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2. Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience
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Figueiras, Rita, primary, Bolin, Göran, additional, and Kalmus, Veronika, additional
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- 2024
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3. Who is afraid of dataveillance? Attitudes toward online surveillance in a cross-cultural and generational perspective.
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Kalmus, Veronika, Bolin, Göran, and Figueiras, Rita
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This article compares surveillance-related experiences and attitudes of two generations of media users in countries with different historical surveillance regimes (Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden) and analyzes the predictors of the attitudes toward contemporary surveillance. A large-scale online survey (N = 3221) reveals that attitudes toward online state and corporate surveillance are interrelated; the two attitudinal components are, however, generation-specific, having different predictors. Tolerance toward state surveillance is more characteristic of the older group, being predicted by trustful and obedient attitudes toward state authorities and institutions. Tolerance toward corporate dataveillance is more characteristic of the younger group, being predicted by active and self-confident media use. While the socio-historical context molds the intergenerational gaps in surveillance-related experiences and attitudes, individual-level experiences of state surveillance do not predict tolerance toward either type of contemporary surveillance, suggesting that global techno-cultural developments are probably more powerful factors than past experiences in forming generation-specific attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Populism and the media factor
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Santo, Paula do Espírito, primary and Figueiras, Rita, additional
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- 2019
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5. Mediatização 2.0: a integração das redes sociais na praxispolítica
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2019
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6. Media: Poder, Representação e Epistemologias. Diálogos a propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha
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Cabrera, Ana, primary, Santos, Clara Almeida, additional, and Figueiras, Rita, additional
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- 2019
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7. CONDUCTING CROSS-CULTURAL ONLINE AUDIENCE RESEARCH WITH TWO GENERATIONS: METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS FROM THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT
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Bolin, Göran, primary, Figueiras, Rita, additional, and Kalmus, Veronika, additional
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- 2023
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8. Conducting online focus group interviews with two generations: methodological experiences and reflections from the pandemic context
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Bolin, Göran, Kalmus, Veronika, Figueiras, Rita, and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Interviews ,Qualitative research ,Methodology ,Focus groups - Abstract
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many research projects were forced to adapt their design and conduct interviews online. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using online focus groups with participants representing different generations and cultural and social backgrounds. Based on the researchers’ experiences and field notes from a three-country comparative project, aiming at analysing the extent to which previous experience of state surveillance impacted attitudes to commercial monitoring and tracking of online behaviour among two generational cohorts, the paper identifies seven aspects where the move from offline to online interviewing interfered with the original research design. The paper suggests that most of these interferences resulted in a need to adjust the methodology to better fit the online setting. We reflect critically upon the issues of technological preconditions and digital skills, recruitment, group size, degrees of previous acquaintance, the role of the interviewer, participants’ household status and media environment, and ethical considerations concerning privacy and data management. Based on these methodological insights, we conclude that future online focus group research would benefit from using smaller groups and adjusted moderation, flexibility in interviewing tools and channels, and new, online-specific ethical considerations when planning, executing, and analysing interviews. The paper advocates the complementarity between in-person and online focus groups as two modalities of data collection and argues for the normalization of hybrid methods.
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- 2023
9. Who is afraid of dataveillance? Attitudes toward online surveillance in a cross-cultural and generational perspective
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Kalmus, Veronika, primary, Bolin, Göran, additional, and Figueiras, Rita, additional
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- 2022
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10. Connecting the individual and theotherin disconnection studies
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Figueiras, Rita, primary and Brites, Maria José, additional
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- 2022
