Books by Claudia Alvares
OBS* (Observatorio) Special Issue , 2023
We would like to share with you the OBS* (Observatorio) 2023 Special Issue Announcement, subordin... more We would like to share with you the OBS* (Observatorio) 2023 Special Issue Announcement, subordinate to the theme: 'Platformisation of News and Interactions: Regional Contexts of Crisis in Trust'. This call may be consulted on the following link: https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/announcement/view/1
Observatorio (OBS*) is an online academic journal, specialising in the area of Media and Communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed on SCOPUS and does not charge fees for article publication.
This OBS* Special Issue results from the EUMEPLAT Project (European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture), funded by the Horizon 2020 SC6 - Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, and coordinated by Prof. Andrea Miconi (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – IULM, Italy).
Potential contributors should send a 300-word proposal in English and short bio to guest editors Cláudia Álvares ([email protected]) and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün ([email protected]) by no later than February 27, 2023. Decisions will be communicated by March 27, 2023. Acceptance of abstracts to be developed into invited papers does not guarantee acceptance in the special issue. The deadline for article drafts is July 15, 2023. All invited articles will be sent out for anonymous peer review.
Claudia Alvares and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
In L. Cuklanz (ed.) Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real. London: Routledge., 2023
Online violence became a much debated topic in the Portuguese media around May 2017, during the t... more Online violence became a much debated topic in the Portuguese media around May 2017, during the traditional academic festivities (Queima das Fitas, or Ribbon Burning) of graduating university students. The most salient episode covered by the media in this regard concerns the allegedly non-consensual video recording, disseminated on social media, of a young male student genitally manipulating a young female student, apparently unconscious due to excess drink, in a public transport bus especially chartered for the event, while a multitude of students watched, laughed and clapped. The video was disseminated by the online version of the Correio da Manhã populist newspaper as well as its TV channel. Although the paper attempted to distort the image of the alleged victim, the dissemination of this video was severely criticised by various sectors of Portuguese society, namely the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG), the Deontological Council of the Journalists’ Trade Union as well as the Portuguese Regulatory Entity (ERC). The director of the Correio da Manhã, Octávio Ribeiro, defended that, by distributing the vídeo, the newspaper was contributing to disseminating ‘a relevant and controversial fact, whilst protecting the identity’ of those involved, adding that ‘without news, there is no reflection’ (Lusa 17.05.2017). As such, the Correio da Manhã invoked the public interest in disseminating the video, which it allegedly intended to mobilise society around a cause, namely that of collective indignation against possible sexual abuse.
This episode will be analysed with the objective of understanding how the Net, as an integral part of an expanding public sphere, has come to redefine the classical division of public and private. As such, the contexts in which the collective understanding of sexual rights (with emphasis on the reframing of ‘privacy’) is being visibly challenged and redefined in light of online publics and digital publicity (Albury 2017: 714) will be explored. Ultimately, I intend to sustain the claim that the concepts of public space and publicity are interconnected, with impact on regulatory practices concerning both gender performances as well as the mechanisms of intersection of informal and formal justice.
The 2019 European Electoral Campaign In the Time of Populism and Social Media, 2022
This chapter analyses the campaign in Greece and Portugal, two of the countries that fared worst ... more This chapter analyses the campaign in Greece and Portugal, two of the countries that fared worst in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008. The authors conclude that this was the first election since the crisis in which the political discourse in both member states adopted a moderately more optimistic tone than in previous campaigns. Nevertheless, the focus in 2019 was still on welfare issues, such as (un)employment, wages, pensions and taxation.
Revista ex aequo, 2020
'Dossier "Estudos de Género e Neoliberalismo: Os últimos 20 anos"'
2019 European Elections Campaign: Images, Topics, Media in the 28 Member States, 2019
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The journal ex aequo, of the Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies (APEM), cordially invites ... more The journal ex aequo, of the Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies (APEM), cordially invites submissions for its 42nd issue, subordinated to the theme:
Gender Studies and Neoliberalism: The Last 20 Years (edited by Maria João Silveirina – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC) and ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication – and Cláudia Álvares – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES))
Deadline – May 15 2020 (to be published in December 2020)
ex aequo is indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics (SciELO Citation Index), SciELO, CAPES, DOAJ, ERIH Plus, Latindex and Virtual Library of Women's History.
