Research Interests
The core faculty of PósCom represents a unique convergence of expertise that enhances the academic and interdisciplinary potential of the program. Around 63% of the faculty hold doctoral degrees in Communication, while the others come from complementary fields such as Education, Philosophy, Geography, Psychology, and Sociology. This creates a rich and multifaceted space of dialogue, essential for addressing contemporary challenges in the field of Communication and Territorialities.
Each permanent faculty member is encouraged to develop a research agenda that aligns their investigations, supervision, and publications with the program's research lines.
FACULTY – RESEARCH LINE 1: Communication and Power
Research in this line focuses on narratives, discourse, meaning-making, visual culture in social networks and journalism, and the impacts of power and counter-power structures that contribute to processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Faculty members in this line include:
Cicilia Maria Krohling Peruzzo
Popular, community, and alternative communication; Independent, local, and regional media; Critical perspectives on public relations; Social movements, communication, and citizenship; Epistemology of scientific research; Communication, decoloniality, and Buen Vivir.
Emerson Campos Gonçalves
Literary Journalism and Literature; Philosophy, Culture, and Communication (Critical Theory of Society); Semiotics and Language Studies; Culture Industry and semi-formative processes; Social Media and Media Convergence.
Guillermo Mastrini (Visiting Professor)
Public communication policies; Platform regulation; Cultural economy; Media ownership concentration and communication systems.
José Edgard Rebouças
Cultural and media industries; Communication policy; Political economy of communication; Media and human rights; Media democratization; Combating disinformation.
Rafael Bellan Rodrigues de Souza
Communication and labor; Journalism theory; Media and hegemony; Social movements and media activism.
Rafael da Silva Paes Henriques
Journalism theories; News coverage analysis.
Ruth de Cássia dos Reis
Digital social networks; Journalism; Organizational communication; Public communication; Narratives and discourse.
FACULTY – RESEARCH LINE 2: Communicational Aesthetics and Languages
This line focuses on the relationship between communication and territorialities through aesthetics, languages, and discourses found in practices, processes, and communicational products. Key topics include city and culture; consumption and advertising; body and image; media and identity; technologies and new media arrangements; cyberculture; audiovisualities; and feminism. Faculty members include:
Antônio Carlos Queiroz Filho
Game Studies and Digital Territorialities: Narrative and narrativity in games; Affective cartographies of gameplay; Games and aesthetic experience; Interactive storytelling; Transmedia narratives in video games; In-game photography.
Communicational Aesthetics and Geo-visual Languages: Urban territorialities and visual representations; Spatial politics of images and their territorial implications; Cinematic geographies and territorial narratives; Poetic narratives of everyday urban life; Poetic narratives and cultural cartographies; Bottom-up urbanism as reterritorialization practice; Gamification and serious games for territorial engagement; Visualization technologies and narrative construction; Artistic practices and locative media; Intersections between digital aesthetics and virtual territorialities.
Arthur Fiel
Public policy and cultural/audiovisual funding; Audiovisual production; Histories and politics of Brazilian cinema and audiovisual media; Children’s content; Film analysis; Cinema, education, and human rights; Media representations and sociocultural practices.
Daniela Zanetti
Audiovisual culture in digital networks; Peripheral audiovisual narratives and minority discourse; Communication and the platformization of culture; Interactive and immersive media; Communication and socio-environmental issues.
Elisa Fabris de Oliveira
Advertising, Communication, and Social Psychology; New advertising formats and paradigms; Social representations and representativity; Youth experiences and sociability.
Fábio Gomes Goveia
Image and technology; Communicational aesthetics in contemporary society; Data sphere, platformization, and data visualization; Aesthetic and power dynamics in data culture; Development of technologies and methodologies for social network analysis; Digital platforms and social behavior; Technology and culture.
Flávia Mayer dos Santos Souza
Communication, advertising, and meaning-making; Advertising and the city; Consumption territoriality; Brand discourse.
Gabriela Santos Alves
Feminine identities and audiovisual culture; Representativity in audiovisual media; Contemporary feminist theory and criticism; Gender and race relations.
Livia Souza
Material culture, consumption, and rituals; Brands and meaning-making in a mediatized society; Advertising and representations of consumption.
Pedro Silva Marra
Soundscapes and spaces; Sound and social mobilization; Communication and urban cultures; Communication and sports; Popular music: genres and scenes; Sound technologies: music, sound art, radio, and audio for audiovisual media.
