Ana Marta M. Flores- PhD
- Visiting Professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Ana Marta M. Flores
- PhD
- Visiting Professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Visiting professor at NOVA University Lisbon and the University of Coimbra.
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September 2024 - present
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This book explores the intersection of critical literacies and gender studies as key frameworks for understanding and challenging societal structures, power relations, and media and educational representations. The book emerges from the research project “Mediated Young Adults’ Practices: Advancing Gender Justice in and Across Mobile Apps” (PTDC/COM...
While digital media have become integral parts of young adults' everyday lives, it remains unclear whether health-focused media, like health apps, hold the same importance. This study explores health app usage patterns among young adults in Portugal, analysing tracking data from 342 participants over 90 days. The main findings reveal that contrary...
This article takes an approach to theorizing the role of Instagram and its users in producing and circulating wellness-related content. We analyse 1500 Instagram posts containing the hashtag #Wellness to identify and describe how Instagram users communicate with their audience through associated performances. The qualitative thematic analysis condu...
The concept of “wellness” and its associated representations have become key aspects of modern culture, with social media platforms like Instagram playing a significant role. Not only do these platforms serve as spaces for the public expression of wellness-related topics, but they also influence public perceptions. This becomes particularly meaning...
Este relatório explora o impacto da Inteligência Artificial (IA) na prática jornalística, analisando oportunidades, desafios e implicações éticas decorrentes da sua adoção. São examinados tópicos como a automatização de tarefas jornalísticas, a personalização de conteúdos e a transformação das dinâmicas laborais no setor. O documento destaca as pri...
Whenever a celebrity posts a photo on Instagram, it is almost inevitable that the first comment on it will be made by a porn bot (Alvarez 2020). Observations of this kind – some focusing on the distorted perception of ‘sexiness’ and social media authenticity (Thing 2020; Salim 2023), others contesting Instagram’s community guidelines prohibiting bo...
This article presents a conceptual and methodological account of a small porn bot network, focusing on its embeddedness within Instagram use. The analysis explores the gendered design of bots as platform-native personas, particularly their capacity to perform within the confines of Instagram's increasingly strict sexual content controls. We address...
O QUE É SER INOVADOR EM UM MUNDO CADA VEZ MAIS DINÂMICO E TECNOLÓGICO?
Como as tendências e os laboratórios de inovação media labs podem catalisar a criatividade ou impulsionar uma cultura que estimule novos produtos, processos ou negócios em mídia, nas indústrias criativas ou outros segmentos?
Resultado de colaborações internacionais, Inovação nas...
This exploratory study presents the main results from the analysis of the tracking of mobile application use by 342 young adults (18-30 years old) in Portugal considering the gendered power relations that may be reflected in those uses. The results indicate that Social Media and Messaging apps are predominant, while the tracking of the self categor...
There is nothing new about how the news ecosystem has undergone significant changes in recent years, especially with the rise of digital media and the consequent growth of news apps and social media platforms. News apps often prioritise popular and viral content, which may lead to a focus on sensationalism and entertainment-based approaches rather...
In the dynamic landscape of online interactions, this article explores the use of digital diaries to unravel the intricacy of Portugal young adults’ experiences within the realm of apps and their connection to gender dynamics. By designing a digital participatory research method, we were able to reflect on the participants’ experiences in maintaini...
Apps e Jovens Adultos: Contributos para um Mapeamento de Práticas Mediadas explora teorias, práticas, críticas e perspetivas no uso de aplicações móveis por pessoas de 18 a 30 anos. Estruturado em três partes, o livro inicia-se com uma base teórica sobre práticas digitalmente mediadas em jovens adultos/as. O primeiro capítulo critica os média digit...
Apps e Jovens Adultos: Contributos para um Mapeamento de Práticas Mediadas explora teorias, práticas, críticas e perspetivas no uso de aplicações móveis por pessoas de 18 a 30 anos. Estruturado em três partes, o livro inicia-se com uma base teórica sobre práticas digitalmente mediadas em jovens adultos/as. O primeiro capítulo critica os média digit...
Better theories and practices are constructed through a deep understanding of the subjects involved. In Portugal, young adults aged 18 to 30 are a group sometimes left out because the Portuguese official statistical data does not treat this as an age category by itself, dividing it either into young people or the general idea of adults. Through a s...
This research focuses on social media mobile applications as mediated interfaces of identity performances and interrogates to what extent everyday young adults’ uses are remaking gender scripts. We analyze young adults’ self-reported experiences on preferred social media apps and discourses of rejection of others, the technologies themselves, and h...
This paper focuses on the intergenerational solidarity perceptions of young adults (aged between 18 and 30) in Portugal regarding how solidarity is intertwined with digital media uses, appropriations, and embodiments during the pandemic context. Therefore, this research departs from the following questions: (RQ1) Do Portuguese young adults perceive...
The rise of the mobile era has brought ubiquity in media access, constant connection to other people and interconnectedness with devices as part of life. Considering mobile devices and mobile applications (m-apps) as an environment that allows multitasking, this article is interested in understanding the performance of popular m-apps in the daily l...
This study addresses gender identity as an important aspect of young adults' relationships with and on digital social platforms and apps. From an exploratory approach, it analyses different corpora with smartphone tracking data to characterise the use of mobile apps. From there, we seek to understand the use of these platforms according to gender,...
