Doctorate Communication and Activisms

• Admission Conditions

  Admission Conditions

  The following may apply for the Doctoral Programme in Communication for Development: a) The holders of a master's degree or a legal equivalent; b) The holders of a B.A. who present an especially relevant academic or scientific which is acknowledge by the Scientific Council of the Lusophone University of Porto as being a competence certificate. b) The holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum which is acknowledged by the Scientific Council of the Lusophone University of Porto.

• Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

  Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

  Combining the notions of Communication and Activism with the values of autonomy, citizenship, civility, socio-cultural development and participation in contemporary democratic processes; Acquire knowledge and skills of understanding and critical evaluation of the consequences of using new technologies; Acquire knowledge and skills for understanding and critical evaluation of new social movements and network activism; Know how to analyze new technological connections and intervene in digital ecologies; Understand new communicational expressions and propose solutions for quality communication, with projects with societal value; Develop the competence to convert knowledge into practical applicability: acquire conceptual and theoretical frameworks and encourage the problematization of issues in close articulation with the practical application to research and social intervention projects, civic cultures and activisms; Encourage the acquisition of skills to carry out projects in connection with different realities; Encourage scientific excellence, autonomy, efficiency and training the researcher as a producer and director of projects linked to fields of action.

• Study plan

  Study plan

  • 1º Ano / Common Core
    • [1º Semestre]
    • Media and Communication for Development 7.5 ects
    • New Expressions of Communication 6 ects
    • Public Space, Mobilizations and Activism 7.5 ects
    • Research and Participatory Methodologies 7.5 ects

    • [2º Semestre]
    • Media, Activism and Civic Cultures 6 ects
    • Option
    • Project Seminar 12 ects
    • Technological Connections and Digital Ecologies 7.5 ects
  • 2º Ano / Common Core
    • [Anual]
    • Thesis I 60 ects
  • 3º Ano / Common Core
    • [Anual]
    • Thesis II 60 ects

• Options

  Options

  • Option
    • Law Applied to Communication Projects (Option) 6 ects
    • Social Entrepreneurship and Networks (Option) 6 ects

• Course Team

  Course Team

  Ana Oliveira

  Ana Guerra

  Andreia Sousa

  Carla Cerqueira

  Catarina Leitão

  Célia Silva

  Daniel Cardoso

  Isabel Lança

  Manuel Fernandes

  Maria Macedo

  Maria Azeredo

  Massimo Felice

  Pedro Costa

  Rui Pereira

  Sheila Khan

  Vanessa Rodrigues

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• Career Opportunities

  Career Opportunities

  Higher education: teaching and research National and international organizations

• Future Studies

  Future Studies

• Infrastructure and Equipment

  Infrastructure and Equipment

  Classrooms with multimedia equipment, library, Information and Communication Technologies resources, pedagogical and scientific equipment. Library, student's personal work area, bar and canteen.

• Scientific Areas

  Scientific Areas

  Ciências sociais e do comportamento

• Observations

  Observations

  Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP) has as a priority the solidification of higher education founded on consistent first cycles and the growth of the second cycles, considering that the conditions required for the opening of third cycles based on research and competitive academic programs are created today. In this sense, Communication and Activism Studies constitutes an original, innovative and non-existent offer in the panorama of communicational studies in Portugal, presenting a program with the capacity to develop a close articulation between critical and empirical theoretical reflection. It focuses on updating theoretical knowledge and the use of technological communicational tools, applying methodological research and action and intervention strategies to the field, with an important societal dimension of conceiving and carrying out projects of social and economic value. Differentiation from the existing offer and the fact that it constitutes a doctoral program in which research is articulated with intervention and social utility and the formation of a practical nature allows to face a potential for growth in demand by journalists, communication professionals, professionals in the third sector, citizens committed to social, civic, humanitarian, ecological, development and innovation causes, researchers and specialists in international cooperation programs. However, ULP's mission is to develop cultural, educational and teaching relationships in the Portuguese-speaking world, in Europe and in the world. In effect, this doctoral program has the potential to bring together different candidates from different academic backgrounds and scientific areas of training and from different cultural backgrounds (different countries). The doctoral program in Communication and Activism is strategic for the Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP), as the scientific area of training in Communication constitutes a domain of teaching and research consistent in the context of the institution. It makes possible the culmination of higher education held at FCAATI, which is oriented towards critical teaching of theoretical and practical knowledge, opening up new possibilities for the development of research applied to projects and the dynamization of R&D and innovation activities. The simultaneously critical, applied, technological and social intervention nature of the syllabus corresponds to the epistemological, disciplinary and practical view of training. This program is also fundamental within the scope of the Research Center for Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies - CICANT, which presents consistent research in the areas of "Media, society and literacies" and "Media art, creative industries and technologies". We also highlight the articulation of the doctorate with the MeLCi Lab - Media Literacy and Civic cultures Lab.

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