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Rui Alexandre Sousa da Costa Novais has completed his Ph.D. in Communication and Image Studies from the University of Kent. He is currently an Auxiliary Researcher and Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga. He has lectured and conducted research in various research units and universities in Portugal, the UK, and Cabo Verde. Rui has been the Principal Investigator for numerous projects, some of which were funded by the FCT. He is currently working on an ongoing project titled 'Mapping risk and uncertainty for journalism in Lusophone countries: An intercontinental study.' He is also a contributor to the 'Worlds of Journalism Study' and 'Journalistic Role Performance', which are global journalism research projects. Throughout his career, Rui has published many books as an author and editor, along with several book chapters and journal articles. He has supervised many MSc dissertations over the years and has also organized numerous international conferences. He has received various awards, distinctions, and honors for his work.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rui Alexandre Sousa da Costa Novais

Citation names

  • Novais, Rui Alexandre

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EC15-0A65-4CC9
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0282-7234

Email addresses

  • rnovais@ucp.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Journalism and Social Media
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Political Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Russian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
 Equivalência do título (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"New Factors in Foreign News.a Case Study Comparing British and Portuguese Press Coverage of the Dili Massacre" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/07/12
Concluded
 PhD in Communication and Image Studies (Doutoramento)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
"News Factors in Foreign News: A Case Study Comparing British and Portuguese Press Coverage of the Dili Massacre" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Admitted to the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
1995
Concluded
 BA in Social Communication (Licenciatura)
Escola de Jornalismo do Porto, Portugal
"“Carpentras: Um Crime sem Rosto" (Carpentras: A faceless crime), devoted to the comparative analysis of the French written press coverage of the profanation of a Jewish cemetery at Carpentras, France" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 out of 20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2019/01/25 - 2021/03 Invited Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2011 - 2014 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
2006 - 2009 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) University of Liverpool Department of Communication and Media, United Kingdom
2006 - 2009 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Mindelo, Cape Verde
2014/04 - 2017/02 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
2013 - 2014 Teacher Coordinator (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior Artística do Porto - Guimarães, Portugal
2007/02 - 2012/09 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013 - 2014 Conselho científico/técnico-científico ou orgão correspondente Escola Superior Artística do Porto - Guimarães, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/06/22 - 2023/10/30 Estratégias de Inovação no Jornalismo de Investigação
EIJI
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Comunicação da Nova
Concluded
2012/04/01 - 2014/10/01 Startups, survivals and failures in the Portuguese contemporary press (Surgimento e desaparecimento de títulos da imprensa escrita no Portugal contemporâneo)
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/122387/PT
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/03/01 - 2012/08/31 The Portuguese World of Journalism
PTDC/CCI-JOR/111888/2009
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/08/01 - 2012/07/31 New media and digital campaigning
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/102660/PT
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2006/09/01 - 2009 THE WESTERN SAHARA IN THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN POLICY: 1975-2005
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBPD2%F263502%F2006/PT
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal

University of Liverpool Department of Communication and Media, United Kingdom

University of Liverpool Department of Politics, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
1998 - 2004 Portugal and East Timor in the Foreign Press
BD15748/98
PhD Student Fellow
University of Kent, United Kingdom
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2017 - Current Civic Activism and Social Protest in Cape Verde
CASPCV
Principal investigator
Universidade do Mindelo, Cape Verde

Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
Ongoing
2016 - Current Political campaigning in Cape Verde
PCCV
Principal investigator
Universidade do Mindelo, Cape Verde
Ongoing
2010 - Current The Worlds of Journalism Study
WOJCEFH
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/04/01 - 2027/03/31 Mapping risk and uncertainty for journalism in Lusophone countries: An intercontinental study
2020.03101.CEECIND
DOI 10.54499/2020.03101.CEECIND/CP1628/CT0001
Principal investigator
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016 - 2019 Digitalisation and convergence for the media public sector in Cape Verde
DCPV
Principal investigator
Universidade do Mindelo, Cape Verde
Concluded
2010 - 2011 Media coverage of UK and Portuguese General Elections and the influence of parties websites and social media networks
UP/Santander TOTTA, 2010-2011
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 International Perspectives on US Policy towards Panama between 1987 and 1990
IPUSPUP
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Air War College, United States
2005 - 2007 The role of the press in the dismissal of the Portuguese ministers
RPMDUP
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2024/11 - Current Restoring Trust in Journalism: A Cross-Country Investigation into the Impact of Journalistic Repair Strategies
406.XS.04.155
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal

Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research, Netherlands
The Dutch Research Council
Ongoing
2024/10 - Current Journalistic Role Performance Project (JRP)
LUSOJRP
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal

Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Rui Alexandre Novais. News Factors in International Reporting. Portugal: Media XXI. 2010.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Journalistic resistance against populist othering of the press in the age of polarization and disinfodemic". In The Palgrave handbook on right-wing populism and otherness in global perspective, 203-225. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-77868-1_10
  2. Rui Alexandre Novais; Rogério Christofoletti. "Introduction: meta-othering? Right-wing populism globally capitalizing on exclusionary antagonisms and moral divides". In The palgrave handbook on right-wing populism and otherness in global perspective, 1–16. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-77868-1_1
  3. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Cultural context shaping the appropriation of social media in protest politics: comparing major civic demonstrations in the US and Cabo Verde". In Research in social movements, conflicts and change. Emerald Publishing, 2025.
    Accepted
  4. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Divide et Impera? Populist digital anti-media criticisms". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2023 (ICOMTA 2023), 322-331. Atlantis Press, 2024.
    Published • 10.2991/978-94-6463-254-5_32
  5. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Arcila Calderón, Carlos. "Introduction: Revisiting and Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries in Communicating Migration Alterity". In Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’, 1-11. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_1
  6. Paulo Faustino; Rui Alexandre Novais. "The media system as a leverage for democratic development in East Timor". In Media, art and technology in Portuguese speaking territories. University of Saint Joseph Academic Press, 2024.
    Accepted
  7. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Organizing With Self-Organization?: The Ramifications of the Strategic Use of Facebook in Informal Civic Activism". edited by {I. Management Association, 75-75. IGI Global Publishing, 2023.
    10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch005
  8. Rui Alexandre Novais. "A game of masks: the communicative performance of the portuguese populist far-right". In Masks and human connections: disruptive meanings and cultural challenges, 83-98. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-16673-0_6
  9. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Organizing With Self-Organization?The Ramifications of the Strategic use of Facebook in Informal Civic Activism". In Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age, 315-337. IGI Global, 2020.
    10.4018/978-1-7998-0377-5.ch017
  10. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Cúria, Álvaro. "A Diachronic Analysis of Portuguese Digital Campaigning". In Advertising and Branding: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 729-745. IGI Global, 2017.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-5225-1793-1.ch032
  11. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Just Cause? Portuguese Media Portrayal of the US Intervention in Panama". In Global Media Perspectives on the Crisis in Panama, 219-236. Taylor and Francis AS, 2016.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315584911-19
  12. Novais, R.A.; Cúria, A.. "A diachronic analysis of Portuguese digital campaigning". In Advertising and Branding: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. 2014.
    10.4018/978-1-5225-1793-1.ch032
  13. Alexandre Novais, R.. "From failure to success: Portuguese foreign diplomacy towards East Timor". In Advertising and Branding: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. 2014.
  14. Novais, R.A.. "Just cause portuguese media portrayal of the US intervention in Panama". In Advertising and Branding: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. 2013.
  15. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Exploring the world of Foreign Reporting: Depicting forgotten conflicts". In Entre Margens e Centros:Textos e Práticas das Novas Interculturas, 235-252. Portugal: Afrontamento, 2012.
    Published
  16. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Just Cause? Portuguese media portrayal of the US intervention in Panama". In Global Media Perspectives on US Policy Towards Panama, 219-236. Routledge, 2011.
    Published
  17. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Visibilidade em detrimento da interatividade: O Twitter nas recentes eleições presidenciais de Portugal e do Brasil". In Public Sphere Reconsidered.Theories and Practices, 255-272. Portugal: Labcom, 2011.
    Published
  18. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Rui Alexandre Novais. "Os media e os conflitos internacionais". In Relações Internacionais: Actores, Dinâmicas e Desafios, edited by Pereira, {Laura C. Ferreira, 89-108. Portugal: Prefácio, 2010.
    Published
  19. Rui Alexandre Novais; Catarina Lucas; Rosalina Afonso. "O tudo ou nada". In a análise dos ‘play-offs’ na imprensa online portuguesa e espanhola, edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 63-94. Media XXI, 2010.
  20. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Figueiredo. "Media e nacionalismo desportivo". In o sorteio do Mundial de 2010 nas imprensas brasileira e portuguesa, edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 95-115. Media XXI, 2010.
  21. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Representação do desporto e identidade nos media". edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 11-26. Media XXI, 2010.
