Nome: Catarina Duff Burnay
PhD (2011) in Communication Sciences at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), with a project about Azorean television fiction. She has a Master’s in Communication Sciences (2004) and a Degree in Social and Cultural Communication (2000) from UCP. She has been a Lecturer at the Human Sciences Faculty (FCH/UCP) since 2002, where she teaches Publics and Audiences in the Social and Cultural Communication course. She is a member of the FCH Journal Comunicação & Cultura, a scientific assistant of the Communication and Culture Research Centre (CECC/FCH/UCP) and pedagogical assistant of the Pos-Graduation in Television and Cinema (FCH/UCP). She collaborates with the Investigation Centre for Media and Journalism (CIMJ) and is a member of the Portuguese team of the Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory (OBITEL).
Her main research areas are television studies and fiction contents and she has presented her research works in national and international conferences and seminars.
She has also published some scientific papers and a book chapter, as author and co-author, including: “Portugal: hegemonia da ficção nacional em tempos de crise”, in I. Lopes, L. Vilches (coords): Anuário Obitel 2006, Barcelona, Gedisa, 2007 (with I. Ferin/U. Coimbra); “Identidade e Identidades na Ficção Televisiva Nacional – 2000-2005”, in Comunicação & Cultura. A Cor dos Media, n.º 1, Lisboa, Quimera, 2006; “Ficção Nacional: a emergência de um novo paradigma televisivo”, in A. Fidalgo e P. Serra (orgs.): Visões Disciplinares. Actas 3.º volume CCC 2004, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2005; “A Telenovela e o Público: uma relação escondida”, in Media & Jornalismo. Investigação e Globalização, n.º 6, Lisboa, CIMJ, 2005; and “Domestic Soap Operas Overtake Brazilian Imports – Portuguese TV Fiction in 2001”, in M. Audiovisual Observatory, 2002 (with I. Ferin, R. Cádima, L. Gameiro, M. Fernandes).
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