Lidia Marôpo is an assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal, and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA). She has a master degree and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published extensively on different aspects of the relationship between children, youth and media and has worked in international trainee programs on children’s rights in journalism. Her areas of interest also include journalism studies, cyberactivism and media and identity.

Research Interests:

Children and Media. Children’s rights. Journalism. Identity. Digital Media.

Main Projects:

• (2014- atual): Cross-media news repertoires as democratic resources: a cross-cultural research project
  Entidades parceiras: COST Action ISO906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies.
  Fonte de Financiamento: European Science Foundation.
• (2015-2017): CEDAR - Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research
  Entidades parceiras: The European Broadcasting Unit e Creative Skillset.
  Fonte de financiamento: Arts and Humanities Research Council of UK
• (2012-2014): COST Action - Transforming Audiences, transforming societies
  Fonte de Financiamento: European Science Foundation.
• (2011-2012): Projeto Olhares em Foco
  Sem financiamento
• (2005-2007): Projecto Crianças e Jovens em Notícia
  Fonte de financiamento: FCT

• Marôpo, L., Sampaio, I., & Miranda, N. (2018). Meninas no YouTube: Participação, celebrização e cultura do consumo. Estudos em Comunicação, (1), 175-195.
• Jorge, A., & Marôpo, L. (2017). Born to be famous? Children of celebrities and their rights in the media.  In J. O'Connor, & J. Mercer (Eds.), Childhood and celebrity (pp. 28 – 40). Londres/Nova Iorque: Routledge.
• Jorge, A., & Marôpo, L. (2017). Meios digitais e direitos: Perspetivas de jovens com cancro. Comunicação Pública, (12), 01-16.
• Marôpo, L., Sampaio, I., & Miranda, N. (2017). Top girls on YouTube. Identity, participation and consumption. In I. Eleá, & L. Mikos. (Orgs.), Young & creative - Digital technologies empowering children in everyday life (pp. 65-76). Gotemburgo: Nordicom/The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media.
• Marôpo, L. (2015). Crianças como fontes de informação: Um desafio de inclusão para o jornalismo. Vozes e Diálogo, (14), 5-17.