Marisa Torres da Silva

Gabinete: B505

marisatorresilva@fcsh.unl.pt

Marisa Torres da Silva was born in Lisbon in 1979. She is an Associate Professor (with Habilitation) at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), where she teaches since 2006, and researcher at ICNOVA (Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA). She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Media & Jornalismo journal (indexed in Scopus), Communication Sciences Undergraduate Coordinator at NOVA FCSH, Co-Coordinator of the Publics and Audiences section of the Portuguese Association for Communication (SOPCOM), and Co-Coordinator of the Media and Journalism group (ICNOVA). She was Principal Investigator of the project “Incivility and Online hate speech: online comments in electoral context”, funded by the Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media – ERC (2020), Coordinator of the Portuguese team of the international collaborative project “News as Democratic Resources. Cross Cultural Comparative Research” (2013-2018), Co-Coordinator of the national project “The Risks of Extreme-Right Normalisation in Portugal and other European countries” (funded by a investigative journalism grant from Gulbenkian Foundation, gathering professors, professional journalists and undergraduate journalism students), and Local Researcher / Focus Group Leader (Portugal) of “New Neighbours” (funded by the European Commission). She is currently member of international and national funded projects, such as “Media Pluralism Monitor” (funded by the European Commission), “YouNDigital” (funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation), and “EIJI – Innovative Strategies of Investigative Reporting” (funded by ICNOVA). She was member of other international and national funded research projects, namely “Social Media Resilience Toolkit – SMaRT-EU” (co-financed by European Commission/LC-01563446), “Online Violence Against Women during COVID-19” and “PINBook PT: Political Interest Networks in Facebook Portugal” (both funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation), or “Fair or Flawed: Experiments on Perceptions of Hate Speech Moderation” (funded by a Content Policy Research on Social Media Platforms research award from Facebook). Marisa Torres da Silva concluded her PhD in Communication Sciences (2010) at the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) with a thesis on letters to the editor in the Portuguese press. She did a post-doc (2012-2015) at the same university on internet, deliberative democracy and participatory journalism. She was distinguished with the Santander Prize for Internationalisation of Scientific Production at NOVA FCSH (2nd place ex-aequo, 2018). Her research interests include the relationship between journalism, democracy and audiences, online hate speech, news and civic literacy, news consumption and audience research, gender and journalism, investigative journalism, and cultural journalism. She has widely researched and published in these fields of study, including five books, six special issues, 26 articles in peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, Journalism, International Journal of Communication, Communication & Society, New Media & Society, Participations), 20 book chapters, and other publications, as well as over 60 papers presented in national and International conferences. She worked as a freelance journalist (2001-2009) in many Portuguese press publications and 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.

Unidade de investigação: Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA (ICNOVA)

Áreas de investigação: Journalism and Media Studies, Public Sphere, Deliberative Democracy, Digital Media, Online deliberation, Cultural journalism, Gender and communication, Audience and Reception Studies, Online Hate Speech

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Formação
AnoGrauInstituiçãoÁrea
2010DoutoramentoUniversidade NOVA de LisboaCommunication Sciences
  • Common sense or censorship  
  • Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era  
  • Apresentação  
  • Incivility and Public Participation  
  • Intersectional feminism through digital activism  
TítuloFonte de financiamentoInícioEstado
PINBook PT: Political Interest Networks in Facebook Portugal (member) (2018 - )Concluído
Cross-media news repertoires as democratic resources (coordinator, national team) (2013 - 2018)Concluído
MPM Media Pluralism Monitor Monitoring Risks for Media Pluralism in EU Member States (member, national team) (2015 - )Concluído
DIVinTV: Public service Television and cultural diversity in Portugal [Televisão pública e diversidade cultural em Portugal] (member) (2016 - 2018 )Concluído
Gender and news production [Género e produção noticiosa: uma análise da produção e das organizações noticiosas em termos de género] (member) (2013 - 2015)Concluído
E-audiences: a comparative study of European media audiences (member, national team) (2012 - 2015)Concluído
Culture in the front page [A Cultura na Primeira Página- um estudo dos jornais portugueses na primeira década do século XXI] (member) (2012-2014)Concluído
Female Online Participation: Redefining the Public Sphere [Participação Feminina online: a redefinição de esfera pública] (member) (2010-2011)Concluído
Elements for a Theory of News: a case study of the Portuguese journalistic mediation of a social problem – HIV – AIDS (grant holder) (2002-2004)Concluído
Global Media Monitoring Project (coder, national team) (2005)Concluído
CargoInícioFim
Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2015 - )
Executive Board, Media & Jornalismo journal (2012 - )
Editor, NOVA Magazine (http://novamagazine.pt) (2016 - )
Post doctoral researcher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012-2015)
Guest lecturer, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2009-2015)
Assistant Professor, Universidade Lusófona (2009-2012)
Trainee teacher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2006-2009)
Freelance journalist (2001-2009)