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Place of Birth: Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
About Adriano Duarte Rodrigues
- Adriano Duarte Rodrigues (born 7 April 1942) is a Portuguese communication theorist.
- As an assistant professor of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, or FCSH) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he created Portugal's first communications department and undergraduate degree. Duarte Rodrigues advocated a theoretical approach to communication studies, rather than teaching specific techniques of journalism.
- He was named an Extraordinary Professor in 1979 and a Full Professor in 1980.
- He served as the college's director from 1988-1993 and the university's associate dean from 2001–02, retiring and becoming a professor emeritus in 2012.
- A Festschrift in Duarte Rodrigues' honor, titled Comunicação e linguagens: Novas Convergências ("Communication and Languages: New Convergences"), was released in December 2015.
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