Luis Filipe Teixeira
Encyclopedia
Luis Filipe de Bragança e Sousa da Silva Teixeira (born in Luanda
, November 3, 1959), Portuguese essayist and University teacher.
He has a PhD
in Portuguese
Studies and 19th Century Portuguese Culture
by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998). Master in Philosophy
by the Lisbon University, he is at present tenured Professor in Department of Communication Science
s, Arts and Information Technologies ((Member of the Executive Board) at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, in Lisbon.
Luanda
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, November 3, 1959), Portuguese essayist and University teacher.
He has a PhD
PHD
PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
Studies and 19th Century Portuguese Culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998). Master in Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
by the Lisbon University, he is at present tenured Professor in Department of Communication Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
s, Arts and Information Technologies ((Member of the Executive Board) at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, in Lisbon.
Research
- Researcher - Coordinator with CICANT (Research Centre in Applied CommunicationCommunicationCommunication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
, Culture and New Technologies) of a research line on «Comparative Media Studies» (since March 2005). - Researcher with CECL (Communication and Languages Studies Centre) of Universidade Nova, Lisbon, until March 2004 (year when he became Collaborator of the Centre) (investigator, member of the research team at CECL - Communication and Languages Studies Centre, which developed the project entitled «Trends on Portuguese NetworkSocial networkA social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
Culture» funded by FCT (Portuguese ‘Foundation for Science and Technology’), within the scope of the SAPIENS 99 Programme (Project nº 34436). - Researcher/Member of the Portuguese scientific community on videogamesVideoGamesVideoGames may refer to:*VideoGames, a mid-1990s magazine about video games.*Video games in general....
and game studiesGame studiesGame studies or the new modern term "gaming theory" is the discipline of studying games, their design, players, and their role in society and culture more broadly...
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