Curriculum Vitae - Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Mauro Pereira Porto
Curriculum Vitae
November 2015
PERSONAL DATA
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Communication
Tulane University
219 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698.
(504) 862.3037
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1996-2001
Ph.D. in Communication - University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
1991-1993
M.A. in Political Science - University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil.
1984-1988
B.A. in Communication - University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil.
TEACHING POSITIONS
2011-Current
Associate Professor
Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans.
2005-2011
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans.
2004-2005
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans.
2001-2005
Professor
School of Communication, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil.
1995-2001
Professor
Institute of Political Science and International Relations. University of
Brasília (UnB), Brazil.
1993-1995
Adjunct Professor
Institute of Political Science and International Relations. University of
Brasília (UnB), Brazil.
OTHER TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2013
Program Officer, Ford Foundation, Rio de Janeiro office, Brazil. Directed a
portfolio of grants in the Initiative “Advancing Media Rights and Access”.
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2003
Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Guatemala City, Guatemala,
November-December.
1998-2001
Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication, University of California,
San Diego (UCSD). Courses: Introduction to Communication; Introduction to
Communication as Social Force; Introduction to Communication and Culture;
American News Media; Law, Communication and Freedom of Expression.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Media power and democratization in Brazil: TV Globo and the dilemmas of political
accountability. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Televisão e política no Brasil: A Rede Globo e as interpretações da audiência [Television and
politics in Brazil: TV Globo and the interpretations of the audience]. Rio de Janeiro: E-Papers,
2007.
Articles
“Telenovelas and representations of national identity in Brazil,” Media, Culture and Society,
Vol. 33, n. 1, 2011, pp. 53-69.
With Daniel Hallin: “Introduction: Media and democratization in Latin America,” International
Journal of Press/Politics, Vol.14, n. 3, 2009, pp. 291-295.
“Frame diversity and citizen competence: Towards a critical approach to news quality,” Critical
Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 24, n. 4, 2007, pp. 303-321.
“Framing controversies: Television and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil,” Political
Communication, Vol. 24, n. 1, 2007, pp. 19-36.
“TV news and political change in Brazil: The impact of democratization on TV Globo’s
journalism,” Journalism, Vol. 8, n. 4, 2007, pp. 381-402.
“Fighting AIDS among adolescent women: Effects of a public communication campaign in
Brazil,” Journal of Health Communication, Vol. 12, n. 2, 2007, pp. 121-132.
Also published in Portuguese: “Lutando contra a AIDS entre meninas adolescentes: Os
efeitos da Campanha de Carnaval de 2003 do Ministério da Saúde,” Cadernos de Saúde
Pública, v. 21, n. 4, 2005, pp. 1234-1243.
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“Political controversies in Brazilian TV fiction: Viewers’ interpretations of the telenovela Terra
Nostra,” Television and New Media, Vol. 6, n. 4, 2005, pp. 342-359.
Also published in Portuguese: “Telenovelas e controvérsias políticas: Interpretações da
audiência sobre Terra Nostra”. In: Vera França; Maria Helena Weber; Raquel Paiva; Liv
Sovik. (eds.). Estudos de comunicação: Livro do XI COMPÓS. Porto Alegre: Sulina, 2003,
pp. 104-124.
“The principle of diversity in journalism: Jornal Nacional and political deliberation in Brazil,”
Brazilian Journalism Research, v. 1, n. 1, 2005, pp. 135-154.
Also published in French: “Diversité médiatique et délibération politique: Le cas de la
nouvelle télévisuelle au Brésil”. In: Patrick Brunet; Martin David-Blais (eds.). Valeurs et
ethique dans les medias. Saint-Nicolas: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2004, pp. 115-137.
“Realism and politics in Brazilian telenovelas,” Media International Australia, n. 106, 2003, pp.
35-45.
“Mídia e deliberação política: O modelo do cidadão interpretante” [Media and political
deliberation: The interpreting citizen model], Política e Sociedade, n. 2, 2003, pp. 67-108.
