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PhD in Communication Sciences. Associate Professor and Coordinator of International Relations at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (FCH- UCP). Carla Ganito is a main researcher at CECC where she coordinates the group on “Digital Literacy and Cultural Change. She has been an MC member of the COST Action IS1404 - Evolution of reading in the age of digitization (E-READ). Carla Ganito lectures in the fields of digital communication, cyberculture, digital transformation. Her research has four main axes: mobile technologies, gender and technology, digital literacy, namely digital reading, and digital life and cultural change. From the most recent publications: (2018) Gendering old age: The role of mobile phones in the experience of aging for women, IGI; (2017) “Gendering the mobile phone: A life course approach, in Digital Technologies and Generational Identity: ICT Usage Across the Life Course, Routledge [book chapter]; (2016) Women Speak: Gendering the Mobile Phone, UCP [book].
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Património Cultural e Transformação Digital
Ilharco, F. (Project Coordinator), Hanenberg, P. (Project Coordinator), Lopes, M. D. S. (Project Coordinator), Barbosa, Á. (Researcher), Cachola, A. C. (Researcher), Ganito, C. (Researcher), Ferreira, C. (Researcher), Guerreiro, D. (Researcher), Andrade, J. G. (Researcher), Santos, L. (Researcher), Roque, M. I. (Researcher), Dias, P. (Researcher), Pinto, P. C. (Researcher) & Dix, S. (Researcher)
1/01/18 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
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E-READ: COST Action IS1404: Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation
Ganito, C. (CoPI), Ferreira, C. (Researcher), Costa, A. (CoPI), Barzillai, M. (PI), Jacobs, A. (PI) & Schilhab, T. (PI)
28/11/14 → 30/04/19
Project: Research
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COST Action | Transforming audiences, transforming societies
Ganito, C. (Researcher), Ferreira, C. (Researcher), Dias, P. (Researcher), Burnay, C. D. (Researcher), Cordeiro, P. (CoPI) & Ponte, C. (CoPI)
22/05/12 → 21/05/16
Project: Research
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Digital games as safe places: the case of animal crossing
Ferreira, C., Ganito, C. & Gonçalves, S., 30 Jan 2025, In: Open Cultural Studies. 9, 1, 15 p., 20240033.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Navigating ageing in transnational families: the role of digital technologies
Barros, C. & Ganito, C., 2025, HCI International 2024 - late breaking papers. Antona, M., Stephanidis, C., Gao, Q. & Zhou, J. (eds.). Springer, p. 149-157 9 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15379 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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The representation of borders as historic liminal spaces in digital games: the case of papers, please!
Ferreira, C. & Ganito, C., 29 Mar 2024, In: Observatorio. 18, 1, p. 60-72 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mapping digital magazines: reading as a practice of disconnection
Ferreira, C. & Ganito, C., 28 Jul 2022, Transforming magazines: rethinking the medium in the digital age. Cardoso, C. R. (ed.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 238-248Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Curated lives: smartphones as tools of control, anticipation and avoidance
Ganito, C., 2021, Media and Uncertainty: 2nd Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication. Ribeiro, N., Zelizer, B., Lee, F., Kunelius, R. & Banet-Weiser, S. (eds.). Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, p. 24-30 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Activities
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Factors in the Ageing Process: Technologies, Gender and Space
Ganito, C. (Speaker) & Barros, C. (Speaker)
6 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Navigating ageing in Portuguese transnational families: the role of digital technologies
Barros, C. (Speaker) & Ganito, C. (Speaker)
2 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Papers, Please!: digital games and the representation of borders as historic liminal spaces
Ganito, C. (Speaker) & Ferreira, C. (Speaker)
11 Jul 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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XVI Seminário Internacional OBITEL: A ficção televisiva em tempos de pandemia
Ribeiro, N. (Chair), Ganito, C. (Chair), Burnay, C. D. (Organiser), Lopes, P. (Organiser), Carvalho, A. L. C. (Participant), Félix, J. (Participant), de Sousa, M. N. (Participant), Torres, E. C. (Chair), Valdigem, C. (Chair), Ferreira, C. (Chair) & Fonseca, I. A. (Chair)
26 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Convivial Cultures
Santos, L. (Organiser), Martins, A. (Chair), Gonçalves, D. (Organiser), Abrantes, A. M. (Chair), Faria, L. L. D. (Chair), Gil, I. C. (Chair), Hanenberg, P. (Chair), Matoso, A. (Chair), Moura, J. (Chair), Ganito, C. (Chair), Ganito, T. (Chair), Ribeiro, N. (Chair), Pinto, P. C. (Chair), Faria, R. (Organiser), Maurício, A. F. (Chair), Maia, R. B. (Organiser) & Maurício, A. F. (Organiser)
28 Jun 2021 → 3 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...