Helena Sousa
Biographic Data
| ID | 452174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Sousa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Sousa |
| SIGNATURE | SOUSA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8101-0010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migration, Motherhood, and Maternal Health
This article examines the maternal healthcare experiences of ten Brazilian women during Portugal’s obstetric crisis, focusing on access, use, and quality of care throughout the perinatal and childbirth periods. Using a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews, this study explores women’s perceptions of the adequacy and quality of maternal healthcare, contributing to a deeper understanding of their experiences within the Portuguese…
Development process, clinical utility, and preliminary psychometric evidence of a new tool for screening psychological distress in renal care settings
Objective This study aimed to develop, evaluate the clinical utility, and test the psychometric properties of a new tool – the Hemodialysis Distress Thermometer (HD-DT) – designed to screen self-reported psychological distress and its sources in adults receiving hemodialysis.Methods and Measures Phase 1 focused on the process of developing and evaluating the content validity and clinical utility of the HD-DT using a stepwise mixed-methods approac…
Smart Speakers as an Environmental Control Unit for Severe Motor Dependence
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a disease that primarily affects males and causes a gradual loss of muscle strength. This results in a deterioration of motor skills and functional mobility, which can impact the performance of various occupations. Individuals with DMD often rely heavily on caregivers to assist with daily activities, which can lead to caregiver burden. A case study was conducted to explore and describe potential variations in …
The Hemodialysis Distress Thermometer for Caregivers (HD-DT-C)
The HD-DT-C is a brief, reliable, valid, and acceptable measure for identifying self-reported psychological distress and its sources among people caring for a family member or friend on hemodialysis. Future research is needed to explore the measurement properties of the American English version of this new tool
The Power of Laughter
This study examines the role of laughter in media content, focusing on traditional non-humorous entertainment talk shows with hosts, guests and a studio audience. The analysis, which documents over 20,000 instances of laughter in just 60 episodes (one laugh every 20 s), highlights the central role of laughter in this reality. The study concludes that: (1) hosts laughed more than guests and studio audiences; (2) in the programmes analysed, female …
Why Has the EU Been Late in Regulating Social Media Platforms
In 2021 and 2022, the European Union (EU) launched a series of proposals aimed at improving internet regulation, benefiting both European industries and services, as well as European consumers or internet users. These measures have been watched from around the globe because they can be seen as a first attempt to create a meta-level regulatory environment for the digital economy that effectively challenges the domination of the Big Tech conglomera…
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings
Objective: To report how improvements on a Brazilian language intervention for early childhood education settings (PROLIN) were made and evaluated.\n\nStudy Design: In the first phase, the programme layout and materials were improved. This involved redesigning the guidelines for the programme, adding videos (using a learning management system) and creating an observation checklist to monitor the fidelity of implementation. The second phase was a …
“Should WE Stand Together?”
Family support has been identified as an important factor for the psychological adjustment of patients with chronic physical conditions. This study aimed to systematically review and conduct a meta‐analysis of studies comparing the effectiveness of family‐based versus patient‐oriented interventions for chronic physical conditions. The search was performed between April 12 and April 29, 2021, on Web of Science (all databases included), Scopus, Psy…
Plataformas Digitais na Economia Conectada
O volume 39 da revista Comunicação e Sociedade apresenta uma série de estudos sobre diferentes abordagens de utilização das plataformas digitais. Se por um lado, são interpretadas como um importante meio de consumo e espaço para o surgimento de práticas sociais colaborativas, por outro lado, também podem ser analisadas como novos mecanismos de vigilância e de produção de discursos performáticos numa economia cada vez mais conectada
The English language in academia
Media and communication research has been dominated by the Anglo-American paradigm and English has become the lingua franca of academic life. The 2018 ECREA conference focused on centres and peripheries, inclusions and exclusions, cores and margins in the field. In line with the programme, this special session on Language in Academia tried to respond to contemporary critical asymmetries, analysing a specific dimension often taken for granted: the…
