Associate Professor III in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), RS and in the Postgraduate Programme in Communication at the Federal University of Santa Maria. PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2007), with a scholarship from the Porticus Programme for Research in Media Religion and Culture (USA), under the supervision of Professor Antonio Fausto Neto. Master's degree in Human Movement Science from UFSM (2002), in the area of media and sport, under the supervision of Professor Antonio Fausto Neto. Journalist graduated from UFSM (1998), with her final course work supervised by Professor Paulo Roberto Oliveira Araújo. She was a member of the PET Social Communication Group from 1996 to 1998, tutored by Professor Adair Caetano Peruzzolo. From August 2015 to February 2016, she carried out a post-doctoral internship abroad on a CAPES grant in the area of Communication at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, with Professor João Pissarra Esteves as her supervisor. He develops and supervises research in the following areas: mediatization, circulation and social practices; enunciation and production of meanings; production, circulation and recognition of discourses; relations between media and social actors in different platforms;