Rui Alexandre Novais
Biographic Data
| ID | 895810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rui Alexandre Novais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rui Alexandre |
| FAMILY NAME | Novais |
| SIGNATURE | NOVAIS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0282-7234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the glass ceiling
This paper presents a qualitative case study of the Brazilian Coalition for the Defense of Journalism (CDJor), a meta-organization formed amid escalating violence and disinformation. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with ten women leaders across the coalition’s member organizations, we examine how participants constructed connections between sustained operational capacity and their governance model. We analyze these accounts as sense-making …
Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’
Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed
This article explores the relationship between blame and populism by analyzing the defensive communication strategies employed by right-wing populist leaders in their attacks on the media. The study focuses on Jair Bolsonaro and concludes that he used various strategies to avoid taking responsibility for adverse outcomes while blaming the media as one of his favorite targets. The explorative study draws on qualitative discourse analysis of the pr…
Targeted for being women and reporting on the presidency
This study examines the relationship between gender-based violence and the safety of journalists during the age of the populist zeitgeist. It includes an exploratory analysis of the discourses used by Jair Bolsonaro against Brazilian female journalists throughout his presidency. The findings provide evidence of the persistent misogynistic and patriarchal norms and attitudes of right-wing populists, who often target women based on their gender or …
Tensioned Civility
This explorative study contributes to the theoretical debate on political incivility beyond the domination of Western-centric approaches while connecting the bodies of literature in political philosophy and media research. It offers empirical evidence of Bolsonaro’s delegitimizing criticisms and uncivil expressions toward the press, some specific news outlets, and individual journalists during the first two years of his presidential mandate in Br…
Watchdogging Populism
The article aims to unpack the press reporting of far-right populism invested in its journalistic roles, as manifested in the watchdog performance by the leading Portuguese newsmagazine Visão in a series of feature articles on the emergent Chega party. Drawing on an original combination of methodologies comprising surveys, rhetorical analysis, and qualitative interviewing, it concludes that Visão adopts an interventionist mode of the watchdog rol…
Na linha de fogo
Mediante uma incursão na área inexplorada do nível de adversatividade da reportagem de investigação sobre o populismo de extrema-direita este estudo visa identificar os tipos de críticas presentes na cobertura noticiosa e determinar quais dessas críticas correspondem à iniciativa jornalística. Recorrendo a um método misto que combina a análise de conteúdo e a biografia reconstrutiva, conclui que as dinâmicas mediáticas relacionadas com a iniciati…
A ocidentalização das campanhas eleitorais em Cabo Verde
Este artigo propõe uma análise diacrónica comparativa do tratamento noticioso das mais recentes legislativas em Cabo Verde com o intuito de comprovar a existência da marginalização e despolitização da cobertura mediática das campanhas eleitorais. Para além de preencher o vazio em termos da realidade de produção científica cabo-verdiana neste domínio específico, o presente estudo testa a ocorrência de um transfer completo dessas tendências interna…
Brothers in arms? Portuguese and Brazilian journalistic worlds compared
This study aims to gauge if there is a ‘de-territorialized’ Portuguese speaking journalistic community or whether diverse professional self-perceptions prevail amongst Portuguese and Brazilian counterparts. Based upon an extensive and manifold comparative analysis of 200 questionnaires – comprising the ‘journalism cultures’, their trust on social institutions’ and the ‘perceived influences on news work’ - it contrasts the cultural proximity of bo…
Mais do que 2.0? O uso tradicional de suportes inovadores nas campanhas eleitorais
Este estudo propõe a análise comparativa das campanhas on-line à presidênciada República do Brasil (2010) e de Portugal (2011), com o intuito de determinarse os dois candidatos mais bem colocados nas intenções de voto em ambos os países lograram obter o melhor aproveitamento dos recursos de comunicaçãode campanha pós-moderna, ou da era 2.0. Baseado em uma análise de conteúdo dos tweets dos candidatos no primeiro turno das campanhas nos respetivos…