Digital Media Inequalities
Inequalities are the unwanted companions of media and communication. Traditional analogue mass media were criticized for creating inequalities by being biased, serving hegemonic interests, and accumulating far too much power in the hands of mighty industrial conglomerates. Under the digital regime, most inequalities survived, and new ones occurred. Knowledge gaps transformed into digital divides, news journalism is challenged by social networkin…
A corrupção e os média - um olhar dos jornalistas sobre a relevância do tempo
As relações entre os média, a política, o sistema judicial e o fenómeno da corrupção são complexas e inscrevem-se em vários tipos de tempo e de temporalidade. Neste texto, a partir de um estudo empírico qualitativo conduzido junto de jornalistas que fizeram acompanhamento de casos de corrupção envolvendo políticos, discute-se a importância do tempo na constituição das relações entre média, política e o sistema judicial. A análise permite destacar…
Corruption and the media - a journalists' look about the relevance of time
The relations between the media, politics, the legal system and the phenomenon of corruption are complex and gives rise to various types of time and temporality. In empirical terms, this text addresses a study conducted with journalists who have followed cases of corruption involving politicians. The importance of time in the constitution of relations between media, politics and the legal system is discussed. The analysis highlights some of the m…
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organizations, and strategies. Combining a critical assessment of media systems with a thematic approach, it can serve as a resource for…
Lusophone media and communication studies
[Excerto] This Crosscurrents Special Section maps and critically examines media and communication studies in Portuguese speaking countries worldwide (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and S. Tome and Principe, East-Timor).[...]
Lusophone community in the digital age
(Excerto) "This article addresses the setting up of the political Community of the Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)) and its present-day social and cultural dynamics. As the other articles in this Special Section from Martins, Salgado and Santos also demonstrate, media and communication systems are playing a role in the development of this loose aggregation and in the internal dynamics of the Portug…
Social media – New challenges and approaches for communications research
This issue of the European Journal of Communication comprises revised versions of papers first given at a symposium convened and hosted by the journal, and held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in May 2016. We are extremely grateful to the University, and especially to the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (Communication and Society Research Centre). The discussion prompted by the presentation of papers at the symposium all…
Introduction to Special Issue
(Excerto) The European Journal of Communication seeks to present the best in current research in the broad field of media and communication research. Irregularly, we seek to take stock by inviting a small group of leading scholars to present their work at a symposium on a common theme, which then forms the basis for a Special Issue of the Journal. In 2014, the European Science Foundation (ESF) published one of their ‘Forward Looks’ entitled Media…
Preditores da qualidade de vida numa amostra de mulheres com cancro da mama
Objetivos: Caracterizar as variáveis alexitimia, espiritualidade (dimensão crenças espirituais/religiosas e dimensão esperança/otimismo), assertividade e qualidade de vida de mulheres com cancro de mama.Método: A amostra é composta por 85 mulheres com cancro de mama de um Hospital do Grande Porto, com uma média de 47 anos e maioritariamente casadas. As doentes foram avaliadas através de 6 instrumentos de autopreenchimento: Questionário Sociodemog…
Portugal at the Eye of the Storm
The governmental change which took place in Portugal after 2011 was far more than just a new episode in the typical rotation between the two major political parties given that it occurred whilst the country was initiating a three year period of external financial control. As such the three political forces actively engaged in this rough transition have consistently pursued a stern austerity strategy imposed by creditors. This uneven platform (sha…
Esfera pública digital - fragilidades e desafios
De difícil definição e complexa configuração, o conceito de esfera pública tem dominado grande parte da recente literatura em áreas como ciência política, estudos culturais, ciências da comunicação e sociologia dos novos media
Digital public sphere
Despite the conceptual difficulties and complex configuration, the concept of public sphere has dominated much of the recent literature in areas such as political sciences, cultural studies, communication sciences and sociology of new media
The implementation of DTT in Portugal
