Rita Figueiras, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

 

Rita Figueiras is a Professor at the Human Sciences Faculty at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Coordinator of the PhD program in Communication Studies at the UCP and member of the board of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC). Visiting Professor of University of São Paulo (Brazil) and of Södertörn University (Sweden). Her work focuses on political communication and journalism, particularly in the areas of political digital media, political news journalism, electoral campaigns, and, more broadly, the relationship between the media and power. Her most recent work is a co-edited book - Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave (Routledge, 2015).

Verónica Policarpo, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

 

Doctor in Social Sciences (Sociology), University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). Director of the Research Centre of Public Opinion of the Catholic University of Portugal (CESOP). Assistant professor of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. Visiting Professor of the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China. Visiting post-doc research fellow of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester.