Pós-Graduação | Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences

Introduction

 

The Master Program in Communication Sciences at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo was the first Communication programme in Brazil, created on January 8th, 1972. The Doctoral Program in Communication Sciences started its activities on August 1st, 1980.

PPGCOM researches have contributed to the country and internationally on multiple themes: communication epistemology, communication theories, entertainment studies (soap operas, series); educommunication (communication and education); discourse theories; communication and organizational culture; reception and consumption studies; digital journalism; studies of publicity and propaganda, theory of journalism and social dialogue; image and aesthetics (photography); communication and work; censorship and freedom of speech; communication and culture, among other topics.

In a constant process of updating and renewal over the last decades, PPGCOM advances in its teaching and research proposal, instituting, in June 2019, the new curricular structure. One research area: Communication Sciences and three lines of research: 1- Communication, networks and languages: theoretical and empirical objects; 2- Communication Processes: technologies, production and consumption; 3 - Communication: Interfaces and Institutions. This new structure, more dynamic, broad and integrating, meets the challenges that communication studies are facing nowadays.

PPGCOM has expanded international dialogues through various agreements with foreign institutions, allowing it to send and host teachers and students; through professors who work in scientific entities in the Ibero-American context and others, as well as through joint international projects; and, finally, with significant bibliographic contribution, with special emphasis in recent years on the editorial work of the magazine MATRIzes.

The fact that the program brings together the plurality of interests and experiences, makes it a matrix of studies that leads and empowers regional efforts in communication teaching and research. The role of the incubator for new postgraduate courses and revitalization of old ones has been one of the distinguishing marks in the history of Postgraduate Studies in Communication Sciences at USP. It is a national and international reference and promotes research in regions that until then had little or almost no knowledge produced in the area.

Scope

The Master's and Doctorate courses follow the rules of the PPGCOM Regulation.

The academic master’s program has a duration of 30 months, comprising 28 credits in subjects and 68 credits in research and writing activities for the dissertation, that will be presented and defended publicly.

Academic doctorate lasts 48 months, with 21 credits from courses and 143 credits in research activities and writing the thesis, that will be presented and defended publicly.

Student path in the PPGCOM curriculum structure serves masters and doctorates with the same range of courses offered. It is a historical practice of the Program that the two levels of education share the same classroom environment, research groups, complementary activities and other tasks that are part of the profile of the future master / doctor. The specificity of the master's and doctorate course is in the number of credits to be fulfilled, credits of complementary activities, specificity of the treatment given to the research object and in its theoretical-methodological approach. Different elements are required for the presentation of research project, qualification report, as well as for the dissertation for masters and thesis for doctorates. The supervisor, the examiners of the selection process, the qualification examiners and the defense examiners are responsible for the academic pathway of each level. Also, for the courses, it is up to the lecturers to evaluate coherently the level (master's / doctorate) at which the student is.

Objective

The Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences at USP has the mission to graduate/qualify researchers/professors at the master's and doctoral levels within the parameters of excellence for inter, trans and multidisciplinary work in the field of Communication Sciences.

PPGCOM promotes impacts at national and regional level by training researchers/professors that act as outstanding leaders in Brazilian Universities and Institutions in other countries in Latin America.

The PPGCOM is structured in a single research area called Communication Sciences and three research lines. 

Research line 1

Communication, Networks and Languages: Theoretical and Empirical Objects 
Studies of theories, methodologies and languages that are part of the communicational process. It focuses on discussing and renewing the epistemological, theoretical and methodological framework of the field of communication, considering the theoretical and empirical research objects, in the digital context in its cultural, aesthetic, socioeconomic, political and ecological aspects. 

Articulated research groups: 
CECOM - Communication studies centre 
CETVN – Telenovela studies centre 
CPCT – Communication and work research centre 
GELiDis - Languages and Discourses in the Media 
Journalism, Law and Freedom research group 
Social Dialogue Epistemology Research Group 
Laboratory of Innovation, Development and Research in Educommunication 

Certified professors
Anderson Vinicius Romanini
Cremilda Celeste de Araujo Medina
Eugênio Bucci
Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli
Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes
Roseli Fígaro Paulino 

In research line 1, professors and research groups work around themes related to epistemology, theories, communication and language methodologies and the production of meanings/ communication semiosis. Digital crosses all these themes and understands the transformations caused in work, culture and organization of society. The articulation between research groups and between professors takes place around the axes: languages, theories and culture, and in the development of specific research objects. Teachers articulate and exchange experiences in research seminars, in annual research meetings of Conexão-Pós, with activities developed by the professors. 


