Anabela Gradim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anabela Gradim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anabela |
| FAMILY NAME | Gradim |
| SIGNATURE | GRADIM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Beira Interior |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6968-1957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human-made news vs AI-generated news: A comparison of Portuguese and Spanish journalism students’ evaluations
This study examines how university students in Portugal and Spain perceive the quality of journalistic news produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI). As AI—particularly generative models like ChatGPT-3—becomes increasingly integrated into news distribution and newsroom operations, it offers the promise of greater efficiency and the reduction of non-value-added tasks. However, its rise also raises concerns about potential risks, ethical…
The relationship between the belief in fake news and the strategies to seek information from young Portuguese people
The spread of fake news continues to have serious social and political consequences for society. Young people are the group most exposed to this reality, due to the way they are constantly connected to the digital universe. Our goal is to analyze the ability of high school students to evaluate fake news and news, relating it to their behavior on social media and their ability to search for information. We applied a questionnaire to 716 students (…
Elections and fact-checking in Portugal: The case of the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections
Fact-checking is a relatively recent journalistic genre in Portugal that has been growing in recent years, alternately viewed as a journalism reform movement or criticized as inefficient and idealistic. Our study is a comparative analysis of the output of the Portuguese fact-checkers Observador and Polígrafo in the 2019–2022 elections to determine whether their coverage is politically biased. Performing a quantitative content analysis of all fact…
Who Believes in Fake News? Identification of Political (A)Symmetries
Political fake news continues to be a threat to contemporary societies, negatively affecting public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the main predictors of belief and spread of fake news. However, the academic debate has not been consensual regarding the effect of political identity on the discernment of fake news. This systematic literature review (2017-2021) seeks to understand whether there is…
“Brave New World” of Fake News: How It Works
The spread of fake news poses a serious threat to democracy and journalism. Fake news has found the ideal tools to thrive in the digital world. Therefore, it is urgent to understand this phenomenon. The purpose of this review is to analyse the various stages of the fake news circuit, in order to clarify the phenomenon, its causes and processes, identifying the various routes for spreading fake news, the reasons behind its manufacture and the fact…
Partidismo: El verdadero aliado de las fake news? Un análisis comparativo del efecto sobre la creencia y la divulgación
Introducción: Tras la recomposición del parlamento portugués con la aparición de la derecha radical, este estudio explora la influencia de la orientación partidista en la creencia y difusión de fake news. Metodología: Se recurrió a una muestra exploratoria (N = 712), cuyos participantes fueron expuestos a 20 titulares políticamente sesgados (pro-derecha y pro-izquierda): la mitad fake news y la otra mitad noticias verdaderas. Los participantes ev…
Understanding Fake News Consumption: A Review
Combating the spread of fake news remains a difficult problem. For this reason, it is increasingly urgent to understand the phenomenon of fake news. This review aims to see why fake news is widely shared on social media and why some people believe it. The presentation of its structure (from the images chosen, the format of the titles and the language used in the text) can explain the reasons for going viral and what factors are associated with th…
Online disinformation on Facebook: The spread of fake news during the Portuguese 2019 election
Elections worldwide have been marked by the spread of fake news. Online disinformation is everywhere, used as a political weapon in the battlefield of manipulation. This study focused on the Portuguese 2019 elections to assess the reach of fake news compared to mainstream media news and to verify whether fake news had specific targets. We reviewed all posts (N=1197) from newspaper Facebook pages and fake news Facebook pages published during the c…
Are We Close Enough? Digital Challenges to Local Journalists
Digital environments play a central role in the news making process. Seeking new ways to interact with people previously seen as audience is a big challenge for media and journalists today, especially in local contexts, where journalists are more embedded in the community, physically and digitally, namely through social media and from mobile devices. This study intends to identify how local journalists are using digital tools in their routines, e…
Policies for portuguese and spanish: The world's second publication language in Web of Science
The article determines the profile and evolution of publication languages in Web of Science since the 1960’s, exploring its consequences to academic publishing and scientific communication inter pares. Findings show that Portuguese and Spanish (Iberian languages), absent in the early sixties, are now the second publication language in Web of Science, while traditional influential publication languages as German, French and Russian have decreased …
The presence of Lusophony in the epistemic field of Communication Sciences: 10 Years of Themed Studies
Drawing up a survey of publications on lusophone themes in the field of Communication Sciences over the last 10 years (2007-2017) has made it possible to describe that scientific production and find that it has been increasing in volume. This scientific production is feminised and focuses on two voices, where Portugal and Brazil take on a predominant role, which contrasts with the state of citations in the field in general. Based on the themes ex…
