Teacher
Maria José Brites

Resume

Maria José Brites is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University, Vice-President of the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT - DOI 10.54499/UIDB/05260/2020), coordinator of MeLCi Lab - Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab, vice-coordinator of the Publics and Audiences section of the Portuguese Association for Communication (SOPCOM), and Vice-chair of the Audience and Reception Studies Section - ARS (ECREA). She is also the Principal Investigator of the research project Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021). She is coordinator of the Master's Degree in Media and Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship at Lusófona University. She was the PI of the project Social Media Resilience Toolkit - SMaRT-EU (co-financed by European Commission/LC-01563446) and Dici-Educa - Educational centres with digital and civic skills (co-financed by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Academias do Conhecimento and Directorate-General for Reintegration and Prison Services) and Portuguese coordinator of the European Media In Action (MIA) project (LC-00644630; http://mediainaction.eu) and the RadioActive Europe project (531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3; http://radioactive101.eu). In MIA coordinated a certified 50-hour training workshop for teachers (Media Education and Citizenship: How to Enhance the Use of Digital in Schools), which has so far been released in four editions. Highlights of RadioActive Europe (2013-14) include the creation of a legal online radio (RadioActive101), the coordination of workshops with young people and social workers, over 30 radio shows created by young participants (12-21 years old), and over 15 publications. While the Portuguese coordinator of RadioActive Europe, she was awarded the prize for Inclusion and Digital Citizenship for the good practices and implementation of the project. Maria José Brites was distinguished with the Research Prize (2017, 2020, 2023) and the Gold Medal of Academic Value (2019) by Lusófona University. Her research interests include youth, journalism and participation; audience and reception studies and news and civic literacy, participatory methodologies, civic cultures, and media resistance. She has widely researched, coordinated and published in these fields of study, including ten books, seven special issues, over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals (e.g. International Journal of Communication, Journal of Youth Studies, Media, Culture & Society, Cultura y Educación/Culture and Education, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, Medijske studije/Media Studies, JOCAM, and Children & Society), and over 30 book chapters (e.g. Routledge, Springer, Palgrave), among other publications. She has worked as a journalist in Portugal (press card 3182). She is a certified trainer by the Ministry of Education, the Union of Portuguese Journalists, and the National Scientific-Pedagogical Council of Continuous Education, which supervises the training of teachers in Portugal. She has coordinated and delivered over 20 training courses and workshops on journalism, media education, digital citizenship and participation, and media practices, successfully training teachers and other educators, young people and journalists. Main research areas: Youth, journalism and media, Audience studies, Critical literacies, Digital citizenship, Participatory research, Media and ageing studies.

Graus

• Mestrado
  Communication sciences - Journalism and media studies
• Doutoramento
  Communication Sciences - Journalism and media studies
• Licenciatura
  Estudos Especializados em Jornalismo Internacional / Specialised Studies in International Journalism
• Outros
  Audiences: A Cross-generational Dialogue
• Curso médio
  Metodologias de Investigação nos estudos dos media e do Jornalismo / Research Methodologies in Media and Journalism Studies
• Curso médio
  The Gary Chapman International School on Digital Transformation
• Curso médio
  Online Journalism Workshop
• Pós-Graduação
  Advanced studies in Children and youth law
• Outros
  Justiça e Media: Desafios da Visibilidade na Era Mediática
• Outros
  Educação, Multiculturalismo e Justiça Social / Education, Multiculturalism and Social Justice
• Outros
  Movimentos Sociais, Protesto Público e Cidadania / Social Movements, Public Protest and Citizenship
• Curso médio
  Curso de iniciação à fotografia
• Curso médio
  Seminário de Jornalismo Judiciário
• Pós-Graduação
  Advanced Studies Diploma - Journalism and media studies
• Curso médio
  Herramientas Digitales para el Periodismo de Datos
• Curso médio
  Mobile Journalism Course
• Pós-doutoramento
  Communication sciences
• Outros
  Pedagogical Skills Certificate. Certificado n.º F642879/2016
• Outros
  Training certification: A09 - Communication Sciences, A60; Journalism e D102; Citizenship education (Media education). RFO: 36637/16.
• Outros
  Formação Inicial de Formadores
• Outros
  Diálogo Intercultural/Intercultural Dialogue
• Outros
  Formación de Tutores de Nivelación Especializados en Modalidad en Línea
• Outros
  Ferramentas de apoio ao ensino à distância
• Outros
  Competências para a Interculturalidade / Skills for Interculturality
• Outros
  SPSS
• Outros
  MAXQDA
• Outros
  Curso de Metodologias de Ensino Inovadoras
• Outros
  Comunidades Ciganas: Abordagens à Intervenção