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11. O processo de mediatização e a emergência do capitalismo de vigilância
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Figueiras, Rita and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Vigilância ,Surveillance ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Datificação ,Communication ,Capitalismo ,Datafication ,Mediatização ,Capitalism ,Mediatization - Abstract
O artigo debate a relação entre a mediatização e o capitalismo, a partir do conceito de “capitalismo de vigilância” cunhado por Shoshana Zuboff. Este conceito descreve uma nova lógica económica ancorada na monetização de dados comportamentais, em que empresas vendem e compram o acesso em tempo real ao fluxo da vida quotidiana para influenciar e modificar o comportamento dos indivíduos em busca de lucro. Esta sub espécie emergente do capitalismo está relacionada com o processo de mediatização social, uma vez que as sociedades contemporâneas podem ser caracterizadas por um aumento geral da importância dos media em variadas dimensões da vida, com as rotinas diárias profundamente entrelaçadas nos media móveis – nomeadamente, smartphones, tablets, redes Wi-Fi e contas em redes sociais. Isto significa que os indivíduos produzem quantidades crescentes de informação sobre si e o seu comportamento, e à medida que mais áreas da vida social dependem de processos de mediação digital, mais sectores da sociedade se adaptam e são dependentes das tecnologias. Ou seja, a vigilância empresarial criou um sistema de extração de lucros constituído por recolha e análise sistemática de dados para capturar o consumidor digital. Este artigo parte do modelo abstrato sobre as dinâmicas do capitalismo, teorizado por Rosaetal (2017), para debater a indispensabilidade dos media para a estabilização dinâmica do capitalismo. Como a sua estabilidade é precária, o capitalismo precisa de aceleração permanente para atingir novos níveis de estabilidade e neste ensaio teórico defende-se que a mediatização desempenha um papel acelerador na escalada do capitalismo de vigilância, ao mesmo tempo que, deste modo, garante a sua estabilização social. Neste contexto, o termo “acelerador” deve ser entendido como uma condição prévia funcional para uma aceleração contínua., The concept of surveillance capitalism, christened by Shoshone Zuboff, is used in this article to explore the relationship between mediatization and capitalism. The concept describes a new economic logic based upon the monetization of behavioral data. This subspecie of capitalism is related to the mediatization process as contemporary societies may be described by the increasing relevance of media technologies in varies dimensions of life whereby daily routines are profoundly embedded in mobile media - namely, smartphones, tablets, WiFi networks and social media accounts. This means that individuals produce a growing amount of data about themselves and as increasing dimensions of life depend upon digital mediation processes, more economic sectors adapt themselves and are dependent upon technologies. Corporate surveillance created a system of extraction of profit by sistematically collecting and analyzing data to capture the digital consumer. This article departs from the abstract model of dynamics of capitalism, theorized by Rosa et al. (2017), to debate media indispensability to the stabilization of capitalism. As its stability is precarious, capitalism needs permanent acceleration to achieve new levels of stability and in this theoretical essay it is argued that mediatization plays an accelerator role in the escalation of surveillance capitalism at the same time that by doing it capitalism guarantees its social stability. In this context, “accelerator” must be understood as a functional precondition for assuring a continuos acceleration process.
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- 2021
12. Democracy at work: pressure and propaganda pressure and propaganda in Portugal and Brazil
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Figueiras, Rita, primary, Espírito Santo, Paula, additional, and Cunha, Isabel Ferin, additional
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- 2014
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13. Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies.
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Figueiras, Rita and Brites, Maria José
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Disconnection studies tend to put agency at the center. The possibility of opting out tends to be framed as a strategic form of individual agency, associated with self-regulatory practices and acts of self-choice. This essay aims to question this well-established perspective in disconnection literature while contributing to the debate about disconnection fostered by Crosscurrents. The essay explores the role others play in the experience of individual media non-use. Even if indirectly, individual pursuits are not achieved alone or without the involvement of others. Still, the cultural narrative of the West tends to put the self at the center of his narrative, reinforcing the individualized dimension of the self in detriment of the social aspect of it. Framed as such, this led to another level of elaboration by linking the topic of disconnection to the field of disconnection studies itself. As in any scientific discipline, disconnection research is mediated by culture, and thus it tells something about the current moment. Problematizing the limits of connection involves accessing social imaginaries that shape the scope of the field that will offer another layer of arguments to our debate about the place of the other in disconnection studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. The Empire Strikes Back? Media Freedom, Public Interest and Neoliberalism in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Economic Crisis.
