Rita Figueiras
Biographic Data
| ID | 257498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Figueiras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Figueiras |
| SIGNATURE | FIGUEIRAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8092-2264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Surveillance Survival Paradox: Experiences and Imaginaries of Surveillance in a Generational and Cross-Cultural Perspective
Most previous studies on online surveillance have been conducted in long-time liberal democracies with limited experiences of explicit and intrusive state surveillance. This article explores the role of the historical legacy of totalitarianism or authoritarianism, embodied in generational experiences, in the formation of imaginaries of, and attitudes toward, contemporary state and corporate surveillance. We propose a theoretical hypothesis of the…
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience
This article explores the ways in which what we call the analogue and the datafied mindsets perceive the functioning of the datafied world. Based on a qualitative interview study of two generations of media users in Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden, we present and analyze underlying patterns in participants' media attitudes and related practices. We show that belonging to a media generation does not always produce a homogeneous mindset or a uniform …
Conducting Cross-Cultural Online Audience Research With Two Generations: Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
This paper discusses methodological, ethical, and empirical problematics related to forced changes in the research design of a comparative project during the Covid-19 pandemic, and its wider implications for future online audience research. The larger project aims to understand media users’ attitudes towards corporate and state surveillance in countries with different historical surveillance regimes: Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden. In a mixed-meth…
Resistência aos media e desconexão digital na literatura ocidental
Este artigo visa contribuir para o debate sobre a desconexão digital por meio do conceito de resistência, um construto relacionado e mais estabelecido nos estudos dos media e da comunicação. Para tal, realizámos uma meta-análise aos artigos científicos que abordam ambos os conceitos e destacamos duas tendências principais: uma perspetiva centrada nos media e uma outra centrada no contexto. A análise da literatura sugere que essas duas tendências …
Conducting Online Focus Group Interviews With Two Generations: Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many research projects were forced to adapt their design and conduct interviews online. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using online focus groups with participants representing different generations and cultural and social backgrounds. Based on the researchers' experiences and field notes from a three-country comparative project, aiming at analysing the extent to which previous experience …
The Empire Strikes Back? Media Freedom, Public Interest and Neoliberalism in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Economic Crisis
The article explores articulations between capital, the state, and the media by taking Angola and Portugal as the empirical context to examine specific relations between neoliberal and state influence against media democracy normativity in the aftermath of the Eurozone economic crisis. This includes questioning the neoliberal narrative of capital both as a hegemonic force that disempowers nation states and homogenises national media configuration…
Who is afraid of dataveillance? Attitudes toward online surveillance in a cross-cultural and generational perspective
This article compares surveillance-related experiences and attitudes of two generations of media users in countries with different historical surveillance regimes (Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden) and analyzes the predictors of the attitudes toward contemporary surveillance. A large-scale online survey ( N = 3221) reveals that attitudes toward online state and corporate surveillance are interrelated; the two attitudinal components are, however, gen…
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies
Disconnection studies tend to put agency at the center. The possibility of opting out tends to be framed as a strategic form of individual agency, associated with self-regulatory practices and acts of self-choice. This essay aims to question this well-established perspective in disconnection literature while contributing to the debate about disconnection fostered by Crosscurrents. The essay explores the role others play in the experience of indiv…
O processo de mediatização e a emergência do capitalismo de vigilância
O artigo debate a relação entre a mediatização e o capitalismo, a partir do conceito de “capitalismo de vigilância” cunhado por Shoshana Zuboff. Este conceito descreve uma nova lógica económica ancorada na monetização de dados comportamentais, em que empresas vendem e compram o acesso em tempo real ao fluxo da vida quotidiana para influenciar e modificar o comportamento dos indivíduos em busca de lucro. Esta subespécie emergente do capitalismo es…
