Nelson Ribeiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Ribeiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribeiro |
| SIGNATURE | RIBEIRO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4724-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation
A critical and timely collection that argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. This book explores how “propaganda,” a foundational concept within media and communication studies, has recently been replaced by alternative terms (disinformation, misinformation, and fake news) that fail to capture the continuities and disruptions of ongoing strategic attempts to (…
Broadcasting and the Creation of a Black Public Opinion in the Portuguese Empire
The article addresses how radio played a double role in the Portuguese Empire. First, it functioned as a tool of cultural domination by promoting the superiority of European languages and cultural practices while presenting African cultures as unworthy of being audible on the airwaves. Second, radio became central to the creation of a black public opinion that was instrumental to the emergence of a sense of nation among the indigenous populations…
Segregation on the Airwaves
The chapter presents a history of broadcasting in the Portuguese African colonies between the early 1930s and late 1960s, demonstrating the shortcomings of the state broadcaster and the central role played in Mozambique and Angola by private radio clubs established by white elites. Broadcasting policy to and in the Portuguese territories is placed in the context of the nationalistic dictatorship. The chapter demonstrates how the winds of decoloni…
Media and the Dissemination of Fear
A Polycentric Broadcasting Model
The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s colonial mission but also promoted local identities with programming echoing the lifestyle of the colonial elites. Thus, the article argues that while the …
Investigating the Effects of Differential Learning on Golfers’ Pitching Performance as a Function of Handicap
Traditionally, golf instruction has been oriented toward imitation of role models, guided by errors that surround a channel of supposedly correct repetition. Recent motor learning approaches relying on the dynamics of living systems suggest the inclusion of additional noise during practice for supporting players' movement exploration and improving adaptability that in consequence will lead to increased performance. While the effectiveness of this…
Introduction
The Political and Economic Dependence of the Press in Macao under Portuguese and Chinese Rule
The article analyses the media system in Macao, a special administrative region of China that transitioned from Portuguese to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, becoming one of cities in the world with the largest number of published newspapers per capita. Combining historical research with the analysis of contemporary empirical data collected through interviews with journalists working on the ground, the research demonstrates how there is a long tradi…
Digital Roots
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concep…
Media and the Dissemination of Fear
Imperial Encore
Reviewed by: Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire by Caroline Ritter Nelson Costa Ribeiro Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire demonstrates the importance of culture in supporting colonial rule and sustaining the British influence in Africa after the empire was …
A content analysis of Japanese cancer documentaries across 25 years
We analysed Japanese television documentaries to (1) assess how cancer and the difficulties of patients with cancer were portrayed in documentaries on major Japanese national broadcasting networks and (2) evaluate changes in quality of life in Japan’s history of medicine as depicted in these documentaries to identify any trends. We analysed television documentaries aired from 1965 to 2015 on two major national broadcasting networks in Japan. Sixt…
An unabating challenge
Xenophobia is a phenomenon currently permeating migration discourses worldwide. Whilst there has been growing scholarly attention in the Global North, the causes, nature and magnitude of xenophobia in countries the Global South remains underrepresented in the literature. After the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa became an attractive destination for Africans from numerous countries in the continent (Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Somalia and Zim…
When “Formerly” Becomes Now
Insights from a Comparative Study into Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms
Convergence has had a major influence on journalism in the past decade. It is particularly important to understand how convergence continues to change working conditions as well as the journalistic practices, routines, norms, and strategies that shape news production. This phenomenon becomes even more substantial when considering the extent to which technological and economic changes have had a disruptive impact on journalism, altering how news i…
West – East Entanglements During the Cold War
Portugal became the centre of an entangled airwaves ensemble during the Cold War. In order to demonstrate this, the article develops along two lines. First, it details how the Portuguese dictatorship, with ideological connections to fascism, allowed the construction in its territory of one of the most powerful retransmitters of Radio Free Europe (RFE), responsible for airing anti-communist propaganda to Eastern Europe. The collaboration between t…
The medium isn’t the message
Media use can be considered as an integral part of virtual communication and thus of present-day human interaction. Nevertheless, research on media use and effects still largely relies on laboratory experiments, treating it as a stable input condition, rather than as a function of human appropriation. In this study, we propose a conceptualization of virtual communication as a dynamic construct dependent on media appropriation, particularly of com…
Colonisation Through Broadcasting
Reporting an Alternative Reality to ‘Conveniently Guide’ Public Opinion
During World War II the Portuguese press was under strict control of the dictatorship regime that ruled in the country. While censorship was given the task of preventing many news pieces from reaching the public, newspapers were also forced to give visibility to all propaganda events organized by the regime. In many cases this meant relegating crucial news on the war to the interior pages while the front pages were reserved for national stories. …
Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms
For two decades, convergence culture has been an important motivator for change in journalism worldwide. Journalism research has followed these developments, investigating the dimensions of change that define convergence as a cultural shift in the newsroom. Research in the European context has mostly been comprised of national case studies of flagship media outlets whereas comparative, let alone quantitative, studies are scarce. In response to th…
Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting
Published online: 21 Oct 2015
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…
Using a new medium for propaganda
This article presents an analysis of the role of transborder broadcasts during the Spanish Civil War. As a new medium at that time, radio had a strong impact not only on increasing the morale of the Franquist forces, but also on influencing military operations through the dissemination of strategic information concerning the progress of military operations. Mostly focusing on the role of Portuguese broadcasters, which clearly took the lead in sup…
BBC Portuguese Service during World War II
This article analyses the editorial line of the BBC Portuguese Service during World War II, presenting evidence of how the output of the broadcasts was influenced by the need of the Foreign Office to maintain a good relationship with the authoritarian regime led by Oliveira Salazar. Focusing on the internal guidelines that ruled the Service, this history demonstrates how Portuguese language broadcasts never threatened the survival of the regime t…
Censorship and Scarcity
This article presents a case study on how goods scarcity, both natural and artificially created, was used along with censorship to control the Portuguese public's access to information during the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 relied on a censorship apparatus that prevented the publication and broadcast of many pieces of national and international news, the research presented in this article demonstrat…
Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms
For two decades, convergence culture has been an important motivator for change in journalism worldwide. Journalism research has followed these developments, investigating the dimensions of change that define convergence as a cultural shift in the newsroom. Research in the European context has mostly been comprised of national case studies of flagship media outlets whereas comparative, let alone quantitative, studies are scarce. In response to th…
Censorship and Scarcity
This article presents a case study on how goods scarcity, both natural and artificially created, was used along with censorship to control the Portuguese public's access to information during the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 relied on a censorship apparatus that prevented the publication and broadcast of many pieces of national and international news, the research presented in this article demonstrat…
New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis
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…
Broadcasting to the Portuguese Empire in Africa
This article discusses Portugal's broadcasting policy to its colonies from the 1930s to the 1960s when the country was ruled by a dictatorship led by Oliveira Salazar. It demonstrates that, despite the centrality assumed by the concept of ‘Empire’ in the discourse of the dictatorship, investments in shortwave broadcasting remained very low throughout the years. Not only was the Portuguese state broadcaster not given the resources to achieve good …
BBC Portuguese Service during World War II
This article analyses the editorial line of the BBC Portuguese Service during World War II, presenting evidence of how the output of the broadcasts was influenced by the need of the Foreign Office to maintain a good relationship with the authoritarian regime led by Oliveira Salazar. Focusing on the internal guidelines that ruled the Service, this history demonstrates how Portuguese language broadcasts never threatened the survival of the regime t…
Salazar's Interference in the BBC Portuguese Service During World War Ii
This article presents a case study on the limits of the BBC Overseas Service’s journalistic independence during World War II. Not only editorial policy but also the personnel hired by the BBC Portuguese Service were subject to pressure from Salazar through the Foreign Office. How the Lisbon government was made aware of the events taking place inside the Portuguese Service and which strategies were used to interfere in its editorial line are discu…
Introduction
A new medium at war
The article describes the importance of radio reporting by the Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft (RRG) and the BBC in Portugal during World War II. After a brief contextualization explaining the reasons that led to these foreign broadcasts becoming the main source of war news in Portugal, the article analyses the distinct strategies implemented by the German and the British stations to mould the Portuguese public’s perception of the war. The BBC’s str…
A crise econômica atual
A década de 70 é marcada pelo nascimento de uma tríplice crise: uma crise econômica, uma crise de política econômica e uma crise da teoria econômica até então esmônica. O crescimento acentuado da economia capitalista mundial, e a diminuição considerável da amplitude dos movimentos cíclicos, durante o pós-guerra, parecem ter validado os conceitos keynesianos que chegaram ao poder após a crise de 1929 e a subsequente Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1974…
Salazar's Interference in the BBC Portuguese Service During World War Ii
This article presents a case study on the limits of the BBC Overseas Service’s journalistic independence during World War II. Not only editorial policy but also the personnel hired by the BBC Portuguese Service were subject to pressure from Salazar through the Foreign Office. How the Lisbon government was made aware of the events taking place inside the Portuguese Service and which strategies were used to interfere in its editorial line are discu…
A new medium at war
The article describes the importance of radio reporting by the Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft (RRG) and the BBC in Portugal during World War II. After a brief contextualization explaining the reasons that led to these foreign broadcasts becoming the main source of war news in Portugal, the article analyses the distinct strategies implemented by the German and the British stations to mould the Portuguese public’s perception of the war. The BBC’s str…
New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis
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…
Using a new medium for propaganda