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Figueiras, Rita
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FINANCIAL crises , *PUBLIC interest , *EUROZONE , *NEOLIBERALISM , *LIBERTY , *GOVERNMENTALITY - Abstract
The article explores articulations between capital, the state, and the media by taking Angola and Portugal as the empirical context to examine specific relations between neoliberal and state influence against media democracy normativity in the aftermath of the Eurozone economic crisis. This includes questioning the neoliberal narrative of capital both as a hegemonic force that disempowers nation states and homogenises national media configurations. In order to do it, the "Angolanisation" of the Portuguese economy will be addressed to, then, look at the role of the Portuguese media in consolidating Angola's position within Portuguese society. It is argued that Portuguese media defined their basic commitment as promoters of Angolan interests and together with other institutions they were part of a larger system that worked as internal colonisation agents. The article contends a more differentiated perspective on neoliberalism and offers arguments to move media democratic theories beyond its normativity in the field of media studies by looking at neoliberalism as a context sensitive concept and at the media as an expression of specific relations between neoliberal and state influence in articulation with other logics. In the case in point, Portugal's peripheral condition and colonial heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. The Empire Strikes Back? Media Freedom, Public Interest and Neoliberalism in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Economic Crisis
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2021
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16. Neoliberalismo y reconfiguración de las condiciones estructurales de la mediatización política
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Figueiras, Rita
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crise económica ,mediatization of politics ,crisis económica ,Neoliberalism ,mediatização da política ,journalism ,Neoliberalismo ,mediatización de la política ,periodismo ,economic crisis ,jornalismo - Abstract
Dynamics of capitalism have been under-researched within mediatization studies and this paper aims to contribute to filling in some blanks in this regard, by including a critical political economy angle into the mediatisation approach undertaken. In order to do this, the paper focuses on the neoliberal order and explores how such an environment changes the settings in which the mediatisation of politics takes place. The article argues that the neoliberal order in which the media operate is reconfiguring the role of journalism in the mediatisation process. Instead of expressing public concerns and public interest, or perspectives of civil society and other accountability institutions, there is a high level of pressure for the media to perform a role as a colonizing agent of neoliberalism. Hence, as producers of meaning, the media tend to reinforce and naturalize a neoliberal culture in benefit of political and economic elites’ worldviews. La dinámica del capitalismo ha sido poco investigada en los estudios dedicados a pensar la mediatización. Este artículo pretende contribuir a llenar algunos vacíos tomando en cuenta una perspectiva crítica de la economía política en el análisis de los procesos de mediatización. El interés está centrado en analizar las condiciones bajo las cuales se practica el periodismo actual y cómo estas condiciones alteran la mediatización de la política. El artículo sostiene que el entorno neoliberal en el que operan los medios está reconfigurando el papel del periodismo: en lugar de expresar preocupaciones críticas y orientarse para representar el interés público, o las perspectivas de la sociedad civil y otras instituciones de rendición de cuentas, existe una gran presión para que los medios trabajen como agentes de colonización interna del neoliberalismo. Se argumenta que, como productores de significado, los medios refuerzan y naturalizan las políticas neoliberales en beneficio de la cosmovisión de las élites políticas y económicas que promueven dichas políticas. As dinâmicas do capitalismo têm sido sub-pesquisadas nos estudos em mediatização e este artigo pretende contribuir para preencher algumas lacunas a este respeito,integrando um ângulo crítico da economia política na análise dos processos de mediatização. Para tal, centramos o nosso foco nas condições em que o jornalismo é atualmente exercido e de que modo tais condições alteram a mediatização da política. O artigo argumenta que o ambiente neoliberal onde os media operam está a reconfigurar o papel do jornalismo no processo de mediatização política. Em vez de expressar preocupações críticas e orientar-se para representar o interesse público, ou as perspectivas da sociedade civil e de outras instituições de prestação de contas, existe uma elevada pressão para que os media trabalhem como agentes de colonização interna do neoliberalismo. Argumentamos que, enquanto produtores de sentido, os media reforçam e naturalizam o neoliberalismo em benefício da mundividência das elites políticas e económicas neoliberais.
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- 2019
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17. Neoliberalismo e reconfiguração das condições estruturais de mediatização política
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2019
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18. Comunicação politica
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Reis, Bruno, Magos, Sergio Rivera, Prior, Hélder, Fafe, José Paulo, Pereira, José Santana, Araújo, Rafael de Paula Aguiar, Figueiras, Rita, and Ribeiro, Vasco
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Comunição política ,Marketing político ,Redes Sociais - Abstract
Congeminámos este livro com base na necessidade de pensar os atuais desafios comunicativos da Política. A digitalização do quotidiano propõe uma nova relação com os atores sociais. A equação a três incógnitas que configura o jogo da opinião pública está a ser redesenhada através de: meios de comunicação, políticos e cidadania que modelam o seu exercício dialético com outras estratégias, usando novas ferramentas, tecendo relações em outros moldes e gerando novas experiências. Para uma problemática carregada de nuances e possibilidades, solicitámos mão-de-obra coletiva, uma empreitada que em conjunto clarificasse um sentido para outras dúvidas.
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- 2019
19. O setor dos media no espaço lusófono
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Figueiras, Rita and Ribeiro, Nelson
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A crise financeira de 2008 possibilitou a efetivação de uma antiga aspiração histórico-política de Portugal: a existência de um espaço mediático lusófono. O modelo de media do atlântico sul de expressão portuguesa identificado neste livro desenvolveu-se, no entanto, através de um processo que pode ser caracterizado por colonização em sentido inverso uma vez que assentou numa relação assimétrica e de dependência do mercado português relativamente aos investidores de Angola e Brasil. O volume congrega um conjunto de estudos sobre o setor dos media em diversos países lusófonos, nos quais se articula o desempenho económico e financeiro dos grupos económicos de media com o impacto das formas de propriedade na atuação da comunicação social enquanto instituição basilar da democracia.