  22. Rui Alexandre Novais; Claúdia Cruz. "De bestas a bestiais? O imediatismo na cobertura desportiva". edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 27-62. Media XXI, 2010.
  23. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Saharwi Conflict Resolution: Doomed to Failure?". In Towards a Global Dimension: EU's Conflict Management in the Neighbourhood and Beyond, 85-98. Portugal: Fundação Friedrich Ebert, 2008.
    Published
  24. Rui Alexandre Novais. "De Leste a Lorosae". In a década da mudança em Timor, edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 13-36. Afrontamento, 2006.
  25. Rui Alexandre Novais; Rui Centeno. "Conclusão". edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 89-90. Afrontamento, 2006.
  26. Rui Alexandre Novais; Rui Centeno. "Introdução". edited by Novais, {Rui Alexandre, 9-11. Afrontamento, 2006.
Conference paper
  1. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Between Scylla and Charybdis?Covid-induced economic pressure impacting the media in Portugal". 2022.
  2. Tiago Durães Moreira; Amélia Maria Pinto da Cunha Brandão; Rui Alexandre Novais. "Peeble in the shoe? Content marketing made in Portugal". 2018.
  3. Novais, Rui; Ferro, Hugo. "Anyone bites the dust? press survival in a post-industrial crisis scenario". 2013.
  4. Rui Alexandre Novais; Hugo Ferro; Novais, Rui; Ferro, Hugo. "Media startups in a creative destructive scenario". 2013.
  5. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg. "Disability coverage". 2012.
  6. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg. "Atletas com deficiências na mídia". 2011.
  7. Rui Alexandre Novais; Luísa Luísa Silva. "Insurgent rule? Aligning to technological innovation and convergence in media production". 2011.
  8. Rui Alexandre Novais; Álvaro Cúria. "A circum-navegação dos media pelos partidos e as implicações para o jornalismo político". 2011.
  9. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Close to whom? Comparative Media Reporting of the Bid to Host the 2016 Olympics". 2010.
  10. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg. "Brothers in arms? Portuguese and Brazilian news coverage of the 2010 World Cup draw". 2010.
  11. Rui Alexandre Novais; Alice Barcellos. "Noise, eco-chambers or serious debate? On-line posts as new extensions to conventional media". 2009.
  12. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg Figueiredo. "Os picos de Pistorius". 2009.
  13. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg Figueiredo. "A antiguidade ainda é um posto? Os momentos de vitória nos Paraolímpicos de Pequim". 2009.
  14. Rui Alexandre Novais. "A queda de um 'anjo'". 2008.
Edited book
  1. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Rogério Christofoletti. Corresponding author: Novais, Rui Alexandre. The Palgrave Handbook on Right-Wing Populism and Otherness in Global Perspective. Springer Nature Switzerland. 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-77868-1 • Editor
  2. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Carlos Arcila Calderón. Corresponding author: Novais, Rui Alexandre. Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’. Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0 • Editor
  3. Rui Alexandre Novais; Novais, Rui Alexandre. A representação do futebol na imprensa. Portugal: Media XXI. 2010.
    Published • Editor
  4. Rui Alexandre Novais; Rui Centeno; Novais, Rui Alexandre. 'Timor-Leste: Da Nação ao Estado. Portugal: Afrontamento. 2006.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Rui Alexandre Novais; Viviane Araújo; Novais, Rui Alexandre; Araújo, Viviane. "Targeted for being women and reporting on the presidency: gendered-based violence against female journalists by populists in office". Journal of Gender Studies (2024): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2421199.
    Published • 10.1080/09589236.2024.2421199
  2. Rui Alexandre Sousa da Costa Novais; Ângela Maria Teixiera Leite. "Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed". Palabra Clave (2024): https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2024.27.4.7.
    10.5294/pacla.2024.27.4.7
  3. Rui Alexandre Novais; Andreas Gonçalves Lind. "Liquid populism applied to anti-media hostility: Bauman’s strangeness versus Bolsonaro’s enemy construction of the press". International Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 1 (2024): 39-55. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/48311.
    Open access • Published • 10.5840/ijap20243814
  4. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Watchdogging Populism: journalistic roles conception, performance and negotiation in reporting the far-right in Portugal". Brazilian journalism research 18 2 (2022): 316-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.25200/bjr.v18n2.2022.1425.
    10.25200/bjr.v18n2.2022.1425
  5. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "On the firing line: adversariness in the Portuguese investigative reporting of far-right populism (Na linha de fogo: A adversatividade do jornalismo de investigac¸a~o portugue^s na cobertura do populismo de extrema-direita)". Media & Jornalismo 22 40 (2022): 301-318. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-5462_40_15.
    10.14195/2183-5462_40_15
  6. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Aggravating circumstances? The COVID19-related situational threats against the press in Portugal". Journal of Applied Journalism and Media studies (2022): https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00086_1.
    Submitted • 10.1386/ajms_00086_1
  7. Rui Alexandre Novais; Viviane Afonso de Araújo. "Tensioned civility: presidential delegitimization of the press". Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 78 4 (2022): 1533-1560. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85153772563&partnerID=8YFLogxK.
    Published • 10.17990/RPF/2022_78_4_1533