Research line 2

Communication Processes: Technologies, Production and Consumption 
Studies of communication processes, digital technologies, languages, networks and formats, in the context of media ecology, culture and economics. The theoretical and methodological approach focuses the relationship between communication, technologies and consumption. It discusses these relationships from the scope of production, reception, meanings and narratives in the daily lives of people, institutions and society. 

Articulated research groups
COM+ - Communication, Journalism and Digital Media Research Group
ALTERJOR – Alternative journalism
GESC3 - Semiotic Study Group in Communication, Culture and Consumption
GEIC – Communication Image Study Group
4C- Center for Cognitive Sciences and Communication 

Certified Professors
Elizabeth Nicolau Saad Corrêa
Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho
Leandro Leonardo Batista
Luciano Victor Barros Maluly
Maria Clotilde Perez Rodrigues
Wagner Souza e Silva 

In research line 2, professors and research groups work around themes of digital techniques and technologies, in the reflection on communication and its different languages: journalism, photography, publishing, advertising, and the cognitive process; as well as around themes related to training, culture and the circulation of cultural goods and consumption. Each professor and research group develop important and relevant papers, as well as articulate and exchange experiences in research seminars, in annual research meetings of Conexão-Pós, with activities developed by the professors. 


Research line 3

Communication: Interfaces and Institutions 
Communication studies in its social, technological and institutional interfaces. It aims to apprehend communication in the organizational and political aspects, having as its constitutive instance the educational, economic, cultural and ecological processes. Epistemological, theoretical and methodological reflection takes place within the scope of the dialogue between different social practices. 

Articulated Research Groups
CECORP - Organizational Communication and Public Relations Study Centre
DICULT – Diversity, Interculturality, Communication and Cultural Languages Study Group
GENN – NCE Narratives Study Group
Communication and Education Center Laboratory of Innovation, Development and Research in Educommunication
CECOM - Communication Study Center
MECOM – Educommunicative mediations 

Certified Professors
Adilson Odair Citelli
Claudia Lago
Luiz Alberto Beserra de Farias
Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch
Maria Aparecida Ferrari
Paulo Roberto Nassar
Richard Romancini 

In research line 3, work around the themes of communication that involve organizations and institutions of different profiles (educational, political, business). They develop research on the communication’s potential, epistemological and theoretical aspects, transformation of these institutions, the context of freedom of speech, democracy, sustainability and humanistic education. Each professor and research group develop important and relevant papers, as well as articulate and exchange experiences in research seminars, in annual research meetings of Conexão-Pós, with activities developed by the professors.

Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences
 

Coordinating Committee

Coordinator: Prof. Dra. Roseli Aparecida Figaro Paulino
Vice-coordinator: Prof. Dr. Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho

Full Members
Prof. Dr. Roseli Aparecida Figaro Paulino
Prof. Dr. Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho
Prof. Dr. Maria Aparecida Ferrari
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli

Alternate Members
Prof. Dr. Claudia Lago
Prof. Dr. Luciano Victor Barros Maluly
Prof. Dr. Wagner Souza e Silva
Prof. Dr. Luiz Alberto Beserra de Farias
Secretariat

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday from 10 am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm
Telephone: (11) 3091-4507
E-mail: ppgcom@usp.br

Secretary
Maria Teixeira Sousa
Calendar of meetings

Meet the professors of the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences. By clicking on their names, have access to his/her curriculum.

