International Conference
Media Business Landscapes
19 and 20 March, 2015
Catholic University of Portugal - Lisbon
FCT Research Project South Atlantic Media Groups. Singularities of Lusophone Modernity.
Project reference: EXPL/IVC-COM/1691/2012
James Curran
Advisor of this project, James Curran is Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and Professor of Communications.
His work falls mainly into two linked areas: media history and media political economy. In media history, he has sought increasingly to relate the development of the media to wider changes in society, while in media political economy he has turned to comparative media research, drawing on quantitative methods.
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ).
He is Professor in the Graduate Studies Program at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and his research is focused on political propaganda and television, and on the intersection between media and democracy.
Isabel Ferin
Isabel Ferin Cunha has a degree in History from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, a Master and Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a post-doctorate at CNRS in Paris.
As a researcher she dedicated to analyzing the contents and reception on media from the perspective of Studies on Migration, Lusophone and Fiction.