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José Afonso Quintela Melo Biscaia. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Estados membros; Democracia liberal; Estado de direito; Tratado da União Europeia; Regimes políticos; União Europeia; Polónia; Hungria; Liberal democracy; State capture; Article 2 TEU; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas; ODS::04:Educação de Qualidade; ODS::16:Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes; .
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Afonso Quintela Melo Biscaia

Citation names

  • Biscaia, Afonso

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B21C-5098-C0DB

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Political Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10 - 2023/06
Ongoing
 Política Comparada (Doutoramento)
Major in Política Comparada
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
"Radical Right-Wing Populist Online Communication Logic in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/10/18
Concluded
 Estudos sobre a Europa (Mestrado)
Universidade Aberta Departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão, Portugal
"A inversão da marcha democrática na Hungria e na Polónia e a sua relação com a União Europeia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014/06/18
Concluded
 Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/10 - 2016/12 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/10 - Current Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/05/02 - Current (The Matrix of) Populist and Denialist Attitudes towards Science
PTDC/CPO-CPO/4361/2021
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021 - Current Radical Right-Wing Populist Online Communication Logic in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil
2021.07542.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/10 - 2016/12 European Social Survey (ESS)
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNSF/Infrastructure/10FI13-111482/CH
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/09 - Current Streams of Hate and Untruth?
PTDC/CPO-CPO/28495/2017
Assistente de Investigação
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Afonso Biscaia; Salgado, Susana. "A importância das palavras e dos tópicos: uma análise do Chega no Twitter". In Portugal Ingovernável? Da maioria absoluta à absoluta minoria, 75-78. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2024.
    Published
  2. Salgado, Susana; Biscaia, Afonso; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos. "The Old Meets the New: "Old" Political Communication Concepts in a "New" Social Media Era". In Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication, 1-12. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-45335-9_1
  3. Afonso Biscaia; Susana Salgado. "Placing the Portuguese radical right-wing populist Chega into context: Political communication and links to French, Italian and Spanish right-wing populist actors". In Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy, edited by Dolors Palau-Sampio; Guillermo López García; Laura Ianne. Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global, 2022.
    Submitted
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Salgado, Susana; Biscaia, Afonso. "The Ethnic Heritage of Party Politics and Political Communication in Lusophone African Countries". In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1352.
    10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1352
Journal article
  1. Biscaia, Afonso. "Look at this! Radical right-wing populist information sharing practices on Twitter in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil". International Communication Gazette (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17480485241290118.
    10.1177/17480485241290118
  2. Salgado, Susana; Fernández-García, Belén; Biscaia, Afonso. "Shades of incivility in Reddit: A comparison between echo chambers and plural spaces". International Social Science Journal (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/issj.12536.
    10.1111/issj.12536
  3. Salgado, Susana; Gil Zúñiga, Homero; da Silva, Pedro Alcântara; Biscaia, Afonso; Coimbra, Miguel E.; Martins, Bruno; Francisco, Alexandre. "Assessing the Prevalence and Predictors of Incivility in Online News Comments Across Six Countries". Journalism Practice (2023): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2246431.
    Published • 10.1080/17512786.2023.2246431
Newspaper article
  1. Salgado, Susana; Biscaia, Afonso; Barretos, Maria. "O radical é o novo normal?", Público, 2024
Report
  1. Biscaia, Afonso; Salgado, Susana. 2024. The 2024 European Elections and Right-wing Populism in Portugal. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/rp0080.
    10.55271/rp0080
  2. Biscaia, Afonso; Salgado, Susana. 2023. The Ukraine-Russia war and the Far Right in Portugal: Minimal impacts on the rising populist Chega party. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/rp0026.
    10.55271/rp0026
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Biscaia, José Afonso Quintela Melo. "A inversão da marcha democrática na Hungria e na Polónia e a sua relação com a União Europeia". Master, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/8746.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/18 The impact of media use on the relation between anti-elitist attitudes and trust in science: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal 10th International Journal of Press/Politics Conference
International Journal of Press Politics (Edimburgo, United Kingdom)
2024/09/26 Populism, Denialism, and Conspiracy Theories: A Survey Approach
PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory ERC (Tallinn, Estonia)
2024/08/15 Tales of trust? A study of the interplay of populism, denialism, and conspiracy thinking on attitudes ECPR General Conference, 2024
European Consortium for Political Research (Dublin, Ireland)
2024/06/21 Political Denialism: conceptualization and discussion ECPR Standing Group on the European Union
European Consortium for Political Research (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05/04 The How and Why of Incivility in Newspapers’ Comments Sections Hate Speech: How to Counteract?
Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2021/12/11 The leader of the "righteous Portuguese": analysing the populist political discourse of André Ventura and Chega New Zealand Discourse Conference
University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
2021/09/30 Radical Right-Wing Populist Digital Politics in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil APSA Annual Meeting
American Political Science Association (Seattle, United States)
2021/05 Radical Right-Wing Populist Polarization in Portuguese and Brazilian Social Media Joint Sessions - Virtual Event
European Consortium for Political Research (Praga, Czech Republic)
2020/08 Hate in Echo Chambers and Plural Environments: An Analysis of Reddit's Communities ECPR General Conference 2020
European Consortium for Political Research (Innsbruck, Austria)
2019/11/09 As dissidências anticomunistas na Europa Central e de Leste e a construção de regimes sucessores Comunismos e dissidências políticas
Centro de Estudos Sociais - Universidade de Coimbra (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/10/07 - 2020/10/10 Moderação e facilitação de diálogo sobre como a Internet é entendida pelos cidadãos no mundo, com o objetivo de fazer recomendações aos decisores políticos sobre a governança da internet.
Other
 Diálogo Global de Cidadãos sobre a Internet - "Nós e a Internet"
Missions Publiques, France
2020/06/29 - 2020/07/03 Escola de Verão em Análise de Dados Qualitativos Assistida por MAXQDA
Other
 Escola de Verão em Análise de Dados Qualitativos Assistida por MAXQDA
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018/10 - Current Introdução ao Direito Ciências Sociais (Licenciatura) Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 ERICS - Estímulo e Reconhecimento à Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais

Other distinction

2021 Carta de Mérito Académico
Universidade Aberta, Portugal