Notas biográficas dos/as participantes

Rita Basílio de Simões is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC), within the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, where she currently coordinates the Communication Section. Holding a PhD in Communication Sciences, she coordinates the Working Group on Gender and Sexualities of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM) and serves as the national coordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) – Who Makes the News?, promoted by the World Association for Christian Communication. Her research focuses on communication and media from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective, encompassing the sociology of journalism, feminist and gender studies of the public sphere, critical internet studies, and media regulation. Outside academia, she is a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.

Carmen Lúcia Costa Brotas is a PhD candidate in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), currently undertaking a doctoral exchange at the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, with funding from CAPES. She holds both a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Law.

Mariana C. Broens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Postgraduate Programme in Philosophy at São Paulo State University (UNESP). She is a Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil.

Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Postgraduate Programme in Philosophy at São Paulo State University (UNESP). She is a Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. Her work emphasises the study of ecological, pragmatic, and ethical implications within the field of computational creativity in complex systems.

Sofia José Santos is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and an associate researcher at CES, where she has been conducting research since 2008. Her work adopts a critical, feminist, and intersectional perspective, focusing on media and international politics; media, peace, and violence; internet and technopolitics; and media and masculinities.

João Miranda is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20). His academic work includes articles and book chapters exploring different dimensions of media and journalism, such as regulation, ethics, transparency, and accountability. He has participated in research projects addressing topics including trust in the media, online violence against journalists, and the algorithmic automation of journalism.

Inês Amaral is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Communication Section of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra. She coordinates the PhD programme in Communication Sciences and co-coordinates the PhD programme in Computational Media Design. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho. She is a member of the Masculinidades.pt Observatory team and the Advisory Board of GILM. Her research focuses on sociability in digital social networks, participation and social media, feminist media studies, masculinities, gender and media, media and digital literacy, technologies and active ageing, audiences and media consumption in the digital era, and disinformation. She was principal investigator of the project MyGender – Mediated practices of young adults: promoting gender justice in and through mobile applications and co-principal investigator of MediaTrust.Lab – Regional Media Laboratory for Civic Trust and Literacy.

Juliana Moroni is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, with research support from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and both a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from São Paulo State University (UNESP – Marília, SP).