A presença da lusofonia no espaço epistémico das Ciências da Comunicação: 10 Anos De Estudos Temáticos
Fazer a topologia das publicações de temática lusófona no campo das Ciências da Comunicação nos últimos 10 anos (2007-2017) permitiu caracterizar essa produção científica e constatar que esta vem aumentando, que é uma produção feminizada e essencialmente a duas vozes, onde Portugal e Brasil assumem um papel preponderante, que a bibliografia em Português é dominante, contrastando com o estado da citação na área em geral, e que, a partir das temáti…
Introductory Chapter
R ETHINKING Humanities was a set of events of a strong epistemological nature envisaging the interdisciplinary exploration between several areas of the humanities, taking into account, in particular, the digital context. It comprised the organization of two milestone events. The first in 2015, focused on a more exploratory content that tried to identify the contribution from various perspectives: Sociology of Communication and Media Studies, Phil…
Para uma leitura semiótica das teorias de framing: Reinterpretando O Enquadramento Com Base Na Categoria Peirceana De Terceiridade
Explorar a peculiaridade semiótica das teorias de framing, questionando simultaneamente novos enquadramentos para a história da semiótica e do seu campo é o propósito deste estudo. As pesquisas sobre framing, muito profícuas na análise jornalística e na crítica mediática, têm uma origem multifacetada que o trabalho examina, procurando inserir uma nova linha nessa genealogia, particularmente descurada, e que tem a ver com o trabalho da semiótica c…
Dezasseis anos de webjornalismo na Beira Interior
O que pedem as palavras
O que pedem as palavras» reflecte sobre a relação entre imagens e palavras, não sob o ponto de vista do seu antagonismo, mas no modo como ambas se requerem e iluminam mutuamente. Até à invenção dos mass media, o Ocidente viveu imerso numa cultura logocêntrica, por via tanto da tradição grega como da judaico-cristã. Esse logocentrismo erigiu-se em torno da cisão aparência/realidade, ilusório/verdadeiro, patente no pensamento ocidental de Parménide…
Are We Close Enough? Digital Challenges to Local Journalists
Digital environments play a central role in the news making process. Seeking new ways to interact with people previously seen as audience is a big challenge for media and journalists today, especially in local contexts, where journalists are more embedded in the community, physically and digitally, namely through social media and from mobile devices. This study intends to identify how local journalists are using digital tools in their routines, e…
Who Believes in Fake News? Identification of Political (A)Symmetries
Political fake news continues to be a threat to contemporary societies, negatively affecting public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the main predictors of belief and spread of fake news. However, the academic debate has not been consensual regarding the effect of political identity on the discernment of fake news. This systematic literature review (2017-2021) seeks to understand whether there is…
Online disinformation on Facebook: The spread of fake news during the Portuguese 2019 election
Elections worldwide have been marked by the spread of fake news. Online disinformation is everywhere, used as a political weapon in the battlefield of manipulation. This study focused on the Portuguese 2019 elections to assess the reach of fake news compared to mainstream media news and to verify whether fake news had specific targets. We reviewed all posts (N=1197) from newspaper Facebook pages and fake news Facebook pages published during the c…
Para uma leitura semiótica das teorias de framing: Reinterpretando O Enquadramento Com Base Na Categoria Peirceana De Terceiridade
Explorar a peculiaridade semiótica das teorias de framing, questionando simultaneamente novos enquadramentos para a história da semiótica e do seu campo é o propósito deste estudo. As pesquisas sobre framing, muito profícuas na análise jornalística e na crítica mediática, têm uma origem multifacetada que o trabalho examina, procurando inserir uma nova linha nessa genealogia, particularmente descurada, e que tem a ver com o trabalho da semiótica c…
O que pedem as palavras
O que pedem as palavras» reflecte sobre a relação entre imagens e palavras, não sob o ponto de vista do seu antagonismo, mas no modo como ambas se requerem e iluminam mutuamente. Até à invenção dos mass media, o Ocidente viveu imerso numa cultura logocêntrica, por via tanto da tradição grega como da judaico-cristã. Esse logocentrismo erigiu-se em torno da cisão aparência/realidade, ilusório/verdadeiro, patente no pensamento ocidental de Parménide…
Dezasseis anos de webjornalismo na Beira Interior
Introductory Chapter
R ETHINKING Humanities was a set of events of a strong epistemological nature envisaging the interdisciplinary exploration between several areas of the humanities, taking into account, in particular, the digital context. It comprised the organization of two milestone events. The first in 2015, focused on a more exploratory content that tried to identify the contribution from various perspectives: Sociology of Communication and Media Studies, Phil…
Para uma leitura semiótica das teorias de framing: Reinterpretando O Enquadramento Com Base Na Categoria Peirceana De Terceiridade
Explorar a peculiaridade semiótica das teorias de framing, questionando simultaneamente novos enquadramentos para a história da semiótica e do seu campo é o propósito deste estudo. As pesquisas sobre framing, muito profícuas na análise jornalística e na crítica mediática, têm uma origem multifacetada que o trabalho examina, procurando inserir uma nova linha nessa genealogia, particularmente descurada, e que tem a ver com o trabalho da semiótica c…
The presence of Lusophony in the epistemic field of Communication Sciences: 10 Years of Themed Studies
Drawing up a survey of publications on lusophone themes in the field of Communication Sciences over the last 10 years (2007-2017) has made it possible to describe that scientific production and find that it has been increasing in volume. This scientific production is feminised and focuses on two voices, where Portugal and Brazil take on a predominant role, which contrasts with the state of citations in the field in general. Based on the themes ex…