“Novos apresentadores ou novo jornalismo? O Jornal Nacional antes e depois da saída de Cid
Moreira” [New anchors or new journalism? The newscast Jornal Nacional before and after the
retirement of Cid Moreira], Comunicação e Espaço Público, v. 5, n. 1/2, 2002, pp. 9-31.
“A mídia brasileira e a eleição presidencial de 2000 nos EUA: A cobertura do jornal Folha de S.
Paulo” [The Brazilian media and the 2000 US presidential election: The coverage by the
newspaper Folha de S. Paulo], Cadernos do Ceam, v. II, n. 6, 2001, pp. 11-32.
“La crisis de confianza en la politica y sus instituciones: Los medios y la legitimidad de la
democracia en Brasil” [The confidence crisis of politics and its institutions: Mass media and the
legitimacy of democracy in Brazil], América Latina Hoy, n. 25, 2000, pp. 23-33.
“Telenovelas, politica e identidad nacional en Brasil” [Telenovelas, politics, and national
identity in Brazil], Ecuador Debate, n. 49, 2000, pp. 205-234.
With Liziane Guazina: “A política na TV: O Horário Eleitoral da eleição presidencial de 1994”
[TV politics: Political advertising in the 1994 Presidential election], Contracampo, v. 3, 1999,
pp. 5-33.
“Muito além da informação: Mídia, cidadania e o dilema democrático” [Beyond information:
Media, citizenship, and the democratic dilemma], São Paulo em Perspectiva, v. 12, n. 4, 1998,
pp. 17-25.
“Telenovelas and politics in the 1994 Brazilian presidential election,” The Communication
Review, v. 2, n. 4, 1998, pp. 433-459.
Also published in Portuguese: “Telenovelas e política: O CR-P da eleição presidencial de
1994,” Comunicação & Política, v. 1, n. 3, 1995, pp. 55-76.
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“As imagens e a expressão de valores políticos: Sugestões para a pesquisa sobre televisão”
[Images and the expression of political values: Suggestions for research on television], Textos
de Cultura e Comunicação, n. 37/38, 1997, pp. 167-186.
“O poder da televisão: Relações entre TV e política” [Television power: Relations between TV
and politics], Comunicação & Educação, v. III, n. 3, 1997, pp. 14-18.
“Televisão, audiências e hegemonia: Notas para um modelo alternativo na pesquisa de
recepção” [Television, audiences, and hegemony: Notes for an alternative model in reception
research], Comunicação & Política, v. III, n. 3, 1996, pp. 120-145.
“Televisão e voto: A eleição de 1992 para prefeito de São Paulo” [Television and voting: The
1992 election in the city of São Paulo], Opinião Pública, v. IV, n. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
“Telenovelas e imaginário político no Brasil” [Telenovelas and political imaginary in Brazil],
Cultura Vozes, v. 88, n. 6, 1994, pp. 83-93.
Book chapters
With João Brant: “Social media and the 2013 protests in Brazil: The contradictory nature of
political mobilization in the digital era”. In Lina Dencik; Oliver Leistert (eds.). Critical
perspectives on social media and protest. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, pp. 181-199.
“The media and political accountability”. In: Timothy Power; Matthew M. Taylor (eds.).
Corruption and democracy in Brazil: The struggle for accountability. Notre Dame: University
of Notre Dame Press, 2011, pp. 103-126.
“The changing landscape of Brazil’s news media.” In: David Levy; Rasmus Nielsen (eds), The
changing business of journalism and its implications for democracy. Oxford: Reuters Institute
for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2010, pp. 107-124.
“Democratization and election news coverage in Brazil.” In: Jesper Stromback; Lynda Kaid
(eds.). The handbook of election news coverage around the world. New York: Routledge, 2008,
pp. 252-272.
“A mídia e a avaliação das políticas públicas sociais” [The media and the evaluation of social
policies]. In: Guilherme Canela (ed.), Políticas públicas sociais e os desafios para o jornalismo.
São Paulo: Cortez, 2007, pp. 182-190.