  8. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Veracity Pledge or Discreditation Strategy? Accusations of Legacy Disinformation in Presidential Campaigns in Cabo Verde". Southern Communication Journal (2021): 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1041794x.2021.1903539.
    10.1080/1041794x.2021.1903539
  9. Novais, R.A.; Maocha, R.. "The westernization of the political campaigns in Cape Verde: Marginalization and depolitization of the press coverage of the general elections,A ocidentalizacaõ das campanhas eleitorais em Cabo Verde: Marginalizacaõ e despolitizacaõ da cobertura mediática das legislatives". Observatorio 14 1 (2020): 1-21. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093518281&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.15847/obsOBS14120201475
  10. Novais, R.A.. "Personification and prominence in foreign reporting on the example of Latin' america news coverage in the German press". Brazilian Journalism Research 16 1 (2020): 210-211. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85091352873&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  11. Rui Alexandre Novais. "Inforpress(ão):As disfuncionalidades da agência cabo-verdiana de notícias". Pauta Geral: Estudos em Jornalismo 6 1 (2019): 112-130. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/ec6dd5a4-9c7c-4649-b01c-0a54c8aecddd.
    10.5212/RevistaPautaGeral.v6.i1.0007
  12. Novais, Rui Alexandre; Rui Alexandre Novais. "The Western Sahara never ending story: a case of organized hypocrisy". Africana Studia 29 (2018): 79-89. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/4cf57bc7-698d-4208-84d9-03af7bd86a3d.
    Published
  13. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Mutatis Mutandis? The Stably Evolving Portuguese Journalism". Brazilian Journalism Research 14 2 (2018): 342-363.
    Open access • Published • 10.25200/BJR.v14n2.2018.1086
  14. Rui Alexandre Novais; Sonia Virginia Moreira; Luísa Silva; Novais, Rui Alexandre; Moreira, Sônia Virgínia; Silva, Luísa. "Brothers in arms? Portuguese and Brazilian journalistic worlds compared". Brazilian Journalism Research 9 1 (2013): 76-97. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/ec793d60-5c73-4514-adad-665e98e04ee3.
    10.25200/BJR.v9n1.2013.486
  15. Novais, Rui Alexandre; De Araújo, Viviane Afonso. "1.0 mais do que 2.0? O uso tradicional de suportes inovadores nas campanhas eleitorais". Sociedade e Cultura 15 1 (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.5216/sec.v15i1.20669.
    Open access • Published • 10.5216/sec.v15i1.20669
  16. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "Media e (ciber)terrorismo: Amigos dilectos ou aliados involuntários". Nação e Defesa 133 (2012): 89-104.
    Published
  17. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "As molduras do Magalhães: Media vs spin governamental". Media & Jornalismo 10 2 (2011): 145-156. http://cicdigitalpolo.fcsh.unl.pt/pt/revista-media-jornalismo-no-19-inclusao-e-participacao-digital/.
    Published
  18. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "The Full Repertoire: News and Press Management vs. Media Watchdog". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 7 2 (2010): 51-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.143.
    Published • 10.16997/wpcc.143
  19. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "A visão bipolar do pódio: Os olímpicos versus paraolímpicos na mídia online do Brasil e de Portugal". Logos 17 2 (2010): 78-89. http://www.logos.uerj.br/PDFS/33/07_logos33_figueiredo_novais_visaobipolar.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  20. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "How the North pictures the neighbouring South: Portuguese press coverage of the Sahrawi conflict". Journal of African Media Studies 1 3 (2009): 415-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams.1.3.415/1.
    Published • 10.1386/jams.1.3.415/1
  21. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "An unfinished process: the Western Sahara as a post-scriptum of the colonial period". African Studia 12 (2009): 59-66.
    Published
  22. Rui Alexandre Novais; Tatiane Hilgemberg Figueiredo. "A visão bipolar do pódio". Logos 17 2 (2009): 78-89. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/77bdf92c-2bc5-4016-9131-264241764ce7.
    10.12957/logos.2010.861
  23. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "National Influences in Foreign News". International Communication Gazette 69 6 (2007): 553-573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048507082842.
    Published • 10.1177/1748048507082842
  24. Rui Alexandre Novais. "A Cobertura do Massacre de Dili na Imprensa Britânica – O olhar de um jornalista português". Comunicação e Sociedade 14 1 (2000): https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/3d24536a-47ba-49e4-9a52-5e8e70651ef5.
Online resource
  1. Novais, Rui Alexandre. Country Report: Journalists in Portugal. Worlds of Journalism Study. 2016. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/ 31746/1/Country_report_Portugal.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Novais, Rui Alexandre. "News Factors in Foreign News. A Case Study Comparing British and Portuguese Press Coverage of the Dili Massacre". PhD, University of Kent, 2005.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/01 Weaving ethical challenges faced by journalists globally: the case of Portugal IAMCR 2024
(Christchurch, New Zealand)
2024/07/01 Poking a hole in the ethical firewall? Self-perceived ideal orientation versus practice violations in Portugal WEAVING PEOPLE TOGETHER: Communicative projects of decolonising, engaging, and listening<br/>
University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
2024/06/20 Safety of Journalists around the World 74th Annual ICA Conference: Communication and Global Human Rights
International Communication Association (Gold Coast, Australia)
2024/05/09 Journalistic adaptability and resilience to elite threats 9th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication: Reshaping and Challenging the Neoliberal Model: Evolving Practices in Crisis, Conflict, and Creative Communication
