Official Code: | D021 |
Acronym: | DCCI |
Description: | The PhD in Communication and Information Sciences is taught by lecturers from the Department of Communication and Information Sciences, most of whom are researchers from CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre ‘Culture, Space and Memory’), an R&D unit funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. This Doctoral Programme is a strategic instrument for articulating with CITCEM's Research Group on Information, Communication and Digital Culture. |
O1. To problematize and question the role of different agents in the formation of public opinion.
O2. Discuss and analyze the means and resources that power uses in democratic societies to control public opinion;
O3. Reflect and envision new models of strategic communication.
O4. Map and problematize the sibylline weight of the source of information in the construction of supposed realities;
O5. To promote critical thinking about the regulatory theory and practice of media, telecommunications, and communication.
s.O6. Analyze the functioning of the media ecosystem and its impacts on social dynamics, economic and technological policies.
O7. Enhance critical thinking about the conceptions of public policies for the diversity of contents and the cultural and creative industry.
O8. Identify the economic context, the competitive factors and the strategies of media and culture organizations to enhance the sustainability of activities and operations.
1. To understand the epistemological integration of Information Management in the evolution of Information Science, discussing and articulating it, in its transversal dimension, with the problematics of Management in general (various contexts) and the current challenges of digital management platforms at the raising of Artificial Intelligence;
2. To know in-depth, as a result of an active collection and monographic analysis of cases, the models and practices in GI, and being theoretically and methodologically able to identify and to understand problems and situations and, also having practical or applicational sensitivity;
3. Articulate the theoretical-practical specificities of this CU with the students' thesis projects, in particular those that clearly fall within the scope of Information Science.- to promote understanding, analysis and discussion about systems thinking and the various typologies of systems and their characterization;
- to promote the acquisition of knowledge, understanding and discussion on the evolution of information services over time until the present;
- to stimulate the ability to analyze and evaluate information services, namely digital ones, taking into account the needs of Information access and use.
The objectives are articulated with the teaching method followed, based largely on debates in class and carrying out assignments, seeking that students are able to:
- carry out a critical analysis of systemic theory and its application in the field of CIS;
- analyze different information systems, in their components of production and use of information
- designing models of information services, taking into account the needs of production, access and use of information;
- evaluate the efficiency of information services