Adilson Odair Citelli

Anderson Vinicius Romanini - viniroma@gmail.com

Andre Chaves De Melo Silva - andrecms@usp.br

Boris Kossoy - boriskossoy@gmail.com

Brasilina Passarelli - linapassarelli2@gmail.com

Claudia Lago - claudia.lago07@gmail.com

Cremilda Celeste De Araujo Medina - medinase@usp.br

Elizabeth Nicolau Saad Correa - bethsaad@usp.br

Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho - eneustrindade@usp.br

Eugenio Bucci - eugeniobucci@uol.com.br 

Heloiza Helena Matos e Nobre - heloizamatos@gmail.com

Ismar De Oliveira Soares - ismarolive@yahoo.com

Leandro Leonardo Batista - leleba@usp.br

Luciano Victor Barros Maluly - lumaluly@usp.br

Luiz Guilherme De Carvalho Antunes - luli@luli.com.br  

Luiz Alberto Beserra De Farias - luiz.farias@metodista.br

Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch - mkkunsch@uol.com.br  

Maria Aparecida Ferrari - maferrar@usp.br  

Maria Clotilde Perez Rodrigues - cloperez@usp.br  

Maria Cristina Castilho Costa - criscast@usp.br  

Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli - crismungioli@usp.br  

Maria Immacolata Vassallo De Lopes - immaco@usp.br

Massimo Di Felice - massimo@usp.br

Mayra Rodrigues Gomes - mayragomes@usp.br

Otavio Bandeira de Lamonica Freire - otaviofreire@yahoo.com.br

Paulo Roberto Nassar de Oliveira - paulonassar@usp.br

Richard Romancini - richard_romancini@yahoo.com.br 

Roseli  Figaro - figaro@uol.com.br

Sandra Lucia Amaral de Assis Reimao - sandra.reimao@gmail.com

Sandra Maria Ribeiro De Souza - smrdsouz@usp.br

Victor Aquino Gomes Correa - vic@usp.br

Vitor Souza Lima Blotta - vitor.blotta@uol.com.br

Wagner Souza e Silva - wasosi@usp.br

Waldomiro de Castro Santos Vergueiro - wdcsverg@usp.br

 

First semester 2020
 

Abbreviation: CRP5431
Subject: Mediações e midiatizações do consumo
Subject (in english): Mediations and mediatization of consumption

Coordinator: prof. Eneus Trindade Barreto Filho
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Abbreviation: CCA5886
Subject: Educomunicação: fundamentos, metodologias e áreas de intervenção
Subject (in english): Educommunication: fundamentals, methodologies and areas of intervention

Coordinator: prof. Claudemir Edson Viana
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Abbreviation: CCA5961
Subject: Número e algoritmo nas interfaces sociais da comunicação
Subject (in english): Number and algorithm in social communication interfaces

Coordinator: prof. Daniela Osvald Ramos
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Abbreviation: CCA5124
Subject: práxis Educomunicativa: da mediação tecnológica à narrativa transmidiática
Subject (in english): Educommunication praxis: since the technological mediation in education to the transmidiatic narrative

Coordinator: Prof. Marciel Aparecido Consani
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Abbreviation: CCA5124
Subject: Práxis educomunicativa: da mediação tecnológica à narrativa transmidiática
Subject (in english): Educommunication praxis: since the technological mediation in education to the transmidiatic narrative

Coordinator: prof. Marciel Aparecido Consani
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Abbreviation: CCA5026
Subject: Metodologia da pesquisa em comunicação
Subject (in english): Methodology of communication research

Coordinator: prof. Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes
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Abbreviation: CJE5132
Subject: Tecnoimagética: produção e circulação da imagem na comunicação contemporânea
Subject (in english): Technoimagery: production and circulation of the image in contemporary communication

Coordinator: prof. Wagner Souza e Silva
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Abbreviation: CCA5207
Subject: Fundamentos semióticos da comunicação
Subject (in english): Semiotic fundamentals of communication

Coordinator: prof. Anderson Vinicius Romanini
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Abbreviation: CCA5325
Subject: Comunicação e educação: estratégias mediadoras da linguagem
Subject (in english): communication and education language processes

Coordinator: prof. Adilson Odair Citelli
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Abbreviation: CRP5997
Subject: Comunicação organizacional: pressupostos teóricos, funções e processos na sociedade contemporânea
Subject (in english): Organizational commmunication: theoretical assumptions, functions and processes in modern society.

Coordinator: prof. resp.: Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch
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Abbreviation: CJE5240
Subject: Jornalismo científico, divulgação científica e comunicação científica: história,conceitos, métodos e práticas
Subject (in english) scientific journalism, scientific divulgation and scientific communication: history, concepts, methods and practices

Coordinator: prof. André Chaves de Melo Silva
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Abbreviation: new subject
Subject: Estudos culturais feministas
Subject (in english): Feminist cultural studies

Coordinator: prof. Ana Carolina D. Escosteguy
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Abbreviation: CRP5028
Subject: comunicação intercultural e relações públicas: dimensões da comunicação nas organizações
Subject (in english): intercultural communication and public relations: communication dimensions in organizations

Coordinator: prof. Maria Aparecida Ferrari
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Abbreviation: CCA5193
Subject: Narrativas televisivas de ficção: discursos, gêneros e formatos
Subject (in english): television narratives in fictional series: discourses, genres and formats

Coordinator: prof. Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli
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Abbreviation: CRP5823
Subject: Memórias rituais, narrativas da experiência
Subject (in english): ritual memories, narratives of experience

Coordinator: prof. resp. Luiz Alberto de Farias
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Abbreviation: CCA5960
Subject Pierre Bourdieu e o campo da comunicação
Subject (in english): Pierre Bourdieu and the communication field

Coordinator: prof. Claudia Lago
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Subjects of previous semesters.

