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. She is a member of the research team at Observatório Masculinidades.pt. She is a member of the CES Ethics Committee and the Editorial Board of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. Inês is a collaborating researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre of the University of Minho.
She has developed research on sociabilities 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 age, and disinformation.
She is the 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 “ProTest – Protest as a Democracy Test: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power” (Horizont Europe, 101177963), “STORYline: Exploring youth citizenship through intergenerational approaches and digital storytelling” (2023.11571.PEX), "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 the PI of the project MyGender - Mediated young adults practices: advancing gender justice in and across mobile apps (PTDC/COM-CSS/5947/2020) and 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 for 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 two COST Actions (CA18230 - Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations and CA21107 - Work inequalities in later life redefined by digitalization - Portugal representative), having participated in seven others (CA17135 - Constitution-making and deliberative democracy; 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 is a member of GILM's Advisory Board. Inês was a member of the Portuguese research team of the Global Media Monitoring Project 2020. Member of the IAMCR, ICA, 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 a 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
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Selection of recent publications:
- Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Santos, S. J. (Eds.). (2025). Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/97810033441555
- Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Flores, A. M. M. (Eds.). (2024). Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms: Digitally Constructing Gender and Sexualities. Leeds: Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-83753-525-5
- Amaral, I., Flores, A. M. M., & Antunes, E. (Eds.) (2024). Apps e Jovens Adultos: Contributos para um Mapeamento de Práticas Mediadas. Braga: UMinho Editora. DOI: 10.21814/uminho.ed.82
- Amaral, I. (2024). Misoginia, racismo e ódio online: jovens mulheres, resistência e reação. In Simões, R. B. (Org.) Género, violência e ódio online: Conceitos e representações (pp. 27-53). Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press.
- Amaral, I., & Simões, R. B. (2024). Educação, regulamentação e inovação tecnológica: perceções de stakeholders da violência online contra as mulheres. In Simões, R. B. (Org.). Género, violência e ódio online: Conceitos e representações (pp. 167-197). Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press.
- Amaral, I., Flores, A. M. M., & Antunes, E. (2024). Gender Across Digital Platforms. In Amaral, I., Simões, R. B., & Flores, A. M. M. (Eds.) Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms: Digitally Constructing Gender and Sexualities (pp. 35-56). Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Antunes, E., Simões, R. B., Amaral, I., & Flores, A. M. (2024). Género e self-tracking: Rastreio da utilização de smartphones de jovens em idade adulta em Portugal. Ex Aequo, 49, 141-160. DOI: 10.22355/exaequo.2024.49.10
- Maneta, M., Torre, L., Rodrigues, A., Amaral, I., & Jerónimo, P. (2024). Jovens e consumo mediático: uma análise comparativa entre desertos e não-desertos de notícias em Portugal. Media & Jornalismo, 24(45), e4512-e4512. DOI: 10.14195/2183-5462_45_12
- Torre, L., Jerónimo, P., & Amaral, I. (2024). Disinformation, media literacy and journalism: proposals from journalists in Portugal. Observatorio (OBS*), 18(5), 41-58. DOI: 10.15847/obsOBS18520242438.
- 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.
