Susana Salgado
Susana Salgado (PhD, 2007) is a Political Communication scholar. Currently Principal Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), she was previously FCT Research Fellow (ICS-ULisboa) and also held positions at the University of Oxford, UK and at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The topics of her research include populism, online hate, polarization, disinformation, political communication, comparative media studies, media and democratization, media and elections, and Internet and politics. Over the last few years her comparative research projects have been broad in geographical scope, and include different projects on Europe, but also on Portugal and Brazil and an extensive analysis of the role of the media in African democratization processes in comparative perspective. Salgado has been PI of several funded research projects, such as ‘Streams of hate and untruth?’ (PTDC/CPO-CPO/28495/2017), or ‘Politics, Policy, Populism and Online and Social Media’ (IF/01451/2014/CP1239/CT0004).
Recent publications include:
Baden, C. Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Springer, N., Jungblut, M., Zelenkauskaite, A., Balčytienė, A., Salgado, S., Lipiński, A., Krstic, A., Bączkowska, A. (2025) Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 37, Issue 3, Autumn 2025, edaf049, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaf049
Goyanes, M., Lee, S., Salgado, S., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2025) Enhancing Self-Perceived Disinformation Identification in Democracy: The Impact of Fact-Checking Integration into Daily News Consumption Practices. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2025.2508767
Min, S. J., Salgado, S., & Mutsvairo, B. (2025) Citizen journalism: Revisiting the concept and developments. Journalism, 26(5), 931-943. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251327003 Salgado, S., Fernández-García, B., Biscaia, A. (2024) Shades of incivility in Reddit: a comparison between echo chambers and plural spaces. International Social Science Journal, volume 75, issue 255, pp. 61-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12536
Salgado, S., Zuniga, H.G., da Silva, P.A., Biscaia, A., Coimbra, M., Martins, B., Francisco, A. (2023) Assessing the Prevalence and Predictors of Incivility in Online News Comments Across Six Countries. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2246431
Salgado, S., García-Luengo, Ó., Papathanassopoulos, S., Suiter, J., & Stępińska, A. (2021) Crisis and Populism: A comparative study of populist and non-populist candidates and rhetoric in the news media coverage of election campaigns. European Politics and Society. (Published online: 11 Mar 2021). DOI:10.1080/23745118.2021.1896882 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23745118.2021.1896882
Salgado, S. (2021) Disputes over or against reality? Fine-graining the textures of post-truth politics. In H. Tumber and S. Waisbord (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Misrepresentation and Populism. Oxon and New York: Routledge. 101-109. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Disinformatio...
Mutsvairo, B. & Salgado, S. (2020) Is Citizen Journalism Dead? An examination of recent developments in the field. Journalism. (Published online: 02 Nov 2020). DOI:10.1177/1464884920968440 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884920968440