“A pesquisa sobre a recepção e os efeitos da mídia: Propondo um enfoque integrado” [Media
effects and reception research: Proposing an integrated framerwork] In: Giovandro Ferreira;
Luiz Cláudio Martino (eds.). Teorias da comunicação. Salvador: EdUFBa, 2007, pp. 245-268.
“Political advertising and democracy in Brazil.” In: Lynda Kaid; Christina Holtz-Bacha (eds.).
The Sage handbook of political advertising. Newbury Park: Sage, 2006, pp. 129-143.
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“La construcción de una cultura política democrática” [The developement of a democratic
political culture]. In: Ismael Crespo Martínez; Antonia Martínez Rodríguez (eds.). Política y
Gobierno en América Latina. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2005, pp. 289-309.
Also published in Portuguese: “Cultura política e democracia na América Latina” [Political
culture and democracy in Latin America]. In: Ayrton Fausto; José Flavio Saraiva. (eds.).
Diálogos sobre a Pátria Grande. Brasilia: FLACSO, 2004, pp. 39-58.
With Bruna Bastos and Rodrigo Vasconcelos: “A televisão e o primeiro turno das eleições
presidenciais de 2002: Análise do Jornal Nacional e do horário eleitoral” [Television and the
first round of the 2002 Presidential election: Analysis of political ads and the newscast Jornal
Nacional]. In: Antônio Albino Rubim (ed.). Eleições presidenciais em 2002 no Brasil: Ensaios
sobre mídia, cultura e política. São Paulo: Hacker, 2004, pp. 68-90.
“Enquadramentos da midia e politica” [Media framing and politics]. In: Antonio Albino Rubim
(ed.). Comunicação e politica. Salvador: EdUFBa, 2004, pp. 73-104.
“Mass media and politics in democratic Brazil.” In: Maria D´Alva Kinzo; James Dunkerley
(eds.). Brazil since 1985: Economy, polity and society. London: ILAS, 2003, pp. 288-313.
With Carlos Pio: “Teoria política contemporânea: Política e economia segundo os argumentos
elitistas, pluralistas e marxistas” [Contemporay political theory: Politics and economics
according to elitist, pluralist, and Marxist theories]. In: Maria das Graças Rua; Maria Izabel V.
de Carvalho (eds.). O Estudo da política: Temas selecionados. Brasilia: Paralelo 15, 1998, pp.
291-314.
“Dilemas da racionalidade: O caso dos efeitos dos mídia no comportamento político”
[Dilemmas of rationality: The case of media effects on political behaviour]. In: Leôncio
Camino; Louise Lhullier; Salvador Sandoval (eds.). Estudos de comportamento político.
Florianópolis, 1997, pp. 39-53.
“A crise de confiança na política e suas instituições: Os mídia e a legitimidade da democracia”
[The confidence crisis of politics and its institutions: Mass media and the legitimacy of
democracy in Brazil] In: Marcello Barquero (ed.). Condicionantes da consolidação
democrática: Ética, mídia e cultura política. Porto Alegre: EdUFRGS, 1996, pp. 41-64.
Anbridged version: “Os mídia e a legitimidade da democracia no Brasil” [The media and the
legitimacy of democracy in Brazil]. In: Antônio Fausto Neto; Milton José Pinto (eds.).
Mídia & cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim, 1997, pp. 56-65.
“As eleições municipais em São Paulo” [TV and local elections in São Paulo]. In: Heloiza
Matos (ed.). Mídia, eleições e democracia. São Paulo: Scritta, 1994, pp. 133-157.
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Encyclopedia entries
"Political Communication research in Latin America”. In Gianpietro Mazzoleni (ed.), The
International Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell,
forthcoming.
“Soap opera/telenovela.” In: Neil Smelse; Paul Bates (eds.). International encyclopedia of the
social and behavioral sciences. London: Elsevier, 2001, v. 21, pp. 14205-14208.
“Dias Gomes - Roque Santeiro.” In: Derek Jones (ed.). Censorship: A world encyclopedia.