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2012-06-01, JORGE PEDRO SOUSA: “O jornalismo deve ser configurado como um campo específico”, Jornalismo & Jornalistas
• 2012-03-01, VII SOPCOM - MEIOS DIGITAIS E INDÚSTRIAS CRIATIVAS: Portugal deve apostar em sinergias com espaço lusófono e ibero-americano, Jornalismo & Jornalistas

Journal issue

• Media Literacy and Civic Cultures, 16
• Incivility and public participation, 3
• Generations, Digital Uses and Competences: Trends and Gaps in the Research, 10
• Educação para os media na era digital / Media education in the digital age, 25
• Educación mediática y generación APP, nuevos retos, nuevas propuestas / Media education and PPP generation, new challenges, new proposals, 47
• Digital literacy, fake news and education / Alfabetización digital, fake news y educación, 31
• Cultura visual, digital e mediática: Imagens entre gerações / Visual, digital and media culture: Images between generations, 4

Journal article

• 2024-02-13, How is Portugal addressing disinformation? Results of a mapping of initiatives (2010-2023), Observatorio (OBS*)
• 2023-11-21, Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres, Journal of Children and Media
• 2023-08-31, Resistência aos media e desconexão digital na literatura ocidental / Media resistance and digital disconnection in Western literature, MATRIZes
• 2022-12-28, Intergenerational Perspectives on Media and Fake News During Covid-19: Results From Online Intergenerational Focus Groups, Media and Communication
• 2022-11-15, Digital Rights, Institutionalised Youths, and Contexts of Inequalities, Media and Communication
• 2022-05-13, Emotions in the mediated civic context of the family: Understanding children's and parents' mutually constitutive mediation environment, Children & Society
• 2022-05, Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies, Media, Culture & Society
• 2022, Cidadania Digital e ¿Educação para o Direito¿ / Digital Citizenship and "Education for the Law", Revista Sombras E Luzes
• 2020-07-01, Journalism and digital resources for transforming schools, Revista ICONO14 Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes
• 2020-06-09, RadioActive101-Learning through radio, learning for life: an international approach to the inclusion and non-formal learning of socially excluded young people, International Journal of Inclusive Education
• 2020, Comunicação e intervenção, através do jornalismo / Communication and intervention through journalism, Aprender
• 2019-04-03, Digital literacy, fake news and education / Alfabetización digital, fake news y educación, Cultura y Educación
• 2018-12-18, News definitions and motivations: young people and adults in Portugal and in Estonia, Estudos em Comunicação
• 2018-01-31, Journalism pondered as a learning facilitator tool in the context of lifelong learning, Journal of Media Literacy
• 2018, Reasons and circumstances that lead to the non-use of media by young people and their families, Comunicação e Sociedade
• 2018, A era das "fake news": o digital storytelling como promotor do pensamento crítico / The age of fake news: digital storytelling as a promoter of critical thinking, Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
• 2017, Youth talking about news and civic daily life, Journal of Youth Studies
• 2017, Young people and daily life contexts of news appropriation, Cuadernos.nfo
• 2017, The Portuguese news industry's perspectives and roles on the making of active citizens: readers¿ skills to comment on the news, Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies
• 2017, Patterns of European youngsters' daily use of media, Observatorio (OBS*)
• 2017, News media repertoires in Portugal, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
• 2017, Media Education Competitions: An Efficient Strategy For Digital Literacies?, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
• 2017, Jovens e contextos quotidianos de consumo e apropriação de notícias / Young people and everyday contexts of consumption and appropriation of news, CUADERNOS.INFO
