Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor in the Communication Section of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information (DFCI) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She serves as a department deputy director of the DFCI, coordinator of the Communication Section of the DFCI, and was director of the 1st cycle of studies in Journalism and Communication (september 2019 to september 2023). PhD in Communication Sciences (Interactive Media) at the University of Minho, she is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. Inês is a collaborating researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre.
She has developed research on sociability in digital social networks, participation and social media, gender and media, media and digital literacy, technologies and active ageing, and audiences and media consumption in the digital age.
She is the PI of the project MyGender - Mediated young adults practices: advancing gender justice in and across mobile apps (PTDC/COM-CSS/5947/2020) and Co-PI of the project MediaTrust.Lab - Local Media Lab for Civic Trust and Literacy (PTDC/COM-JOR/3866/2020). Currently, Inês is a team member of the funded projects YouNDigital - Youth, News and Digital Citizenship (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021) and UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2022.03964.PTDC). She is a researcher at Observatório Masculinidades.pt. Inês was also member of the projects Equal.STEAM (POCH); Gender in Hate Pandemics: Social Media, Covid 19 and Women Journalists (FCT ID 758936851); SMaRT-EU (LC-01563446); VIOxMulheres19 (FCT Proj. n.058 Gender Research4Covid-19 - PI from July 2021 to july 2022); DeCoDe/M (PTDC/COM-CSS/31740/2017); and Opportunities and Challenges of Journalism in Open Environments: Study of the Voices of Society Around Traditional Media and New Generation Participatory Sites (CSO2016-80703-R). She was a consultant of the project (De)Othering: Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and "internal Others" in Portuguese and European mediascapes (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029997). From November 2021 to May 2022, she was the focal point at FLUC of the SUPERA project.
Currently, she is a member of three of COST Actions (CA18230 - Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations, CA17135 - Constitution-making and deliberative democracy and CA21107 - Work inequalities in later life redefined by digitalization - Portugal representative), having participated in six others (CA15122 Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy; IS1409 Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries; IS1401ELN European Literacy Network; IS1402 Ageism - a multi-national, interdisciplinary perspective; FP1104 New Possibilities for Print Media and Packaging - combining print with digital; ISO 906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies).
Inês Amaral was an Invited Scientist Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid within the founded project ENCAGE-CM (S2015/HUM-3367), and an Invited Professor at the University of Cape Verde. She is a certified trainer by the Ministry of Education, the Union of Portuguese Journalists and the National Scientific-Pedagogical Council of Continuous Education.
She was a member of the Portuguese research team of the Global Media Monitoring Project 2020. Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM), she served as co-coordinator of the Journalism and Society section of the SOPCOM. She is co-founder of the Portuguese Association of Distance Education and Training and a Cyberjournalism Observatory, Media, Information and Literacy Observatory and NIP-C@M member. Inês is also a member of the Civic Tech group of the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society (APDSI), where she served as a co-coordinator (January 2018-September 2021).
Contact:
Colégio de São Jerónimo, Piso 1
ines.amaral@uc.pt
Office Hours:
Tuesday, 11 a.m - 12 p.m.
Colégio de São Jerónimo, Piso 1
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Selection of recent publications:
– Garraio, J., Toldy, T., Sousa Carvalho, A., Santos, S. J., & Amaral, I. (2024). “Gender Ideology” in Portugal: The Circulation and Political Performance of Anti-Gender Discourses in Society and Politics. In Giorgi, A., Garraio, J. & Toldy, T. (Eds.) Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean (pp. 31-54). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003300885.
- Garraio, J., Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Santos, S. J. (2023). Forward and backwards: Sexual in violence in Portuguese news media. In Boyle, K. & Berridge, S. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence (pp. 145-154). London: Routledge.
- Antunes, E., Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Flores, A. M. M. (2023). Who Are the Young Adults in Portugal? Daily Usage of Social Media and Mobile Phones, in a No-Kids and No-Independent Housing Context—Results from a Representative Online Survey. Youth, 3(4), 1101-1120.
- Simões, R. B., Amaral, I., Flores, A. M. M., & Antunes, E. (2023). Scripted Gender Practices: Young Adults’ Social Media App Uses in Portugal. Social Media+ Society, 9(3), 20563051231196561.
- Amaral, I., Flores, A. M., & Antunes, E. (2023). Intergenerational Solidarity: Perceptions of Young Adults. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 14043, 413-425.
- Amaral, I., Antunes, E., & Flores, A. M. (2023). How do Portuguese young adults engage and use m-apps in daily life? An online questionnaire survey. OBS* 17(2), 245-263.
- Amaral, I. (2023). #17Feb and the so-called social media revolution: a decade over the Libya's uprising. Estudos em Comunicação, 36, 1-15.
- Amaral, I., & Flores, A. M. (2023). Challenging gendered and ageing normative stereotypes on Instagram. In Rosales, A., Fernández-Ardèvol, M., & Svensson, J. (Eds.) Digital Ageism (pp. 152-171). London: Routledge.
- Antunes, E., Alcaire, R., & Amaral, I. (2023). Wellbeing and (Mental) Health: A Quantitative Exploration of Portuguese Young Adults’ Uses of M-Apps from a Gender Perspective. Social Sciences, 12(1), 3.