The selection of master's and doctoral students is carried out by the Coordinating Committee of the Post-Graduate Program in Communication Sciences at ECA:

Regular Student

Know more about the selection process to become a PPGCOM master or doctoral student:

  •     Public notice
  •     Registration
  •     Selection steps
  •     Proficiency information
  •     Final result
  •     Enrollment

Special student

Check our selection public notice for special students that are part of PPGCOM:

  •     Public notice
  •     Participants list
  •     Selected candidates
  •     Effective Enrollments

Regular Foreign student selection process

The foreign candidate applies for the selection process for a regular student in accordance with the PPGCOM Regulation.

Important: Foreign applicants must present the following documents:

  • Copy of RNE or protocol with the RNE number.
  • Language proficiency certificate, issued by the institutions indicated in the Public Notice for the Selection Process, valid for no more than five years on the date of registration.
  • Certificate of proficiency in Portuguese for foreign candidates, issued by the institutions indicated in the Public Notice for the Selection Process

 

Contact us and get to know our previous selection processes.

Dinter: Selection process for the ECA and UNEB interinstitutional doctorate

What is Dinter?

Dinter are doctoral classes conducted by a (national) promoting institution in the facilities of a hosting educational and research institution, located in the Brazilian territory or abroad, away from consolidated educational and research centres.

The objective is the post-graduate training of qualified human resources for socio-economic-cultural and scientific-technological development, innovation and, above all, training of teachers for the nucleation of new stricto sensu postgraduate programs outside the consolidated centres of education and research.
Specific objectives:

    Enable the training of doctors outside the consolidated educational and research centers, with an equal quality standard

    Explore the potential of postgraduate programs already consolidated to: support the training of teachers for different levels of education, subsidize the nucleation and the strengthening of teaching and research groups, strengthen and establish the conditions for the creation of new postgraduate courses.

    Contribute, in the host institutions to: the creation and strengthening of research themes that support regional needs and expand the institutional commitment to the development of the region, the emergence of new professionals for research by encouraging the participation of students with a scholarship and the establishment of lasting partnerships between postgraduate programs or teaching and research groups at different stages of development, for the dissemination of national competence in science and technology.


PROCAD: Academic Cooperation Program between USP, UFRN and UFMS (2014-2020)

PROCAD (Academic Cooperation Program), financed by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, links three postgraduate programs in communication, with an aim of exchange and mutual development of the institutions involved, namely: USP (PPGCOM), UFRN (PPGEM) and UFMS (PPGCOM).

This program works on the theme of mediations, seeking the continuous improvement of teaching and research, in addition to theoretical and methodological formulations centred on the understanding of cultural media productions and communication processes based on the research focus.

The Program is configured as an opportunity to share knowledge of the multiple lines of research of the PPGs involved and exchanges of teachers and students, enabling the development and transformation of human resources with high quality.

Intellectual production

Thesis and dissertations

Thesis and dissertations defended at PPGCOM (in Portuguese)

MATRIZes Magazine

MATRIZes is the journal of the postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences at USP. The journal was created in 2007 and is published every four months. It is intended for the publication of texts with a focus on communication, with a theoretical-reflective character, which presents analyzes and approaches to processes, means, mediations and communicational interactions in contemporary society. MATRIZes encourages the transdisciplinary character of communicational thinking and presents itself as a privileged space for the necessary debates from different perspectives of communication studies.

According to the current QUALIS Periodicals of CAPES, MATRIZes is the reference journal of the Communication Area, with the A1 classification. The Editorial Committee is constituted as follows:

Director: Prof. Dr. Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, ECA-USP
Executive Editor: Prof. Dr. Richard Romancini
Scientific editorial:
Prof. Dr. Luciano Guimarães
Prof. Dr. Margarida M. Krohling Kunsch
Prof. Dr. Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes
Prof. Dr. Richard Romancini;
Prof. Dr. Roseli Figaro

Read more about Qualis CAPES Journals

 

Postgraduate program regulation: Communication sciences

 

Read the regulation of Postgraduate Program of Communication Science.