This article presents an analysis of the role of transborder broadcasts during the Spanish Civil War. As a new medium at that time, radio had a strong impact not only on increasing the morale of the Franquist forces, but also on influencing military operations through the dissemination of strategic information concerning the progress of military operations. Mostly focusing on the role of Portuguese broadcasters, which clearly took the lead in sup…
BBC Portuguese Service during World War II
This article analyses the editorial line of the BBC Portuguese Service during World War II, presenting evidence of how the output of the broadcasts was influenced by the need of the Foreign Office to maintain a good relationship with the authoritarian regime led by Oliveira Salazar. Focusing on the internal guidelines that ruled the Service, this history demonstrates how Portuguese language broadcasts never threatened the survival of the regime t…
Censorship and Scarcity
This article presents a case study on how goods scarcity, both natural and artificially created, was used along with censorship to control the Portuguese public's access to information during the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 relied on a censorship apparatus that prevented the publication and broadcast of many pieces of national and international news, the research presented in this article demonstrat…
Broadcasting to the Portuguese Empire in Africa
This article discusses Portugal's broadcasting policy to its colonies from the 1930s to the 1960s when the country was ruled by a dictatorship led by Oliveira Salazar. It demonstrates that, despite the centrality assumed by the concept of ‘Empire’ in the discourse of the dictatorship, investments in shortwave broadcasting remained very low throughout the years. Not only was the Portuguese state broadcaster not given the resources to achieve good …
Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting
Published online: 21 Oct 2015
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…
Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms
For two decades, convergence culture has been an important motivator for change in journalism worldwide. Journalism research has followed these developments, investigating the dimensions of change that define convergence as a cultural shift in the newsroom. Research in the European context has mostly been comprised of national case studies of flagship media outlets whereas comparative, let alone quantitative, studies are scarce. In response to th…
Colonisation Through Broadcasting
Reporting an Alternative Reality to ‘Conveniently Guide’ Public Opinion
During World War II the Portuguese press was under strict control of the dictatorship regime that ruled in the country. While censorship was given the task of preventing many news pieces from reaching the public, newspapers were also forced to give visibility to all propaganda events organized by the regime. In many cases this meant relegating crucial news on the war to the interior pages while the front pages were reserved for national stories. …
The medium isn’t the message
Media use can be considered as an integral part of virtual communication and thus of present-day human interaction. Nevertheless, research on media use and effects still largely relies on laboratory experiments, treating it as a stable input condition, rather than as a function of human appropriation. In this study, we propose a conceptualization of virtual communication as a dynamic construct dependent on media appropriation, particularly of com…
When “Formerly” Becomes Now
Insights from a Comparative Study into Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms
Convergence has had a major influence on journalism in the past decade. It is particularly important to understand how convergence continues to change working conditions as well as the journalistic practices, routines, norms, and strategies that shape news production. This phenomenon becomes even more substantial when considering the extent to which technological and economic changes have had a disruptive impact on journalism, altering how news i…
West – East Entanglements During the Cold War
Portugal became the centre of an entangled airwaves ensemble during the Cold War. In order to demonstrate this, the article develops along two lines. First, it details how the Portuguese dictatorship, with ideological connections to fascism, allowed the construction in its territory of one of the most powerful retransmitters of Radio Free Europe (RFE), responsible for airing anti-communist propaganda to Eastern Europe. The collaboration between t…
A content analysis of Japanese cancer documentaries across 25 years
We analysed Japanese television documentaries to (1) assess how cancer and the difficulties of patients with cancer were portrayed in documentaries on major Japanese national broadcasting networks and (2) evaluate changes in quality of life in Japan’s history of medicine as depicted in these documentaries to identify any trends. We analysed television documentaries aired from 1965 to 2015 on two major national broadcasting networks in Japan. Sixt…
An unabating challenge
Xenophobia is a phenomenon currently permeating migration discourses worldwide. Whilst there has been growing scholarly attention in the Global North, the causes, nature and magnitude of xenophobia in countries the Global South remains underrepresented in the literature. After the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa became an attractive destination for Africans from numerous countries in the continent (Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Somalia and Zim…
The Political and Economic Dependence of the Press in Macao under Portuguese and Chinese Rule
The article analyses the media system in Macao, a special administrative region of China that transitioned from Portuguese to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, becoming one of cities in the world with the largest number of published newspapers per capita. Combining historical research with the analysis of contemporary empirical data collected through interviews with journalists working on the ground, the research demonstrates how there is a long tradi…
Digital Roots
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concep…
Media and the Dissemination of Fear
Imperial Encore
Reviewed by: Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire by Caroline Ritter Nelson Costa Ribeiro Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire demonstrates the importance of culture in supporting colonial rule and sustaining the British influence in Africa after the empire was …
Media and the Dissemination of Fear
A Polycentric Broadcasting Model
The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s colonial mission but also promoted local identities with programming echoing the lifestyle of the colonial elites. Thus, the article argues that while the …
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