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- Young adults’ (re)negotiation of gender and sexual identities across mobile apps in PortugalPublication . Alcaire, Rita; Santos, Sofia José; Subtil, FilipaStemming from a critical approach towards technology (understood as a producer of meanings, subjectivity and agency, and, thus, shaped by power relations) and taking into account the role of broader societal norms and structures in technological uses and gratifications, this chapter explores the (re)negotiations of gender and sexual identities among Portuguese young adult app users. It focuses on if app usage allows these users to break heterocisnormativity and hegemonic notions of masculinity. For that purpose, the study conducted six focus groups involving 31 participants and 25 semi-structured interviews with young adults (18–30 years old). The scripts were designed to collect data about mobile app usage practices and what meanings interviewees attribute to used platforms, navigating through imaginaries, meanings, appropriations, incorporations and mostly negotiations. Analytically, this study contributes to an enhanced understanding of how apps might change young adult lives concerning gender and sexual identities and to challenging uses and gratifications theory, which, after almost 80 years since its first formulations, has gained new impetus with the ongoing digitisation process and the so-called interactive technologies that integrate it.
- Media and multiple identities: Robert E. Park as precursor to intercultural communication theory and researchPublication . Subtil, Filipa; Garcia, José Luís de Oliveira; Leeds-Hurwitz, WendyRobert E. Park’s early study of foreign-language newspapers in urban centers hosting multiple immigrant groups deserves recognition as an important precursor to several current assumptions within intercultural communication, especially the move away from equating cultures with nations, and the possibility of simultaneously holding multiple identities. Park’s research on the media’s influence on identity construction contains theoretical contributions that remain highly relevant to a world increasingly configured by global media: in particular, on accepting complexity and the fact that individuals may and do simultaneously hold multiple and conflicting identities. Hence, beyond the nation-state, the appropriate unit of analysis became the ethnic group.
- Maria LamasPublication . Subtil, FilipaRESUMEN: En el siglo XX, Maria Lamas fue una figura eminente de la cultura y la lucha de las mujeres, en Portugal y a escala internacional, en defensa de sus derechos y aspiraciones sociales, culturales, económicas y políticas. Sus ideas intelectuales y cívicas combinaban las demandas de la primera y segunda ola del feminismo. Próxima a las perspectivas del Partido Comunista Portugués desde mediados de los años 1940, Maria Lamas fue también una luchadora contra el fascismo vigente durante gran parte de su vida y una activista en organizaciones portuguesas e internacionales a favor del desarme y la paz. Dejó una vasta colección de obras literarias y publicaciones de carácter antropológico y sociológico.