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Fernando Governo holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media at the UT Austin | Portugal Program. His main research interests focus on how the process of convergence involving the audiovisual, informatics, and telecommunication industries have affected the film industry and the online streaming video services.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Fernando Manuel Pereira Governo

Citation names

  • Governo, Fernando

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
071A-0226-831E
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4371-6220

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018
Concluded
 Digital Media (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"A Social Content Network Proposal for World Films: Three Essays on the Topic" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved - unanimous decision
2010
Concluded
 Marketing (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"A cross-country analysis of the demand for "art house" vs. "mainstream" cinema films. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009
Concluded
 Filmmaking (Film Direction) (Curso médio)
New York Film Academy, United States
2007 - 2007
Concluded
 Multimedia Producer (Curso médio)
Alquimia da Cor, Portugal
2007
Concluded
 Master Business Administration (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Economia e da Empresa, Portugal
2002 - 2002
Concluded
 Curso de Marketing (Curso médio)
Escola Superior de Negócios Atlântico, Portugal
2001
Concluded
 Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/01/01 - 2015/12 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/02 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/01 - 2015/12 DIGITAL FILM ECONOMICS: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND FOR ONLINE FILMS. HOW WILL THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AFFECT THE FILM CONSUMERS AND HOW GOING DIGITAL AND ONLINE COULD HELP INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
Provided by PTCRIS: SFRH/BD/51744/2011
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. "Merging social computing with content: a proposal of a new film platform, Avids". Behaviour & Information Technology 39 10 (2020): 1039-1061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2019.1641227.
    10.1080/0144929x.2019.1641227
  2. "Social Multimedia Computing: An Emerging Area of Research and Business for Films". Journal of Creative Communications 12 1 (2017): 31-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973258616688967.
    10.1177/0973258616688967
  3. "Marketing and technology sophistication as key determinants of the demand for ‘art house’ cinema films: A cross country analysis". Tékhne 12 1-2 (2014): 15-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tekhne.2014.05.001.
    10.1016/j.tekhne.2014.05.001
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Fernando Manuel Pereira Governo. "A Social Content Network Proposal for World Films: Three Essays on the Topic". PhD, 2018. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/113419.
  2. Governo, Fernando Manuel Pereira. "A cross-country analysis of the demand for "art house" vs. "mainstream" cinema films.". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/56122.

Other

Other output
  1. Marketing and technology sophistication as hidden weapons for fostering the demand for 'art house' cinema films: a cross country analysis. Existing studies on the motion picture industry tend to explore demand for cinema films focusing only on a single country, aiming to assess the probability of a movie's success. This means that the determinants of consumer demand, from a cross-country perspective, are relatively unexplored. The international film industry may be seen as offering two heterogeneous products falling into two experien. 2011. Fernando Governo; Aurora Teixeira. http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/2086.
Distinctions

Other distinction

2012 Bolsa de Investigação (doutoramento)/PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal