PhD in Social Sciences, ICS/UL (2010).
Present research areas: in individual projects, History of advertising in Portugal; the crowd in Portuguese literature; Portuguese popular journalism. In a project research area, visual culture and propaganda in the Portuguese New State.
Author of 19 books, the latest being: A Greve Geral de 1903 no Porto (2018); Televisão do Século XXI (2018). Author of scientific articles such as "The Intertextuality of Works of Art in Advertising" (2015), "Durkheim's Concealed Sociology of the Crowd" (2015) and "Essai sur le don à la télévision" (2015).
Assistant invited professor, ISCTE-IUL. Journalist since 1983. Media critic in the press since 1996. Author of pedagogic materials for the Ministry of Education. Research at the CECC and the CIES 20. Member of the Editorial Board of Lumina. Member of the Portuguese PEN Club. He has no posts at the FCH.