The Facebook as a strategy to overcome the scarcity of institutional communication means: the case of the School of Letters of the University of Coimbra

Authors

  • João Figueira Universidade de Coimbra. Faculdade de Letras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2015.139275

Keywords:

Communication. Organization. University. Facebook. Social networks.

Abstract

Facebook is the leading social network on a global scale. In Portugal 96% of the social network users have a Facebookprofile and 87%, mostly youngsters, claim that they used it often. Based on this scenario and on the potentialities that theWeb 2.0 provides, the School of Letters of the University of Coimbra (Fluc) provides the uncommon experience of, in view ofthe scarcity of human resources and financial means, using Facebook as a strategic tool for its communications.

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Author Biography

  • João Figueira, Universidade de Coimbra. Faculdade de Letras
    Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade de Coimbra (UC). Professor auxiliar na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Fluc). Pesquisador do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX (Ceis 20).

Published

2015-06-16

How to Cite

FIGUEIRA, João. The Facebook as a strategy to overcome the scarcity of institutional communication means: the case of the School of Letters of the University of Coimbra. Organicom, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 12, n. 22, p. 161–175, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2015.139275. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/organicom/article/view/139275.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.