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Health is a contested concept that has been defined in numerous ways. The media is extremely powerful in promoting health beliefs and in creating role models for contemporary people. The ways in which health is defined or understood can have wide-ranging implications and can have an impact on issues such as health promotion or health literacy. Health presentation in the media has a significant social impact because this type of message is important in changing people's beliefs, attitudes and behaviours relating to health and in promoting health-related knowledge among the target audience. The present volume provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural contemporary approach to the controve...
This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic. Pandemic life has become familiar to us, with all its disruptions and uncertainties. In the second year of COVID, many societies emerged well attuned to new waves of infections, while others, having initially demonstrated 'gold standard' responses, regressed, either through a premature end to public health restrictions or challenges around vaccine rollouts. In many countries, bitter social divisions have arisen over mask-wearing, loc...
In the Network Society the development of a new communicational model has been taking shape. A communicational model characterized by the fusion of interpersonal communication and mass communication, connecting audiences and broadcasters under a hypertextual matrix linking several media devices. The Networked Communication model is the informational societies communication model. A model that must be understood also in its needed literacies for building our media diets, media matrixes and on how it's changing the way autonomy is managed and citizenship exercised in the Information Age. In this book Gustavo Cardoso develops an analysis that, focusing on the last decade, takes us from Europe to North America and from South America to Asia, combining under the framework of the Network Society a broad range of scientific perspectives from Media Studies to Political Science and Social Movements theory to Sociology of Communication.
The present volume offers a contemporary, multicultural approach to the controversial relationship between politics, media and society. The contributors here analyse such links from a variety of different perspectives, and represent perspectives from various countries across Europe, Asia, North America and South America. Despite their geographical diversity, they manage to reach a common language in their studies, offering a re-positioning of the study of media, society and politics. The new perspectives offered by this volume will be of interest to any media studies scholar, because they bring to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed. It allows readers to explore these unique insights, and to easily digest the content and acknowledge the impact of media on society and politics.
Research and innovation are two pillars that come together when universities are at stake. The expansion of the frontiers of human knowledge, in all areas and disciplines, is an irrefutable commitment of higher education institutions. Together with public and private entities, they are also committed to promoting knowledge transfer to society and the economy, in the form of new ideas, new products and new processes. Universities are supposed to transform ideas into value for society. To achieve these goals, higher education institutions have to assure their human resources are highly qualified, that they have an adequate atmosphere, that research is of high quality, and finally that adequate...
Why has Portugal's vibrant and creative cinema industry not been more commercially successful?
Combining and integrating cross-institutional data remains a challenge for both researchers and those involved in patient care. Patient-generated data can contribute precious information to healthcare professionals by enabling monitoring under normal life conditions and also helping patients play a more active role in their own care. This book presents the proceedings of MEDINFO 2019, the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, held in Lyon, France, from 25 to 30 August 2019. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Health and Wellbeing: E-Networks for All’, stressing the increasing importance of networks in healthcare on the one hand, and the patient-centered perspectiv...
Não é fácil convencer um país a permanecer em casa durante semanas. Também não é simples desconfiná-lo, mas foi esse o desafio que recebemos no início de 2021, um ano após o SARS-CoV-2 ter surgido à escala global e ainda a atravessar um dos piores picos da doença. Abraçamo-lo como um serviço público que procurámos cumprir da melhor forma. Feito esse trabalho, que reflete uma estratégia minuciosamente construída, quisemos explicar tudo em livro. Por vários motivos. Porque precisamos de estabelecer uma linha diacrónica da realidade internacional para, a partir daí, melhor conhecermos o que se viveu em Portugal. Porque, em tempos pandémicos, este país se apresentou como o...
A obra 1910-2010 - Comunicação e Educação Republicanas pretende demonstrar que o jornalismo, além do papel informativo que tem, deve educar a sociedade para uma cidadania ativa e responsável, tendo por base a ideia de “bem público” e de um “bem comunicável a todos”. O livro encontra-se estruturado em três partes, correspondentes a áreas temáticas autónomas. Assim, num primeiro momento – Os Homens e a República – publicam-se os textos dedicados a perfis e personalidades marcantes da I República, com destaque para o estudo do Historiador Luís Reis Torgal sobre António José de Almeida. A segunda parte – Os Media e a República – inicia-se com um estudo circunstanciado da Professora Felisbela Lopes sobre a história de 50 anos de televisão pública em Portugal e contém muitos outros contributos, essencialmente dedicados à imprensa. A terceira e última parte, intitulada República e Educação, acolhe os estudos sobre as alterações introduzidas pela I República no sistema educativo, salientando-se o estudo de três autores coordenado por João Amado.