- Simões, R. B., Amaral, I., Santos, S., & Alcantara, J. (2022). Violência Online Contra as Mulheres: Relatos a Partir da Experiência da Pandemia da COVID-19. Comunicação e Sociedade 42, 179-203. doi: https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.42(2022).3981
- Amaral, I., Flores, A. M., & Antunes, E. (2022). Desafiando imaginários: práticas mediadas de jovens adultos em aplicações móveis. Media & Jornalismo, 22(41), 141-160. doi: https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-5462_41_8
- Correia, J. C., Jerónimo, P., & Amaral, I. (Eds.) (2022). Disinformation studies. Perspectives from an emerging field. Covilhã: LabCom Books.
- Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Poleac, G. (2022). "Technology gap and other tensions in social support and legal procedures: stakeholders’ perceptions of online violence against women during the Covid-19 pandemic". El Professional de la Información, 31(4), e310413.
- Jorge, A., Amaral, I., & de Matos Alves, A. (2022). “Time Well Spent”: The Ideology of Temporal Disconnection as a Means for Digital Well-Being. International Journal of Communication 16, 1551-1572. doi: https://doi.org/1932–8036/20220005
- Medeiro Neto, B., Amaral, I., & Ghinea, G. (Eds.) (2022). Digital Convergence in Contemporary Newsrooms: Media Innovation, Content Adaptation, Digital Transformation, and Cyber Journalism. Cham: Springer.
- Correia, J. & Amaral, I. (Eds.) (2021). De que falamos quando dizemos jornalismo. Covilhã: Editora LabCom.
- Amaral, I., Santos, S. J., Simões, R. B., & Brites, M. J. (2021). Digital Aging: Reinforcing Normative Masculinities on Instagram. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12786, 335-348. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_25
- Simões, R. B., Amaral, I., Santos, S. J., & Brites, M. J. (2021). New media, old misogyny: Framing mediated Madonna on Instagram from an ageing perspective. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12786, 430-442. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_32
- Santos, S. J., Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Brites, M. J. (2021). Debunking the #manosphere: An exploratory analysis on patriarchy and ageism within the digital realm. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12786, 420-429. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_31
- Brites, M. J., Amaral, I., Santos, S. J., & Simões, R. B (2021). Generational perspectives on EU documents tackling disinformation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12786, 349-360. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_26
- Amaral, I. & Simões, R. B. (2021). Online abuse against women: towards an evidence-based approach. In J. S. González & J. G. García (Eds.) Digital Media. El papel de las redes sociales en el ecosistema educomunicativo en tiempos de covid-19 (pp. 579-591). Madrid: McGraw-Hill.
- Amaral, I. & Simões, R. B. (2021). Violence, misogyny and racism: young adults' perceptions of online hate speech. In J. J. Sánchez & A. B. Baéz (Eds.) Cosmovisión de la comunicación en redes sociales en la era postdigital (pp. 869-881). Madrid: McGraw-Hill.
- Simões, R. B., Amaral, I., & Santos, S. J. (2021). The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 12(2), 165-177. doi: https://10.3384/rela.2000-7426.3359
- Simões, R. B., Amaral, I. & Santos, S. (2021). Tracking the outbreak and far beyond: How are public authorities using mobile apps to control Covid-19 pandemic. In F. R. Cádima & I. Ferreira (Eds.) Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Communication in a Pandemic Context (pp. 166-181). Lisboa: ICNOVA.
- Amaral, I. (2020). Citizens Beyond Troika: Media and Anti-Austerity Protests in Portugal. International Journal of Communication 14, 3309-3329. doi: https://doi.org/1932–8036/20200005
- Simões, R. B. & Amaral., I. (2020). Pós-feminismo, pós-racialismo e pós-colonialismo: A cobertura mediática da campanha de Joacine Katar Moreira. Ex-Aequo 42, 135-152. doi: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2020.42.08
- Amaral, I., Santos, S. J. & Brites, M. J. (2020). Mapping Intergenerational Masculinities on Instagram. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 12209, pp. 3-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_1
- Santos, S. J., Amaral, I. & Brites, M. J. (2020). Masculinities and Ageing: Deconstructing Online Representations Among Portuguese Speaking Users. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 12209, pp. 89-100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_7
- Brites, M. J., Amaral, I. & Santos, S. J. (2020). Intergenerational Perspectives on Audiences Studies: From Youth to Senior Representations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol 12208, pp. 579-588. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50249-2_41
- Amaral. I. & Santos, S. (2020). Social networks and institutional communication: the case of Portuguese universities. Revista Prisma Social, (28), 20-43.
- Costa, M. L. & Amaral, I. (2020). Communication Design and Space Narratives”. In D. Raposo, J. Neves, & J. Silva (Eds.) Perspectives on Design (pp. 103-113). Cham: Springer.
- Amaral, I., Basílio Simões, R., Jerónimo, P. & Fidalgo, M. I. (2020). Facebook y periodismo de proximidad: estudio de caso de los incendios en portugal de 2017. In A. Domínguez & J. Sánchez (Eds.) Aproximación Periodística Y Educomunicativa al Fenómeno de las Redes Sociales (pp. 181-193). Madrid: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-84-486-2035-6.
