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Critical Literacies and Gender Studies

Critical Literacies and Gender Studies: Navigating Media, Education, and Civic Engagement for Social Justice

Edited by

Inês Amaral

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Ana Marta M. Flores

ICNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal

University of Coimbra, Portugal

Rita Basílio de Simões

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

And

Eduardo Antunes

University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She was the PI of the MyGender project and is currently the co-PI of MediaTrust.Lab. She is also a member of the Masculinities Observatory and the Ethics Committee of CES.

Ana Marta M. Flores has a PhD in Journalism and is a Researcher at ICNOVA and Nephi-Jor, collaborating with the Trends and Culture Management Lab and Obi.Media. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and the University of Coimbra. Currently, she is the Vice President of Communication for the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA.

Rita Basílio de Simões is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She currently leads the Portuguese participation in the Global Media Monitoring Project and coordinates the SOPCOM (Portuguese Association of Communication) Working Group on Gender and Sexualities.

Eduardo Antunes is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he completed his Master's degree in Journalism and Communication. Additionally, he is a radio broadcaster and author at RUC, where he previously served as the programme coordinator.

Cláudia Álvares is an Associate Professor (Habilitated) in the Sociology Department at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and an integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES). She has been an elected member of the Academy of Europe since 2020 and is a former President of ECREA (2012–2016). Her research projects and publications focus on the fields of media and gender studies.

Priscila Berger is a Research Associate at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and holds a PhD from the Department of Empirical Media Research at the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. Her interest in the links between media and education has been central to her academic activities, including projects on fostering media literacy in schools and school digitalisation.

Tatiana Dourado has a PhD in Communication (2020) from the Federal University of Bahia and is an Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy, Brazil. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MediaTrust.Lab – Local Media Lab for Civic Trust and Literacy, at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal.

Gustavo Freitas (1993, Fortaleza, Brazil) is a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at the University of Coimbra, with a Master's in Journalism and Communication (2021) and a BA in Journalism specialising in Human Rights. His doctoral research, funded by FCT/FSE, focuses on contemporary representations of Colonialism and Lusophony in the Portuguese press. His work explores postcolonial critique, journalism, memory, and media representations.

Natalia Reis Gomes is a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at the University of Coimbra. She has worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, emphasising studies on domestic work and intersectionality between gender, race and class. Her PhD research focuses on technology-mediated communication, gender and the uses of dating apps.

Margarida Maneta has an MA degree in Journalism from School of Communication and Media Studies (IPL) and is doing a second MA degree in Media and Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship at Lusófona University. She holds a research fellowship in the project YouNDigital–Youth, News and Digital Citizenship (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021). She co-coordinates the Young Researchers Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences.

João Miranda is a Professor at the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20). His research explores the socio-professional aspects of journalistic activity as well as media accountability and regulation. Recently, he has participated in research projects centred on media literacy and media trust and the challenges of online violence against journalists.

Ana F. Oliveira, PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Minho, is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University and a Researcher at CICANT. Her research focuses on youth citizenship, media education, creative media, participatory methods, and intergenerationality.

Jéssica Neves Caetano Ribeiro (born in 1989 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil) is a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at the University of Coimbra. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Communication and a Master's degree from the same institution. Her research interests focus on the relationship between the media and women in politics, as well as media studies and feminist studies more broadly.

Nina Santos is the Director of Aláfia Lab, a Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy and at the Centre d'Analyse et de Recherche Interdisciplinaires sur les Médias (Université Panthéon-Assas). She is also a Professor in the MBA of the Fundação Getulio Vargas and in the Master's of the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle.

Rita Sepúlveda (PhD Communication Sciences) is a Researcher at ICNOVA, Instituto de Comunicação da Nova, Nova University of Lisbon, and an Invited Professor at ISCTE-Iul. Her research focuses on collective and dynamic expressions in digital environments regarding the transformation of intimacy in the context of digital platforms appropriation.

Luísa Torre is a Journalist and PhD student in Communication Sciences at the University of Beira Interior, in Portugal. Her research interests are journalism, news deserts, disinformation, social media and power. She holds a Master's in Communication Sciences from the University of Porto, Portugal; she worked as a Multimedia Journalist for about 10 years in local newsrooms in Brazil.

This book was made possible through the financial support of Portuguese national funds provided by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under the framework of the project ‘Mediated Young Adults' Practices: Advancing Gender Justice in and Across Mobile Apps’ (PTDC/COM-CSS/5947/2020). https://sciproj.ptcris.pt/163946PR0J