Rita Figueiras

• @ritamfigueiras

Rita Figueiras holds a PhD in Communication Science from the Portuguese Catholic University, where she lectures in the area of communication science. She is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC), within the framework of the “YouNDigital – Youth, News and Digital Citizenship” project, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She is also co-principal investigator of the project “Social Media Surveillance and Experiences of Authoritarianism”, funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Her research interests include political communication, with particular emphasis on digital political communication strategies and election campaigns, audience studies (news consumption and news avoidance), and datification (digital surveillance and platforms’ business models).