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- 2019
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20. estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal
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Torres da Silva, Marisa, Figueiras, Rita, Brites, Maria José, Amaral, Inês, Marôpo, Lidia Soraya Barreto, Santos, Sílvio Correia, Jerónimo, Pedro, Espírito Santo, Paula, Pacheco, Liliana, Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC), Centro de Investigação em Comunicação, Informação e Cultura Digital (CIC. Digital), and Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
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Cross-Media ,Audiências ,Metodologia Q ,Repertórios mediáticos ,Consumos noticiosos - Abstract
UID/SOC/04647/2013 UID/CCI/04667/2016 As práticas digitais que decorrem da ubiquidade dos media e da sua utilização possibilitaram a combinação de múltiplas plataformas no consumo de notí- cias. Neste artigo, procurámos identificar repertó- rios mediáticos (padrões de uso dos media noticiosos) em Portugal, de modo a compreender como são construídas as preferências mediáticas das audiências e de que forma o consumo noticioso integra os seus hábitos quotidianos. Neste sentido, desenvolvemos uma análise a padrões de consumo de media noticiosos a partir de uma abordagem mista de mé- todos qualitativos e quantitativos baseada na Metodologia Q (Davis & Michelle, 2011), a partir de uma amostra constituída por 36 participantes. A análise dos padrões de consumo de notícias permitiu identificar e analisar sete repertórios mediáticos em função do uso, relevância e utilidade atribuída pelos sujeitos aos media noticiosos. Os resultados revelam perfis híbridos de consumo mediático e uma tendência para consumos de notícias numa lógica móvel e multiplataforma, embora os media tradicionais continuem a desempenhar um papel determinante nos repertórios mediáticos em Portugal. publishersversion published
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- 2017
21. News repertoires in Portugal
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Silva, Marisa Torres da, Brites, Maria José, Figueiras, Rita, Santos, Sílvio Correia, Amaral, Inês, Marôpo, Lidia Soraya Barreto, Jerónimo, Pedro, Espírito Santo, Paula, Pacheco, Liliana, Centro de Investigação em Comunicação, Informação e Cultura Digital (CIC. Digital), Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC), and Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
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Cross-media ,Q methodology ,Portugal ,News consumption ,News repertoires - Abstract
UID/CCI/04667/2016 UID/SOC/04647/2013 In the study reported in this article, the diverse news media repertoires in Portugal are investigated using a Q-methodological approach. We analyse the participants’ perceptions of the experienced values of the cross-media news landscape (Schrøder, 2012) and identify seven news media repertoires: quality media lovers (R1); broadcast media consumers (R2); television news addicts, press consumers and social media avoiders (R3); news snackers (R4); online based-media and social media addicts (R5); online newspaper lovers and radio news avoiders (R6); and television, press and social/online-based media consumers (R7). A preference for traditional media, especially television, and increasing use of social media, constitute the salient features of the Portuguese national news repertoires. publishersversion published
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- 2017
22. Public interest in the neo-liberal order: The role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2018
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23. Punditry as a reward system: audience construction and the logics of the punditry sphere
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2018
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24. The media construction of political corruption
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Figueiras, Rita and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Commentators ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Communication ,Comentadores ,News ,Televisão ,Political corruption ,Political science ,Corrupção Política ,Humanities ,Comments ,Comentário ,Noticiários ,Newscasts - Abstract
Este artigo pretende contribuir para um melhor conhecimento acerca do modo como os comentadores abordaram nos noticiários televisivos do prime-time dos canais generalistas portugueses três dos casos de corrupção mais mediatizados nos últimos anos em Portugal: os casos BPN, Freeport e Face Oculta. Analisamos os temas, atores, tom e estilo dos comentários sobre os casos de corrupção e aferimos a conexão entre a narrativa do comentário e a da cobertura jornalística sobre os mesmos casos. O estudo permitiu concluir que a cobertura noticiosa foi o expectável ponto de partida dos comentários, mas em sede da opinião identificámos a produção de uma narrativa muito diferente da noticiosa. Os comentadores ordenaram e relevaram os factos de modo distinto e construíram uma narrativa conflitual, consubstanciada em tons negativos sobre o que entenderam ser o comportamento desadequado dos atores envolvidos. Propuseram uma versão dos acontecimentos em cuja narração encontramos histórias personificadas sobre a luta de poder nas e entre as mais altas instâncias das esferas política, judicial e de regulação portuguesas., This research article aims at contributing to shad light on how television commentators address in prime- Time TV newscasts three of the most well-known corruption cases in Portugal in the last years: BPN, Freeport and Face Oculta. Topics, actors, tones and the narrative style of the comments will be analyzed against the news narratives on the same cases. The study concluded that news coverage was the expected point of departure for comments, but the opinion narrative was quite different from the news story about the corruption cases analyzed. Comments were more adversarial, negative and judgmental against what commentators perceived as bad behavior of the actors involved. Commentators built a different version of facts and a personalized narrative about power struggle inside and between the heads of the Portuguese political, judicial and regulatory spheres.