A presença da lusofonia no espaço epistémico das Ciências da Comunicação: 10 Anos De Estudos Temáticos
Fazer a topologia das publicações de temática lusófona no campo das Ciências da Comunicação nos últimos 10 anos (2007-2017) permitiu caracterizar essa produção científica e constatar que esta vem aumentando, que é uma produção feminizada e essencialmente a duas vozes, onde Portugal e Brasil assumem um papel preponderante, que a bibliografia em Português é dominante, contrastando com o estado da citação na área em geral, e que, a partir das temáti…
Policies for portuguese and spanish: The world's second publication language in Web of Science
The article determines the profile and evolution of publication languages in Web of Science since the 1960’s, exploring its consequences to academic publishing and scientific communication inter pares. Findings show that Portuguese and Spanish (Iberian languages), absent in the early sixties, are now the second publication language in Web of Science, while traditional influential publication languages as German, French and Russian have decreased …
Understanding Fake News Consumption: A Review
Combating the spread of fake news remains a difficult problem. For this reason, it is increasingly urgent to understand the phenomenon of fake news. This review aims to see why fake news is widely shared on social media and why some people believe it. The presentation of its structure (from the images chosen, the format of the titles and the language used in the text) can explain the reasons for going viral and what factors are associated with th…
Online disinformation on Facebook: The spread of fake news during the Portuguese 2019 election
Elections worldwide have been marked by the spread of fake news. Online disinformation is everywhere, used as a political weapon in the battlefield of manipulation. This study focused on the Portuguese 2019 elections to assess the reach of fake news compared to mainstream media news and to verify whether fake news had specific targets. We reviewed all posts (N=1197) from newspaper Facebook pages and fake news Facebook pages published during the c…
Are We Close Enough? Digital Challenges to Local Journalists
Digital environments play a central role in the news making process. Seeking new ways to interact with people previously seen as audience is a big challenge for media and journalists today, especially in local contexts, where journalists are more embedded in the community, physically and digitally, namely through social media and from mobile devices. This study intends to identify how local journalists are using digital tools in their routines, e…
“Brave New World” of Fake News: How It Works
The spread of fake news poses a serious threat to democracy and journalism. Fake news has found the ideal tools to thrive in the digital world. Therefore, it is urgent to understand this phenomenon. The purpose of this review is to analyse the various stages of the fake news circuit, in order to clarify the phenomenon, its causes and processes, identifying the various routes for spreading fake news, the reasons behind its manufacture and the fact…
Partidismo: El verdadero aliado de las fake news? Un análisis comparativo del efecto sobre la creencia y la divulgación
Introducción: Tras la recomposición del parlamento portugués con la aparición de la derecha radical, este estudio explora la influencia de la orientación partidista en la creencia y difusión de fake news. Metodología: Se recurrió a una muestra exploratoria (N = 712), cuyos participantes fueron expuestos a 20 titulares políticamente sesgados (pro-derecha y pro-izquierda): la mitad fake news y la otra mitad noticias verdaderas. Los participantes ev…
The relationship between the belief in fake news and the strategies to seek information from young Portuguese people
The spread of fake news continues to have serious social and political consequences for society. Young people are the group most exposed to this reality, due to the way they are constantly connected to the digital universe. Our goal is to analyze the ability of high school students to evaluate fake news and news, relating it to their behavior on social media and their ability to search for information. We applied a questionnaire to 716 students (…
Elections and fact-checking in Portugal: The case of the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections
Fact-checking is a relatively recent journalistic genre in Portugal that has been growing in recent years, alternately viewed as a journalism reform movement or criticized as inefficient and idealistic. Our study is a comparative analysis of the output of the Portuguese fact-checkers Observador and Polígrafo in the 2019–2022 elections to determine whether their coverage is politically biased. Performing a quantitative content analysis of all fact…
Who Believes in Fake News? Identification of Political (A)Symmetries
Political fake news continues to be a threat to contemporary societies, negatively affecting public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the main predictors of belief and spread of fake news. However, the academic debate has not been consensual regarding the effect of political identity on the discernment of fake news. This systematic literature review (2017-2021) seeks to understand whether there is…
Human-made news vs AI-generated news: A comparison of Portuguese and Spanish journalism students’ evaluations
This study examines how university students in Portugal and Spain perceive the quality of journalistic news produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI). As AI—particularly generative models like ChatGPT-3—becomes increasingly integrated into news distribution and newsroom operations, it offers the promise of greater efficiency and the reduction of non-value-added tasks. However, its rise also raises concerns about potential risks, ethical…
Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 works) · Fake news (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (5 works)