The International Institute of Knowledge Management (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
2024/05/04 Jamais vu? Portuguese legacy news titles on the verge of vanishing UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2024 Academic Conference: Safeguarding press freedom amidst journalistic unsafety: Perspectives from Academia
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
2024/03/01 Perfect storm? The dangers of disinformation and populism for democracy/Tempestade perfeita? Os perigos da desinformação e do populismo para a democracia Democracy under threat and Human Rights and Peace Education/Democracia sob ameaça e Direitos Humanos e Educação para a Paz
CityLab Projeto TESTEd, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Braga, Portugal)
2024/03/01 Perfect storm? The dangers of misinformation and populism to democracy City Lab – Mesa Redonda: Democracia sob ameaça, Direitos Humanos e Educação para a Paz
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Braga, Portugal)
2024/02/17 Gotcha! Quando os cães de guarda 'mordem' os detentores do poder (Gotcha! When watchdogs 'bite' power holders) Winter School Cátedra Jean Monnet: POLMEDIA_EU – sistemas políticos, participação política e media na União Europeia
Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Foz Côa (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal)
2024/01/25 A construção da outridade da imprensa como inimigo XIII SOPCOM: Comunicação, Culturas e Comunidades
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2023/11/23 Paradoxo da abundância? Competição partidária e estilo político performativo como incitadores da polarização (Paradox of abundance? Party competition and performative political style as drivers of polarization) Polarização política e campanhas eleitorais: seminário e curso metodológico
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/09 What(ever) will be, will be: Necropolitics and the changing scenario in the Western Sahara International Conference: 50 years of Decolonization: the Western Sahara Process
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/06 Divide et impera? Populist digital anti-media criticisms International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2023
Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Puebla, Mexico)
2023/05/24 Journalistic roles in investigative reporting: negotiating perceived enactment and actual performance in the BES scandal news coverage Between Ideals and Practices: Journalistic Role Performance in Transformative Times
Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada)
2023/04/27 The Role of Academia in Protecting Freedom of Expression as a Driver for Other Human Rights UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2023 Online Academic Conference
Columbia University (New York, United States)
2023/03/16 Either you are with me or against me: anti-media populism of the far-right in Brazil 8th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication
The International Institute of Knowledge Management (Bangkok, Thailand)
2022/11/29 O alvo previsível: a deslegitimação dos media pelos populistas de extrema-direita II Seminário de História da Comunicação
Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/24 The meta-analysis of the political campaigning in Cape Verde (A meta-análise das campanhas eleitorais em Cabo Verde)
Universidade de Cabo Verde - UNICV (Mindelo - São Vicente, Cape Verde)
2022/10/06 The digital politicking of the far-right populism across the Atlantic
University of Granada
2022/09/23 Between Scylla and Charybdis? Covid-induced economic pressure impacting the media in Portugal 15th Annual Conference of the EuroMed
Euromed Research Business Institute (Palermo, Italy)
2022/08/25 Anti-press attacks by ground-laying and established populists The Seventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
(Galway, Ireland)
2022/07/01 Under the cosh? Attacks against Portuguese journalists reporting on football Thirteenth International Conference on Sport & Society
( Aarhus)
2022/06/18 The global Covid19-related threats to press freedom and journalistic safety in Portugal International Studies Association (ISA)
University of Crete (Creta, Greece)
2022/06/17 The global Covid19-related threats to press freedom and journalistic safety in Portugal International Studies Association (ISA) - The Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS)
The Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) (Crete, Greece)
2022/05/30 L’air du temps: COVID-19 and far-right populism setting the new normal journalism safety?
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
2022/04/28 Comparando el periodismo en el Norte Global y el Sur Global
Universidad de Salamanca
2022/04/07 The year of living dangerously: a cross-national comparison of populist anti-press attacks in and out of office’, 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Conference
Midwest Political Science (Chicago, United States)
2021/12/10 Beyond crisis and pandemics: The situational anti-press scenario in Portugal XVII Congreso Internacional AsHisCom
Asociación de Historiadores de la Comunicación (Tenerife, Spain)
2021/12/09 Beyond crisis and pandemics: The situational anti-press scenario in Portugal XVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Historia de la Comunicación
Asociación de Historia de la Comunicación (Tenerife, Spain)
2021/10/24 A meta-análise das campanhas eleitorais em Cabo Verde
Universidade de Cabo Verde
2021/09/09 Hard to please Greeks and Trojans: The ethical dilemmas in reporting far-right populism in Portugal 4th International Congress of Philosophy
Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portugal)
2021/09/09 Hard to please Greeks and Trojans: The ethical dilemmas in reporting far-right populism in Portugal 4th International Congress of the Portuguese Philosophical Society