• 2017, Jornalismo e educação: rádio online e processos juvenis de aprendizagem / Journalism and education: online radio and youth learning processes, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas
• 2017, Is there a role for the news industry in improving news literacy?, Media Education Research Journal –MERJ
• 2017, Comparison of news consumption on online among Estonian and Portuguese audience, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
• 2017, Audiências e cross-media: estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal / Audiences and cross-media: a study of news consumption patterns in Portugal, Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies
• 2016, Methodological challenges in the transition towards online audience research, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
• 2016, In dialogue with related fields of inquiry: The interdisciplinarity, normativity and contextuality of audience research, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
• 2015, Pesquisa participativa: novas vias de estudo da relação entre jornalismo e democracia / Participatory research: new avenues for studying the relationship between journalism and democracy, Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies
• 2015, Learning for life: A case study on the development of online community radio, Cuadernos.info
• 2015, Between Old Broadcast Media and New Networked Media: Materiality and Media Consumption Practices, International Journal of Communication
• 2014, Problematizar para intervir: rádio online e educação para os media como estratégia de inclusão de jovens / Problematize to intervene: online radio and media education as a strategy for youth inclusion, Observatorio (OBS*)
• 2014, Consuming the news and building civic participation, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
• 2012, Pesquisando a construção da política por jovens / Researching the construction of politics by young people, Em Debate: Periódico de Opinião Pública e Conjuntura Política
• 2012, A fotografia e o reforço do estigma / Photography and the reinforcement of stigma, Revista Media & Jornalismo
• 2011, Os jovens e a cidadania: a relevância do espaço mediático / Young people and citizenship: the relevance of the media space, Caleidoscópio
• 2011, Internet e celulares como espaço de risco: a relevância da literacia midiática, Lumina
• 2011, Delinquência juvenil enquanto alimento noticioso, Trajectos
• 2011, Delinquência juvenil e amplificação mediática / Juvenile delinquency and media amplification, Revista Ousar Integrar
• 2011, Contactar, entreter, informar: Um retrato da inclusão digital de jovens e seus familiares em Portugal / Contacting, entertaining, informing: A portrait of the digital inclusion of young people and their families in Portugal, Observatorio
• 2010, Retratos Juvenis em Campanhas Eleitorais: Europeias e Legislativas / Youth Portraits in Election Campaigns: European and Legislative, Revista Media & Jornalismo
• 2010, Jovens (15-18 anos) e informação noticiosa: a importância dos capitais cultural e tecnológico / Young people (15-18 years old) and news information: the importance of cultural and technological capital, Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies
• 2010, Fontes e seus enquadramentos: as notícias sobre delinquência juvenil / Sources and framings: the news about juvenile delinquency, Biblioteca Online das Ciências da Comunicação
• 2006, Em torno da condição de jovem: A (re)construção social da juventude / Around the youth condition: The social (re)construction of youth, Infância e Juventude

Book

• 2021, Discurso de ódio, jornalismo e participação das audiências / Hate Speech, Journalism, and Audience Participation, Maria Torres da Silva; João Fernando Ferreira Gonçalves; Pedro Coelho; Brites, Maria José, Almedina
• 2015, Jovens e culturas cívicas: Por entre formas de consumo noticioso e de participação / Youth and civic cultures: Across forms of news consumption and participation, 1, Brites, Maria José, Livros LabCom