London, 2001, pp. 968-969.
Book reviews
“Comparing media systems: Three models of media and politics - by Daniel Hallin and Paolo
Mancini,” Brazilian Journalism Research, Vol. 3, n. 2, 2007, pp. 167-170.
“Stuart Hall: Critical dialogues in Cultural Studies - by David Morley (ed.),” Comunicação &
Política, Vol. III, n. 3, 1996, pp. 205-206.
“The media and democracy - by John Keane,” Comunicação & Política, Vol. 1, n. 1, 1994, pp.
204-206.
Interview
“Sobre metodologias de pesquisa nos estudos de mídia e politica” [On research methodologies
in studies about media and politics], interviewed by Heloiza Herscovitz, Estudos em jornalismo
e mídia, Vol. 3, n. 1, 2006, pp. 135-139.
COURSES TAUGHT AT TULANE UNIVERSITY
- Brazilian TV and Culture, COMM 465 (Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Lagniappe, 2006).
- Comparative Political Communication, COMM 3300 (Fall 2013, Fall 2009, Spring 2007,
Spring 2006, Fall 2004).
- Introduction to Latin America, LAST 101 (Summer, 2005).
- Latin American Icons, COMM 2823 (Spring 2014, Spring 2010, Spring 2009)
- Mass Communication Law, COMM 440 (Fall 2007, Lagniappe, 2006, Spring 2005).
- Media Analysis, COMM 3260 (Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall, 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2010,
Fall 2006, Spring 2005).
- Media and Democracy in Latin America, COMM 4301 (Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2010,
Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004).
- Political Communication COMM 230 (Spring 2008).
- Satire TV and the Public Sphere, COMM 455 (Spring 2010).
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UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
2015
Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Stone Center for Latin
American Studies, February.
2014-2015
Member of the Search Committee for the position of Professor of Practice,
Department of Communication.
2014
Chair, Department of Communication, since August.
2013
Chair, Vision Committee, Department of Communication, since September.
2014
Organizer of the talk by Professor Gary Fields (University of California, San
Diego), “Landscapes of Occupation in Palestine”, October 29 (sponsored by the
Department of Communication, the Center for Scholars and the Silverstein
Grant)
2014
Organizer of the talk by Ivan Moraes Filho (Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil), “The struggle for urban and communication rights in Brazil: Lessons
from the Occupy Estelita movement in Recife, August 26 (sponsored by the
Stone Center for Latin American Studies).
2013
Member, Annual Review Committee, since September.
2010
Member of the Search Committee for the position of Visiting Assistant
Professor, Department of Communication.
2010
Organizer of the talk by Professor Andres Canizalez (Catholic University Andres
Bello, Venezuela), “Chavez, media and political conflict in Venezuela,” April 15.
Event supported by a grant from the Center for Scholars of Tulane University’s
School of Liberal Arts and sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American
Studies and the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR).
2007-2010
Member of the Executive Council of the Stone Center for Latin American
Studies.
2009
Member of the Ph.D. Proposal Committee, Department of Communication.
2009
Member of departmental assessment subcommittee for the reaccreditation by the
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
(SACS).
2009
Member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Public Service,
representing the School of Liberal Arts, September-December. One-semester
temporary replacement of permanent Committee member Maureen Shea.
2008-2010
Member of the Service Learning Committee, Department of Communication.
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2008
Member of Search Committee for the position of Assistant Professor,
Department of Communication.
2008
Organizer of the talk by Professor Regina Lawrence (LSU), “An exception to
every rule? The media, gender, and Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House,”
April 25. Event sponsored by the Department of Communication, the Department
of Political Science, and the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.
2007
Coordinator of the International Seminar Media and Democratization in Latin
America, November 2. Event supported by a grant from the Center for Scholars
of Tulane University’s School of Liberal Arts and sponsored by the Stone Center
for Latin American Studies.
2007
Member of Search Committee for the Teaching Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
Latin American Studies, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, May.
2006
Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Stone Center for Latin
American Studies, February.
