Official Title: Assistant Professor

Faculty: Doctoral School

Email: antonio.maneira@usj.edu.mo

Short Bio

Born in Portugal in 1979, he graduated in Communication Design at the University of Lisbon (2003), has a master’s degree in Communication Sciences at the New University of Lisbon (UNL, 2008), and has a PhD in Digital Media: Audiovisuals and Interactive Media in an international Doctoral Program with the University of Texas and UNL (2014).

He is an Assistant Professor at the Doctoral School of the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China.

He was a professor at Beira Interior University (2014-2020), Lusíada University (2015-2022), and IADE—European University (2020-2024), where he coordinated the Graduation Course in Visual Design and the Master’s in Communication and Multimedia, both in open distance learning modality. He collaborated as a Visiting Academic at the University of Saint Joseph, teaching several modules in the School of Education and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2017-2024).

He designed a graduation program in Visual Design at IADE (Licenciatura em Design Visual), conceived to run in open-distance learning mode, and collaborated on several others.  He successfully supervised 14 master's candidates.

He has participated in several projects related to digital technologies, multimedia, and audiovisuals in education, totalling over 20 years of experience in e-learning. The most recent projects he collaborated on were the educational project to support learning mathematics using Khan Academy (2019 to 2021) and the digital literacy project PICCLE, developed with Plano Nacional de Leitura (Reading National Plan, 2021).

His research interests are broad in media production, but he is particularly interested in the educational uses of social media, multimedia, interactive media, communication technology and audiovisuals in education.

Publications

Most relevant publications:

Maneira, A., Yu-qing, A.L. & Simões, J. M. (August 2026). Gender Equality and Media Representation: A Case Study of Male Journalists in São Tomé and Príncipe. In The Palgrave Handbook on Politics of Gender and Identity in the Lusophone World. Barnes & Noble. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-palgrave-handbook-on-politics-of-gender-and-identity-in-the-lusophone-world-francisco-jose-b-s-leandro/1149373042

Maneira, A., Pereira, S., & Fernandes-Marcos, A. (2025). Digital Narratives as Academic Projects for Resilient and Culturally Sustainable Online Teaching. 2025 7th International Conference on Modern Educational Technology (ICMET), 134–143. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMET67594.2025.11451901 

Maneira, A., & Mendes, M. (2025). Developing Students’ Digital Literacy with Digital Storytelling Projects in Design and Media Arts. Rotura – Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, 53–66. https://doi.org/10.34623/2184-8661.2025.tell_me.393

Pereira, S., Fernandes-Marcos, A. & Maneira, A. (2025). Personal digital narratives as a culturally sustainable online teaching and learning tool. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology – Creative Digital Intelligence (ARTeFACTo 2024 Macao), 5-6 December 2024, Green Island Campus, University of Saint Joseph. Editor: University of Saint Joseph in Macau. ISBN: 978-99981-138-2-4 (pp.100-111). https://books.usj.edu.mo/index.php/usj-acaedemicpress/catalog/book/27 

Maneira, A. & Fernandes-Marcos, A. (2024). Exploring Emergency Online Teaching Practices’ Influence on Defining a Pedagogical Model for Post-Pandemic Education. In Book of Abstracts of ICOIE2024 - International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, 3-5 July 2024, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/icoie/

Pereira, S., Maneira, A. & Fernandes-Marcos, A. (2024). Personal Digital Narratives as an E-learning Tool: From Cultural Sustainability to a Virtual Pedagogical Model. In Proceedings of EDULEARN24 - 16th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 1-3 July, 2024, Palma, Spain, ISBN: 978-84-09-62938-1, doi: https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2024.1764, p. 7520. IATED Digital Library.

Maneira, A. (2018). The challenge of developing semantic-based interactive videos: an active learning approach in higher education. International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018), doi: 10.21125/iceri.2018 Seville, Spain. https://library.iated.org/view/MANEIRA2018CHA

Silva, M.C., Villachan-Lyra, P. & Maneira, A. (2018). Digital Educational Games: Inclusive Design Principles for Children with ADHD, Play2Learn, Lisbon, Portugal. https://gamilearning.ulusofona.pt/wp-content/uploads/full_P2L_Proceedings-30-45.pdf

Maneira, A. (2014). Teaching arts with semantic hypermedia in online collaborative environments. Post-Screen Festival 2014, International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, Lisbon, Portugal.

Maneira, A., Hughes,J. & Freitas, J.C. (2014). Learning with Semantic Hypermedia and the Internet. A Design‐Based Approach Developed in Higher Education. ECER2014, The European Conference on Educational Research, Oporto, Portugal. https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/19/contribution/32036

Gonçalves,A.L., Maneira, A. &  Freitas, J.C.(2014). “A produção de vídeo em contexto educativo formal: uma experiência de formação de professores” (Video production in a formal educational context: an experiment on teacher training). 2nd Gathering of Confibercom, ISBN 978-989-8600-29-5, pp. 715 -725.

Maneira, A. & Freitas, J.C. (2013). “Projetos de vídeos interativos no ensino superior: Multimédia semântico e a Aprendizagem” (Interactive vídeo projects in higher educativo: Semantic Hypermedia in Learning). III Colóquio Luso‐Brasileiro de ensino a distância e e‐Learning, (3rd Luso–Brasilian Meeting of distance teaching and e-learning).

Di Marco,M.S., Maneira, A., Ribeiro, P.  & Maneira, M.J.P. (2009). Blended‐learning in science and technology. A collaborative project‐based course in experimental physics. eLearning Papers, Nº 16, September 2009, pp. 1-14. ISSN 1887-1542. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239279635

Di Marco,M.S., Maneira, A., Ribeiro, P.  & Maneira, M.J.P. (2009). Project‐based course in experimental physics. Simulation of real‐life R&D program. Journal of eLearning and Knowledge Society. pp.51-58. ISSN 1826 – 6223. https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/319

Publications as Editor:

Proceedings of the Tell.Me 2026 - 3rd International Symposium on Biographical Narratives in Arts, Media and Society.  Adérito Fernandes-Marcos, Selma Pereira & António Maneira (Eds.), May 28–29, 2026, São Paulo, Brazil; Portimão, Portugal; Macau, China. University of Saint Joseph, Academic Press; Artech-International Editions; ISBN: 978-99996-52-00-1 | 978-989-54280-4-5; Pgs: 104. Doi: https://doi.org/10.66409/gz78zg59 ; Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/22196 ; https://books.usj.edu.mo/index.php/usj-acaedemicpress/catalog/book/33


 More information:

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8203-1497

CienciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/EE11-E5DB-4203

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