Docente
Sofia P. Caldeira

Resume

Sofia P. Caldeira is is a Researcher at CICANT and Auxiliar Professor at Lusófona University. She holds a Communication Sciences PhD from Ghent University, Belgium (2020), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. 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. Sofia P. Caldeira is also a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, with a project exploring how online feminist practices take shape in increasingly popular yet under-researched practices of ephemeral social media by focusing on Instagram stories. Her research focuses primarily on feminist media studies, social media, and politics of gender representation. She currently serves as 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

• 2025-07, Everyday encounters with feminisms: Exploring audiences’ experiences and sense-making of everyday feminisms on Instagram Stories, AtGender 2025
• 2025-03, Ephemeral Feminisms? Exploring feminist practices on Instagram Stories, MCAA Annual Conference 2025
• 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