A visão bipolar do pódio
Este artigo tem como objetivo validar se os Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos são retratados de forma diferente pela mídia online, c om esse fim, o estudo compara os principais momentos de glória Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos de Pequim 2008 conforme retratados pela imprensa on-line Brasileira e Portuguesa: as medalhas de ouros Maureen Maggi e Daniel Dias (Brasil); Nelson Évora e João Paulo Fernandes (Portugal)
How the North pictures the neighbouring South
This article explores how the media, in a country that used to be a colonial power yet belongs to a relatively peaceful culture, depicts one of the oldest disputes in Africa. Drawing on a three-year analysis of the Portuguese press coverage of the Sahrawi conflict, it also tests some basic foundations of the selective representation of Africa in news reporting: the predominantly one-way traffic of information between the North and the South, as w…
National Influences in Foreign News
This article examines the impact of national influences and national interests upon foreign news coverage. To this end, it examines the newspaper reporting on the 12 November 1991 `Dili Massacre', a case study neglected by academic research and press coverage analysis. This work introduces the distinction between intra-media and extra-media influences while looking at nuanced dimensions regarding the source of national influences on the basis of …
A cobertura do massacre de Dili na imprensa de qualidade britânica - O olhar de um jornalista português
Normalmente preconiza-se que Timor Leste é um território demasiado remoto e marginal em termos de assuntos mundiais para merecer o estatuto de furo/caixa jornalístico ou, até mesmo, qualquer tipo de cobertura mediática consistente na imprensa europeia
National Influences in Foreign News
This article examines the impact of national influences and national interests upon foreign news coverage. To this end, it examines the newspaper reporting on the 12 November 1991 `Dili Massacre', a case study neglected by academic research and press coverage analysis. This work introduces the distinction between intra-media and extra-media influences while looking at nuanced dimensions regarding the source of national influences on the basis of …
Na linha de fogo
Mediante uma incursão na área inexplorada do nível de adversatividade da reportagem de investigação sobre o populismo de extrema-direita este estudo visa identificar os tipos de críticas presentes na cobertura noticiosa e determinar quais dessas críticas correspondem à iniciativa jornalística. Recorrendo a um método misto que combina a análise de conteúdo e a biografia reconstrutiva, conclui que as dinâmicas mediáticas relacionadas com a iniciati…
Brothers in arms? Portuguese and Brazilian journalistic worlds compared
This study aims to gauge if there is a ‘de-territorialized’ Portuguese speaking journalistic community or whether diverse professional self-perceptions prevail amongst Portuguese and Brazilian counterparts. Based upon an extensive and manifold comparative analysis of 200 questionnaires – comprising the ‘journalism cultures’, their trust on social institutions’ and the ‘perceived influences on news work’ - it contrasts the cultural proximity of bo…
A cobertura do massacre de Dili na imprensa de qualidade britânica - O olhar de um jornalista português
Normalmente preconiza-se que Timor Leste é um território demasiado remoto e marginal em termos de assuntos mundiais para merecer o estatuto de furo/caixa jornalístico ou, até mesmo, qualquer tipo de cobertura mediática consistente na imprensa europeia
National Influences in Foreign News
This article examines the impact of national influences and national interests upon foreign news coverage. To this end, it examines the newspaper reporting on the 12 November 1991 `Dili Massacre', a case study neglected by academic research and press coverage analysis. This work introduces the distinction between intra-media and extra-media influences while looking at nuanced dimensions regarding the source of national influences on the basis of …
How the North pictures the neighbouring South
This article explores how the media, in a country that used to be a colonial power yet belongs to a relatively peaceful culture, depicts one of the oldest disputes in Africa. Drawing on a three-year analysis of the Portuguese press coverage of the Sahrawi conflict, it also tests some basic foundations of the selective representation of Africa in news reporting: the predominantly one-way traffic of information between the North and the South, as w…
A visão bipolar do pódio