Computer vision methods and methodologies to understand computer vision labelling performance in classifying images using the outputs of four commercial machine learning models: Google Vision AI, Microsoft Azure, Clarifai and Amazon.
Considerando o grupo específico de jovens adultos(as) em Portugal, o artigo visa perceber se e de que forma as aplicações móveis interferem com as identidades de género e as práticas sexuais. A abordagem metodológica adotada é quantitativa, operacionalizada através de um inquérito por questionário a uma amostra representativa (N=1500) de jovens (18...
RESUMEN El método data sprint permite varios objetivos para la comunidad de métodos digitales, desde el fomento de la colaboración interdisciplinaria hasta la provisión de espacios de enseñanza-aprendizaje en relación con los diseños metodológicos creativos. Sin embargo, el propósito, las ventajas y los resultados concretos de los data sprints son...
The data sprint approach enables various objectives for the digital methods community, from fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to providing teaching-learning spaces regarding creative methods. However, data sprints’ purpose, advantages and concrete results are still little known across disciplines. Thus, this paper presents four facets perta...
A investigação tem mostrado que as interações e os processos narrativos coletivos que delas decorrem em plataformas baseadas em aplicações móveis (m-apps) aprimoram as relações sociais de poder, perpetuando masculinidades e feminilidades hegemónicas ancoradas à heteronormatividade (Amaral et al., 2021). As masculinidades e as feminilidades represen...
Considering the issue of population ageing, its differences and inequalities, also in a pandemic context, this paper aims to explore intergenerational digital mediation relations and practises in Portugal. Therefore, this research departs from the following questions: (RQ1): How do Portuguese young adults interact online with family members over 65...
Social platforms are environments prioritized by populist governments around the world and spaces frequently used for exchanging information without journalistic mediation. Invalidating the press is an increasingly evident strategy by political voices: a warning sign of attacks against journalists, amplified during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jair Bolso...
Entrevista realizada por Ana Marta Flores.
O relatório Inovação Digital nos Museus Portugueses resulta de um estudo exploratório que procura analisar de que forma a inovação nos media se manifesta no âmbito dos museus nacionais geridos pela Direção Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC). O estudo procura responder a quatro perguntas de investigação: 1) Que práticas de inovação digital estão pr...
Este artigo discute as inovações jornalísticas implementadas nos primeiros meses da pandemia da COVID-19 no Brasil (março a agosto de 2020). As inovações analisadas são oriundas de um questionário online, com um total de 82 indicações e 67 inovações únicas com participação majoritária do público acadêmico e de profissionais de mídia residentes de 1...
Identificar, caracterizar e refletir criticamente sobre os processos inovadores da comunicação, da mídia e do jornalismo são os pontos centrais da edição temática de Inovação em mídia da Revista Observatório. O dossiê apresenta uma curadoria de quatro artigos que exploram os cenários no Brasil e na Colômbia com destaque para inovações nos campos pr...
Identifying, characterizing and critically reflecting on the innovative processes of communication, media and journalism are central points of this thematic edition of Revista Observatório. The dossier presents four papers that explore the scenarios in Brazil and Colombia, highlighting innovations in the practical, academic, social and economic fie...
Resumo: Este capítulo tem como objetivo disponibilizar a investigadores e a profissionais uma cartografia explora-tória dos núcleos temáticos emergentes na relação entre as tecnologias de Inteligência Artificial (IA), a investigação em media e jornalismo, e a prática profissional. É realizada uma análise temática dos artigos de investigação publica...
The official presentation of the CAIS working group's Stick & Flow: A Critical Framework for Investigating Bot Engagement on Social Media. (https://www.cais.nrw/arbeitsgemeinschaften/critical-framework-for-investigating-bot-engagement/).
As tecnologias emergentes redefiniram a agenda das práticas jornalísticas em todo o mundo. A característica imersiva é uma das principais experiências nas organizações jornalísticas, além de ser apontada como inovação em dossiês especializados em jornalismo (Associated Press, 2017; Reuters Institute, 2017; Knight Foundation, 2016; Google News Lab,...
O presente artigo pretende problematizar o desenvolvimento e o processo de consolidação dos Estudos de Tendências, enquanto área transversal com características transdisciplinares, que se desenvolveu em articulação com os conceitos e as práticas de áreas como os Estudos de Cultura. As várias perspetivas dos Estudos de Tendências e as suas diversas...
The present paper intends to discuss the development and consolidation process of Trend Studies, as a transversal area with transdisciplinary characteristics that was developed in connection with the concepts and practices of areas such as Cultural Studies. The numerous perspectives of Trend Studies and their different associations promoted a dispe...
Thinking about the journalistic activity beyond its traditional forms is a recurrent practice in contemporary journalism. The plurality of audiences, behaviors and technologies challenge the classic models of journalism in a way that encourages innovation in different aspects of the activity. However, the term innovation is being broadly applied wi...
The article presents a reflection about innovation in web journalism, with special focus on the expressive contents and narratives. From this perspective, it appears that features like longform text, the refreshing use of audio and immersive content, such as graphic or imagistic representations in 3D and, more recently, virtual reality (VR), have s...
