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Doutorado em Ciências da Comunicação. Atua na área de Ciências Sociais com ênfase nas Ciências da Comunicação e Ciência Política. É investigador do Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra (UC), onde integra a linha temática de Democracia, Justiça e Direitos Humanos. No CES, Manuel João Cruz integra o projeto "UNPOP: Desmontar o Populismo: Comparando a formação de narrativas da emoção e os seus efeitos no comportamento político". Principais interesses de investigação: Media, Populismo, Democracia, Estudos Narrativos. PhD in Communication Sciences. He works in the field of Social Sciences, with an emphasis on Communication Sciences and Political Science. He is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he is part of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights thematic line. At CES, Manuel João Cruz is part of the project ‘UNPOP: Dismantling Populism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour’. Main research interests: Media, Populism, Democracy, Narrative Studies.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Manuel João Cruz

Citation names

  • Cruz, M. J.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
ED11-0943-2119
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6134-063X

Email addresses

  • manuelcruz@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/11/06 - 2024
Concluded
Communication Sciences (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"The Populist Narrative in the Portuguese Parliament" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/09/15 - 2020/09/04
Concluded
Applied Communication (Mestrado)
Major in Comunicação Estratégica
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Educação de Viseu, Portugal
"Fake News & Disinformation: A case study at a higher education institution in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/09/15 - 2012/06/15
Concluded
Communication Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/03/21 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/04/11 - 2024/03/20 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/02/05 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01/03 - 2021/01/04 Content Manager Direct Hit, Portugal
2019/06/01 - 2020/12/31 Voice analyst Pactera Edge, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2018/01/01 Author Comunidade, Cultura e Arte, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2013/06/01 Journalist Briefing, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/08/27 - 2020/10/27 Emotional Competences and Dropout Prevention in Higher Education
PROJ/CI&DETS/CGD/0004
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/04/11 - Current UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour
Post-doc
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Cruz, M.; Novo, C.; Cardoso, Ana Paula; Maria Inês Silva. "Modelos Tradicionais e Alternativos de Aprendizagem no Ensino Superior em Contexto Pandémico". In Competências emocionais e prevenção do abandono no Ensino Superior, 50-59. Viseu: Edições Esgotadas, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Cruz, Manuel; Morais, Nídia Salomé. "Fake news identification: are future communication professionals prepared?". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2020.
    Published • 10.21125/edulearn.2020.1959
  2. Morais, Nídia Salomé; Cruz, Manuel. "Gender perception about fake news and disinformation: case study with Portuguese higher education students". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2020.
    Published • 10.21125/edulearn.2020.1957
Edited book
  1. Gianolla, Cristiano; Mónico, Lisete; Cruz, M. J.; Izabel Weber. Book of Abstracts. International Colloquium 'Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy'. Coimbra, Portugal. 2024.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Cristiano Gianolla; Lisete Mónico; Manuel João Cruz. "Emotion Narratives on the Political Culture of Radical Right Populist Parties in Portugal and Italy". Politics and Governance (2024): https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8556.
    10.17645/pag.8556
  2. Morais, Nídia Salomé; Cardoso, Manuel. "Desinformação e fake news". Mediapolis – Revista de Comunicação, Jornalismo e Espaço Público 11 (2020): 27-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-6019_11_2.
    Published • 10.14195/2183-6019_11_2
Journal issue
  1. Cruz, M. J.; Indelicato, Maria Elena; Gianolla, Cristiano; Mónico, Lisete. "The Hydra Head of Populism". Journal of Intercultural Studies (2025):
    Accepted • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Maria Clara Paraíso; Cruz, M. J.. "Minds at the Ballot: Psychopathologies and Political Behaviour", Alice News, 2024, https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/index.php?lang=1&id=45096.
  2. Cruz, M.. "Understanding populism through the institutionalization of emotions: a mediatization perspective", Alice News, 2022, https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/index.php?lang=1&id=39120.
Online resource
  1. Cruz, M. J.; Gianolla, Cristiano; Mónico, Lisete. UNPOP Documentary - Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy. 2024.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "A Narrativa Populista do Chega na Assembleia da República". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, 2024. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/114977.
