Between March 13th and April 10th 2018, it is open the call for papers for the International Congress “Culture and Tourism: national development, promotion of peace and rapprochement between nations”. The event will take place at the Polytechnic University in Maputo, Mozambique, on November 26th and 27th 2018.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Director: Moisés de Lemos Martins :: Vice-Directors: Luís António Santos e Rita Ribeiro :: Editor: Sofia Gomes
”The journey of Malangatana: from legacy to memory”
The session "The journey of Malangatana: from legacy to memory" will be held on April 6, at the Nogueira da Silva Museum, at 9:00 p.m. In this session, the short documentary with the same title, produced by the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, will be presented in an absolute preview, followed by a panel discussion with the participation of Mutxhini Malangatana Ngwenya, of the Malangatana Foundation Valente Ngwenya, Richard Gray, specialist in the life and work of the honored artist (University of London, England), as well as José Carlos Venâncio and Lurdes Macedo, both CECS researchers. This roundtable will be moderated by Moisés de Lemos Martins.
”In the shadow of the Oká: the arid paths of mestiçagem”
Chaired by Lurdes Macedo and Rosa Cabecinhas, the Tertulia with Olinda Beja was held on the March 8th on the Livraria Centésima Página in Braga and was attended by a large group of students, teachers and the public in general, involved with the words of the author.
Call for Papers for the International Congress on Culture and Tourism
Between March 13th and April 10th 2018, it is open the call for papers for the International Congress "Culture and Tourism: national development, promotion of peace and rapprochement between nations”. The event will take place at the Polytechnic University in Maputo, Mozambique, on November 26th and 27th 2018.
NoVOID at Pecha Kucha Night Lisbon
João Sarmento, a CECS researcher, is one of the coordinators of the NoVOID project, a project that theorizes urban ruin and studies the abandoned spaces of cities. The theme served as a motto for the conversation that took place on March 24 at Pecha Kucha Night Lisbon. NoVOID started in May 2016 with funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and seeks adaptive strategies that do not understand urban abandonment as a necessarily negative fact. It is an interdisciplinary project, with the participation of geographers, architects and landscape architects.
CECS researchers at the Portugal eHealth Summit 2018
In 21st of March, researchers Teresa Ruão and Felisbela Lopes participated at the Portugal eHealth Summit 2018. Teresa Ruão presented a work about "Strategic Communication and Crisis Management in health", addressing issues such as the role of Strategic Communication as a promoter of contact between health workers and their publics. With an investigation focused on the journalism, Felisbela Lopes presented the communication "The mediatization of risk situations and health crisis: what sources of information do journalists prefer?", developing issues such as Health Journalism, Health Literacy, and strategies used by sources.
Online comments under discussion at the Permanent Seminar of Media Literacy
João Gonçalves was the guest of the first Permanent Seminar of Media Literacy (2018 edition). The PhD in communication studies and researcher at CECS presented the work "Comments from readers about the media: a comparative study", done in collaboration with Ivan Lacasa, Sara Pereira and Marisa Torres da Silva. João Gonçalves highlighted the characteristics of online news commentators of a Portuguese newspaper: they write negative reviews and pay more attention to photographs than their counterparts of Spanish, English and American sites.
Roundtable: Pro-Palestinian Activists
The first session of the initiative: Roundtable - Women activists: paths and challenges, this time dedicated to pro-Palestinian activists, was held on March 9 at the Juno Café in Braga. The session, that results from the partnership between the SPCD of CECS-UMinho, Civitas Braga – Association for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, the Braga UMAR – Women’s Alternative and Response Association and the Palestinian Action Group, had as invited activists Sandra Barrilaro (photographer and editor), Ana da Palma (traveller, having spent 16 days in the Zionist 'hell' of Palestine), Carolina Moreira (feminist activist from the UMAR Coimbra) and as promoters Helena Ferreira (PhD in Cultural Studies) and Carla Cerqueira (CECS researcher).
”Generations, Media and Diversities”
The CECS Permanent Seminar on Communication and Diversity (SPCD) promoted last March the 6th, a session under the theme "Generations, Media and Diversities". The initiative, held at Engineering Hall I, was invigorated around the "Age, Generation and the Media" article by Göran Bolin and Eli Skogerbø (2013), and around the Ashton Applewhite's TedTalk "Let's End Ageism".