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25. POPULISM: AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE MEDIA AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS?
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Figueiras, Rita
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DIGITAL technology ,POPULISM ,DIGITAL media ,SOCIAL responsibility ,POLITICAL communication ,COMMUNICATION strategies ,IDEOLOGY - Abstract
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26. POPULISMO: UM INSTRUMENTO DOS MÉDIA E DAS PLATAFORMAS DIGITAIS?
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Figueiras, Rita
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COMMUNICATION strategies ,MASS media industry ,ECONOMIC impact ,POPULISM ,ACCOMPLICES ,INSTITUTIONAL logic ,IDEOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2020
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27. Anatomia do comentário: corrupção, noticiários e destinatários
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Figueiras, Rita
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Elites ,Corruption ,Mediação ,Television newscasts ,Corrupção ,Mediation ,Noticiário Televisivo ,Comentadores ,Espaço de Opinião ,Opinion Space ,Free‑to‑air television ,Televisão Generalista ,Pundits - Abstract
Within corruption and media studies, this research study aims at identifying howtelevision pundits comment on two of the most mediatized corruption cases of thepast years (Freeport and Face Oculta), relating both news and opinion narratives, and acknowledging who is pundits imagined audience and how they position themselves in the democratic communicative process. Actors and institutions related with both cases were mainly debated from a strategy and performance angle; the definition of problems, explanations and recommendations were built from the establishment point of view, where inner conflicts and conflicts between different fields of power involved in both cases were also evident in the opinion sphere; whereas some pundits have articulated the intra and inter‑elite horizontal communication process together with the vertical communication process, comprising the general audience, this research study concluded that the opinion space it still a sector dominated by the traditional Portuguese elite, who communicates mostly to its inner circle, which means that this sector keeps a high level of immunity to social and media change. Analyzing both pundits narrative and rhetoric style also allowed one to understand better how power struggles are performed in the Portuguese public sphere., No âmbito dos estudos sobre a corrupção e os media, este estudo tem dois grandes objetivos: identificar o modo como os comentadores nos noticiários da televisão generalista abordam dois dos casos de corrupção mais mediatizados nos últimos anos em Portugal (os casos Freeport e Face Oculta), relacionando as narrativas jornalísticas e as dos comentários, e conhecer a forma como os comentadores se posicionam no debate público e entendem a sua função no processo comunicativo democrático. Para os comentadores os casos foram mais sobre estratégia e desempenho dos atores e das instituições envolvidas do que sobre o crime da corrupção. A definição dos problemas, as interpretações causais e recomendações foram construídas a partir do establishment, onde os conflitos internos dentro de cada uma das esferas implicadas nos casos, e entre as várias esferas, foram transpostos para os comentários; ainda que alguns comentadores tenham articulado o processo horizontal de comunicação intra, e interelite, e o vertical dirigido ao público em geral. O estudo de ambos os casos permitiu verificar que o espaço de opinião continua a subsistir como um setor dominado pelas elites dirigentes na sociedade portuguesa, que comunica principalmente para si própria e que se mantém com uma capacidadeelevada de imunidade à evolução do contexto social e mediático. A análiseda narrativa do comentário revelou‑se, assim, um local privilegiado para identificar e compreender como as lutas sociais de poder são travadas no espaço público.
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28. A Construção Mediática da Corrupção Política. Opinião e Informação sobre os casos BPN, Freeport e Face Oculta nos noticiários televisivos portugueses
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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29. Primetime consociation: Portuguese punditry in between media independence and political patronage
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2017
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30. Estudos em Mediatização: causalidade, centralidade, interdisciplinaridade
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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- 2017
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31. Punditry as a reward system: audience construction and the logics of the punditry sphere.
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Figueiras, Rita
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SPECIALISTS , *MASS media , *DEMOCRACY , *PUBLIC communication , *MASS media & politics , *LOGIC - Abstract
The article explores the relationship between the punditry sphere and democracy by analyzing how pundits and media organizations think about their audience. It also examines the role of punditry in the political environment in which the media organizations operate. Using Portugal as an example, the study draws on data gathered from interviews with pundits, journalists and news editors. Findings suggest that pundits and media organizations construct a punditry sphere that revolves around the circles of power. The article argues that this conception of the punditry sphere reflects the reward system under which pundits and media organizations work. Punditry seems to be a field primarily oriented to pundits themselves and to managing their stakes in the public arena while operating as a sphere where media organizations rework their relations with and within established powers, where politicians hold a special place. This construction reflects the co-dependence between media organizations and circles of power in Portugal and offers organizational-structural understanding of the logics of the punditry sphere and the role pundits play in public communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Public interest in the neo-liberal order: The role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape.
