Cátia Ferreira

Professor Auxiliar

Bio

Doutorada em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Atualmente é Professora Auxiliar da FCH-UCP,  onde coordena a Licenciatura em Comunicação Social e Cultural e a Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Marketing de Conteúdos. É investigadora no Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura desde 2008. Já participou em diversos projetos de investigação nacionais e internacionais, sendo de destacar a participação em curso no projeto de Investigação da Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, de Madrid: ‘Las nuevas competências de la prensa deportiva de papel en el futuro ecossistema digital’ e no projeto de investigação europeu: COMPACT: Social Media and Convergence, financiado pela União Europeia, Horizon 2020. Já integrou, também, diversas ações da rede europeia COST, financiadas pela European Science Foundation. As suas áreas de investigação e docência centram-se nos estudos dos media digitais, com enfoque em: jogos digitais, media sociais e dispositivos móveis, comunicação audiovisual e multimédia, estratégias emergentes de produção de conteúdos, como transmedia e cross-media, marketing de conteúdos e leitura e edição digital.
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Creativity at play

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2026. Tripodos
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Creativity at Play: Content-Creators and Micro-Entrepreneurship in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2026. Tripodos
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Exploring Friction in Refugee Narratives

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2026. Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
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Training4all project - from an advanced minimally invasive surgery course to a national training program

Cátia Ferreira (with Gonçalves, M.R.). 2026. Journal of Robotic Surgery
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Co-Creating Narratives

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025.
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Digital games as safe places

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. Open Cultural Studies
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Gaming for Social Change: Sharmila and the Representation of Otherness

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. International Journal of Games and Social Impact
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Genre, Bias, and Narrative Logic in AI Dungeon: Generative AI as a Game-Based Storytelling Engine

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. Hipertext.net
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Narrating illness through play: a multimodal analysis of That Dragon, Cancer

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. Health & New Media Research
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Portuguese Alternative Media in the Platform Era

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. Estudos em Comunicação
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Victorian Times Reimagined: The case of 80 Days

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2025. Via Panorâmica
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representation of borders as historic liminal spaces in digital games

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Cátia Ferreira). 2024. Observatorio (OBS*)
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The representation of borders as historic liminal spaces in digital games: The case of Papers, Please!

Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2024. Observatorio
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Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2022. Transforming magazines: rethinking the medium in the digital age
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Mapping Digital Magazines: Reading as a Practice of Disconnection

Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2022. Transforming magazines: rethinking the medium in the digital age
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Empatia pós-humana

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2021. XVI Congresso Ibercom 2019
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Managing the flow of time

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2020. Making time for digital lives
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Managing the Flow of Time: Disconnection through Apps

Cátia Ferreira (with Ganito, C.). 2020. Making Time for Digital Lives Beyond Chronotopia
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Mapping digital magazines

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2020. Mapping the Magazine 6 Proceedings Book
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The portuguese esports ecosystem: An exploratory approach

Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science
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Constructing and Deconstructing Gender in Second Life

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Cátia Ferreira). 2017. Discrimination and Diversity
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Constructing and deconstructing gender in second life

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2016. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development
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Me and my stereotyped avatar

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2016. Culture, Technology, Communication
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Women and digital reading

Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2016. Gender in focus
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Second life: The emergence of a new moneyscape

Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2015. Cultural Life of Money
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Networks of belonging

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Patrícia Dias). 2013. Transforming audiences, transforming societies
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Networks of belonging: between mediation and connection

Patrícia Dias & Cátia Ferreira (with Patrícia Dias). 2013. Transforming audiences, transforming societies
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Networks of belonging: Interaction, participation and consumption of mediatised content

Cátia Ferreira (with Cordeiro, P.). 2013. Audience Transformations Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
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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
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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
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Digital reading: The transformation of reading practices

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
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Editorial

Cátia Ferreira , Margarida Gaspar de Matos & Carla Ganito (with Rita Figueiras). 2012. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
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From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone

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

Rita Figueiras , Carla Ganito & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
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Memory and heritage in second life: Recreating lisbon in a virtual world

Cátia Ferreira (with Ferreira, C.). 2012. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
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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
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Serialized participatory culture

Cátia Ferreira & Carla Ganito (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Observatorio (OBS*)
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Serialized Participatory Culture

Cátia Ferreira 2012. Observatório (OBS*), Special issue “Networked Belonging and Networks of Belonging” – COST ACTION ISO906, “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”
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Serialized participatory culture: the digital transformation of youth audiences

Catarina Duff Burnay & Cátia Ferreira (with Carla Ganito). 2012. Observatorio (OBS*)
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Free to (dis)connect?

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