Media: Poder, Representação e Epistemologias. Diálogos a propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha
A propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha e dos eixos de investigação aplicada a que se dedicou durante a sua carreira académica, uma série de professores e investigadores das ciências da comunicação dão o seu contributo em três formas de diálogo - artigos de pendor teórico e de reflexão, artigos de tipo empírico e textos testemunhais
Pluralismo ou Paralelismo? O comentário político nos noticiários do prime-time na televisão portuguesa
This study about political commentary in the newscasts looks at commentary as an indicator of the relationship between the media and politics in Portugal. In order to do that, the profile of commentators is analyzed in both free-to-air and cable network chan- nels, from 2000 to 2015. The quantitative and longitudinal analysis showed that television commentary slots are occupied mainly both by journalists and politicians, and that the increasing p…
Public interest in the neo-liberal order: The role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape
In this article, I examine the role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape by analyzing it in relation to the growing dependency of the Portuguese democracy on external resources and to the associated issues concerning public interest and capital interests. Portugal’s case illustrates well the conflict between capitalism and democracy in the neo-liberal era. It demonstrates how governments no longer have the d…
Audiências e cross-media: Estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal
The digital practices that arise from the ubiquity of the media and their use enabled the combination of different platforms within news consumption, in a cross-media logic. In this article we sought to identify media repertoires (patterns of use of news media) in Portugal, in order to understand how do people make sense of their media preferences and how does news consumption integrate the daily habits of the audience. In this sense, we have dev…
Estudos em Mediatização: Causalidade, centralidade, interdisciplinaridade
Aiming to take part in the debate regarding the mediatization concept, this article analyzes its contributions to communication and media studies. We set off in this path by analyzing the media as an environment in contemporary life, and then discuss core issues in this study field: the relationships among the media and their causality and centrality in the theories that conceptualize their relationship with society, as well as its interdisciplin…
Primetime consociation: Portuguese punditry in between media independence and political patronage
In this study, I use punditry as an indicator of the struggle between journalists and politicians over the shaping of the political news and of the public perception in Portugal. I will focus empirically on the use of pundits in primetime newscasts of the Portuguese broadcasting and cable news networks from 2000 to 2015. I use the concept of mediatisation of politics to guide the empirical research. However, adopting this concept as an analytical…
Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Anatomia do comentário: Corrupção, noticiários e destinatários
No âmbito dos estudos sobre a corrupção e os media, este estudo tem dois grandes objetivos: identificar o modo como os comentadores nos noticiários da televisão generalista abordam dois dos casos de corrupção mais mediatizados nos últimos anos em Portugal (os casos Freeport e Face Oculta), relacionando as narrativas jornalísticas e as dos comentários, e conhecer a forma como os comentadores se posicionam no debate público e entendem a sua função …
A nova globalização pós-2008 e a reconfiguração do sistema dos média ocidentais
O artigo analisa os novos fluxos de capital na indústria dos média, no contexto da globalização pós-2008, e examina como o poder de regimes autocráticos — e dos seus aliados económicos —, está a ser usado no ocidente para influenciar os sistemas de média que são vulneráveis ao capital externo. A partir de casos concretos, o artigo oferece uma elaboração teórica sobre a complexidade dos fluxos de capital no contexto da nova globalização e como est…
New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Angola–Portugal Relationship
The article discusses the negative consequences of globalization in the new international arena that arose following the Great Recession of 2008 that enabled emerging economies such as China, Russia, and Angola to take center stage, reconfiguring power relations between Western and non-Western countries. As new global flows of capital in media industries have been emerging, it is relevant to consider how investors from autocratic political regime…
Intellectuals and social networks: New media, old traditions
One of the central institutions where the identity of intellectuals was cemented, theeighteenth century salon, is being re-enacted today, precisely on the internet. By supplyingtechnological resources for the socialization of the projects of each intellectualin a network of similar subjects, lay experts and non-specialists, the Internet, a liquidmedia per excellence, as a privileged set for new authorities of knowledge to expressand expand themse…
Returning home: Intellectuals in (web) salons
