Rita Basílio Simões Editor

Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, Inês is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She has developed research on sociability in digital social networks, participation, and social media, gender and media, feminist media studies, masculinities, media and digital literacy, technologies and active aging, audiences, and disinformation.

Rita Basílio Simões is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. PhD in Communication Sciences, her research interests focus on media and gender, digital sociability, hate speech and violence, critical internet studies and media regulation.

Sofia José Santos is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. PhD in International Relations, Sofia studies the politics of media representations and media production from a Critical and feminist perspective, focusing on international relations; peace, violence and security studies; masculinities; and technopolitics.