Full Name: Marisa Torres da Silva
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-4232

Marisa Torres da Silva is an Assistant Professor (Tenured) at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), and researcher at ICNOVA (Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA). She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Media & Jornalismo journal, Communication Sciences Undergraduate Coordinator at NOVA FCSH and Co-Coordinator of the Publics and Audiences section of the Portuguese Association for Communication (SOPCOM). She was Principal Investigator of the project Incivility and Online Hate Speech: Online Comments in Electoral Context, funded by the Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media – ERC (2020), Coordinator of the Portuguese team of the international collaborative project News as Democratic Resources. Cross Cultural Comparative Research (2013-2018), and Co-Coordinator of the national project The Risks of Extreme-Right Normalisation in Portugal and other European Countries (funded by an investigative journalism grant from Gulbenkian Foundation). Her research interests include the relationship between journalism, democracy and audiences, online hate speech, news and civic literacy, news consumption and audience research, gender and journalism, investigative journalism, and cultural journalism.