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Published Opinion: Understanding Punditry through Luhmann’s theory
This article aims to analyze current mechanisms that lead to public opinion in Portugal, by studying one of its components, published opinion. In so doing, the profile of pundits, their agenda and the way they discuss public affairs will be analyzed. The main goal of this research is to confront its empirical results with democratic cultural understanding of public opinion and with Luhmann’s theory on this subject. Will public opinion’s main cult…
Conducting Online Focus Group Interviews With Two Generations: Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many research projects were forced to adapt their design and conduct interviews online. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using online focus groups with participants representing different generations and cultural and social backgrounds. Based on the researchers' experiences and field notes from a three-country comparative project, aiming at analysing the extent to which previous experience …
New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Angola–Portugal Relationship
The article discusses the negative consequences of globalization in the new international arena that arose following the Great Recession of 2008 that enabled emerging economies such as China, Russia, and Angola to take center stage, reconfiguring power relations between Western and non-Western countries. As new global flows of capital in media industries have been emerging, it is relevant to consider how investors from autocratic political regime…
Who is afraid of dataveillance? Attitudes toward online surveillance in a cross-cultural and generational perspective
This article compares surveillance-related experiences and attitudes of two generations of media users in countries with different historical surveillance regimes (Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden) and analyzes the predictors of the attitudes toward contemporary surveillance. A large-scale online survey ( N = 3221) reveals that attitudes toward online state and corporate surveillance are interrelated; the two attitudinal components are, however, gen…
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies
Disconnection studies tend to put agency at the center. The possibility of opting out tends to be framed as a strategic form of individual agency, associated with self-regulatory practices and acts of self-choice. This essay aims to question this well-established perspective in disconnection literature while contributing to the debate about disconnection fostered by Crosscurrents. The essay explores the role others play in the experience of indiv…
Primetime consociation: Portuguese punditry in between media independence and political patronage
In this study, I use punditry as an indicator of the struggle between journalists and politicians over the shaping of the political news and of the public perception in Portugal. I will focus empirically on the use of pundits in primetime newscasts of the Portuguese broadcasting and cable news networks from 2000 to 2015. I use the concept of mediatisation of politics to guide the empirical research. However, adopting this concept as an analytical…
The Surveillance Survival Paradox: Experiences and Imaginaries of Surveillance in a Generational and Cross-Cultural Perspective
Most previous studies on online surveillance have been conducted in long-time liberal democracies with limited experiences of explicit and intrusive state surveillance. This article explores the role of the historical legacy of totalitarianism or authoritarianism, embodied in generational experiences, in the formation of imaginaries of, and attitudes toward, contemporary state and corporate surveillance. We propose a theoretical hypothesis of the…
Media: Poder, Representação e Epistemologias. Diálogos a propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha
A propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha e dos eixos de investigação aplicada a que se dedicou durante a sua carreira académica, uma série de professores e investigadores das ciências da comunicação dão o seu contributo em três formas de diálogo - artigos de pendor teórico e de reflexão, artigos de tipo empírico e textos testemunhais
Anatomia do comentário: Corrupção, noticiários e destinatários
No âmbito dos estudos sobre a corrupção e os media, este estudo tem dois grandes objetivos: identificar o modo como os comentadores nos noticiários da televisão generalista abordam dois dos casos de corrupção mais mediatizados nos últimos anos em Portugal (os casos Freeport e Face Oculta), relacionando as narrativas jornalísticas e as dos comentários, e conhecer a forma como os comentadores se posicionam no debate público e entendem a sua função …
Published Opinion: Understanding Punditry through Luhmann’s theory
This article aims to analyze current mechanisms that lead to public opinion in Portugal, by studying one of its components, published opinion. In so doing, the profile of pundits, their agenda and the way they discuss public affairs will be analyzed. The main goal of this research is to confront its empirical results with democratic cultural understanding of public opinion and with Luhmann’s theory on this subject. Will public opinion’s main cult…
