Muniz Sodré teaches a public class during PPGEM’s 10th anniversary

The Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA) welcomes this Wednesday, 9th, Communication professor and researcher Muniz Sodré to teach a public class in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPGEM/UFRN). The event takes place in the auditorium of Instituto Ágora, starting at 7pm, and has the support of the Dean of Postgraduate Studies and the Laboratory of Technological Innovation in Health (LAIS/HUOL/UFRN).
Founded in 2009, PPGEM intends to develop academic study and research activities through what its area of ​​concentration proposes: Media Communication, which addresses the context of its social practices and the sphere of its production of meaning. The Program was one of the main in the Northeast in the area of ​​Communication, being coordinated by professors Valquiria Kneipp and Daniel Souza.
To address mediatization issues, professor Muniz Sodré will address the topic of The Kidnapping of Speech. The objective is to focus on advances in electronic communication, artificial intelligence and the oligopolistic effect of networks through algorithms. The importance of its presence at the event is mainly due to its notoriety in the area of ​​Communication, in addition to being a reference in several PPGEM surveys.
Interested parties can register for free until the day of the event, through the Integrated Academic Activities Management System (Sigaa). Places are limited.
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With more than 30 books published, Professor Muniz Sodré is considered one of the main Brazilian and Latin American researchers today. He is also the author of famous works, such as The Science of the Common, The Monopoly of Speech and Anthropology of the Mirror. Since the beginning of his career, the writer has developed an articulated view between Communication and Culture, defending the overcoming of the merely marketing approach to both areas of knowledge. He is one of the few Brazilian theorists in the field of Communication who has circulation and respectability abroad, being a professor and speaker at several institutions in countries such as Sweden, France, the United States, Spain, Portugal and Colombia.