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Pedro Eduardo Ribeiro, member of the international Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), has recently shared two new contributions on magazines and contemporary communication dynamics. The first is the completion of his PhD in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, where he defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Revistas de estilo de vida, objetificação do corpo e afeto transmédia: sentidos, discursos e interseccionalidades” [Lifestyle magazines, body objectification and transmedia affect: meanings, discourses and intersectionalities]. The thesis examines how Women’s Health magazine constructs meanings around body representation and objectification, while exploring how affect circulates between magazine covers and audiences across transmedia contexts, including print and Instagram. Available in the university's repository: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/101460.

Nico Carpentier, member of Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), has co-authored a film essay titled "Agon: Constructions of Democracy." Created alongside Ali Minanto and Jhon Sany Purwanto, the 26-minute film serves as a scholarly yet artistic inquiry into the meaning of democracy and the constant political struggles required to sustain it.

Carla Rodrigues Cardoso, scientific coordinator of MagLab (CICANT | Lusófona University), presented the communication "Cultural Competence: an urgent and necessary thread behind the trends of non-Indigenous journalism that reports on Indigenous issues," co-authored with Carla Bento Guedes (Lusófona University) at the ECREA Journalism Studies Conference 2026. 

Einat Lachover, member of the international Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet), will serve as guest editor for a special issue of the journal Journalism and Media titled Women's Magazines in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Journalism and Media is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly published by MDPI. Lachover will co-edit the issue with Kimberly Voss, which seeks contributions examining the evolution of women’s magazines across historical periods and media formats.

Fourteen members of MagNet (Magazine Media Research Network) presented communications at the XIV SOPCOM Congress – Communication and Time, held from 9 to 11 February 2026 at the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI) in Covilhã, Portugal. The event is the main national conference in communication sciences in Portugal and brought together researchers, teachers and professionals to discuss themes at the intersection of communication and temporality.

Lusófona University led a FilmEU+ mobility project for the first time. The initiative, titled "Interconnected Journalism: reconnecting people to and through the media," was led by MagLab (part of CICANT) and established a cross-border collaboration between faculty from Estonia’s Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (TLU BFM) and Ireland’s Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).