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Communication PhD
PhD Programmes > Communication Sciences
PRESENTATION
The PhD in Communication Sciences focuses on the development of research on individual, collective and institutional behaviour within the framework of network communication.
COORDINATION
CONTACT
CIES PhD Management
Tel. +351 210 464 195 | Email doutoramentos.cies@iscte.pt
Coordinator's Message
“When digital networks are omnipresent and part of almost every aspect of our daily lives, research based on communication sciences becomes crucial for understanding the social, cultural, economic, organisational and political changes in our societies.”

Doctoral students specialise in one of the following areas, through the optional courses offered, completing a minimum of two curricular units:
- Social Dynamics of Communication
- Media, Culture and Community
- New Media, Social Networks and Technology
- Rhetoric, Politics and Public Relations
- Network Journalism, Professional Practices and Business
- Communication and Humanitarian Action
- Health Communication
- Political Economy of Entertainment and News
DEFENDED THESES
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| The impact of brand activism on the pro-social and pro-environmental attitudes of employees and consumer | Alexandra de Matos Miguel |
| Podcasting: Impact of platformisation on an open content distribution model | Miguel Paisana |
| Internet and advertising in Angola: The view of religion and religious people on "entertainment" products | Stover Ezequias |
| Land under dispute: Media and discourses in transformation in contemporary Brazil | Laara Hügel |
| The media representation of disability: A content analysis of the Portuguese press | Maria Cecília Baseggio |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| The role of strategic public relations in the organisational identification process in the PSP. | Nuno Filipe Miguel da Silva |
| Calculating the intangible in Public Relations? How to measure media return - A study of the Portuguese reality today. | Rita Alexandra Nunes Ferreira |
| The impact of Social Media Communication on Personal Brand management. | Evelin Machado Barbosa |
| The impact of anti-smoking information scanning via social media on actual anti-smoking behaviors in China. Orient. | Cheng Cheng |
| The Mediatization of Politics in Television News: The Primary Elections in the Portuguese Socialist Party. | José Eduardo Monteiro Agostinho |
| Radio in Portugal, from analogue to digital, a 360º journey. | Fernando José das Neves Martelo Bizarro |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| Film Journalism in Portugal: an analysis of the press, radio, television and online media in 2019. | Jaime Manuel Pires Lourenço |
| Attracting talent from Generation Y(Z) – the case of Information Technology organisations. | Marina Alexandra Ventura Gomes |
| Cultural crowdfunding: agents and practices of online collaboration and intermediation in Portugal. | Caterina Foà |
| New expressions of radio: podcasting in Portugal as part of the phenomenon of audio preponderance in communication. | Ruben Alexandre Lopes Martins |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| Seniors in the Network Society in Portugal: The contribution of Online Social Networks to their Social Capital. | Célia Maria Reis Barroso |
| Communication in primary health care. Strategies for health promotion and disease prevention. | Ana Andreia Alves Garcia |
| Between swipes and matches: mediated intimacy in the context of online dating. | Rita Adriana Sepúlveda |
| The Protection of the Journalist – Reframing freedom of conscience and independence, rights and duties in a new public space. | Otília da Conceição Leitão Carvalho |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| Challenges in Journalism and sustainability in the print media sector. | Tiago Filipe Costa Lima Quintanilha |
| Photizenship - Profiles, values and feelings on online social networks. | Ruben Leandro de Almeida Neves |
| The Fourth Wave of reportage: portraits in Portuguese. | Geraldo Magela de Fátima Filho |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| Stories that walls tell - muralism as a form of alternative communication in the city of Setúbal (1974-2014). | Maria Helena Rapaz Sousa Freitas |
| Public communication campaigns in nutrition: the impact of involvement on interest in information. | Ana Teresa Serradas Sousa Tavares Costa |
| Title | PhD Student |
|---|---|
| The first manifestations of business public relations in Portugal in the early 20th century (1910-1948): communication models in the case of The Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Co. Ltd. | João Carlos Pinto Moreira dos Santos |
| The state of the art of lobbying in Portugal from the perspective of strategic communication. | João Duarte Borges Martins de Vasconcelos Simão |
| Yes, ICANN!: the internet ecosystem, entities, actors and the multistakeholder governance process: perceptions and involvement of civil society. | Manuel Paulo Athias da Silva Pereira |