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Ana Carolina Simas
has been a lecturer in the Social Communication/Journalism course at
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Brazil, teaching Communication Theory and
Compared Communication since 2001. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she started her
graduate work in 1995 in social communication/journalism at Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In 1996, she received a research scholarship,
under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcio Tavares d’Amaral in the IDEA –
Laboratory of Though Systems History and Program of Advanced Transdisciplinary
Studies of the School of Communication of UFRJ. During three years she was
involved in two projects: “Communication and cognition: new technologies and
generalized mediation in the contemporary communication culture” and “Media and
value: the ethics of thinking and the technological provocation in the
contemporary communication culture.” In
1999 she started her Masters in Communication and Culture. In 2001, she
obtained, with honors, her M.S. degree, with the thesis “Communication,
Technology and the Sacred in the Contemporary Culture” under the supervision of
Prof. d’Amaral. From 2003 to 2005 she coordinated the communications course.
During this period she was also part of the TransIDEA research group at
UFRJ. In 2005, she was a visitor
researcher at the School of Humanities in the University of Western Australia,
under the supervision of Prof. PhD. Michael Levine. Currently, she coordinates
a study group on Transdisciplinarity at
UFV and her interests are: communication and transdisciplinarity, communication
and interpretation systems, communication and transcendence, and communication
and sustainability.
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