The introduction of the digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Portugal has developed slowly and hesitantly for over a decade. Technological uncertainties and the absence of a clear business model contributed for a sluggish development of the process. Portugal is today one of the European countries with fewer DTT channels. However, and differently from other EU states, the Portuguese authorities have played a double role in the process: as a leg…
Trust and the media
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
"Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case …
Information Technologies, Social Change and the Future
The main objective of this article is to equate social change and new information and communication technologies (ICTs). From a multitude of theoretical entry points, the author decided to outline the key concept of time and to discuss its explanatory possibilities in a specific context: the development of online journalism in Portugal over the last decade. She takes the view that general formulations about the relationship between social change …
Trust and the media
Os media ao serviço do imaginário. Uma reflexão sobre a RTP Internacional e a lusofonia
Lusofonia tem sido uma palavra particularmente apreciada pelos givernos de Cavaco Silva e de António Guterres
Desnutrição em crianças de áreas faveladas
Utilizando-se de dados de peso e altura coletados em um Dia Nacional de Vacinação, os autores estudaram o estado de nutrição de crianças residentes em cinco áreas faveladas na área de Manguinhos, no Rio de Janeiro. Mediante o emprego das classificações de Gomez (relação peso/idade), Ariza-Macias (relação peso/altura) e Seoane-Latham modificada (peso/altura e altura/idade), evidenciaram que a prevalência da desnutrição em crianças apresentou, prov…
Serviço público, TV comercial, e a implementação da lei
Este trabalho constitui uma breve reflexão sobre a distância, ou mesmo contradição, entre aquilo que é formalmente apresentado na Lei de Televisão e a actuação dos operadores, tanto público como privados. Depois de expormos as principais dificuldades inerentes à implementção da lei, iremos analisar as razões pelas quais a actividade televisiva não pode ter apenas «orientações políticas». É necessário criar ou desenvolver mecanismos que assegurem,…
Os media ao serviço do imaginário. Uma reflexão sobre a RTP Internacional e a lusofonia
Lusofonia tem sido uma palavra particularmente apreciada pelos givernos de Cavaco Silva e de António Guterres
Debater a formação em jornalismo é debater o próprio jornalismo - Entrevista com o Prof. Manuel Carlos Chaparro
Nasceu no Ribatejo, foi jornalista no extinto Diário Ilustrado, em Lisboa, e em alguns dos grandes jornais brasileiros. No Brasil fez toda a sua formação académica, sendo hoje, lá e cá, um dos nomes de referência dos estudos jornalísticos
The economics of public service television and the citizenship rhetoric
Facing strong competition and financial hardship, Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) operators are redefining their role and re-inventing new futures. The Portuguese PSB, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) is no exception and important changes have recently been introduced in the traditional 'public service' model. The centre-right government - in office since 2002 with a qualified majority - perceived the restructuring of RTP as a major political go…
Economia política da comunicação e dos media
O presente número da revista Comunicação Sociedade é dedicado à Economia Política da Comunicação e dos Media
Mesquita, Mário (2003) O Quarto Equívoco, O poder dos media na sociedade contemporânea, Coimbra
Este Quarto Poder está numa fase peculiar da sua evolução. Por um lado, está cada vez mais satisfeito com o poder que o corrompe; por outro, vai no sentido de uma impotência elefantina relativamente a todas as questões que realmente interessam
Information Technologies, Social Change and the Future
The main objective of this article is to equate social change and new information and communication technologies (ICTs). From a multitude of theoretical entry points, the author decided to outline the key concept of time and to discuss its explanatory possibilities in a specific context: the development of online journalism in Portugal over the last decade. She takes the view that general formulations about the relationship between social change …
Santos, Rogério (2005) As Vozes da Rádio, 1924-1939, Lisboa
A capa de um livro é a sua porta de entrada. A foto do jornal O Século de 1930 que ilumina a capa remete-nos para uma temporalidade outra. Convida-nos a uma viagem. E o mundo que a capa promete cumpre-se no interior, no texto e nas imagens. Este livro é uma surpreendente e absolutamente necessária incursão pelo passado dos media no nosso país
A nova entidade reguladora no quadro das políticas de comunicação em Portugal
Este número temático da revista Comunicação e Sociedade resulta do trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito da Conferência "A nova entidade reguladora no quadro das polí- ticas de comunicação em Portugal", que teve lugar na Universidade do Minho no dia 10 de Abril de 2006
Keeping Up Appearances