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Figueiras, Rita
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SOCIAL media ,CAPITALISM ,DEMOCRACY ,GOVERNMENT policy ,FINANCIAL crises - Abstract
In this article, I examine the role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape by analyzing it in relation to the growing dependency of the Portuguese democracy on external resources and to the associated issues concerning public interest and capital interests. Portugal's case illustrates well the conflict between capitalism and democracy in the neo-liberal era. It demonstrates how governments no longer have the degree of control they once had over their own state due not only to the presence of supranational institutions, but also to their dependence on investors – which has led to the increasing political power of large corporations over national governments and over national public interest. In this process, the state plays an active role in promoting the free play of market forces through public policy. Against this backdrop, one may also suggest that the news media might no longer be an adequate agent of public interest under the neo-liberal order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Panoràmica
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Figueiras, Rita, Nadal, Ricardo, Valera Ordaz, Lidia, Ramos-Serrano, Marina, Marín Montín, Joaquín, Anyó, Lluís, and Díez, Xavier
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34. Democracy at work: pressure and propaganda pressure and propaganda in Portugal and Brazil
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Figueiras, Rita, Santo, Paula Espírito, Cunha, Isabel Ferin, and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Democracy at Work: Pressure and Propaganda in Portugal and Brazil addresses democracy both as an institutional value system and as a practice. How are the media exerting their mediation role? How are the media re-(a)presenting the political world to society? Are different media voices offering diversified and complementary perspectives on politics? How is propaganda perceived within different democratic and economic contexts? Is political trust and mistrust shaping the strategy of propaganda? These questions are addressed in theoretical and empirical chapters in a book that addresses problems which are in need of urgent discussion, as their impact and consequences are deeply transforming politics and the way politics is communicated, lived and understood by its main actors. Within this framework, Political Communication Studies has a major role in identifying and urging new diagnosis of, and insights into, the political and the media systems, and, above all, how both the people and political institutions can both survive crisis and improve democracy in the Lusophone world. This book aims at making a contribution to that acknowledgment.
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35. Entrevista a James Curran
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Figueiras, Rita, Ribeiro, Nelson, and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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James Curran é professor catedrático e diretor do Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. A sua investigação centra-se sobretudo na relação entre os media e a democracia, quer através do ângulo da história dos media, quer da economia política dos media, áreas sobre as quais publicou mais de duas dezenas de livros, como Media and Democracy, Power without Responsability (co-autoria de Jean Seaton) e Media and Society. Na sua obra mais recente, Misunderstanding the Internet (co-autoria de Natalie Fenton e Des Freedman), James Curran reavalia o impacto social da Internet, desconstruindo os discursos que consideram que a web revolucionou a sociedade do século xxi. A entrevista, realizada a 28 de fevereiro de 2012, dia em que James Curran proferiu uma conferência na Universidade Católica Portuguesa, aborda variados temas. Entre estes, destacamos o impacto das formas de propriedade dos media na construção do conhecimento dos cidadãos sobre os temas públicos e o atual discurso sobre o jornalismo e os media, que, de acordo com o investigador, tem sido marcado, nos últimos anos, por uma sobrevalorização do papel das novas tecnologias., Comunicação & Cultura, n. 13 (2012): Desporto e espetáculo
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36. pressure and propaganda pressure and propaganda in Portugal and Brazil
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Figueiras, Rita, Santo, Paula Espírito, Cunha, Isabel Maria Ribeiro Ferin, and Centro de Investigação em Comunicação, Informação e Cultura Digital (CIC. Digital)
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UID/CCI/04667/2016 Democracy at Work: Pressure and Propaganda in Portugal and Brazil addresses democracy both as an institutional value system and as a practice. How are the media exerting their mediation role? How are the media re-(a)presenting the political world to society? Are different media voices offering diversified and complementary perspectives on politics? How is propaganda perceived within different democratic and economic contexts? Is political trust and mistrust shaping the strategy of propaganda? These questions are addressed in theoretical and empirical chapters in a book that addresses problems which are in need of urgent discussion, as their impact and consequences are deeply transforming politics and the way politics is communicated, lived and understood by its main actors. Within this framework, Political Communication Studies has a major role in identifying and urging new diagnosis of, and insights into, the political and the media systems, and, above all, how both the people and political institutions can both survive crisis and improve democracy in the Lusophone world. This book aims at making a contribution to that acknowledgment. publishersversion published
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37. Pluralismo ou Paralelismo? O comentário político nos noticiários do prime-time na televisão portuguesa.
