Tulane University

Contact Info
mporto@tulane.edu

Degrees

Academic Experience

Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2011-
Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2005-2011
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2004-2005
Visiting Professor, Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Guatemala, 2003
Professor, Universidade de Brasília, 1993-2004

Research & Teaching Specializations: South America, Brazil, Political communication, Media and democratization

Related Experience

Program Officer for Media Rights and Access, Ford Foundation, Brazil office, 2011-2013
Freedom House, consultant for the Freedom of the Press in the World report, 2006-2007
Member of the Consultative Board of the Program InFormação, sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and by Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância, 2006-
Member of the editorial board of the journals Comunicação & Política, Contemporânea, Ecompós, Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, and Líbero Coordinator of the Research Center on Media and Politics, University of Brasilia, Brazil, 2001-2004

Distinctions

Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Centro de Investigación y Adiestramiento Político Administrativo (CIAPA), San José, Costa Rica, 2008
Provost’s Fund for Faculty/Student Engagement, Tulane University, 2006-2007.
Summer Fellowship, Dean’s Office, College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, 2006
Vilmar Farias Chair of Latin American Studies, awarded by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Brazil’s Ministry of Education, and Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology, 2003
Best Doctoral Dissertation, Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicacao, INTERCOM, 2002

Languages: Portuguese; Spanish

Selected Publications

2015. “Social media and the 2013 protests in Brazil: The contradictory nature of political mobilization in the digital era” With João Brant. In Lina Dencik; Oliver Leistert (eds.). Critical perspectives on social media and protest. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 181-199.
2012. “Media power and democratization in Brazil: TV Globo and the dilemmas of political accountability.” London: Routledge.
2011. “The media and political accountability.” In Corruption and democracy in Brazil: The struggle for accountability. Timothy Power and Matthew M. Taylor, eds. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
2011. “Telenovelas and representations of national identity in Brazil,” Media, Culture and Society. 33 (1): 53-69.
2007. “Televisão e política no Brasil: A Rede Globo e as interpretações da audiência.” Rio de Janeiro: E-Papers.
2007. “Frame diversity and citizen competence: towards a critical approach to news quality.” Critical Studies in Media Communication. 24 (4): 303-321.
2007. “Framing controversies: television and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil.” Political Communication. 24 (1): 19-36.