  2. Cruz, M.. "Fake News & Desinformação: Estudo de caso numa instituição de ensino superior em Portugal". Master, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, 2020. https://repositorio.ipv.pt/handle/10400.19/6442.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/17 The Construction of Populist Spaces: Bridges to Timeless Narratives 23ª CONFERÊNCIA OIDP VALONGO - Ameaças populistas: Construir a Resiliência Democrática com Comunidades Participativas
Câmara Municipal de Valongo (Valongo, Portugal)
2024/09/13 Populist Narratives and Political Cultures: Disputing Hegemony through Political Myth and Emotions IPSA 75th Anniversary Conference
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/05/04 Between the symbolic and the real: André Ventura as an empty signifier
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2024/04/30 Workshop MAXQDA
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/04/22 Workshop MAXQDA
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/03/15 Discourses and Dynamics of Contemporary Populism: Analysis and Perspectives
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2024/02/29 No fact without fiction: Narrative as an emancipatory tool
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
2024/01/24 Ideology vs populism in the emotion narratives of the portuguese Left Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/11/15 Populist Discourses and Dynamics Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2023/04/15 Narratives of Power: Stories that shape political reality
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2023/04/02 Discursos Populistas Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Letras
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/03/30 Paper presentation: "Cognitive Affective Representation of the political mythologies of right-most parties in the Portuguese and Italian Parliaments" XI Congresso da APCP
2023/03/17 No Fact without Fiction: Narrative as an Emancipatory Tool
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
2022/11/10 Re-appropriating populist flags to fight populism Media, Populismo e Corrupção
Faculdade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/25 Populist Narratives
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2022/07/20 The emotional dimension of the rise of the populist extreme right in Europe Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence
Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/15 - Current Minority Representations in Portugal and Italy (draft/temporary title)
Co-supervisor of Beatriz Carreira
Master in Clinical, Systemic and Health Psychology (Master) (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/07/25 Discriminated and violent? Social representations of minorities in the rise of populist Radical Right parties in Portugal and Italy
Co-supervisor of Sofia Gramaxo
Master in Clinical, Systemic and Health Psychology (Master) (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/23 - 2024/01/26 UNPOP International Colloquium - Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy (2023/01/24 - 2033/01/26)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/07/01 2nd Communication Sciences Conference (2022/06/01 - 2022/07/01)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/19 - 2024/09/19 Speaker
Round table
Emotional propaganda in the dysphoric temporalities of the far right
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/11/09 - 2022/11/10 Political mythologies of the right-wing (populist) parties in southern European parliaments
Seminar
Media, Populismo e Corrupção
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Comunicação da Nova, Portugal
2022/06/14 - 2022/06/15 Moderator
Conference
Communication Days II
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/12/12 - Current Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (2662-9992 (online)) Nature
2024/10/09 - 2024/10/09 Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (2572-7923) EnPress

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/05 - 2024/06/01 Communication Theories Jornalismo e Comunicação (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/04/21 ‘Populism contaminates discourse’ and there is a risk that other parties will adopt it Jornal de Notícias

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/02/05 - 2024/05/20 Participation in Research Project II Conde, B.; Costa, S.; Loureiro, B.; Vieira, I.; Paraíso, M.C.
2023/09/15 - 2024/02/15 Participation in Research Project I Vários
2023/02/09 - 2023/06/09 Participation in Research Project II Débora Boa Morte; Carolina Branco; Felipe Fukase
2022/09/10 - 2023/02/01 Participation in Research Project I Maria Meleiro; Inês Almeida; Andreia Silva; Laura Pimentel; Pedro Renda; Juliana Temi
2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22 Understand the relationship between populism and emotions Kénia Francisco; Ricardo Ribeiro; Tomás Francisco; Tomás Jesus; Rodrigo Sousa
Distinctions

Award

2012 Best university documentary
Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental e Transmedia, Portugal