Please consult the following site for more information on the journal and its publication guidelines: https://exaequo.apem-estudos.org/?lingua=en
Submissions should be sent to the following address: [email protected]
Papers by Claudia Alvares
Observatorio (OBS*), Jan 31, 2024
Central European Journal of Communication, 2024
Online toxicity refers to a spectrum of problematic communicative phenomena that unfold in variou... more Online toxicity refers to a spectrum of problematic communicative phenomena that unfold in various ways on social media platforms. Most of the current efforts to contain it focus on computational techniques to detect online toxicity and build a regulatory architecture. In this paper, we highlight the importance of focusing on the social phenomena of toxicity, and parti cularly, exploring the public understanding and future imaginaries of toxic debates. To explore how users construe online toxicity and envisage the future of online discussions, we examine 41 scenarios produced by European experts from the field of technology and culture. Through a content analysis informed by a narrative approach and insights from futures studies, we identify three myths that characterize the future scenarios: technological disruption, societal fragmen tation, and digital Enlightenment. After a discussion of their relations, we conclude by stressing the importance of platform transparency and user empowerment.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 23, 2022
Discourse & Society, Feb 13, 2018
Tiripelli’s analysis mainly takes into consideration the historical, cultural and social structur... more Tiripelli’s analysis mainly takes into consideration the historical, cultural and social structures of journalism from an ethnographic standpoint, while generally overlooking text-centered approaches to the narratives presented in this study such as those prevalent in critical discourse analysis. However, Media and Peace in the Middle East does offer a transformative model linking media with social change, and might definitely be of interest to scholars from various interdisciplinary fields dealing with the constitutive role of discourse in effecting social change, conflict resolution studies, educational discourse and social change.
Media & jornalismo, Oct 11, 2017
Este artigo problematiza os pressupostos do pós-feminismo, à luz da constatação de que as crescen... more Este artigo problematiza os pressupostos do pós-feminismo, à luz da constatação de que as crescentes oportunidades de participação promovidas pelas novas tecnologias nem sempre estão em consonância com a defesa de valores democráticos. A arquitectura das Redes, as quais proporcionam um determinado grau de anonimato, facilita a desinibição, ausência de civilidade e publicitação da intimidade, legitimando uma cultura de misoginia, a qual reencena estruturas sociais normativas, por vezes sob a capa de promoção de uma aparente emancipação.
Revista lusófona de estudos culturais, Jul 2, 2015
Scientific advances in the area of biotechnology allow for an increasing dissociation between the... more Scientific advances in the area of biotechnology allow for an increasing dissociation between the social and biological components of parentality, with medical discourse attempting, in most cases, to frame the social in the context of the biological so as to not jeopardise consensual definitions of parenting, particularly as regards the understanding of the concept of 'maternity'. This framing of the social within the biological is visible in the way assisted procreation techniques are often described in the press as simulating a 'natural' biological process, a naturalness that the pathology of infertility prevents from taking free course. This article analyses the different and sometimes conflicting understandings of the concept of motherhood subjacent to news coverage of Medically Assisted Procreation by the newspaper Público in the years 2008 and 2009. The analytic corpus demonstrates that by favouring medical discourse in the hegemonic interpretation of the risks and benefits of these reproduction techniques, Público maternity design conveys which privileges the social detriment biological: the transmission of a genetic heritage is regarded as the most important factor when it comes to the definition of motherhood, being that overlaps the dimension of " educate/raise a child". Público articulates a conception of maternity that clearly privileges the biological to the detriment of the social: the transmission of genetic heritage is regarded as the most important factor when it comes to the definition of motherhood, impinging upon the dimension of 'educating/raising a child'.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 14, 2023
Political Position Facebook Twitter YouTube Total n= n= n= n= Christian democrats and conservativ... more Political Position Facebook Twitter YouTube Total n= n= n= n= Christian democrats and conservatives 56 70 9 135 Socialists & Democrats 42 37 6 85 Liberals and centrists (Renew Europe) 48 63 2 113 Eurosceptic conservatives 48 32 3 83 Greens and regionalists 35 26 2 63 Communists and left 73 22 12 107 Far-right nationalists, (Identity and Democracy)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 17, 2021
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nov 4, 2022
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Books by Claudia Alvares
Observatorio (OBS*) is an online academic journal, specialising in the area of Media and Communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed on SCOPUS and does not charge fees for article publication.
This OBS* Special Issue results from the EUMEPLAT Project (European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture), funded by the Horizon 2020 SC6 - Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, and coordinated by Prof. Andrea Miconi (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – IULM, Italy).
