Catarina Duff Burnay

Cátia Ferreira is PhD researcher on Communication Sciences at the Portuguese Catholic University. Her area of research is communication, new technologies and virtual games and the object of study will be the social change in Second Life.

Besides the PhD, she is the marketing and special sales responsible in a Portuguese publishing house – Cavalo de Ferro Editores.

She is graduated in English and German Modern Languages and Literatures, and has a specialization in publishing and editing techniques, both from Lisbon University. She has a MA on Communication Sciences from Portuguese Catholic University. Her master’s degree dissertation was focused in the relation established between the Portuguese emigrants in the USA and the homeland through the new technologies as internet. The central concepts for this research were cultural identity, intercultural communication, internet and emigration. The goal was to relate all this concepts in order to achieve a new perspective of the use of new technologies by those who are away from their cultural roots.