Este artigo tem como objetivo validar se os Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos são retratados de forma diferente pela mídia online, c om esse fim, o estudo compara os principais momentos de glória Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos de Pequim 2008 conforme retratados pela imprensa on-line Brasileira e Portuguesa: as medalhas de ouros Maureen Maggi e Daniel Dias (Brasil); Nelson Évora e João Paulo Fernandes (Portugal)
Mais do que 2.0? O uso tradicional de suportes inovadores nas campanhas eleitorais
Este estudo propõe a análise comparativa das campanhas on-line à presidênciada República do Brasil (2010) e de Portugal (2011), com o intuito de determinarse os dois candidatos mais bem colocados nas intenções de voto em ambos os países lograram obter o melhor aproveitamento dos recursos de comunicaçãode campanha pós-moderna, ou da era 2.0. Baseado em uma análise de conteúdo dos tweets dos candidatos no primeiro turno das campanhas nos respetivos…
Brothers in arms? Portuguese and Brazilian journalistic worlds compared
This study aims to gauge if there is a ‘de-territorialized’ Portuguese speaking journalistic community or whether diverse professional self-perceptions prevail amongst Portuguese and Brazilian counterparts. Based upon an extensive and manifold comparative analysis of 200 questionnaires – comprising the ‘journalism cultures’, their trust on social institutions’ and the ‘perceived influences on news work’ - it contrasts the cultural proximity of bo…
A ocidentalização das campanhas eleitorais em Cabo Verde
Este artigo propõe uma análise diacrónica comparativa do tratamento noticioso das mais recentes legislativas em Cabo Verde com o intuito de comprovar a existência da marginalização e despolitização da cobertura mediática das campanhas eleitorais. Para além de preencher o vazio em termos da realidade de produção científica cabo-verdiana neste domínio específico, o presente estudo testa a ocorrência de um transfer completo dessas tendências interna…
Watchdogging Populism
The article aims to unpack the press reporting of far-right populism invested in its journalistic roles, as manifested in the watchdog performance by the leading Portuguese newsmagazine Visão in a series of feature articles on the emergent Chega party. Drawing on an original combination of methodologies comprising surveys, rhetorical analysis, and qualitative interviewing, it concludes that Visão adopts an interventionist mode of the watchdog rol…
Na linha de fogo
Mediante uma incursão na área inexplorada do nível de adversatividade da reportagem de investigação sobre o populismo de extrema-direita este estudo visa identificar os tipos de críticas presentes na cobertura noticiosa e determinar quais dessas críticas correspondem à iniciativa jornalística. Recorrendo a um método misto que combina a análise de conteúdo e a biografia reconstrutiva, conclui que as dinâmicas mediáticas relacionadas com a iniciati…
Tensioned Civility
This explorative study contributes to the theoretical debate on political incivility beyond the domination of Western-centric approaches while connecting the bodies of literature in political philosophy and media research. It offers empirical evidence of Bolsonaro’s delegitimizing criticisms and uncivil expressions toward the press, some specific news outlets, and individual journalists during the first two years of his presidential mandate in Br…
Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’
Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed
This article explores the relationship between blame and populism by analyzing the defensive communication strategies employed by right-wing populist leaders in their attacks on the media. The study focuses on Jair Bolsonaro and concludes that he used various strategies to avoid taking responsibility for adverse outcomes while blaming the media as one of his favorite targets. The explorative study draws on qualitative discourse analysis of the pr…
Targeted for being women and reporting on the presidency
This study examines the relationship between gender-based violence and the safety of journalists during the age of the populist zeitgeist. It includes an exploratory analysis of the discourses used by Jair Bolsonaro against Brazilian female journalists throughout his presidency. The findings provide evidence of the persistent misogynistic and patriarchal norms and attitudes of right-wing populists, who often target women based on their gender or …
Beyond the glass ceiling
This paper presents a qualitative case study of the Brazilian Coalition for the Defense of Journalism (CDJor), a meta-organization formed amid escalating violence and disinformation. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with ten women leaders across the coalition’s member organizations, we examine how participants constructed connections between sustained operational capacity and their governance model. We analyze these accounts as sense-making …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)