Daniel Santos Cardoso

Universidade Lusófona | ULHT · CICANT - Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias

Our research sits at the intersection of communication studies, sociology, cyberculture, and political philosophy and theory. In 2014, a 10+-min segment on polyamory aired on Portuguese open-access national television, during the prime-time newscast, and was viewed by several million people, according to official reports. The news piece was also ad...

OnlyFans has enjoyed increasing attention from media and from users and consumers, especially since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, and particularly amongst internet- savy emerging adults. We used semi-structured interviews to collect testimonies from young Italian women (N=20) who sell their own sexual(ised) content on OnlyFans and processed t...

This Short Report is aimed at policy makers and political stakeholders, i.e. anybody who is in the position to influence or impact social policies related to intimate relationships and families, in particular as they relate to alternative relationship practices or intimate and/or sexual minorities. This Short Report documents key points identified...

Recently, we have seen relatively unknown platforms, like OnlyFans, rise to popularity among producers and consumers of sexual(ised) digital content. This seems to be especially so in the case of young adults who were affected by a sudden disappearance of entry-level jobs in hospitality, retail and associated functions, or diminished university exp...

This chapter looks at the potential romantic relationship challenges posed to kink-identified people and how they connect with identity development and individual well-being. By thematically analyzing the survey responses of 87 kinky Portuguese respondents, the researchers identified challenges across three interconnected main themes: (1) intrapers...

Foucault famosamente falava do prazer como resistência, não por considerar que essa temática era nova, mas, pelo contrário, por saber que ela tinha sido relegada e esquecida, em torno de uma preocupação centrada no desejo – a ideia de uma sexualidade regida por orientações é, no fundo, a ideia do desejo como matriz fundamental da compreensão do que...

In this essay, I focus on the politics and impacts of naming, especially in the social and human sciences, and more specifically on studies that focus on subordinated or discriminated groups. Through this essay, I argue that naming conventions are some of the most important-and dangerous-tools and acts that researchers have at their disposal and, t...

In this essay, I focus on the politics and impacts of naming, especially in the social and human sciences, and more specifically on studies that focus on subordinated or discriminated groups. Through this essay, I argue that naming conventions are some of the most important-and dangerous-tools and acts that researchers have at their disposal and, t...

BDSM constitutes a stigmatized form of sexuality in which sexual fluidity may arise. Noting the scarcity of research on these themes in Portugal, we sought to explore and understand sexual fluidity in people who identified themselves as BDSM practitioners, both in the context of so-called ‘vanilla’ sex and BDSM practice. Using a qualitative methodo...

Introduction Sexual violence (SV) perpetrated by women against men is socially dismissed and underrepresented in research. The aim of the current study was to explore the perspectives of university students (women and men) on women-perpetrated SV against men. Methods A total of 19 undergraduate students were presented with a vignette describing a...

Introduction The term “paedophilia erotica” was first coined in 1886 by the psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing and it was considered a “psycho-sexual perversion”. It was at the beginning of the twentieth century that the term “pedophilia” was adopted and it started to appear in medical dictionaries. Sexual abuse is legally defined as the engagement in sexua...

The Power of BDSM: Play, Communities, and Consent in the 21st Century features cutting-edge empirical research by scholars working from a wide range of disciplinary approaches and in diverse national contexts. Designed to be of interest to scholars working in sexuality studies and related fields; teachers of graduate courses focused on sexualities,...

Τhe aim of this study was to provide a detailed understanding of unprompted audience responses to a literary story of female-on-male rape on Goodreads. Thematic analysis of 429 reviews revealed 5 key themes and 16 sub-themes, which evolved around appraising the social function of the book, evaluating its literary features, assessing the depiction o...

Introduction The term “paedophilia erotica” was first coined in 1886 by the psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing and it was considered a “psycho-sexual perversion.” It was at the beginning of the twentieth century that the term “pedophilia” was adopted and it started to appear in medical dictionaries. Sexual abuse is legally defined as the engagement in sexua...

This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new f...

Expert opinion With this commentary, I wish to address a 2-fold issue around the topic of autoerotic asphyxiation (AeA): (i) that the historical trend towards the pathologization of kink and other forms of sexuality considered ‘Other’ is particularly salient in the case of AeA and is potentially harmful for AeA practitioners; (ii) that the medicali...

The framework of Human Rights and intimate citizenship (PLUMMER, 1995) is frequently deployed to theoretically explore polyamory (CARDOSO, 2017) and other alternatives to mononormavitivy (PIEPER; BAUER, 2005). Activism around this topic tends to track the political agenda and planning laid down by the LGBTQ+ community, and some of its most visible...

List of all newspieces in the written Press in Portugal published between 2010-2020 that mention at least one form of consensual non-monogamy. Used the Cision Portugal company - free services offered by special dispensation “poliamor” OR “poliamoria” OR “não-monogamia consensual” OR “monogamish” OR “relação aberta” OR “casamento aberto” OR “anarq...

