In 2016, the Program had 58 ongoing research projects (in the initial phase, development and / or for finalization), distributed in lines: Image, Sound and Writing, 11 projects; Journalism and Society, 25 projects; Communication and Culture Policies, 16 projects; and Communication Theories and Technologies,6 projects.
Research Line Image, Sound and Writing
| Creativity in communication processes and products |
| Branding: Building, Positioning, Image and Brand Identity |
| Dialogue between medias: reciprocities |
| Education, image and experience |
| Brazilian aesthetics: poetic considerations |
| Photography: Hybridism and Intertextualities |
| Comics Study Group – Comic Books |
| Digital History of Brazil |
| Image and transcendence: Imaginary and visualities of infinity in João Guimarães Rosa’s “Diario de Paris” |
| Audiovisual narratives and sociomediatic processes |
| Poetic of the inexplicable, the nonexistent, the nameless, the unheard and the ineffable. |
Journalism and Society Research Line
| Perspectives of Contemporary Brazilian Journalism: legislation, law and citizenship |
| Transdisciplinary Grants for the Education, Communication and Culture Debate |
| The political construction of a national identity in the Brazilian media news narrative |
| The perspective of journalistic teaching and practice in Brazil: the end of compulsory journalist diploma |
| The Socialization of Online Journalists: A Comparison Brazil, Belgium, and France |
| The professional careers of Brazilian journalists. Access, learning and mobility in the profession in times of structural changes in journalism. |
| COMCLICK – Integration of ICTs in the teaching-learning process at UnB |
| Consuming the other: communicating difference and valuing ethnic identity in clothing and gastronomy fashion |
| Presidential Elections 2014: Mapping Relations between Media, Youth and Political Participation at the University of Brasilia |
| Culture, Media and Politics Research Group |
| Journalism Students across the Globe – Brazilian group |
| Mobile Digital Language Testing Lab and development of new tablet and smartphone journalistic products |
| Mobile Digital Language Testing Lab and development of new tablet and smartphone journalistic products |
| Structural changes in journalism: identities, practices, routines, audiences and media Journalistic Narratives of History |
| The Other’s Consumption: Ethnic Identity in Fashion Journalism |
| The teaching of ethics in communication |
| The impact of journalistic reporting on public policy change |
| The journalist in the age of participation: new relationships with the public and changes in professional identity |
| Journalists and the city: experiences, identities and representations |
| Pirataria.edu: Culture, Sharing, and Intellectual Property at the University |
| Production and sources of investigative reports in Brazil |
| Simulation and political discourse |
| Telejournalism: Postmodern Narratives in Real Time |
| Changes in the professional careers of Brazilian journalists |
Research Line Communication and Culture Policies
| The Brazilian television market facing the challenges of digitization and convergence: a regional perspective |
| The role of Organizational Communication in the implementation of the Access to Information Law in Federal District Government |
| Communication policies, public broadcasting and citizenship: subsidies for socio-cultural development in Portugal and Brazil |
| Citizen and public means in Brazil |
| Community communication and citizenship |
| Communication, culture and politics in the audiovisual field: cinema, television, online audiovisual media |
| Communication, culture and politics: subjectivities and films in Picos (Piauí state) Journalism and Accountability in Brazil |
| Communication Policy Laboratory: normative bases of a new institutional model for Brazilian communication |
| Law on Access to Public Information and Communication |
| Media and Ombudsman in Ibero-American Countries |
| The social and the technological in the methodological strategies used to understand sociability on the internet |
| Communication Policies: TV that young people see: Brazilian open TV and its reception by high school and university students from September 2012 to December 2013 |
Research Line Communication Theories and Technologies
| GEPCOR – Organizational Communication Study and Research Group |
| Research Group on Organizational Communication and Systemic Thinking – COMSiS |
| Semiotics Studies Communication Center |
| Communication Theory in Brazil |
| Communication theories |
| Theories of Organizational Communication |