Personal identification

Full name

Joana Milhazes da Cunha

Citation names

• Milhazes-Cunha, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

991A-8337-00F5

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5611-7804

Knowledge fields

• Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2025 Ongoing	Doctoral Program in Communication (Doutoramento) (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in História e Teoria da Comunicação Universidade de Vigo, Spain
2021 Concluded	Assessoria em Comunicação Digital (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal "Médicos pela Verdade, Mentira e Ódio " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/07/31 Concluded	Línguas Aplicadas (Licenciatura) Major in Relações Empresariais Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - Current	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Publications

Conference abstract	Milhazes-Cunha, Joana; Oliveira, Luciana; Célia Tavares. "Cross-generational determinants of the ability to identify fake news in Portugal". Paper presented in Congreso Universitario, Internacional sobre Comunicación, Innovación, Investigación y Docencia, 2023. Published Milhazes-Cunha, Joana; Luciana Oliveira. "Echoing hate speech The case of the r/Portuguese reddit community". Paper presented in Congreso Universitario, Internacional sobre Comunicación, Innovación, Investigación y Docencia, 2023. Published
Conference paper	Milhazes-Cunha, Joana; Oliveira, Luciana. "TRUST ME, I AM A DOCTOR! CONSPIRACY THEORIES, HATE SPEECH AND DISINFORMATION ABOUT COVID-19 ON SOCIAL MEDIA ECHO-CHAMBERS". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2021. Published • 10.21125/edulearn.2021.0949
Conference poster	Milhazes-Cunha, Joana; Luciana Oliveira. "Doctors for anything but the truth: investigating COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook". Paper presented in ECSM 2021 8th European Conference on Social Media, 2021.
Journal article	Milhazes-Cunha, Joana; Oliveira, Luciana. "Doctors for the Truth: Echo Chambers of Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Authority Bias on Social Media". Societies 13 10 (2023): 226. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc13100226. Published • 10.3390/soc13100226