Rate My Professor Mauro Porto

Porto’s major publications include the book Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2023. This work examines media representations contributing to conservative shifts in Brazil. His earlier books are Media Power and Democratization in Brazil: TV Globo and the Dilemmas of Political Accountability (Routledge, 2012), based on analyses of TV news and interviews with political figures, and Televisão e política no Brasil: A Rede Globo e as interpretações da audiência (E-Papers, 2007), derived from his Ph.D. dissertation. In 2002, he received the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Communication Studies (INTERCOM). His articles have been published in journals such as Political Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Journalism, Media, Culture & Society, and Television and New Media. Currently, Porto studies media’s role in Brazil’s democratic decay since 2013, particularly the mobilization of the white middle class against social inclusion policies.