Book chapter

• 2024, The love-hate relationship between audiences and journalism, Open Environments: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism, McGraw-Hill
• 2023, YouNDigital: A Multidisciplinary Co-creation Strategy to Define Audiences, Users, and Contexts of Use of a Digital Newsroom
• 2023, Serviço público de media e programação para crianças e jovens / Public service media and programming for children and young people, Serviço Público de Media - Livro Branco, Ministério da Cultura
• 2023, Jovens institucionalizados e desconexão digital forçada / Institutionalised young people and forced digital disconnection, TECNOLOGIA DIGITAL E PROTEÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS, ADOLESCENTES E IDOSOS: Segurança, inclusão e educação digital , Editora Thoth
• 2022, Intergenerational Digitally Mediated Relationships: How Portuguese Young Adults Interact with Family Members Over 65+, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living, Springer International Publishing
• 2022, Intergenerational Approaches to Disinformation and Clickbait: Participatory Workshops as Co-learning-Based Spaces, The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation, Springer International Publishing
• 2022, Intercultural dialogue, The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic, Routledge
• 2022, Disconnection and digital society: Perspectives on how citizens deal with media technology, The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society, SAGE
• 2022, Digital Literacy of Older People and the Role of Intergenerational Approach in Supporting Their Competencies in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2022, Contribution Participatory Methodologies and Generational Research, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, New Media, Old Misogyny: Framing ¿ediated Madonna on Instagram from an Ageing Perspective, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Generational Perspectives on EU Documents Tackling Disinformation, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Digital Aging: Reinforcing Normative Masculinities on Instagram, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Debunking the #Manosphere: An Exploratory Analysis on Patriarchy and Ageism Within the Digital Realm, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Audiências e jornalismo, uma relação difícil?, De que falamos quando dizemos Jornalismo? Temas Emergentes de Pesquisa, Livros LabCom
• 2020, Portuguese research focused on very young children’s digital literacy: Engagement, practices, learning and home knowledge exchange, The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children, Routledge
• 2020, Masculinities and Ageing: Deconstructing Online Representations Among Portuguese Speaking Users, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, Mapping Intergenerational Masculinities on Instagram, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, Intergenerational Perspectives on Audiences Studies: From Youth to Senior Representations, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging, Springer International Publishing
• 2019, Autoaprendizagens sobre jornalismo, até quando? / Self-learning about journalism, until when?, Literacias cívicas e críticas: refletir e praticar, CECS
• 2018, Stakeholder Discourses About Critical Literacies and Audience Participation, The Future of Audiences, Springer
• 2018, Differing Parental Approaches to Cultivating Youth Citizenship, Digital parenting: the challenges for families in the digital age , NORDICOM
• 2018, Bridging the Gap Between Micro and Macro Forms of Engagement: Three Emerging Trends in Research on Audience Participation, The Future of Audiences, Palgrave
• 2017, Quando a investigação é feita com participantes ativos: Ampliar o uso das técnicas de entrevista e de grupo focal / When research is done with active participants: Extend the use of interview and focus group techniques, Pesquisar Jovens: Caminhos e desafios metodológicos, ICS
• 2016, Descobrindo o som, a palavra e a comunidade: implementação de uma rádio educativa na Internet, Educar com podcasts e audiobooks, CirKula
• 2016, Culturas juvenis em contexto de desfavorecimento digital: Um olhar a partir do projeto RadioActive / Youth cultures in a context of digital disadvantage: A look from the RadioActive project, Cultura e Digital em Portugal, Afrontamento
• 2015, “Learning through Radio, Learning for Life!”: Notas sobre o desenvolvimento de uma rádio participativa online, Metodologias Participativas: Os media e a educação. Covilhã: Livros LabCom. 23-26., Livros LabCom
• 2015, RadioActive101: Adapting the ‘space’ of radio as participatory media to promote inclusion, informal learning and employability, Metodologias Participativas: Os media e a educação, Livros LabCom
• 2015, RadioActive. A European online radio project, Agents and voices: A Panorama of Media Education in Brazil, Portugal and Spain, Nordicom Sverige
• 2015, Motivações e escolhas: Os media, a participação e a literacia, Os media, a participação e a literacia, Livros LabCom
• 2015, Expanding the Reach of the Interview in Audience and Reception Research The Performative and Participatory Models of Interview, Revitalising Audience Research: Innovations in European Audience Research, Routledge
• 2015, Cidadania mediática: a internet implica uma revolução de costumes? / Media citizenship: does the Internet imply a revolution of customs?, Infância, juventude e mídia, EdUCE
• 2014, RadioActive. um projeto europeu de rádio online, Agentes e vozes: um panorama da Mídia-Educação no Brasil, Portugal e Espanha (Yearbook 2014), Nordicom: University of Gothenburg
• 2012, Jovens e informação política: a televisão ainda é importante? / Young people and political information: is television still important?, Os Media e as Eleições Europeias, Legislativas e Autárquicas de 2009, Universidade Católica Editora