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Figueiras, Rita
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38. Audiências e cross-media: estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal.
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Torres da Silva, Marisa, Figueiras, Rita, Brites, Maria José, Amaral, Inês, Maropo, Lídia, Correia Santos, Sílvio, Jerónimo, Pedro, Espírito Santo, Paula, and Pacheco, Liliana
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39. Intellectuals and social networks: new media, old traditions
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Figueiras, Rita
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Televisão ,social networks ,Internet ,intellectuals ,Salões oitocentistas ,television ,Intelectuais ,eighteenth century salons - Abstract
One of the central institutions where the identity of intellectuals was cemented, theeighteenth century salon, is being re-enacted today, precisely on the internet. By supplyingtechnological resources for the socialization of the projects of each intellectualin a network of similar subjects, lay experts and non-specialists, the Internet, a liquidmedia per excellence, as a privileged set for new authorities of knowledge to expressand expand themselves, became not just a cause of disintegration, but also a powerfulsocial re-construction tool both for intellectual community and public culture. TheInternet is a place where intellectuals are finding room for exerting their role of reflexiveconscience of contemporary era. Tendo como enquadramento as narrativas dominantes sobre o declínio dos intelectuais na sociedade contemporânea, por um lado, e sobre a internet como ameaça à perda da autoridade da cultura erudita, por outro, neste artigo argumentamos que uma das instituições centrais onde a identidade dos intelectuais foi cimentada – os salões do século XVIII – está a ser recriada precisamente na internet. Através da web, muitos intelectuais estão a encontrar um espaço e condições para exercerem a sua autoridade e para reforçarem a comunidade intelectual do século XXI.
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40. Returning home: intellectuals in (web)salons
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Figueiras, Rita, Centro de Estudos da Comunicação e da Cultura (CECC-UCP), Universidade Católica Portuguesa [Porto], and Geriico, Compte Laboratoire
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The increasing invisibility of intellectuals in the contemporary public sphere, among other factors, is intertwined with cultural, commercial, and technological changes in the media landscape. In the last decades, the media have suffered a significant cultural transformation, from a rational and civic enlightening sphere (Jespers 1998) - structured on a formal relationship, hierarchized and built into distance between specialists and the audience - to an entertainment and demotic space (Turner 2009), by centering itself around ordinary citizens, valuing him/her and legitimizing his/her ways of expression and interests. Entertainment programs, such as Big Brother or Idols, illustrate well the media demotic turn; but nowadays, ordinary people have also turned themselves into 'mass self-communication' (Castells 2009) broadcasters with the helps of network technology. For instance, demotic journalism - a form of journalism involving ordinary people in journalistic routines and valuing the citizens' everyday life experience as a kind of expertise - has been flourishing through network technology. Blogs, vlogs, streaming, and other forms of online interactive communication, have been allowing people to participate actively in the news making process, pushing journalists to accommodate user-generated content, but also to building their own news agendas as well. Hence, by being a means of interactive communication, the Internet is promoting a horizontal network of communication built around people's initiative, interests, and perspectives. For this reason, interactive communication is highly self-generated in content, self-directed in emission, and self-selected in reception by many who communicate with many. While doing so, it is also reconfiguring and bypassing traditional hierarchies and relations of communicative power (Deuze 2008). Thus, the media's demotic turn and the new media have been reshaping the public sphere, a cultural matrix that had previously been related to enlightened perspectives and public opinion formation by intellectuals and specialists (Habermas 1991), characterized by knowledge and erudite culture, critical spirit, and public intervention through the media (Jacoby 2000; Posner 2004). But, because of the confluence of all factors mentioned above, people started speaking in its own right refusing intellectuals to act as its spokespersons, thus, thinkers have begun to lose relevance in the public sphere. 'Symbolic capital' (status, reputation, the right to be listened to) and 'cultural capital' (education, competencies, skills) (Bourdieu 1991) were no longer a prerequisite to access realms that used to be exclusive for intellectuals, and, for instance, for journalists as well. In an era of 'do it yourself' technologies and the media demotic turn, this paper focus on how intellectuals are coping with this apparently hostile cultural environment, by analyzing their presence on the Internet. In this framework, one may ask: If anyone, regardless of his or her knowledge, can generate and broadcast their thoughts, what place is reserved for the specialist and intellectual knowledge? What kind of relationship is the Internet offering to intellectuals and their audience? And compared to television, is the Internet restricting or enlarging the intellectuals' audience? Against a background of dominant narratives on the decline or disappearance of intellectuals (Jacoby 2000; Posner 2004; Furedi 2005), and on the Internet as the scapegoat for the loss of the authority of erudite culture (Keen 2007; Lipovetsky 2009), I would argue that one of the central institutions where the identity of intellectuals was cemented, the eighteenth century salon, is being reenacted today, precisely on the internet. Through the net, many intellectuals are exercising their authority and reinforcing the twenty-first century intellectual community. Illustrating the topic with