ANLite surge no âmbito de um projeto de investigação em curso de Maria José Brites sobre Jovens, Participação e Literacia e jornalismo (ANLite: Audiências, Notícias e Literacia, financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, SFRH/BPD/92204/2013). Maria José Brites é Professora Auxiliar na ULP – Universidade Lusófona do Porto e investigadora integrada do CECS – Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, na Universidade do Minho, onde realiza pós-doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação (SFRH/BPD/92204/2013). Foi coordenadora em Portugal (2013-2014) do projeto RadioActive Europe (531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3). É membro de duas ações Cost (COST IS1401 European Literacy Network e COST IS1410 DigitLitEY) e de um projeto europeu (Cross-media news repertoires as democratic resources). Integra a rede CEDAR - Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research. Concluiu o doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação (2013), na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Os interesses de pesquisa incluem áreas como os estudos da juventude, jornalismo e participação, estudos de audiências, literacia para as notícias e literacia cívica. | ANLite appears within the scope of an ongoing research conducted by Maria José Brites on Youth, Participation and Literacy and journalism (ANLite: Audiences, News and Literacy, funded by the Portuguese Funding Agency for Science, SFRH/BPD/92204/2013). Maria José Brites is Assistant professor at ULP – Lusophone University of Porto and postdoctoral researcher in Communication Sciences at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre, Minho University, with a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BPD/92204/2013). She coordinated (in Portugal) the RadioActive project (531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3). She is a member of three research networks (CEDAR - Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research, COST IS1401 European Literacy Network and COST IS1410 DigitLitEY) and one cross-national collaborative project (Cross-media news repertoires as democratic resources). She concluded her PhD in Communication Sciences in the New University of Lisbon in 2013 with a research entitled “The place of the news in the construction of participation (political and civic) among young citizens in Portugal (2010-2011)”. Her research interests include issues as Youth, journalism and participation, Audience studies and News and civic literacy. She worked as journalist in several newspapers and magazines in Portugal (press card 3182).