PROJECTS
ObCom - Intermunicipal Public Communication Observatory
ObCOM defines itself as an observatory on the communication of public policies developed by the 21 inter-municipal communities spread across mainland Portugal. It provides a non-profit service that aims to play an important role in terms of documentation and information, by collecting, systematizing and critically reflecting on the quality and effectiveness of the communication of public policies to the population in the different regions of the country.
SPECULUM – Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the use of self-writing by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers
The project "SPECULUM – Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the use of self-writing by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers" is funded by the Science and Technology Portuguese Foundation (EXPL/ART-CRT/0231/2021) and is dedicated to research the autobiographical cinema made by women in Portugal and Brazil. We start from the hypothesis that some women documentary filmmakers have been assuming self-writing, the narration of their private histories and the search for their own definitions as a means of artistic expression that we understand to be important to analyse and creatively encourage.
MediaTrust.Lab is a pioneering study on disinformation in proximity contexts in Portugal, which will seek to identify and analyze fact-checking strategies and practices by regional media journalists and the potential collaboration of audiences in the process. Through training, promotion of digital tools and apps, this action-research project also aims to educate journalists and the public to fact-check more effectively and efficiently
Strategic Communication Conference
Under the theme "Public and Political Communication", the Strategic Communication Days will be a forum of excellence where academics and professionals from different countries will debate the importance of communication in mobilising citizens on issues of collective interest. Communication is proving increasingly fundamental to strengthening democracy, providing the public with clarification on public policies and electoral processes.
1. Observe civic and community media in order to identify, analyze and discuss their importance in public participation in a context of proximity.
2. Discuss the conditioning factors of regional and community media;
3. Create a proximity media observatory;
4. Develop a citizens' forum, creating a space where the associative structures of civic society and local and regional institutions can debate issues of public interest.
The project “Media, reception and memory: female audience in the Estado Novo” aims to launch research on the history of media reception in Portugal – a well-studied field – through a series of case studies on media reception (press , radio and television) by women between the 30s and 60s, in a context of female cultural subordination.
The aim of this project is to investigate whether the participation allowed to citizens by Portuguese political party websites meets their expectations.
The Citizen's Agenda Project intends to study some concrete procedures developed by public journalism, at the level of the regional press, in order to understand if there is going to be an effective reinforcement of democratic deliberation in the public sphere.
The objective of this project is to identify how cultural, ethical and political uses and attitudes towards mobile and online communications are articulated with the notions of public and private in different generations; namely with regard to the production, dissemination and reception of messages by audiences, including especially iconic messages.
The main objectives of the Theory and Aesthetics of Documentary Film Project are to contribute to the dissemination of film studies already carried out or still ongoing in Portugal, Brazil and Spain and to develop the theory and aesthetics of cinema, reactivating it with special emphasis on documentary cinema.