Potential contributors should send a 300-word proposal in English and short bio to guest editors Cláudia Álvares ([email protected]) and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün ([email protected]) by no later than February 27, 2023. Decisions will be communicated by March 27, 2023. Acceptance of abstracts to be developed into invited papers does not guarantee acceptance in the special issue. The deadline for article drafts is July 15, 2023. All invited articles will be sent out for anonymous peer review.
Claudia Alvares and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
This episode will be analysed with the objective of understanding how the Net, as an integral part of an expanding public sphere, has come to redefine the classical division of public and private. As such, the contexts in which the collective understanding of sexual rights (with emphasis on the reframing of ‘privacy’) is being visibly challenged and redefined in light of online publics and digital publicity (Albury 2017: 714) will be explored. Ultimately, I intend to sustain the claim that the concepts of public space and publicity are interconnected, with impact on regulatory practices concerning both gender performances as well as the mechanisms of intersection of informal and formal justice.
Gender Studies and Neoliberalism: The Last 20 Years (edited by Maria João Silveirina – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC) and ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication – and Cláudia Álvares – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES))
Deadline – May 15 2020 (to be published in December 2020)
ex aequo is indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics (SciELO Citation Index), SciELO, CAPES, DOAJ, ERIH Plus, Latindex and Virtual Library of Women's History.
Please consult the following site for more information on the journal and its publication guidelines: https://exaequo.apem-estudos.org/?lingua=en
Submissions should be sent to the following address: [email protected]
Papers by Claudia Alvares
Observatorio (OBS*) is an online academic journal, specialising in the area of Media and Communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed on SCOPUS and does not charge fees for article publication.
This OBS* Special Issue results from the EUMEPLAT Project (European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture), funded by the Horizon 2020 SC6 - Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, and coordinated by Prof. Andrea Miconi (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – IULM, Italy).
Potential contributors should send a 300-word proposal in English and short bio to guest editors Cláudia Álvares ([email protected]) and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün ([email protected]) by no later than February 27, 2023. Decisions will be communicated by March 27, 2023. Acceptance of abstracts to be developed into invited papers does not guarantee acceptance in the special issue. The deadline for article drafts is July 15, 2023. All invited articles will be sent out for anonymous peer review.
Claudia Alvares and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
This episode will be analysed with the objective of understanding how the Net, as an integral part of an expanding public sphere, has come to redefine the classical division of public and private. As such, the contexts in which the collective understanding of sexual rights (with emphasis on the reframing of ‘privacy’) is being visibly challenged and redefined in light of online publics and digital publicity (Albury 2017: 714) will be explored. Ultimately, I intend to sustain the claim that the concepts of public space and publicity are interconnected, with impact on regulatory practices concerning both gender performances as well as the mechanisms of intersection of informal and formal justice.
Gender Studies and Neoliberalism: The Last 20 Years (edited by Maria João Silveirina – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC) and ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication – and Cláudia Álvares – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES))
Deadline – May 15 2020 (to be published in December 2020)
ex aequo is indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics (SciELO Citation Index), SciELO, CAPES, DOAJ, ERIH Plus, Latindex and Virtual Library of Women's History.
Please consult the following site for more information on the journal and its publication guidelines: https://exaequo.apem-estudos.org/?lingua=en
Submissions should be sent to the following address: [email protected]
The journal ex aequo, of the Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies (APEM), cordially invites submissions for its 42nd issue, subordinated to the theme: ‘Gender Studies and Neoliberalism: The Last 20 Years’ (edited by Maria João Silveirinha – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC) and ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication – and Cláudia Álvares – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES))
Deadline – May 15 2020 (to be published in December 2020)
ex aequo is indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics (SciELO Citation Index), SciELO, CAPES, DOAJ, ERIH Plus, Latindex and Virtual Library of Women's History.
Please consult the following site for more information on the journal and its publication guidelines: https://exaequo.apem-estudos.org/?lingua=en
Submissions should be sent to the following address: [email protected]
Podcast Hosted by Robert Gutsche: In this episode, we discuss not just how free journalists are across the globe, but how we can better understand the complications of journalistic autonomy. In other words, we ask, “What types of freedoms are there for journalists?” Guests include Cláudia Álvares, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ISCTE: Lisbon University Institute in Portugal, who discusses “journalistic freedom” from political partisanship, while Signe Ivask, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, examines the role of journalistic autonomy and “freedom” in making tough editorial decisions, specifically in publishing visuals of violence and death. Basyouni Hamada, Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Qatar University, in Qatar, also discusses of one of the most recognized aspects of journalistic freedom and autonomy – physical safety.