Edited book

• 2021, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2020, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2019, CECS
• 2018, 1, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2015, 1, Livros LabCom
• 2015, 1, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade

Newspaper article

• 2016-01-20, Projeto RadioActive Aprender a fazer rádio , Jornalismo & Jornalistas
• 2011-12-12, Intervir através do jornalismo escolar, Palavras Vivas

Report

• 2023-11, End of Fieldwork [YouNDigital]
• 2023, YouNDigital - Relatório Revisão de Literatura PRISMA (fase 2), https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JodRcmcZXUm99Kj3rF6Mxg0lOELPq3NF/view
• 2023, Mapping of national best practices (public and private) for tackling disinformation Portugal. , https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/this-is-how-portugal-fights-disinformation-11583
• 2022-06, YouNDigital ethical guidelines.
• 2022, YouNDigital - Enquadramento teórico e futuras linhas de pesquisa/ YOUNDigital - Theoretical framework and future lines of research, https://youndigital.com/index.php/disseminacao/
• 2019, Relatório interino Dici-Educa
• 2019, Media In Action final report
• 2019, Avaliação Julho 2019 – DiCi-Educa
• 2017, The micro-macro politics of audience action, http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842403/7/For%20web%20CEDAR-report.pdf
• 2017, Mapping of media literacy practices and actions in EU-28 (National Annex - Portugal), http://www.obs.coe.int/documents/205595/8587740/Media+literacy+mapping+report+-+EN+-+FINAL.pdf/c1b5cc13-b81e-4814-b7e3-cc64dd4de36c
• 2017, Digital literacy and education - Portuguese report, https://www.is1401eln.eu/en/gca/index.php?id=149
• 2017, Digital Literacy and Education (2014-July 2016), national reports (Portugal, UK, Ireland, Spain, Serbia and Italy), https://www.is1401eln.eu/en/gca/index.php?id=149
• 2017, Collaboration potentials in micro and macro politics of audience creativity, http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842403/7/For%20web%20CEDAR-report.pdf
• 2015, RadioActive Portugal: relatório semestral
• 2015, RadioActive Portugal: Relatório Final à Rede TIC e Sociedade
• 2015, RadioActive Europe: promoting engagement, informal learning and employability of at risk and excluded people across Europe through internet radio and social media (RadioActive101), http://radioactive101.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/D1-6-public_part_report_llp_en_Final.pdf
• 2014, D 7.2 Articles/presentations on RadioActive Implementation

Manual

• 2023, História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal / História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2016, Fazer rádio online com crianças e jovens: Manual de sugestões / Doing Online Radio with Children and Youth: A Manual, CIMJ
• 2014, Radioactive101 Practices, CIMJ
• 2014, A Facilitator’s Guide to RadioActive 101

