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José Bragança de Miranda

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Media Arts Creative Industries and Technology

José A. Bragança de Miranda has a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon, with an aggregation in "Theory of Culture" at the same University. He is currently a Full Professor at the Lusophone University, a researcher at Cicant, and a collaborator at ICnova (UNL). He was the director of ECATI - School of Communication Sciences, Architecture, Arts, and Information Technologies at the Lusophone University. He is a member of SOPCOM - Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences, which he co-founded and was a board member. He curated the project Ligações_Links_Liaisons for Porto2001 - European capital of culture, in collaboration with Maria Teresa Cruz, which resulted in the book Critique of Connections in the Age of Technique (Tropismos, 2002). He was President of the Communication Sciences panel of the FCT, President of the Jury for Documentary (2006) at Icam, a member of the BESphoto award jury, and a member of the Jury of the Luso-Spanish Culture Prize. He has taught in the areas of Theory of Culture and Contemporary Arts, Media Theory, and Digital Aesthetics. He is the author of numerous essays and interventions in the most diverse areas of contemporary culture, with his publications including the books Analytics of Current Affairs, Politics and Modernity, Traits. Essays on Contemporary Culture, Theory of Culture, Synthesis, Albuquerque Mendes or the Ardor of Art, Endless Fall, Shipments. A philosophical experimentation in Blogs, Body and Image, and Jorge Molder. His latest book Constellations: Essays on Technique and Culture in Contemporaneity was published by Documento in September 2023. He has been serving as Rector of the Lusophone University since December 2022.

Education

1990: Doutoramento. PhD. Ciências da Comunicação. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Portugal.