Cátia Ferreira

Assistant Professor

Generic Bio

PhD in Communication Studies from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is currently Assistant Professor at FCH-UCP and coordinator of the BA in Social and Cultural Communication and of the Post-Graduate Course in Communication and Content Marketing: Content Marketing Strategies for the Digital Context. She has been a researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture since 2008. She has participated in several national and international research projects, to highlight the ongoing participation in the Research project of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid: ‘Las nuevas competências de la prensa deportiva de papel en el futuro ecossistema digital’ and in the European research project: COMPACT: Social Media and Convergence, funded by the European Union, Horizon 2020. She has also integrated several actions of the European COST network, funded by the European Science Foundation. Her areas of research and teaching focus on digital media studies, particularly on: digital games, social media and mobile devices, audiovisual and multimedia communication, emerging content production strategies, such as transmedia and cross-media, content marketing and digital reading and publishing.
Paper

representation of borders as historic liminal spaces in digital games

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Cátia Ferreira). 2024. Observatorio (OBS*)
Book Chapter

Mapping Digital Magazines: Reading as a Practice of Disconnection

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2022. Transforming magazines: rethinking the medium in the digital age
Other

Empatia pós-humana

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2021. XVI Congresso Ibercom 2019
Book Chapter

Managing the flow of time

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2020. Making Time for Digital Lives
Other

Mapping digital magazines

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Catia Ferreira). 2020. Mapping the Magazine 6 Proceedings Book
Book Chapter

The Portuguese eSports Ecosystem: An Exploratory Approach

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2019.
Paper

Constructing and deconstructing gender in second life

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2016. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development
Other

Me and my stereotyped avatar

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2016. Culture, Technology, Communication
Book Chapter

Women and digital reading

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2016. Gender in focus
Book

Second life: The emergence of a new moneyscape

Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2015. The Cultural Life of Money
Book Chapter

Networks of belonging

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Patrícia Dias). 2013. Transforming audiences, transforming societies
Book Chapter

Networks of belonging: between mediation and connection

Patrícia Dias & Cátia Ferreira (with Dias, Patrícia). 2013. Transforming audiences, transforming societies
Book

Networks of belonging: Interaction, participation and consumption of mediatised content

Carla Ganito, Cátia Ferreira & Patrícia Dias (with Cordeiro, P.). 2013. Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
Paper

Digital reading: The transformation of reading practices

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Cardoso, G.). 2012. ELPUB 2012 - Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay Between Culture and Technology, 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
Paper

Editorial

Cátia Ferreira & Margarida Gaspar de Matos (with José Luís Pais Ribeiro). 2012.
Book Chapter

From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Catia Ferreira). 2012. New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community, and Politics
Paper

Media’s toxic knowledge

Rita Figueiras , Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
Paper

Memory and heritage in Second Life: Recreating Lisbon in a virtual world

Book Chapter

Mobile Family Frames - From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone: A Portuguese Case Study

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Cátia Ferreira). 2012. New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community, and Politics
Paper

Serialized Participatory Culture

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Observatorio (OBS*)
Opinion article

Serialized Participatory Culture

Cátia Ferreira 2012. Observatório (OBS*), Special issue “Networked Belonging and Networks of Belonging” – COST ACTION ISO906, “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”
Paper

Serialized Participatory Culture: The Digital Transformation of Youth Audiences

Catarina Duff Burnay & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Observatorio (OBS*)
Paper

Free to (dis)connect?

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). Journal of Digital Media and Policy
Book

Panic and Mourning