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/07/03 A maldição dos recursos naturais na imprensa estatal INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS RETHINKING THE PRESS IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Braga, Portugal)
2018/09/12 Peeble in the shoe? Content Marketing made in Portugal 2018 Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business
EuroMed Academy of Business (Malta)
2017/07/18 A convergence cul de sac? The transforming Media Public Sector in Cape Verde IAMCR 2017
IAMCR (Cartagena)
2017/02/17 By Elimination...Negative Campaigning in the 2016 Cape Verdean Presidential elections IAMCR 2017
IAMCR (Cartagena, Colombia)
2014/05/25 Crisis or transition period in the written press 2014 ICA
International Communication Association (Seattle, United States)
2013/08 Media titles appearence and disappearance I International Journalism Conference
UERJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2012/07/16 Mapping journalism culture in the European South: Portuguese, Spanish and Greek compared 2012 IAMCR
IAMCR (Durban, South Africa)
2012/07 Positive or neutral effect? Internet and citizens’ political participation XXII Congress of the International Political Science Association
International Political Science Association (Madrid, Spain)
2012/05/30 Mapping the Portuguese journalistic culture standards, ethics and practices Fourth Annual Conference DJMC
DJMC (London, United Kingdom)
2012 Missed opportunity or politics as usual? Social media and the Portuguese and Brazilian presidential campaigns 53rd Annual Conference of ISA
International studies association (San Diego, United States)
2011/11/17 Just an illusion? The limited usage of the digital potential within the latest Portuguese general elections campaigns IPSA- IAMCR Political Communication Conference
IPSA- IAMCR (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/11/03 Fake empowerment? The impact of Twitter in electoral campaigning 2011 MPG Annual Conference
MPG (Bournemouth, United Kingdom)
2011/05/28 The shield to press scandals: Communicative responses as reputation protectors 2011 ICA Annual Conference
International Communication Association (Boston)
2011 Back to the past or sticking to the present? Internet and the 2011 presidential elections in Portugal IAMCR 2011
IAMCR (Istambul, Turkey)
2010/09/15 Catalyzer or retarder? Internet campaigning in the British and Portuguese recent elections ECCO workshop “Elections, Campaigning and Citizens Online”
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2010/09/10 Digitally connected? The audiences of online politics during the 2009 electoral campaign Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment
University of Oxford (Oxford)
2010/06/16 How to get your work published II International graduate conference on media and communication
San Pablo CEU University - School of Humanities & Communication Studies (Madrid, Spain)
2010/02/22 Political Campaigns in the digital Era
George Washington University (Washington, United States)
2010/02/18 Challenges of the technology and New Media to the XXI Century SA Annual Convention 2010 Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners
International Studies Association (New Orleans, United States)
2010/02/05 Clicking with each other or the final snap-shot? Convergence and photojournalism in the evolving digital media eco-system 2010 EMMA Conference
European Media Management Association (London, United Kingdom)
2010/02 Europe (starts) at home: the domestication of the 2009 European elections ISA Annual Convention 2010
International Studies Association (New Orleans, United States)
2009/09 The 2007 Portuguese European Council Presidency Depicted in the Press 5th ECPR General Conference
ECPR (Postdam, Germany)
2009 Crisis or opportunity? A new kid on the Portuguese media bloc Crisis in Journalism Conference
University of Westminster & British Journalism Review (London, United Kingdom)
2009 Integrated or segregated? Media representations of Pistorius Play the Game 09 Conference
(Coventry, United Kingdom)
2008/07/22 How the North pictures the neighbouring south: The Portuguese press coverage of the Sahrawi conflict 2008 IAMCR
International Association for Media and Communication Research (Estocolmo, Sweden)
2008/05/22 Who Framed Sócrates and how? Blog and the press colliding with the Prime Minister 2008 IAMCR
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (Stockholm, Sweden)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2011 - 2012 O clubismo na imprensa desportiva portuguesa: Os ‘clássicos’ das épocas 2008/2009, 2009/2010 e 2010/2011
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2011 - 2012 A comunicação digital partidária em períodos não eleitorais
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011 - 2012 O padrão ocidental do jornalismo político português: percepções dos jornalistas vis-à-vis o produto noticioso
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011 - 2012 A Cobertura Mediática de Eleições em Portugal
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Webjihadism:The Case of al Qaeda
Supervisor
 História Relações Internacionais e Cultura (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Crises humanitárias, os media e a política externa
Supervisor
 Relações Internacionais (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 - 2012 A Comunicação Partidária online em Portugal
Co-supervisor
 Ciência Política (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011 - 2012 O clubismo na imprensa desportiva portuguesa: Os ‘clássicos’ das épocas 2008/2009, 2009/2010 e 2010/2011
Supervisor
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2011 - 2012 A comunicação digital partidária em períodos não eleitorais
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2012 O padrão ocidental do jornalismo político português: percepções dos jornalistas vis-à-vis o produto noticioso
