MEDIA, CULTURE and POWER:
European cultural perspectives
Annette Hill, Lund University
Annette Hill is a Professor of Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, UK. Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of seven books, and many articles and book chapters which address varieties of engagement with reality television, news and documentary, television drama, entertainment formats, live events and sports entertainment, film violence, media ethics.
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Her most recent book is Reality TV: Key Ideas (Routledge 2015). Other books include Paranormal Media (Routledge 2011), Restyling Factual TV (2007), Reality TV (2005), The Television Studies Reader (with Robert C Allen 2003), TV Living (with David Gauntlett 1999), and Shocking Entertainment (1997). Her next book is
Media Experiences (Routledge 2017).
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She is the programme leader for the Msc in Media and Communication.
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Göran Bolin, Södertörn University
Göran Bolin is professor in Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Bolin's research interests are focused on cultural production and consumption in contemporary culture industries, and how relationships between these are altered by digitization and marketization processes. His most recent work is summarised in Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011), and in the edited volume Cultural Technologies. The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society (Routledge, 2012). His book Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatized Social Change will appear in 2016 on Routledge.
Annette Hill,
Lund University
Rita Figueiras
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Göran Bolin,
Södertörn University
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).
PhD candidates in Communication Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa:
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Ana Paula Mauro
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Élmano Ricarte
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Filipe Resende
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Lorena Lamin
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Raquel Trindade
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