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The Laboratory of Media and Sports Studies (LEME, in Portuguese) was founded in 2014, with the support of CNPq, through the initiative of professors Ronaldo Helal, Fausto Amaro, and Filipe Mostaro. It is an education, research, and outreach project linked to the Faculty of Social Communication at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), resulting from over 25 years of work developed by the “Sport and Culture” Research Group, coordinated by UERJ’s full professor Ronaldo George Helal. Since 2018, the laboratory has also been a Technological Development Unit, under the Department of Innovation at UERJ.
The mission of LEME is the diffusion of academic knowledge beyond the walls of the University, aiming to strengthen the research group and establish connections with professors and researchers from other higher education institutions in Brazil and abroad. The work of LEME encourages the research produced by its members to go beyond publications in scientific journals and presentations at conferences, providing support for undergraduate and graduate education as well as for scientific dissemination projects produced by the laboratory.
For that purpose, the laboratory has several scientific projects:
– The blog “Communication, Sport, and Culture”, launched in 2010, which has already published over 1,170 texts;
– The podcast “Passes e Impasses”, created in 2019, and available on many platforms with over 60 episodes published;
– The bimonthly newsletter “Replay”, with more than 30 editions;
– Interviews, lectures, and documentaries produced for the laboratory’s YouTube channel.
As a Technological Development Unit of the Department of Innovation at UERJ, LEME seeks to: a) stimulate the maintenance and growth of the laboratory’s activities at the Faculty of Social Communication; b) regularly produce original content on topics of interest to the laboratory, aimed at education and the popularization of science; c) disseminate this content through the laboratory’s blog, the podcast (Passes e Impasses), the newsletter (Replay), and our pages on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube; d) organize academic seminars with the purpose of fostering debate on the media and sport interface; e) occasionally offer outreach courses, workshops, or mini-courses.