Conference paper

• Vigilância, hostilidade e desinformação: as críticas de jovens brasileiros aos meios digitais e as contribuições das literacias críticas / Vigilance, hostility and disinformation: Brazilian young people's criticism of digital media and the contributions of critical literacies, Literacia, Media e Cidadania
• Trends on the digital uses and generations, INTED2019
• The era of fake news: digital storytelling as a promotion of critical reading, INTED2019
• Telemóveis e Pais Portugueses: Análise das Preocupações Apontadas Pelo Eurobarómetro 248 / Mobile Phones and Portuguese Parents: Analysis of Concerns Pointed Out By Eurobarometer 248, Alfabetización mediática y culturas digitales
• Teachers and media literacy improvements, the relevance of specific training, INTED2019
• Reflections on the Acceptance and Success of RadioActive101: Motivation through Problematisation, Improved Well-being, Emancipation and Extreme Learning, Motivational and Affective Aspects in Technology Enhanced Learning (MATEL). Workshop-Proceedings of MATEL Workshop
• RadioActive Europe: jovens, o digital e as suas comunidades / RadioActive Europe: young people, digital and their communities, 2.º Congresso Literacia, Media e Cidadania
• O jornalismo e o quotidiano, a indústria e os jovens, Literacia, Media e Cidadania
• O Vilhenas
• Jornais escolares e a promoção da literacia cívica e mediática / School newspapers and the promotion of civic and media literacy, Congresso Nacional "Literacia, Media e Cidadania"
• Investigación activa: Aprender haciendo / Active research: Learning by doing, Congresso Alfamed
• Discursos e receios de professores sobre os usos do digital na escola: investigação sobre educação para os media e para as notícias / Teachers' discourses and fears about the uses of digital in school: research on media and news education, Literacia, Media e Cidadania
• Delinquências Juvenis em Notícia / Juvenile Delinquency in the News, IV Jornadas Internacionais de Jornalismo
• DIGITAL LITERACY IN EUROPE: BEST PRACTICES IN SIX COUNTRIES
• Crise migratória na Europa: os media e a construção da imagem dos refugiados / Migration crisis in Europe: the media and the construction of the image of refugees, Comunidades, participação e regulação. VI Jornadas Doutorais, Comunicação & Estudos Culturais
• 2020, Confinados entre resistência às notícias e busca incessante de notícias televisivas e online / Confined between resistance to news and relentless pursuit of TV and online news
• 2019, We don't know how to work with the media or develop it with students": Discourses and fears from the teachers, EDULEARN19
• 2019, TRENDS ON THE DIGITAL USES AND GENERATIONS, International Technology, Education and Development Conference
• 2019, Muros esquecidos na europa: os media e a crise migratória / Europe's forgotten walls: the media and the migrant crisis, V Jornadas Doutorais, Comunicação & Estudos Culturais

Conference poster

• 2015, Concursos de Literacia Mediática: Uma estratégia de educação informal para os media?, 3.º Congresso Literacia, Media e Cidadania

Preface / Postscript

• 2022
• 2022
• 2020, Special Issue presentation
• 2019, vista
• 2019, Literacias cívicas e críticas
• 2018, Intergeracionalidade e o mundo digital: Propostas de atividades/Intergenerationality in a digital world: Proposals of activities (bilingual edition)
• 2018, Aula Abierta
• 2015, Special Issue Media & Jornalismo

Other output

• 2019, Off-media options: families resisting digital technology, Blogue Parenting for a Digital Future/London Scool of Economics/Sonia Livingstone
• 2015, Jovens, jornalismo e participação: Estudo de caso em Portugal
• 2014, RadioActive101: Using internet radio to break-down the boundaries for inclusion into smart cities
• 2011, Young people’s visions on media and politics in the midst of elections: “We still can’t vote, but”
• 2011, Recensão de Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication, and Democracy
• 2011, Family mediation of youth news diet and media production
• 2011, A Portuguese political female blog: Is there a space for rationality?
• 2010, Making senses of old and new media as news providers: young people (15- 30 years old) perspectives and family contexts
• 2008, A representação da delinquência juvenil nos media noticiosos: estudo de caso do Público e do Correio da Manhã (1993-2003): Juvenile delinquency representations in news media: Case study of two daily national newspapers—Público and Correio da Manhã (1993- 2003)
• 2008, "Juvenile Delinquency in Newspapers"