Linha 3: Media e Processos de Mediação

Coordenada por António Fernando Cascais

Keywords

Mediation; New Media; Reception; Television Studies.

This new research group «Media and Mediation Processes» results from the combination of two previous research groups, «Mediation Systems: Technologies, Practices and Discourses and «New Forms of Mediation». The fundamental objective is to create a field of research dedicated to Mass Media and to New Media, in order to apprehend the interaction of modern mediation processes in their complexity.

The research covers the following areas:

1. Television, cinema and documentary studies. In this area, we seek to continue the studies previously initiated about the audiovisual policies, namely in what concerns the effects of the migration of analogue networks to the digital. We seek to broaden the research on the genealogy of genres of the audiovisual experience, with particular focus on the Portuguese case. This area will also develop research in the areas of reception, audiences and their strategies. Also, we intent to create a laboratorial line of research in new forms of television and cinema discourse, allowing to extend, diversify and improve the quality of the programming and also of the viewer’s reception and experience.

2. New Media and Knowledge Society. As a crucial issue in our times, we will analyse the challenging mutation of media which, by becoming new technological forms, are also altering the codes of reference in media culture.

3. Public Space and New Forms of Mediation. Conclusion of the research project «Models and Pratices of Communication of Science in Portugal», in June 2008. In the context of this project, four publications are expected until 2010 by the head of the project, António Fernando Cascais: Issue n. 38 of the centre's academic journal Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, with the theme «Mediação dos Saberes», and the books Bioética e Experimentação; A Mediação dos Saberes na Era da Técnica" and Bioética e Mediação dos Saberes.

Apart from these, other activities are also planned, such as:

• International Conference «Image and Thought» in 2008, following the ten sessions of debates and exhibition of documentaries under the same title «Image and Thought», organized by CECL, which took place at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from December 2006 to April 2007.

• A competition for short documentaries, with the purpose of expressing in images only the classic concepts of philosophy.

• A new edition of debates and exhibition of documentaries, between December 2007 and April 2008, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

• Project «History of P.I.D.E.», an investigation on the Portuguese Political Police, to be exhibited in the public television channel RTP in 2008/2009.

• Project «Images of the Portuguese Colonial War», to be presented in the next FCT project call in 2008.

• Project «Risk Society in Portugal through Prevention Campaigns», to be presented in the next FCT project call in 2008.

• Construction of an online database on «Public Communication of Science in Portugal», in the context of the ongoing project POCTI/COM/60574/2004. The access will be made public in 2008 (as soon as the database is completed) on the centre’s website.

• Closing conference of the project POCI/COM/60574/2004, in 2008, with the presentation of results.

• Projects in the area of Information and Knowledge Society, to be developed by researcher Graça Rocha Simões, who is currently in the Adminstration Board of UMIC: Knowledge Society Agency.

Researchers in the Group (Ph.D. Only)

Antonio Fernando da Cunha Tavares Cascais

Eduardo Jorge dos Santos Esperança

Jacinto António Rosa Godinho

José Manuel Figueiredo Santos

Manuel Domingos Menezes da Silva

Other Researchers in the Group (non Ph.D.)

Artur Jorge de Matos Alves

Carlos Francisco Lopes Canelas

Joana Lobo de Mesquita Simões Pires Fernandes

Joana Minnemann Moreira Pais

Paulo André Trindade Torres Lopes

Paulo Manuel da Costa Rodrigues Garcia