2005
Member of Search Committee for the position of Assistant Director of
Undergraduate Programs, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, July.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014
Chair of the panel “Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Electoral Contexts”
organized by Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of
Expression and Opinion, 26th Session of the United Nations Human Rights
Council (HRC), Geneva, Switzerland, June 12.
2014
Reviewer of grant application for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC) and for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO)/Dutch Council for the Humanities.
2010
Reviewer of grant application for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO)/Dutch Council for the Humanities.
2009
Instructor of two courses with the theme Mídia, democracia representativa e
accountability [Media, representative democracy, and accountability]. First
course, with 10 hours, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre, Brazil, December 7-8. Second course, with 6 hours, at the University of
Brasilia, Brazil, December 15.
2008-2009
Guest editor (with Daniel Hallin) of the special issue “Media and
Democratization in Latin America,” International Journal of Press/Politics,
Vol.13, n. 3, 2009.
2008
Member of the Committee for the Jon M. Tolman Essay Prizes, which selected
the best papers presented at the 9th International Conference of the Brazilian
Studies Association (BRASA), New Orleans, United States, March 27-29.
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2007-2008
Reviewer of submissions to 57th and the 58th Annual Conferences of the
International Communication Association, Political Communication Division.
2006-2007
Freedom House, consultant for the 2006 and 2007 editions of the Freedom of the
Press in the World report.
2006
Reviewer of submissions to the Preconference, “Messages from Abroad: Foreign
Political News in a Globalized Media Landscape,” International Communication
Association, Munich, Germany, June 17.
2006-Present Member of the Consultative Board of the Program InFormação, a national
project for the qualification of journalism students in Brazil, sponsored by the W.
K. Kellogg Foundation and by ANDI, the News Agency for the Rights of
Children (Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância), since October 2006.
2001-2004
Coordinator of the “Research Center on Media and Politics” (NEMP) of the
University of Brasilia, Brazil.
2002-2004
Chair of the Political Communication Division of the National Association of
Graduate Programs in Communication (COMPÓS), Brazil.
Member of the editorial board of the following journals: The International Journal of
Press/Politics, Global Media Journal, Sur le journalisme/About journalism/Sobre jornalismo,
Comunicação & Política, Contemporânea, E-compós, Líbero e Revista Brasileira de Ciência
Política.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FROM TULANE UNIVERSITY
2007-2008
Research Enhancement Fund Grant.
2007
Tulane Faculty Fellow, Service Learning Seminar, September 21-November 30,
Center for Public Service.
2006-2007
Provost’s Fund for Faculty/Student Engagement.
2006
Summer Fellowship, Dean’s Office, College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
2006
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, for
fieldwork in Brazil.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FROM OTHER SOURCES
2008
Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Centro de Investigación y Adiestramiento
Político Administrativo (CIAPA), San José, Costa Rica, September 16 December 15.
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2000
Summer Institute Fellowship, “Methodologies in Cultural Studies,” Northwestern
University, Department of Radio/TV/Film, Evanston, United States.
1998
Communication Department Fellowship for dissertation research in Brazil,
University of California, San Diego.
1996-2000
Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Brazil’s Ministry of Education (CAPES).
1992-1993
Master’s Fellowship, Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology (CNPq).
HONORS AND AWARDS
2003
Vilmar Farias Chair of Latin American Studies, awarded by Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Brazil’s Ministry of Education
(CAPES), and Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology (CNPq).
2002
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary
Communication Studies (INTERCOM).
INVITED TALKS (2004-PRESENT)
2014 Panelist of the roundtable “Hashtags & Retweets: Activism and Social Media”, 16th
Annual Diversity Convocation, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Tulane University,
October 15.
2014 “Midia e Parlamento: Conflitos na representação política” [Media and parliament:
Conflicts in political representation], Keynote Address, 5th Research and Outreach
Seminar, Center for Training and Professional Development – CEFOR, Chamber of
Deputies, Brasilia, Brazil, September 8.
