Nova Doutora em Ciências da Comunicação: Dalvacir Andrade

On October 24, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., Dalvacir Xavier de Oliveira Andrade’s doctoral exams in Communication Sciences were held in the Assembly Hall of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho.
The thesis, supervised by Helena Sousa and André Lemos, is entitled “Youtubers and Migration: The socio-technical communication dynamics of the digital work of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal.”

The jury, chaired by Felisbela Lopes, was composed of:

– Helena Sousa, Full Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho;
– Rosa Cabecinhas, Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho;
– José Gabriel Andrade Júnior, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho;
– Alberto Sá, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho;
– Manuel Escudero, Full Professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Malaga;
– Issaaf Karhawi, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

[Posted: 10-24-2025]