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Webjihadism: The Case of al Qaeda
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Crises humanitárias, os media e a política externa
Supervisor
University of Minho, Portugal
2010 - 2011 O Twitter nas recentes eleições presidenciais de Portugal e do Brasil
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010 - 2011 A rentabilização das potencialidades dos novos média em campanhas eleitorais - O caso das eleições Presidenciais Portuguesas de 2011
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010 - 2011 O impacto da crescente profissionalização dos assessores de imprensa nas campanhas políticas em Portugal
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 O jornalismo especializado em Música Extrema em Portugal – revistas e fanzines
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010 - 2011 A Assessoria de Imprensa de um eurodeputado: Nuno Melo
Co-supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Visibilidade em detrimento da interatividade: o Twitter nas recentes eleições presidenciais de Portugal e do Brasil
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 A rentabilização das potencialidades dos novos média em campanhas eleitorais - O caso das eleições Presidenciais Portuguesas de 2011
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 O impacto da crescente profissionalização dos assessores de imprensa nas campanhas políticas em Portugal
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 O jornalismo especializado em Música Extrema em Portugal – revistas e fanzines
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Acesso informativo e efeitos da campanha nas eleições legislativas de 2009 em Portugal
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009 - 2010 O estado actual do fotojornalismo português: O impacto dos processos de convergência e digitalização
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009 - 2010 A nacionalização e americanização na cobertura mediática da campanha das eleições europeias de 2009 em Portugal
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Tendências e Potencialidades da Infografia Multimedia em Portugal
Supervisor
 Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2009 - 2010 O valor do atleta com deficiência nos media portugueses
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Campanha Política da Coligação Gaia Na Frente na Internet
Supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Acesso informativo e efeitos da campanha nas eleições legislativas de 2009 em Portugal
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2010 O estado actual do fotojornalismo português: O impacto dos processos de convergência e digitalização
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2010 A nacionalização e americanização na cobertura mediática da campanha das eleições europeias de 2009 em Portugal
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Tendências e Potencialidades da Infografia Multimedia em Portugal
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Eleições autárquicas 2009: Campanha eleitoral Coligação Gaia Na Frente
Supervisor
University of Porto, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/06/12 - 2024/06/13 IV Jornadas de Ciências da Comunicação FLUC: Os Caminhos Cruzados da Comunicação e da Democracia (2024/06/12 - 2024/06/13)
Conference (Other)
 University of Coimbra, Portugal
2024/05/09 - 2024/05/10 9th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication: Reshaping and Challenging the Neoliberal Model: Evolving Practices in Crisis, Conflict, and Creative Communication (2024/05/09 - 2024/05/10)
Conference (Other)
 The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka
2024/03/01 - 2024/03/01 City Lab – Mesa Redonda : Democracia sob ameaça, Direitos Humanos e Educação para a Paz (2024/03/01 - 2024/03/01)
Other (Other)
 Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Portugal
2022/02/22 - 2022/02/22 Refugees and the media: between stigma and hospitality (2022/02/22 - 2022/02/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos, Portugal
2014/03/28 - 2014/03/29 International conference - Journalism in Transition:Crisis or opportunity (2014 - 2014)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, Greece
2013 - 2013 I International Journalism Conference (2013/08 - 2013/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 - 2012 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JOURNALISM STUDIES - Identity, changes and challenges of the profession in the 21st Century (2012 - 2012)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
2012 - 2012 III International graduate conference on media and communication (2012 - 2012)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2011 7th SOPCOM (2011 - 2011)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2011 2011 World International Studies Committee International Conference (2011/08/17 - 2011/08/20)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2011 II International graduate conference on media and communication (2011/06/16 - 2011/06/18)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidad CEU San Pablo, Spain
2010 - 2010 I International Conference on Media and Sport (2010/10/27 - 2010/10/28)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2010 - 2010 I International graduate conference on media and communication - Selling Politics and war to the media (2010/05/13 - 2010/05/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2007/06/14 - 2007/06/16 Panel author: Non-Military Instruments of Policy and the Role of the Media
Conference
 Seventh International CISS - ISA Millennium Conference on Global Security and the Reconfiguration of the International System: Vision and Reality, Coimbra - Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2011 - 2011 2012 ICA Annual Conference Phoenix
2008/12/11 - 2008/12/12 I Congresso Internacional de Ciberjornalismo University of Porto