2010 “The changing landscape of Brazilian news media.” Workshop Changing Business of
Journalism and its impact on democracy, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism,
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, February 5.
2009 “Pluralismo e democracia representativa: As relações entre Estado, sociedade civil e
meios de comunicação” [Pluralism and representative democracy: The linkages between
the State, civil society, and the mass media]. International Colloquium on Media and
Democratic Deliberation, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
November 30.
2009 “Jornalismo político, pluralismo e democracia” [Political journalism, pluralism, and
democracy]. Round table participant, III Congress of the Brazilian Association of
Political Communication Scholars (Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores de
Comunicação e Política), São Paulo, Brazil, December 11.
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2009 “Monitoreo de medios y democratización en América Latina” [Media monitoring and
democratization in Latin America]. International Seminar Monitoreo de Medios: La
Experiencia en Latinoamérica [Media Monitoring: The Latin American Experience],
The Carter Center, Caracas, Venezuela, April 28.
2009 “Media accountability and democratization in Brazil: Civil society and the opening of
TV Globo.” Symposium Latin America Media: Distortions and Resistance, The Center
for Latin American Latino/a Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States,
April 1.
2008 “Do barking dogs really bite? The watchdog function of the media and political
accountability in Brazil.” Workshop Accountability Institutions and Political Corruption
in Brazil, Brazilian Studies Programme, Latin American Centre, St Antony’s College,
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 23.
2006 “Accountability midiática: As relações entre democracia política, sociedade civil e o
campo da comunicação” [Media accountability: The linkages between political
democracy, civil society, and communication]. Keynote address, opening session of the
First Annual Congress of the Brazilian Association of Political Communication Scholars
(Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Comunicação e Política), Salvador, Brazil,
November 28-December 1.
2005 “Media and politics in democratic Brazil (1985-2005).” Seminar Twenty Years of ReDemocratization in Brazil: Achievements, Failures and Promises, Brazil Studies Group,
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States,
November 18.
2005 “Television and politics in Brazil.” International Seminar Presse & Medias au Brésil.
Université de Paris I, Paris, France, April 13-14.
2004/5 Participant of the Seminar Global Implications of Media Industry Consolidation.
Peabody Center for Media and Society, University of Georgia, Athens, United States,
November 10-13, 2004; and: New York, United States, October 19-31, 2005.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS (2004-PRESENT)
“Digital platforms and the 2013 protests in Brazil: The contradictory nature of Political
mobilization in the digital era”. In: Conference “Social Media and the Transformation of Public
Space”, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 18-20, 2014.
“Pluralismo e democracia representativa: As relações entre Estado, sociedade civil e meios de
comunicação” [Pluralism and representative democracy: The linkages between the State, civil
society, and the mass media]. Paper presented at the III Congress of the Brazilian Association of
Political Communication Scholars (Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Comunicação e
Política), São Paulo, Brazil, December 9-11, 2009.
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“Democratization and media opening in Brazil: TV Globo's coverage of five presidential
elections.” In: 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA),
Chicago, United States, May 21-25, 2009.
“Telenovelas and national identity in Brazil.” In: 9th International Congress of the Brazilian
Studies Association (BRASA), New Orleans, United States, March 27-29, 2008.
“Democratization and election news coverage in Brazil.” In: II National Congress of the
Brazilian Association of Political Communication Research (COMPOLITICA), Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, December 5-7, 2007.
“Democratization and election news coverage in Brazil.” In: 27th International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007.
“Trends in Brazilian Election News Coverage.” In: 57th Annual Conference of the International
Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, May 24-28, 2007.
“Telenovelas and national identity in Brazil.” In: 2007 Conference of the Society for Cinema
and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, United States, March 8-11.
“TV news and political change in Brazil: The impact of democratization on TV Globo’s
journalism.” In: 8th International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA),
Nashville, United States, October 13-16, 2006.
“TV news and political change in Brazil: The impact of democratization on TV Globo’s
journalism.” In: 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
(ICA), Dresden, Germany, June 19-23, 2006.
