Pedro Andrade

Pedro Andrade is a Sociologist and Researcher at the University of Minho, CECS. Teacher at the University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon, on Sociology of Culture, Communication, Sociological Methods, Digital Humanities. Research about Urban Cultures, art communication, art/science museums, literacies, digital social networks (web 2.0/web 3.0), methodologies/hybrimedia. Coordinator of international projects, e.g. Scientific-Technological Literacy and Public Opinion (2005, on science museums publics) and Public Communication of Arts (2011, about art museums and its relationships with audiences, tourism, digital/virtual sociological methodology, hybrimedia interaction, sociological/cultural games, social networks, virtual/augmented reality), both funded by the FCT. Participation within international university webs e.g. Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA; member of the project “Manifesto Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Communities” (UK), coordinated at Univ. Loughborough, and including King’s College, Chelsea School of Arts, Universities of Plymouth, Leuven, Utrech, Gronigen, Minho. Author of several books and scientific papers published in international and national journals with peer review, indexed in global bibliographic databases (Web of Science, etc.). Director of the first Portuguese-French scientific journal, Atalaia-Intermundos (since 1995). President of Social Web lab, Lisbon (since 2018). ORCID:

Publications

Sociological (Re)search Games: What, Why, and How to Decide, by Playing Within a Study
Sociological (Re)search Games: What, Why, and How to Decide, by Playing Within a Study
Pedro Andrade. © 2023. 33 pages.
A Research Game is a new genre of serious game, which allows everyone to do research while playing. It is illustrated here via a case study of sociological research using a...
Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pedro Andrade, Moisés de Lemos Martins. © 2022. 722 pages.
The tourism and hospitality industries have faced major setbacks in recent years as they have had to combat various challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and a rapidly...
Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?: For an Intercultural, Intermediary, and Inter-Methodological Hybrid and Open Research
Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?: For an Intercultural, Intermediary, and Inter-Methodological Hybrid and Open Research
Pedro Andrade. © 2022. 40 pages.
The contemporary pandemic conjuncture may lead to a ‘viral society', an unprecedent social paradigm involving deep economic, political, and cultural transformations. To cope...
Mobile Culture for Tourism Communication
Mobile Culture for Tourism Communication
Pedro Andrade. © 2021. 13 pages.
Mobile devices and the corresponding culture, are transforming the way we understand and sense social, urban and intercultural processes. The aim of this text is twofold...
Innovative Role of Users Within Digital Economy: The Case of Information/Knowledge Flows at Social and Semantic Networks (Web 2.0/3.0)
Innovative Role of Users Within Digital Economy: The Case of Information/Knowledge Flows at Social and Semantic Networks (Web 2.0/3.0)
Pedro Andrade. © 2019. 22 pages.
Contemporary economic and financial crisis is closely associated with social innovation. This process profoundly influences cyberspace's phenomena within our globalized...
Cultural E-Tourism Depicted by Digital Discourse: Innovative Mobilities at Urban E-Heritage Networks
Cultural E-Tourism Depicted by Digital Discourse: Innovative Mobilities at Urban E-Heritage Networks
Pedro Andrade. © 2018. 17 pages.
This chapter aims to reflect on cultural e-tourism and the regimes of innovative discourses about this process. Cultural e-tourists look for fruition in what regards the cultural...