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11 - Current Expert leader for the Media Diversity Index of the Media Diversity Institute Media Diversity Institute, United Kingdom
2023/06 - Current Digital Society Project Brandeis University, United States

North Dakota State University, United States

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
2019 - Current Expert participation in the The Negative Campaigning Comparative Expert Survey (NEGex) on Portugal and Cape Verde Universiteit van Amsterdam Afdeling Communicatiewetenschap, Netherlands
2017 - Current Expert participation in the World Press Freedom Index survey on Portugal and Cape Verde Reporters sans frontières, France

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/11/13 Sara Ocidental: ataques aéreos e disparos ao longo do muro construído por Marrocos amplificam “risco real de escalada” do conflito Expresso

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/02 - Current Estudos da Comunicação
2023/07 - Current Central European Journal of Communication
2016 - Current Sur le journalisme About journalism Sobre jornalismo (2295-0729) Associacao Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Jornalismo
2012 - Current International Journal of Journalism & Mass Communication (2349-2635) Graphy Publications
2011 - Current Communication and Media Studies Sage
2011 - Current Brazilian Journalism Research (1981-9854) Associacao Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Jornalismo
2009 - Current PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
2009 - Current Análise Social
Distinctions

Other distinction

2020 Ranked 1st in the Media and Communication panel of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (3rd Edition)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2010 US - European Foreign Policy Challenges
2006 Bolsa Pós-Doutoramento/Post-Doctoral Grant (SFRH/BPD/26350/2006)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1998 Bolsa de Doutoramento/PhD Grant (BD15748/98)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1996 Vitorino de Sousa award to the best final classification of the BA in Communication at Escola Superior de Jornalismo (18 marks out of 20)