Principal Investigator, in recent years, of several research projects, some of which in an international consortium, Cláudia Álvares was recently elected to integrate the Academia Europaea. Álvares has worked as an evaluator for the European Research Council, Cost, British Academy, ESF, and
Rousiley C.M. Maia is full-professor of political communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science (Nottingham University, UK) and is coordinator of the Research Group in Media and the Public Sphere (EME / UFMG),
Degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon and master, doctor, and aggregate in Communication Sciences from UBI. At this University, he is a full professor in the Department of Communication, Philosophy and Politics and researcher at LabCom – Communication
Rosa Cabecinhas is professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), University of Minho. Cabecinhas has developed interdisciplinary research and coordinated several national and international projects, combining areas of intercultural communication, social
Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, e Professor Agregado na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas desta mesma Universidade. Obras principais em livro (autor): Comunicação Política e Democracia (2019); Sociologia da Comunicação (2012; 2.ª ed. 2016); O Espaço Público e os Media (2005); Espaço Público e Democracia (2003 – edição em Portugal e no Brasil); A Ética da Comunicação e os Media Modernos (1998; 2.ª ed. 2003; 3.ª ed., 2007). Organizador editorial: Comunicação e Identidades Sociais (2008); Media e Sociedade (2002; 2.ª ed., 2009); Niklas Luhmann – a improbabilidade da comunicação (1993). Editor das revistas: Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens (n.º 15/16 e n.º 51), Media & Jornalismo (n.º 18/vol.10) e Mediapolis (n.º 14).
Áreas científicas de interesse: Sociologia da Comunicação, Comunicação Política e Estudos de Media.
Philip Schlesinger is Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Cultural Policy Research and Deputy Director of CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre. He is presently researching the regulation of internet platforms in the ‘post-public sphere’, and also writing a book on the politics and practice of cultural expertise. Schlesinger has been a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and has held both a Jean Monnet Fellowship and a Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, CELSA at Paris-Sorbonne, the University of Salamanca, LUISS in Rome, and the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of the Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of Arts.
