In today’s increasingly digital media landscape, enhancing critical literacy and fostering civic engagement is crucial for addressing gender disparities and broader inequalities within education and public life.
Critical Literacies and Gender Studies explores the intersections of media literacy, gender studies, and civic participation, offering theoretical insights and practical strategies to challenge dominant power structures and advocate for gender equity. It highlights the importance of integrating critical literacies into educational curricula, combating misinformation, and fostering an inclusive digital environment. Topics include European research on digital citizenship and gender equality, the regulation of social platforms, and mediated intimacies.
Critical Literacies and Gender Studies provides an interdisciplinary framework for analysing how media practices shape societal norms, education, and civic life.
Chapters highlight the importance of integrating critical literacies into educational curricula, combating misinformation, and fostering an inclusive digital environment. Topics include European research on digital citizenship and gender equality, the regulation of social platforms, and mediated intimacies.
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1. Foundations of critical literacies and gender studies: Media,
education, and civic engagement throughout social justice; Inês Amaral, Ana
Marta M. Flores, Rita Basílio de Simões, and Eduardo Antunes
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2. For an integrated view of media education: Media practices, their
specific facets, and the interplay between them in educational environments;
Priscila Berger
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3. Researching health and fitness apps to readdress the gender gap;
Rita Sepúlveda and Cláudia Álvares
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4. Responsibility of digital platforms to enhance digital literacy;
Tatiana Dourado and Nina Santos
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5. Exploring citizenship through media education: The need for
critical readings and approaches to the curricula; Ana F. Oliveira
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6. Civic and critical literacies: (Timeless) concepts and (new)
challenges; Margarida Maneta
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7. Navigating through the information disorder by fostering critical
literacies; Luísa Torre
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8. Digital citizenship and gender (in)equality: An analysis of
European research in the social sciences field; Gustavo Freitas and Jéssica
Neves Caetano Ribeiro
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9. Online gender-based violence and the regulation of social
platforms; João Miranda
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10. Mediated intimacies: Digital literacy to promote well-being and
to prevent violent online communication practices such as catfish, phubbing,
ghosting, and their variations; Natalia Reis Gomes
Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She was the PI of MyGender project. Currently, she is the Co-PI of MediaTrust.Lab and a member of the Masculinities Observatory.
Ana Marta M. Flores has a PhD in journalism and is a researcher at ICNOVA and Nephi-Jor, collaborating with the Trends and Culture Management Lab and Obi.Media. She is visiting assistant professor at NOVA University Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, and is the vice president of communication for the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA.
Rita Basílio de Simões is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She leads the Portuguese participation in the Global Media Monitoring Project and coordinates the SOPCOM (Portuguese Association of Communication) Working Group on Gender and Sexualities.
Eduardo Antunes is a research fellow and doctoral student in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he completed his master's degree in Journalism and Communication. He is a radio broadcaster and author at RUC, where he previously served as the program coordinator.