Qualification Report Standards

The Qualification Report must meet the following standards, in accordance with the PPGCOM Regulation

PART I
Activities performed during the course

    Student’s personal data;
    Academic transcript;
    School Records: courses taken: summary, papers, dissertation grade;
    Student production: publications, congresses and other scientific, academic or artistic activities, carried out by the student throughout the course)

PART II
Dissertation/thesis

    Title (even if temporary);
    Research object: justification, objectives;
        bibliographic research: construction of the theoretical framework of reference, hypotheses;
        methodology: sampling, research instruments;
        difficulties found;
        how the candidate intends to continue;
        bibliographic references (that were used in the paper);
    Research plan
        schedule until the conclusion of the dissertation/thesis. (See PPGCOM Regulation)

Research project presentation rules

Read about project presentation rules and regulations of PPGCOM

Qualification Report Standards

Find out more about qualification report standards of PPGCOM

Financial aid for congresses and scientific events 

Requirements:
  • Complete work approved, with copy of acceptance letter from the institution promoting the event;
  • Estimated costs of registration, accommodation and food;
  • Letter with supervisor indication;
  • Form filled with all requested data (link)
  • Accountability must be concluded by the student within 15 days after participation in the event.

Student Production

Student Production as established by the PPGCOM Regulation:

Master's degree - two publications on the theme of research in development, either with ISSN or in qualified journals, Qualis; or in book chapters or books with ISBN.

Doctorate - six publications on the theme of research in development, either with ISSN; or in qualified journals, Qualis; or in book chapters or books with ISBN. (Read more PPGCOM Regulation)

Research meeting – Conexão Pós

Conexão Pós is the PPGCOM / USP event with the objective of promoting dialogues around the researches of the postgraduate Program. The event takes place in December of each year and all students who have already passed the qualification exam must participate, being mandatory for students with scholarships who passed the qualification exam. The initiative replaces the traditional "Jornada Discente" with a format that seeks to promote integration between master students, doctoral students and professors, to debate the epistemological, theoretical and methodological paths of research. The expanded abstracts submitted will be evaluated by a committee of professors and presented during the event by their authors. We emphasize that the event is also open to the entire student community. Those who are interested in participating in the event must register using the same form as those who will present their research. Each year Conexão Pós produces an e-book with the complete works presented at the event. (according to editing rules).

Financial assistance

PPGCOM selects candidates for master's and doctoral scholarships by CAPES/CNPq.

Who can apply for the scholarship?
 

All masters and doctoral students regularly enrolled in the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences, except for students who were selected by the PEC-PG Program. Students can only have a scholarship and a formal employment relationship if the paid activity is in line with academic research, the supervisor's consent and the program and as long as the limit of hours of paid work does not exceed 20 hours per week, which must be proven and confirmed. Check here full ordinance

 
CAPES requirements
 

Some requirements by CAPES (Ordinance 76, of 14.04.2010):

  • full dedication to the academic activities of the postgraduate program;
  • in the case of formal employment relationship be dismissed from professional activities and without paid leave.
  • establishment of residence in the location where the course takes place;
  • do not accumulate scholarships from another program, from another funding agency or from a national and international organization.
  • the applicant cannot be an employee or service provider, teacher, researcher or technician, of the institution where the postgraduate course is held.
  • the applicant cannot be retired or in a similar situation
  • be, at the time of granting the scholarship, at least 20 years old, in the case of a master's scholarship, or 24 years old, in the case of a doctoral scholarship, to comply with the legally established time for obtaining your retirement.
  • do a teaching internship in accordance with Article 18 of Ordinance No. 76, of April 14th, 2010 from CAPES
Duration of the scholarship
 

The scholarship is awarded for a period of one year, and its continuity is conditioned to the evaluation of the academic performance of the graduate student. The maximum duration of the doctoral scholarship is 48 (forty-eight) months and the master's, has a maximum duration of 24 (twenty-four) months, non-extendable.

 
Scholarship amount
 

Currently the monthly fee is:
Master's: R$ 1,500.00 (one thousand and five hundred reais)
Doctorate: R$ 2,200.00 (two thousand and two hundred reais)

 
Required documentation (new scholarship)

The application for scholarships requires the applicant to submit the following documents:

  1. Form duly completed, available for download here.
  2. 5 (five) printed copies of the research project, according to the instructions and rules for the presentation of the project (stapled), and only 1 (one) of the copies must include: a) Name of the student; b) supervisor’s full name; c) supervisor’s signature and approval;
  3. Summary of the activities developed in the postgraduate level (readings and reflections related to the research object, the collection and analysis of sources/data; presentation of works, participation in other research, extension activities etc.).
  4. Student file – Janus System
  5. Updated Curriculum Lattes
  6. Merit report issued by another funding agency to which the project has previously been referred and duly evaluated by a scientific committee (optional).

 

Select criteria
 

Learn more about select criteria for master's and doctorate scholarships (.pdf).

 
FAPESP

For more information, visit Research São Paulo Foundation's website.