Director of the Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho

Moisés de Lemos Martins

Moisés de Lemos Martins is a full professor in the Communication Sciences Department at the University of Minho. He heads the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), which he founded in 2001. He is editor of the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies. He is the director of the Ph. D. in Cultural Studies programme that results from a partnership between the Universities of Minho and Aveiro. He’s the president of SOPCOM — the Portuguese Association for Communication Sciences; Lusocom — the Federation of Lusophone Associations for Communication Sciences; and Confibercom — the Ibero-American Confederation of Scientific and Academic Associations for Communications. He was awarded a Ph. D. in Social Sciences (specializing in Sociology) by the University of Strasbourg and he has published work on the Sociology of Culture, Social Semiotics, Sociology of Communication, Cross-cultural Communication, and Lusophone Studies. He published or edited several books, namely: Do Post ao Postal (with Maria da Luz Correia, 2014); Crise no Castelo da Cultura (2011); L’imaginaire des médias (with Michel Maffesoli, 2011); Portugal Ilustrado em Postais — Viana do Castelo, Braga, Bragança, Viseu e Portalegre (with Madalena Oliveira, 2011); Caminhos nas Ciências Sociais (2010); Comunicação e Lusofonia (with Helena Sousa and Rosa Cabecinhas, 2006); A Linguagem, a Verdade e o Poder (2002); Para uma Inversa Navegação (1996); and O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista (1990).