“TV news and political change in Brazil: The impact of democratization on TV Globo’s
journalism.” In: 26th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),
San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
“Framing controversies: television and the 2002 Brazilian presidential election.” In: 55th Annual
Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), New York, United States,
2005.
“A TV e o primeiro turno das eleições presidenciais de 2002: A influência do horário eleitoral e
do Jornal Nacional da decisão do voto” [TV and the first round of the 2002 Presidential
election: The impact of political ads and Jornal Nacional on voting decisions]. In: VII
International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
2004.
“Framing controversies: The role of television in the 2002 Brazilian presidential election.” In:
25th Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication
Research (IAMCR), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2004.
“Lutando contra a AIDS entre meninas adolescentes: Os efeitos da Campanha de Carnaval de
2003 do Ministério da Saúde” [Fighting AIDS among adolescent women: The effects of the
2002 Carnival Campaign of Brazil’s Ministry of Health]. In: 25th Annual Conference of the
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International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Porto Alegre,
Brazil, 2004.
PH.D. DISSERTATION DIRECTED
2014 Gray Swift Miles, Shields of words: Narratives of legitimacy and two community media
groups in marginalized neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá, Ph.D. in Latin
American Studies, Tulane University, Submitted October 10.
PARTICIPATION IN PH.D DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
2014 Shearon Roberts, The 2010 earthquake and media in Haiti: Journalistic transformations,
democracy and the politics of disaster, Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, Tulane
University, submitted April 24.
MASTER’S THESES DIRECTED
2004 Luiz Carlos Santana de Freitas, A midiatização do parlamento: a TV Senado e as
transformações na atividade político-parlamentar no Senado brasileiro [The
mediatization of the parliament: TV Senate and the transformations of parliamentary
activities in the Brazilian Senate], Institute of Communication, University of Brasilia
(UnB), Brazil.
2004 George Rodrigues Cardim, Os dilemas no Conselho de Comunicação Social: Espaço de
consenso ou arena de interesses? [The dilemmas in the Council of Social
Communication: Consensus-building space or arena of interests?], Institute of
Communication, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil.
2004 Adriane Lorenzon dos Santos, O poder local no ar: A municipalização das rádios
comunitárias e o fortalecimento de esferas públicas locais no Brasil [Local power on
air: The municipalization of community radio and the strengthening of local public
spheres in Brazil], Institute of Communication, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil.
PARTICIPATION IN MASTER’S THESES COMMITTEES (2005-PRESENT)
2010 Second reader of Gwendolyn Murray’s Thesis, (Re)Presenting the Periphery: CoProduction and Self-Representation in Contemporary Brazilian Television and New
Media, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, submitted on
March 22.
2007 Third reader of Marcelle Beaulieu’ Thesis, Operation Team America: US Immigration
Policy and the Emergence of the Minutemen, Stone Center for Latin American Studies,
Tulane University, submitted on April 26.
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2006 Second reader of Xelajú Korda’s Thesis, Aesthetics of (In)Security: Mentally Mapping
Danger in Morumbi, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University,
submitted on October 6.
2005 Third reader of Nomi Weiss-Laxer’s Thesis, Crafting Copacabana: Images of Security
and Strategies of Exclusion in Brazil’s Tourism Capital, Stone Center for Latin
American Studies, Tulane University, submitted on March 18.
HONORS PROJECTS DIRECTED (2005-PRESENT)
2010 Katherine Ellison, Gaining a Voice: The Relationship between the Local Mainstream
Media and the Post-Katrina New Orleans Latino Community, Tulane University,
submitted on April 26.
2009 Alison Kelly, Remembering the Prague Spring: How the US media covered the
Anniversaries of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968-2008), Tulane University,
submitted on May 4.
2006 Melissa Manuel, The Memorialization of the Argentine Dictatorship of 1976-1983 in
Public School Texts and Commemorative Acts in the City of Buenos Aires, Tulane
University, submitted on April 27.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
International Communication Association.
Latin American Studies Association.
Brazilian Studies Association.