Helena Sousa,
University of Minho

Formerly a journalist, Helena Sousa is now associate professor at the Department of Communications Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal. Her main teaching and research are related with Political Economy, Media Policy, International Information and Media Sociology. Recently, she has written about Portuguese and EU media policy and about media structures and content production in Portuguese speaking countries (Lusophone cultural area). In addition to teaching and research, Helena Sousa is vice-president of the University of Minho’s School of Social Sciences. She has served as Head of the Communication Sciences Department and has been actively involved in the setting up and management of several graduate and post-graduate teaching programmes. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Communication and vice-president of the Political Economy Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

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Publications on Euromedia Topics

Media policy and regulation

Moisés de Lemos, Helena Sousa and Rosa Cabecinhas (forthcoming). Comunicação e Lusofonia, Para uma análise crítica da cultura e dos media, Campo das Letras: Porto.

Sousa, Helena and Manuel Pinto (2006). 'Media Policy, Economics and Citizenship. A Peculiar Model for Participatory Public Service Television' in Marcinkowski, Frank, Werner A. Meier and Josef Trappel, Media and Democracy, Experiences from Europe, Bern, Stuttgart, Wien, Haupt Verlag. (English)

Sousa, Helena (2005). 'La incorporación del concepto de 'Lusofonia', el caso de los canales internacionales RTP' in Anuário ININCO/Investigaciones de la Comunicación, vol. 17, nº 2 (Spanish)

Helena Sousa (2005). ‘Economia Política da Comunicação e dos Media: Novos Cruzamentos e Triangulações’ in Comunicação e Sociedade, nº7, (Portuguese).

Helena Sousa and Manuel Pinto (2005). ‘The Economics of Public Service Television and the Citizenship Rhetoric’ in Comunicação e Sociedade, nº7 (English)

Helena Sousa (2005). ‘ O debate Inter-paradigmático e a Política da Comunicação’
in José Bragança de Miranda e Graça Rocha Simões (eds.), Rumos da Sociedade da Comunicação, Lisboa, Veja. (Portuguese)

Media industry, economy and technology

Sousa, Helena (forthcoming): Information Technologies, Social Change and the Future. The Case of Online Journalism in Portugal. In: European Journal of Communication.