Since the end of a 50-year-long authoritarian regime in Portugal in the mid-1970s, political discourses and legal texts have incorporated media diversity as a fundamental democratic value. The 1976 Constitution prohibited cross-media concentration and subsequent media legislation contemplated pluralism as a vital societal dimension. This recognition, however, has always been expressed in vague, ineffectual terms as no government has ever had a re…
A notícia de abertura do TJ ao longo de 50 anos (1959-2009)
Se por noticiário televisivo entendermos um conjunto de peças organizadas de modo global, um alinhamento deverá sempre funcionar como um todo, apresentando uma evolução na continuidade. Se por alinhamento do telejornal concebermos a imagem de um continuum ao longo do qual as notícias passam de quentes a frias, de sérias a lúdicas, a primeira notícia, a de abertura, apresenta um particular interesse. Ela reflecte aquilo que de mais importante acon…
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
"Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case …
Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
The implementation of DTT in Portugal
The introduction of the digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Portugal has developed slowly and hesitantly for over a decade. Technological uncertainties and the absence of a clear business model contributed for a sluggish development of the process. Portugal is today one of the European countries with fewer DTT channels. However, and differently from other EU states, the Portuguese authorities have played a double role in the process: as a leg…
Trust and the media
Esfera pública digital - fragilidades e desafios
De difícil definição e complexa configuração, o conceito de esfera pública tem dominado grande parte da recente literatura em áreas como ciência política, estudos culturais, ciências da comunicação e sociologia dos novos media
Digital public sphere
Despite the conceptual difficulties and complex configuration, the concept of public sphere has dominated much of the recent literature in areas such as political sciences, cultural studies, communication sciences and sociology of new media
Portugal at the Eye of the Storm
The governmental change which took place in Portugal after 2011 was far more than just a new episode in the typical rotation between the two major political parties given that it occurred whilst the country was initiating a three year period of external financial control. As such the three political forces actively engaged in this rough transition have consistently pursued a stern austerity strategy imposed by creditors. This uneven platform (sha…
Preditores da qualidade de vida numa amostra de mulheres com cancro da mama
Objetivos: Caracterizar as variáveis alexitimia, espiritualidade (dimensão crenças espirituais/religiosas e dimensão esperança/otimismo), assertividade e qualidade de vida de mulheres com cancro de mama.Método: A amostra é composta por 85 mulheres com cancro de mama de um Hospital do Grande Porto, com uma média de 47 anos e maioritariamente casadas. As doentes foram avaliadas através de 6 instrumentos de autopreenchimento: Questionário Sociodemog…
Introduction to Special Issue
(Excerto) The European Journal of Communication seeks to present the best in current research in the broad field of media and communication research. Irregularly, we seek to take stock by inviting a small group of leading scholars to present their work at a symposium on a common theme, which then forms the basis for a Special Issue of the Journal. In 2014, the European Science Foundation (ESF) published one of their ‘Forward Looks’ entitled Media…
Social media – New challenges and approaches for communications research
This issue of the European Journal of Communication comprises revised versions of papers first given at a symposium convened and hosted by the journal, and held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in May 2016. We are extremely grateful to the University, and especially to the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (Communication and Society Research Centre). The discussion prompted by the presentation of papers at the symposium all…
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organizations, and strategies. Combining a critical assessment of media systems with a thematic approach, it can serve as a resource for…
Lusophone media and communication studies
[Excerto] This Crosscurrents Special Section maps and critically examines media and communication studies in Portuguese speaking countries worldwide (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and S. Tome and Principe, East-Timor).[...]
Lusophone community in the digital age
(Excerto) "This article addresses the setting up of the political Community of the Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)) and its present-day social and cultural dynamics. As the other articles in this Special Section from Martins, Salgado and Santos also demonstrate, media and communication systems are playing a role in the development of this loose aggregation and in the internal dynamics of the Portug…
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