Returning home: Intellectuals in (web) salons
Preview this article: Returning home: Intellectuals in (web) salons, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/mcp/7/2/s8-1.gif
Intellectuals and social networks: New media, old traditions
One of the central institutions where the identity of intellectuals was cemented, theeighteenth century salon, is being re-enacted today, precisely on the internet. By supplyingtechnological resources for the socialization of the projects of each intellectualin a network of similar subjects, lay experts and non-specialists, the Internet, a liquidmedia per excellence, as a privileged set for new authorities of knowledge to expressand expand themse…
New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Angola–Portugal Relationship
The article discusses the negative consequences of globalization in the new international arena that arose following the Great Recession of 2008 that enabled emerging economies such as China, Russia, and Angola to take center stage, reconfiguring power relations between Western and non-Western countries. As new global flows of capital in media industries have been emerging, it is relevant to consider how investors from autocratic political regime…
Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Anatomia do comentário: Corrupção, noticiários e destinatários
No âmbito dos estudos sobre a corrupção e os media, este estudo tem dois grandes objetivos: identificar o modo como os comentadores nos noticiários da televisão generalista abordam dois dos casos de corrupção mais mediatizados nos últimos anos em Portugal (os casos Freeport e Face Oculta), relacionando as narrativas jornalísticas e as dos comentários, e conhecer a forma como os comentadores se posicionam no debate público e entendem a sua função …
A nova globalização pós-2008 e a reconfiguração do sistema dos média ocidentais
O artigo analisa os novos fluxos de capital na indústria dos média, no contexto da globalização pós-2008, e examina como o poder de regimes autocráticos — e dos seus aliados económicos —, está a ser usado no ocidente para influenciar os sistemas de média que são vulneráveis ao capital externo. A partir de casos concretos, o artigo oferece uma elaboração teórica sobre a complexidade dos fluxos de capital no contexto da nova globalização e como est…
Audiências e cross-media: Estudo de padrões de consumo de notícias em Portugal
The digital practices that arise from the ubiquity of the media and their use enabled the combination of different platforms within news consumption, in a cross-media logic. In this article we sought to identify media repertoires (patterns of use of news media) in Portugal, in order to understand how do people make sense of their media preferences and how does news consumption integrate the daily habits of the audience. In this sense, we have dev…
Estudos em Mediatização: Causalidade, centralidade, interdisciplinaridade
Aiming to take part in the debate regarding the mediatization concept, this article analyzes its contributions to communication and media studies. We set off in this path by analyzing the media as an environment in contemporary life, and then discuss core issues in this study field: the relationships among the media and their causality and centrality in the theories that conceptualize their relationship with society, as well as its interdisciplin…
Primetime consociation: Portuguese punditry in between media independence and political patronage
In this study, I use punditry as an indicator of the struggle between journalists and politicians over the shaping of the political news and of the public perception in Portugal. I will focus empirically on the use of pundits in primetime newscasts of the Portuguese broadcasting and cable news networks from 2000 to 2015. I use the concept of mediatisation of politics to guide the empirical research. However, adopting this concept as an analytical…
Pluralismo ou Paralelismo? O comentário político nos noticiários do prime-time na televisão portuguesa
This study about political commentary in the newscasts looks at commentary as an indicator of the relationship between the media and politics in Portugal. In order to do that, the profile of commentators is analyzed in both free-to-air and cable network chan- nels, from 2000 to 2015. The quantitative and longitudinal analysis showed that television commentary slots are occupied mainly both by journalists and politicians, and that the increasing p…
Public interest in the neo-liberal order: The role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape
In this article, I examine the role of the EU austerity model in the morphing of the Portuguese media landscape by analyzing it in relation to the growing dependency of the Portuguese democracy on external resources and to the associated issues concerning public interest and capital interests. Portugal’s case illustrates well the conflict between capitalism and democracy in the neo-liberal era. It demonstrates how governments no longer have the d…
Media: Poder, Representação e Epistemologias. Diálogos a propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha
A propósito da obra de Isabel Ferin da Cunha e dos eixos de investigação aplicada a que se dedicou durante a sua carreira académica, uma série de professores e investigadores das ciências da comunicação dão o seu contributo em três formas de diálogo - artigos de pendor teórico e de reflexão, artigos de tipo empírico e textos testemunhais
O processo de mediatização e a emergência do capitalismo de vigilância
O artigo debate a relação entre a mediatização e o capitalismo, a partir do conceito de “capitalismo de vigilância” cunhado por Shoshana Zuboff. Este conceito descreve uma nova lógica económica ancorada na monetização de dados comportamentais, em que empresas vendem e compram o acesso em tempo real ao fluxo da vida quotidiana para influenciar e modificar o comportamento dos indivíduos em busca de lucro. Esta subespécie emergente do capitalismo es…
The Empire Strikes Back? Media Freedom, Public Interest and Neoliberalism in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Economic Crisis
The article explores articulations between capital, the state, and the media by taking Angola and Portugal as the empirical context to examine specific relations between neoliberal and state influence against media democracy normativity in the aftermath of the Eurozone economic crisis. This includes questioning the neoliberal narrative of capital both as a hegemonic force that disempowers nation states and homogenises national media configuration…
Who is afraid of dataveillance? Attitudes toward online surveillance in a cross-cultural and generational perspective
This article compares surveillance-related experiences and attitudes of two generations of media users in countries with different historical surveillance regimes (Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden) and analyzes the predictors of the attitudes toward contemporary surveillance. A large-scale online survey ( N = 3221) reveals that attitudes toward online state and corporate surveillance are interrelated; the two attitudinal components are, however, gen…
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies
Disconnection studies tend to put agency at the center. The possibility of opting out tends to be framed as a strategic form of individual agency, associated with self-regulatory practices and acts of self-choice. This essay aims to question this well-established perspective in disconnection literature while contributing to the debate about disconnection fostered by Crosscurrents. The essay explores the role others play in the experience of indiv…
Conducting Cross-Cultural Online Audience Research With Two Generations: Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
This paper discusses methodological, ethical, and empirical problematics related to forced changes in the research design of a comparative project during the Covid-19 pandemic, and its wider implications for future online audience research. The larger project aims to understand media users’ attitudes towards corporate and state surveillance in countries with different historical surveillance regimes: Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden. In a mixed-meth…
Resistência aos media e desconexão digital na literatura ocidental
Este artigo visa contribuir para o debate sobre a desconexão digital por meio do conceito de resistência, um construto relacionado e mais estabelecido nos estudos dos media e da comunicação. Para tal, realizámos uma meta-análise aos artigos científicos que abordam ambos os conceitos e destacamos duas tendências principais: uma perspetiva centrada nos media e uma outra centrada no contexto. A análise da literatura sugere que essas duas tendências …
Conducting Online Focus Group Interviews With Two Generations: Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many research projects were forced to adapt their design and conduct interviews online. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using online focus groups with participants representing different generations and cultural and social backgrounds. Based on the researchers' experiences and field notes from a three-country comparative project, aiming at analysing the extent to which previous experience …
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience
This article explores the ways in which what we call the analogue and the datafied mindsets perceive the functioning of the datafied world. Based on a qualitative interview study of two generations of media users in Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden, we present and analyze underlying patterns in participants' media attitudes and related practices. We show that belonging to a media generation does not always produce a homogeneous mindset or a uniform …
The Surveillance Survival Paradox: Experiences and Imaginaries of Surveillance in a Generational and Cross-Cultural Perspective
Most previous studies on online surveillance have been conducted in long-time liberal democracies with limited experiences of explicit and intrusive state surveillance. This article explores the role of the historical legacy of totalitarianism or authoritarianism, embodied in generational experiences, in the formation of imaginaries of, and attitudes toward, contemporary state and corporate surveillance. We propose a theoretical hypothesis of the…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Humanities (5 works)