Gustavo Cardoso is an researcher at CIES, ISCTE-IUL and Professor of Media, Technology and Society at the Sociology Department of ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute (Portugal). He also works with the Department of Communications and Performance Studies of the University of Milan and with the Lisbon School of Communication (ESCS). His international cooperation in European research networks brought him to work with IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in Barcelona, WIP (World Internet Project) at USC Annenberg and the research networks COST A20 "The Impact of the Internet in Mass Media", COST 298 "Broadband Society" and COST IS0906 "Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies".
Between 1996 and 2006 he was adviser on Information Society and telecommunications policies to the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic and in 2008 was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
He is co-editor with Manuel Castells of the book "Network Society: from Knowledge to Policy" and with Jeff Cole and Angus Cheong of "World Wide Internet" he is also an Associate Editor at the journals OBS, IJOC and IC&S.
He is a member of the evaluation panels of the European Research Council (ERC), Marie Curie programme and at the ESF (European Science Foundation).
Gustavo Cardoso is also the Director of OberCom (Media Observatory in Lisbon) and adviser to several national and international organizations.