European and Anglo-American examples, as representatives of the Western trend, this ongoing research shows that there are web-places where intellectuals are expressing themselves, spreading their message and fulfilling their public role. And by means of the communication tools available, intellectuals are mobilized those interested, but also reaching inadvertent audiences, like intellectuals did in the past when there were only one to three national television channels in most European countries, by sharing texts with their Facebook contacts, by tweeting it, stumbling it, emailing it or recommending it. Through these connected nodes, anyone can be reached and, indeed, many people are, as indicated by various access statistics. Thus, the internet today is providing a place for intellectuals to express themselves, to be read and have their authority exerted; it also allows for the intellectual community - experts, lay experts and non-specialists - to keep up with each other and construct meaning around a particular set of interests. In this context, common concerns and interests work as principles of inclusiveness, linking dispersed people with common interests, just like correspondence did it for the intellectual community during the Enlightenment period (Goodman 1994). Much like eighteenth century salons, concrete loci for the Republic of Letters - a territory not defined territorially -, in the Internet all connections together form clusters, which combined to form small worlds. In conclusion, when the public sphere of the Enlightenment expanded to include everwidening circles of cultural consumers and producers in late eighteenth century, les salons seem not to survive the tensions between old and new perceptions of authorities of knowledge and became a thing of the past (Melton 2001). In late twentieth century, when the commercialization of the public sphere and the media's demotic turn expanded, the fear of decline and disappearance of intellectuals returned; but as this paper endeavors to show, (web)salons may have played a central role in breaking that cycle. By supplying technological resources for the socialization of the projects of each intellectual in a network of similar subjects, the liquid internet, as a privileged set for new authorities of knowledge to express and expand themselves, became not (just) a cause of disintegration, but (also) a powerful social (re)construction tool for intellectual community.
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41. O g��nero em campanha: as elei����es Legislativas de 2009
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Figueiras, Rita
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42. Os media e as eleições: europeias, legislativas e autárquicas de 2009
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Figueiras, Rita
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43. Introdu����o
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Figueiras, Rita
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44. A nova globalização pós-2008 e a reconfiguração do sistema dos média ocidentais
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Figueiras, Rita, primary and Ribeiro, Nelson, additional
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45. Entrevista a Barbie Zelizer
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Figueiras, Rita and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Barbie Zelizer é uma das mais notáveis investigadoras da actualidade na área do jornalismo e cultura. É professora na Annenberg School for Communication (Universidade da Pensilvânia), onde ocupa a Raymond Williams Chair of Communication. É fundadora e co-editora da revista científica Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism. Tem desenvolvido inúmeras pesquisas, nomeadamente sobre autoridade jornalística, memória colectiva, bem como sobre imagens jornalísticas em tempos de crise e de guerra. Nesta entrevista abordamos alguns dos temas centrais à compreensão dos media enquanto produto e reflexo da cultura ocidental., Comunicação & Cultura, n. 4 (2007): Terror e terrorismos
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46. Política e media: um olhar sociológico sobre a comunicação política: entrevista a André Freire
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Figueiras, Rita and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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André Freire é doutorado em Sociologia Política pelo Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), onde, em 2004, apresentou a tese O significado da divisão entre esquerda e direita. Portugal, Espanha e Grécia em perspectiva comparativa. É Professor Auxiliar do Departamento de Sociologia do ISCTE e Investigador do CIES-ISCTE e do ICS. Tem participado e coordenado diversos projectos de investigação de âmbito internacional, de onde se destacam trabalhos sobre o comportamento eleitoral e as atitudes políticas. André Freire é um autor de referência na área da Sociologia Política, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à realidade portuguesa. Tem publicado vários livros e artigos sobre opinião pública, atitudes políticas, comportamentos políticos e eleitorais, sistemas eleitorais, elites políticas e sistemas partidários. Nesta entrevista fala-nos sobre os partidos políticos portugueses e a sua relação com os media, bem como sobre as diferenças entre a política de substância e a política de imagem e as consequências de cada uma delas para a democracia., Comunicação & Cultura, n. 2 (2006): Lobbying e marketing político
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47. Democratic culture, public opinion and punditry in Portugal
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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48. New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Figueiras, Rita, primary and Ribeiro, Nelson, additional
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49. Editorial
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Figueiras, Rita, primary, Ganito, Carla, additional, and Ferreira, Cátia, additional
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50. Returning home: Intellectuals in (web) salons
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Figueiras, Rita, primary
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