Filipa Subtil holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Universidade de Lisboa. She is Assistant Professor at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. She was visiting scholar at Departament of Communication Studies, Universidade do Iowa, Iowa City (2010) and Muhlenberg Collegue (2008), Allentown in US, at Universidade Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Warsaw in Poland (2017, 2018), and at the Departament of Public Communication, Universidad de Navarra, Spain (2019). Between 2014 and 2018, she was editor-in chief of Comunicação Pública journal. Among her research interests are sociology of communication, social theory of the media in the USA and Canada and frameworks of the media on gender issues. Her published work has appeared in international and national journal and books. Subtil is co-editor and author of Media and Portuguese Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and A Crise do Jornalismo em Portugal [The Crisis of Journalism in Portugal](Deriva/Le Monde, 2017). She is also author of Compreender os Media. As Extensões de McLuhan (2006) [Understanding the Media. The McLuhan Extensions].