International Congress “Europe as a Space for Intercultural Dialogue and Mediation”
The International Conference "Europe as a Space for Intercultural Dialogue and Mediation" will be held at the University of Minho on April 26 and 27, having the CECS associated to the organization, through the European project CReE.A. The purpose of the congress is to promote a space of interdisciplinary debate on the contemporary challenges of contemporary society, addressing issues such as migration, diversity, intercultural communication and mediation in order to deepen the construction of more welcoming, inclusive and peaceful societies.
Call for Papers RLEC | vol. 6, nº 1 | Cinema, Migrations and Cultural Diversity
Until September 14, 2018, it is open the Call for Papers for the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 6, n.º 1, on the theme "Cinema, Migrations and Cultural Diversity" edited by Rosa Cabecinhas, Isabel Macedo (Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal) and Renné França (Federal Institute of Goiás, Brazil) .
CECS researchers at the Transmedia Literacy International Conference
The Transmedia Literacy International Conference took place between 22 and 24 March in Barcelona, marking the end of the European project Transmedia Literacy. The CECS participated in the conference with the presence of five researchers: Sara Pereira, Pedro Moura, Joana Fillol, Inês Amaral and Patrícia Silveira.
Call for papers for the Communication and Society journal 34 open
Communication and Society Journal, nº34, 2018 (2) CALL FOR PAPERS Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho – Portugal Theme: Lusophone studies and Communication Sciences Volume coordinators: Moisés de Lemos Martins (CECS-UM, Portugal), Alda Costa (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique) and Isabel Macedo (CECS-UM, Portugal).
15 ideias para “Levar os media para a escola”. Agenda de atividades de transliteracia
The Agenda de atividades de transliteracia [transliteracy activities agenda] was published and can be downloaded here for free. Watch a music video of Moby or resort to photography in order to think about the media uses; use video games to learn history or reflect about world problems; dress the skin of an advertiser or a journalist. These are some of the 15 suggestions of activities that teachers can find into the publication Levar os media para a escola [take the media to school], edited by the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the University of Minho.
Rémy Rieffel on a lecture on digital and cultural revolution
"Is the digital revolution a cultural revolution? is the title of the conference that the researcher Rémy Rieffel will present on April 9 at 2.30 pm in the ICS auditorium. At the conference, Rémy will seek to question how digital technologies promote a participatory culture and what changes are occurring in the production, dissemination, and reception of culture. Rémy Rieffel comes to Portugal as a member of the External Monitoring Committee of the Doctoral Program in Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society.
Olga Bailey | Class, Race and Social Distinction in Social Networks: The Mexican Diaspora Online
Olga Bailey presented a seminar at the Doctoral Programs of Communication Sciences and Cultural Studies, on 23 March. The researcher introduced a study on the uses of digital social networks by the Mexican European diaspora. To illustrate the use of racial and class distinctions, the author specifically considered the use of Facebook as well as the "A Small World (ASW)". Through the analysis of images and texts, in addition to questionnaires and interviews, she verified the existence of tactical or explicit exclusion, as well as discrimination and segregation in social networks.
”Cinema as a work of art and a medium”
"How do we express ourselves through a moving image?" this was the question that began the training on "The cinematographic narrative", given by Professor Nelson Zagalo. The training course, carried out under the FCT PhD in Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society, aimed to "respond to the needs of the students of the program", explained Anabela Carvalho, one of the organizers and director of the doctoral program. Seeing "cinema as a work of art and a medium" was one of the key ideas advanced by Nelson Zagalo, in a formation that dealt with issues such as the importance and the communication of the narrative; the cinematographic narrative as a drama; the narrative myth; audience preferences; the management of information, among other points.
Ivo Neto: new PhD in Communication Sciences
The doctoral exams in Communication Sciences by Ivo Neto were held on March 6 (2:00 p.m.), in the ICS (Social Sciences Institute) Sala de Atos of the University of Minho, in Braga. The thesis is supervised by Felisbela Lopes and Josef Straubhaar (University do Texas, Austin), and is entitled "The informative multiplatforms: the challenges that social media networks and mobile peripherals arise in the field of journalism".
Alexandra Figueira: new PhD in Communication Sciences
Realizaram-se no dia 5 de março (14h30), na sala de atos do ICS da UMinho (Braga), as provas de doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação de Alexandra Figueira. A tese tem orientação de Teresa Ruão e de Paulo Mourão (Escola de Economia e Gestão da UMinho), e tem por título “Nivelar os pratos da balança - da comunicação como indutora de sustentabilidade nas parcerias estratégicas entre organizações solidárias e empresas”.©Universidade do Minho. Todos os direitos reservados. Com apoio do FCT.
