braga, from May 10th to 13th. This event will be co-organized by AIM - Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento - and CECS. The iniciative will have the presence of Catherine Grant, professor and researcher of film studies at the University of Sussex (UK), Ernest W. Adams, game designer and professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Kim Akass of the University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts (United Kingdom).
CECS researchers will actively participate in IAMCR 2017
Several CECS reseachers will be attending this years' IAMCR conference, held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 16th to 20th July, presenting up to ten communications. IAMCR is the largest world wide association for the Communication Sciences researchers.
Anabela Carvalho was keynote speaker at the 18th Swiss Global Change Day
Anabela Carvalho was keynote speaker at the 18th Swiss Global Change Day Researcher Anabela Carvalho was keynote speaker at the 18th Swiss Global Change Day, with a lecture subordinated to the theme “Understanding collective (in) action on climate change: contributions of communication and critical social research”. The iniciative, which took place on April 11 in Bern, Switzerland, was organized by the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Luísa Magalhães: Lecturer in Chair at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Luísa Magalhães, researcher at CECS (Research Group on Communication, Organizations and Social Dynamics), is the highlight of the Communication and Marketing for Childhood and Adolescence Chair (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), being invited to teach their courses.
Interview with David Renault
In an interview to the CECS newsletter, David Renault, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication in the University of Brasília, in Brazil, and currently carrying out a Post-Doc Research project in the Communication & Society Research Centre, in the University of Minho, defends that “Media coverage about corruption may set new parameters of social behaviour”. His research stands in a comparative analysis of the media coverage towards the recent corruption scandals “Lava Jato” and “Operação Marquês”, in Brazil and Portugal.
Bettina Martino, next invited speaker of the Permanent Seminar on Media Education
The Argentinean Bettina Martino (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, at National University of Cuyo, Mendoza) was the protagonist of the April session of the Permanent Seminar of Education for the Media (on 27th, 2:30 pm, ICS auditorium). The researcher developed her rationale from the perspective of Roger Silverstone, based on his concept of 'media polis', his views on the importance of education for the media, and his views on the limits of legal regulation.
The (in)visibilities of gender violence: Brazil and Portugal in debate
Investigadores da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil) e do CECS participaram na iniciativa “As (in)visibilidades da violência de género: Brasil e Portugal em debate”, que se realizou no dia 5 de abril, e que se focou na discussão das situações de violência de género e no papel dos meios de comunicação social nos dois países. A sessão iniciou-se com o visionamento de dois documentários - “No devagar depressa dos tempos” e “Partir do Zero” -, ao que se seguiu o debate, que foi moderado pela investigadora do CECS Carla Cerqueira.
Experts discussed the lack of regulation in the Internet
O seminário “Participação Civil na Governação da Internet”, que contou com a presença dos investigadores Janara Sousa e Sérgio Denicoli, realizou-se no dia 5 de abril e foi organizado pelo CECS e pela Unidade Operacional em Governação Electrónica, da Universidade das Nações Unidas, contado com o apoio do GT de Economia e Políticas da Comunicação da Sopcom. Foram apresentadas perspetivas de debate sobre a problemática da governação da internet, a partir do ponto de vista do Direito, por Joana Rita Abreu, e do ponto de vista dos Sistemas de Informação, por Luís Amaral.
eBook “Arte, Políticas e Práticas. V Jornadas Doutorais Comunicação e Estudos Culturais”
It is available, in open access, the eBook “Arte, Políticas e Práticas. V Jornadas Doutorais Comunicação e Estudos Culturais” [Art, Politics and Practices. V Doctoral conference in Communication and Cultural Studies], held in UNiversity of Minho (Braga), on October 27 and 28, 2016. As in previous editions, the V Doctoral meeting brought together a wide range of students, from PhD and postdoctoral studies, from portuguese, spanish and brazilian universities. The ebook, that is edited by Zara Pinto-Coelho, Teresa Ruão and Nelson Zagalo, integrates 13 full texts of the 44 communications that were presented and discussed during the fifth edition of the conference.
CECS journals now in Open Media Scholarship platform
The semestral journals edited by CECS - Comunicação e Sociedade and Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies -, have just been included in the Open Media Scholarship platform. This new possibility of access to both publications fulfills the objective of promoting the dissemination of the two bilingual publications of the center, in an attempt to widen the audience of the two publications, into an international scope.
Call for papers for RLEC – Cultural Studies, Citizenship and Democracy until May 30
It is open until May 30 the call for papers for volume 4, nº 2 of Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, which is on the theme Cultural Studies, Citizenship and Democracy. The editors of this thematic issue are: Moisés de Lemos Martins (CECS, University of Minho [Universidade do Minho]), Urbano Sidoncha (Labcom.IFP, Universidade da Beira Interior [University of Beira Interior]) and Messias Bandeira (IHAC, Universidade Federal da Bahia [Federal University of Bahia]).
Call for papers: Ebook “Organizational Communication and Technological Challenges”
It is now open the call for papers for the upcoming e-book "Publi-cidade e comunicação visual urbana" [Advertisement and the city: urban visual communication], due on 30th July 2017, by the Advertisement Working Group of Sopcom, the Portuguese Association for the Communication Sciences, and edited by the CECS. According to the editors Helena Pires (CECS - University of Minho) and Francisco Mesquita (Fernando Pessoa University), this publication intends to "gather contributions from academics and non-academics which enphasize the role of advertisement in the cities, where multiple identities and communicative processes are entangled in our daily routines".
CFP for the e-book “Publi-cidade e comunicação visual urbana” due on 30th July
It is open until July 30, 2017 the call for of texts from the e-book "Publi-city and urban visual communication", from the responsibility of the Advertising GT of Sopcom and with edition of CECS. According to the editors - Helena Pires (CECS) and Francisco Mesquita (Universidade Fernando Pessoa), the publication seeks to "gather contributions, academic and non-academic, relevant to (re) think advertising in a specific environment where it is agent among multiple entities Semiotics of communication with which we interact in everyday life ".
Vânia Tajra: new PhD in Communication Sciences
Vânia Tajra is the new PhD in Communication Sciences, having defended exams on April 26. The thesis is supervided by Sergio Denicoli and Joaquim Fidalgo, is entitled "Civil Internet Framework in Brazil: The transition to a model of digital democracy". According to Vânia Tajra, the conception of the work was intended to show that the construction of Brazil's Civil Internet Framework by democratizing access to the Internet and regulating it, besides disciplining the rights and duties of providers and users while maintaining freedom and democracy in the network.
Different voices in research and time, main topics of the 3rd PhD Seminar 201-2017
Rita Ribeiro ("Listening to the voices: narrating, interpreting, rescuing") and Joaquim Paulo Serra (“The problem of time in research") were the keynote speakers of the third session of the PhD Seminars 2016-2017, was held on April 21st, in the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Minho. Organized by the CECS and the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Minho, these seminars aim to improve students' methodological skills, promote reflexivity in orientation practices, and exchange experiences among the various protagonists present in a doctoral process. The next seminar is scheduled for May 26 with Emília Araújo (CECS) and Filipa Subtil (ESCS).©Universidade do Minho. Todos os direitos reservados. Com apoio do FCT.
