Alberto Sá

About

Alberto Teixeira de Sá is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho. He is a full member of the CECS - Communication and Society Research Centre [www.cecs.uminho.pt], where he has been conducting interdisciplinary research on the sociotechnical dynamics of cultural and collective memory, with a particular emphasis on media archives and digital preservation, the central theme of his doctoral thesis. His research interests also extend to medieval urban history, the subject of his master’s thesis, as well as to memory technologies and cultural heritage, social network analysis, and data visualisation applied to journalism, particularly in the context of health communication. He has participated in several funded research projects, most notably "AUDIRE – Saving sonic-based memories" [www.audire.pt/] and "MigraMediaActs - Migrations, Media and Activisms in Portuguese Language: Decolonising Mediascapes and Imagining Alternative Futures" [www.migra.ics.uminho.pt/]. He has coordinated the scientific-cultural event "CURTAS CC" (Showcase of Audiovisual and Multimedia Works by Undergraduate and Master’s Students in Communication Sciences – University of Minho). He is also responsible for the project “Produções CC-UMinho: Curricular Audiovisual Projects in Communication Sciences, University of Minho”, funded by the ICA – Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, under the programme "Support for the Training of Students Attending Specialized Courses in the Field of Cinema and Audiovisual." He served as Co-Leader of the e-COST Action IS1205 WG2 project (European Cooperation in Science and Technology, European Union RTD Framework Programme). He currently serves as General Chairman of the ARTECH 2025 International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts – Media Art Cultures, Communities & Territories [https://2025.artech-international.org/]. His scholarly output includes book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and papers presented at international conferences, with a particular focus on the interplay between communication, memory, and digital archives, as well as on media arts, audiovisual and multimedia productions. Throughout his academic career, he has held various leadership roles, including the current director of the master’s programme in Media Arts and previous positions as programme director of the bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and deputy head of department. He teaches across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels in the fields of audiovisual and multimedia studies, as well as media arts, including: “Communication and Publication Design,” “Digital Composition,” “Techniques of Creation and Communication in Art and Culture,” “History of Media Arts,” and “Theory of Digital Media.” He also contributes to the doctoral seminar course “Research Seminar.” Furthermore, he has supervised numerous graduate students in these areas.