Co-Founder
media shots
Ana Boa-Ventura works in the digital humanities and in new media for social action as both an academic and, more recently, as an entrepreneur. As an academic, she works on time and space representations of a non Euro-centric vision of the Middle Ages with an international group of scholars. She also works with time/space representations in her work in digital storytelling (DST) for community empowerment in various contexts of research practice. She is a member of the EU Pestalozzi program, where her materials on MOJO (Mobile citizen journalism) are part of a collection of materials on media literacy & human rights. As an entrepreuner, she has recently co-founded a 3-women company - Media Shots - offering, in times of deep recession in Europe, services aimed at companies wanting to revamp/rethink their corporate marketing by integrating low-cost social media and strategic storytelling solutions. Ana has lectured - often as a guest speaker - on various topics of new media in Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic and the US.