Portugal

Cristina Ponte is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon. A member of the Steering Committee in the COST Action IS0906 on Audiences (2010-2014), she coordinated the international project Digital Inclusion and Participation (2009-2011) and the national project Children and Young People in the news (2005-2007). Currently she is vice-chair of the TWG Children, Youth and Media, European Communication Research and Education Association.
Areas of expertise: children and media; media and generations; digital divides; journalism studies, media discourse.

José Alberto Simões, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon. He is also a researcher at CESNova. His main research areas include sociology of culture, youth cultures, communication and media studies. He is currently coordinating the national project Networked Youth Activism and Portuguese participation in the international project Net Children Go Mobile.
Areas of expertise: digital divides, internet use, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, teenagers/youth.

Ana Jorge holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and is currently Guest Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are media education, popular culture and consumption. She has been a member of research projects on women's representation in newspapers and magazines, and on digital inclusion and participation, as well as on media education.

Daniel Cardoso is a PhD student of Communication Sciences at the New University of Lisbon, and an Assistant Professor at the Lusophone University, in Lisbon. His PhD focuses on the sexualised usages of the new media by Portuguese children, whereas his Master's thesis was on online expressions of polyamory. He has participated in several publicly funded national research projects, namely relating to women's representation in magazines and on online fora.

Eduarda Ferreira is a researcher of CICS.NOVA, at FCSH/ NOVA. With a background in Educational Psychology, a masters degree ine-Learning Management Systems and a PhD on Social and Cultural Geography, her research interests are ICTs in education, geospatial web, digital inclusion,and gender equality. She is a member of diverse research projects, e.g. Net Children Go Mobile and EU Kids Online (2015-2018). She has published and presented on digital technologies, gender and education

Susana Batista, PhD, is a researcher at CICS.NOVA and a Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon. She is a member of the ESCXEL- Schools for Excellence Network project. Main research interests: public action in education, quantitative methods and children and media.