Teacher
Sofia P. Caldeira

Resume

Sofia P. Caldeira is Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at CICANT, Lusófona University (doi: 10.54499/UIDB/05260/2020). Her current project, "Exploring Ephemeral Feminisms on Portuguese Instagram," focuses how online feminist practices take shape in increasingly popular yet under-researched practices of ephemeral social media by focusing on Instagram stories. She holds a Communication Sciences PhD from Ghent University, Belgium (2020), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Instagrammable Femininities: Exploring the gender politics of self-representations on Instagram and women's magazines", explored contemporary social media cultures and practices of self-representation and their intertextual relationship with women's magazines. Her research focuses primarily on social media, self-representation practices, politics of gender representation, everyday aesthetics, and feminist media studies. Sofia¿s research has been published in journals such as Social Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, and Information Communication & Society. She currently serves as the Chair of ECREA¿s Digital Culture and Communication section. Sofia has also completed a master degree in Anthropology - Visual Cultures in 2014 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas and a bachelors in Art and Multimedia in 2011 by Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes.

Graus

• Curso de Especialização Tecnológica
  Realização I
• Licenciatura
  Arte e Multimédia
• Mestrado
  Antropologia - Culturas Visuais
• Doctorat
  PhD Student (Department of Communication Sciences)

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2015-07, Copy As Creation: The Reversal of the Benjaminian Concept of Aura and the Aesthetics of the Accidental in Rachel Phillips // Madge Cameron's Fixed, Interartive Magazine, Special Issue - Original VS Copy

Journal article

• 2024-09-22, “How Can You Be a Feminist if You’re Always Online?” Online Activisms, Ambivalence, and Dis/Connection, Television & New Media
• 2024-09, ‘Walking on eggshells’: Exploring tensions and ambivalences in platformised feminist practices on Instagram, Platforms & Society
• 2024-07-18, ‘24/7 horny&training’: porn bots, authenticity, and social automation on Instagram, Porn Studies
• 2024-03-17, (Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices, New Media & Society
• 2024-03-06, Exploring feminisms on Instagram: Reflections on the challenges and possibilities of incorporating digital methods strategies in feminist social media research, Journal of Digital Social Research
• 2023-06-12, Situating #MeToo: a comparative analysis of the movement in Catalonia and Portugal, Media, Culture & Society
• 2023-05, Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram, Convergence
• 2023, The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal, Feminist Media Studies
• 2023, The Pluralization of Feminist Hashtag Landscapes: An Exploratory Mapping of Feminist Hashtags on Portuguese Instagram, Social Media + Society
• 2022, Photographable Femininities: An intertextual comparative analysis of representations of femininity in women's magazines and on Instagram, European Journal of Cultural Studies
• 2021, It's not just Instagram models: Exploring the gendered political potential of young women's Instagram use, Media and Communication
• 2020-07, Between the Mundane and the Political: Women's Self-Representations on Instagram, Social Media + Society
• 2020, Shop it. Wear it. Gram it.: A qualitative textual analysis of women's fashion glossy magazines and their intertextual relationship with Instagram, Feminist Media Studies
• 2020, "Everybody needs to post a selfie every once in a while": exploring the politics of Instagram curation in young women's self-representational practices, Information, Communication & Society
• 2018, Exploring the Politics of Gender Representation on Instagram: Self-representations of Femininity, DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
• 2018, A Different Point of View: Women's Self-Representation in Instagram's Participatory Artistic Movements @girlgazeproject and @arthoecollective, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies
• 2017-10-01, Representing diverse femininities on Instagram: A case study of the body-positive @effyourbeautystandards Instagram account, Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies
• 2017, As Potencialidades do Estudo da Imagem Fotográfica na Antropologia Visual, Vista - Revista de Cultura Visual
• 2016-11-02, Identities in Flux: An Analysis to Photographic Self-Representation on Instagram, Observatorio (OBS*)

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2020-10, PhD, Instagrammable Femininities: Exploring the gender politics of self-representations on Instagram and women's magazines
• 2014, Master, Identidade em Fluxo: A Auto-Representação Fotográfica e o Caso Prático do Instagram

Book

• 2023, História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal, Pereira, Ana Sofia; Camila Lamartine; Cerqueira, Carla; Taborda, Célia; Cardoso, Daniel; Drummond, Daniela; Babo, Isabel; et al, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas

Book chapter

• 2025, The Storefront of Gender in the Portuguese Google PlayStore, Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms , Emerald Publishing
• 2022, “Hello My Lovelies!”: Conflicted Feminisms and the Neoliberalisation of Portuguese Activist Influencer Practices, Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
• 2022, Bolsas de Pós-Doutoramento Marie Sklodowska-Curie: Breves Notas Sobre o Processo de Candidatura, Rotas para a Investigação em Comunicação: Um Guia de Pensamento e Prática para Início de Percurso, Edições Universitárias Lusófona

Book review

• Berry, D. M., & Fagerjord, A. (2017). Digital humanities: Knowledge and critique in a digital age. Cambridge: Polity Books, 248 pp.

