Maria José Brites

Education

Maria José Brites is Assistant professor at Lusófona University of Porto and researcher at CICANT. She is the Portuguese coordinator of the European project Media In Action – MIA (LC-00644630; http://mediainaction.eu). She was coordinator (in Portugal) of the RadioActive project (531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3). She is a member of two cost actions (COST IS1401 and COST IS1410) and one cross-national collaborative project (News as Democratic Resources: Cross Cultural Comparative Research). Her research interests include: Youth, journalism and participation, Audience studies and News and civic literacy. website: http://anlitemedia.com