Report

• 2021, #homesofInsta for a #lockdownlife, https://smart.inovamedialab.org/past-editions/2021-platformisation/project-reports/homesofinsta-for-a-lockdownlife/

Online resource

• 2022, Embracing Tensions: Studying Self-representations on Social Media using a Feminist Multi-methodological Approach (In: SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online), https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529798890
• 2017, When working on 'the digital' is something other than Digital Humanities

Conference abstract

• 2024-10, “(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices, AoIR 2024
• 2024-10, want boyfriend ¿¿¿”: Porn Bots, Authenticity and Social Automation on Instagram, AoIR 2024
• 2024-09, “I practically only see Stories:” Exploring emerging uses of Instagram Stories for everyday feminisms, ECREA 2024
• 2024-09, ¿24/7 horny&training¿: Porn Bots, Authenticity, and Social Automation on Instagram, ECREA 2024
• 2024-09, Roundtable: Platformed and platforming misogyny, ECREA 2024
• 2024-07, Exploring tensions in contemporary feminist practices on Instagram, SM&S: International Conference on Social Media and Society
• 2024-06, Finding your circle: Exploring connectivity and community-building in everyday feminist uses of Instagram Stories, Global Digital Intimacies
• 2024-02, Putting the ‘insta’ back on Instagram? Exploring the uses of ephemeral Stories for everyday feminist practices, 3º Congresso Internacional do CIEG
• 2024-01, Feminismos efémeros: Explorando os usos feministas de Instagram Stories, SOPCOM XIII 2024
• 2023-11, Click here for feminism! Exploring tensions on Instagram feminisms self-promotion practices, Gendered Cultures Platform Economies 2023
• 2023-09, Online feminist activisms and affective ambiences of dis/connectivity, ECREA Temporary Working Group Affect, Emotion & Media: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Affect and Emotion Research in Media and Communication Studies
• 2023-09, Negotiating On- and Offline Feminisms: Digital Activism and Small Acts of Disengagement, Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body
• 2023-09, A Story within a Story: Re-sharing practices in feminist uses of Instagram Stories, Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body
• 2023-07, Situating #MeToo: A comparative analysis of the movement in Portugal and Catalonia, IAMCR 2023
• 2023-07, Exploring the imaginaries of feminist activism on Instagram, IAMCR 2023
• 2022-10, Interrogating transnational feminist imaginaries: Feminist hashtags and Instagrammable aesthetics, ECREA 2022
• 2022-09, #VermelhoEmBelem: Conflicted femininities in the context of a Portuguese feminist hashtag campaign, Emergent Femininities and Masculinities in 21st Century Media and Popular Culture
• 2022-06, Thinking digital methods in practice: A critical reflection on the challenges and possibilities of digital methods for feminist social media research, 11th European Feminist Research Conference
• 2022-06, Instagramming Feminisms in Portugal: An exploratory look into the portuguese landscape of feminist hashtags on Instagram, 11th European Feminist Research Conference
• 2022-04, #FeminismoPortugal: Um mapeamento exploratório do panorama de hashtags feministas no Instagram, XII CONGRESSO DA SOPCOM
• 2021-10, Feminismos Instagrammáveis: Uma análise exploratória do panorama de hashtags feministas no Instagram Português e das suas convenções imagéticas, Ativismo em Rede e Plataformas Colaborativas
• 2021-09, Photographable Femininities: an intertextual comparative analysis of representations of femininity in women's magazines and on Instagram, ECREA 2021
• 2021-07, "Hello my lovelies!": From liberation to the neoliberalisation of feminist discourses on social media, a case study of the Portuguese Instagrammer @taniiagraca, IAMCR Nairobi 2021
• 2019-11, Instagrammable femininities: Exploring young women’s understandings of gendered self-representations on Instagram, Media, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Europe
• 2019-10, Getting word out through Instagram: understanding young women's experiences of the gendered infrastructural politics of Instagram, Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics
• 2019-07, Everybody needs to post a selfie every once in a while: exploring young women's self-representation practices on Instagram, IAMCR Madrid 2019
• 2019-05, Researching young women's self-representation on Instagram : a critical reflection on the challenges and possibilities of a multi-methodological feminist approach, DIGITAL - CULTURE 2019
• 2018-11, #TheInstagramIssue : exploring the adoption of social media logic by women's glossy fashion magazines in light of their intertextual relationship with Instagram, ECREA 2018
• 2018-06, Between the banal and the political : a qualitative textual analysis of women's photographic self-representation on Instagram, Instagram Conference 2018: Studying Instagram Beyond Selfies
• 2018-05, Exploring the political potential of self-representation on Instagram : a case study of the body-positive @effyourbeautystandards Instagram account, Thinking Gender Justice - First Annual Conference of UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities
• 2018-02, Shop it. Wear it. 'Gram it.: A textual analysis of women's glossy fashion magazines and their representations of femininity in the context of its intertextual relationship with Instagram, Etmaal 2018
• 2017, When working on 'the digital' is something other than Digital Humanities, Ghent University - Digital Humanities Doctoral School Symposium
• 2015-11, As Potencialidades do Estudo da Imagem Fotográfica na Antropologia Visual, I Encontro Cultura Visual