News pieces published in the UK between 2010-2014 that contain references to some form of CNM. Collected 20.01.2020 via LexisNexis automatic deduplication by title similarity automated scraping Search String: polyamory OR consensual non-monogamy OR monogamish OR open relationship OR relationship anarchy OR non-monogamy search all text

This Short Report documents key areas described to be of importance for the recognition of relationships based on Consensual Non-Monogamies (CNMs) by participants in the CNMMOVES research project. Consensual Non-monogamy is an umbrella term for any type of relationships in which people agree to be non-monogamous, including multi-partner constellati...

In order to understand more deeply how the UK print media talk about CNMs, and to allow a comparison with the Portuguese press, a survey of allusions to CNMs over the last decade was carried out. Through an automated collection of pieces via the LexisNexis database, all pieces (e.g.: news, reports, opinion, editorials) of national and regional prin...

The article “Defining Polyamory: A Thematic Analysis of Lay People’s Definitions”, written by Daniel Cardoso, Patricia M. Pascoal, and Francisco Hertel Maiochi, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 27 May 2021 without open access.

This commentary focuses on the cinematic and intellectual work of Miguel De, expressed through The Kiss and its accompanying essay. The objective here is to problematize some of the historical and technocultural connections raised by the essay, and to frame De's experimental essay film within a wider tradition of (mostly European) film-making who h...

This study aimed to analyze laypeople’s definitions of polyamory and compare definitions presented by people who are not willing to engage in consensual non-monogamy (CNM) and those who are or are willing to be in a CNM relationship. This exploratory qualitative study used data collected from a convenience sample through a web survey, where people...

Introdução As tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) fazem parte das nos-sas vidas, sendo um aspeto essencial para a forma como comunicamos, tra-balhamos e socializamos. Apesar de as TIC serem cada vez mais um aspeto estrutural das sociedades, continuam a ser uma das áreas da vida em que se registam mais diferenças de género que, por sua vez...

Interview with Meg-John Barker

Relatório Breve sobre a cobertura jornalística das não-monogamias consensuais em Portugal entre 2010-2020, na imprensa escrita.

Short report on media coverage about consensual non-monogamies in print newspapers and magazines in Portugal between 2010-2020

As a media category whose social and cultural role is heavily contested, pornography is often framed as a threat to sexual mores, to cultural propriety, and gender equality, and the savior of the same elements. In both perspectives, pornography is seen as educational—both in the emancipatory and in the regressive sense of the word. The way pornogra...

This entry is about the relation between gender studies and women's lifestyle magazines studies, a relevant part of communication studies. It discusses how magazines function as marketing tools that also mirror and normalize gender and ethnic concerns, and work as social memory constructors in implicitly political ways. Magazines base their content...

As the distribution of pornography has shifted online, the markets for DVDs and print magazines have drastically shrunk. At the same time, a range of independent and artistic magazines on pornography and sexual cultures has appeared, operating primarily on paper. By focusing on Ménage à trois, a Finnish queer-feminist porn magazine (established 201...

As the distribution of pornography has shifted online, the markets of DVDs and print magazines have drastically shrunk. At the same time, a range of independent and artistic magazines on pornography and sexual cultures has appeared, operating primarily on paper. By focusing on Ménage à trois (Mà3), a Finnish queer-feminist porn magazine (est. 2012)...

Resumo A partir da mesma pergunta aberta nos questionários EU Kids Online reali-zados em Portugal em 2010 e 2018-que situações na internet incomodam pessoas da tua idade?-este artigo analisa se as situações na internet que in-comodam crianças e jovens em 2018 coincidem ou divergem relativamente ao que foi referido por uma geração anterior de crianç...

There is a considerable gap on how social movements that center around non/monogamies decide to organize and articulate their strategies, as well as how they manage their tensions with other activist groups and ideologies or even the State. In addition to this, the fact that much of the literature that circulates is written in English and in an Ang...

Consensual Non-Monogamies (CNMs) have been receiving the attention of academics, however attitudes towards polyamory (ATP) are still a new field of research. We aim at studying the reliability and validity of the ATP scale in a Portuguese sample. The present analysis utilized cross-sectional data from 609 volunteers that completed the online survey...

Created in the end of 2015 and currently approaching the mark of 200 thousand followers, the Facebook page "Os Truques da Imprensa Portuguesa" [The Tricks of the Portuguese Press] posts critical remarks on the news of national media and their supposed editorial criteria. The page has often generated heated debates on the platform, either being prai...

This paper aims to discuss the challenges of implementing a game-creation learning strategy to approach Media and Information Literacy (MIL), by reflecting on how different affordances and constraints, such as classroom's design, setting and the adopted pedagogical strategies impact the learning process. We also contribute to a critical stance on g...

Objective: The current preliminary study aims at analyzing lay definitions of polyamory comparing definitions presented by people in a monogamous (MR) and on a non-monogamous relationship (NMR). Design and Method: This is an exploratory qualitative study using data collected from a web survey. People answered the question “What does polyamory mean...

p>Este texto contribui para uma análise crítica das questões políticas e de cidadania da figura da “Criança” e, de modo mais geral, da juventude, fazendo uma resenha da forma como a Criança tem sido construída enquanto um corpo ‘natural’, branco, heterossexual, patriarcal e classista. Esta resenha é feita a partir de várixs autorxs queer e feminist...

Review of the book "Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia".

Comparative analysis of LGBTI activism in Portugal and Brazil.

A partir de um conjunto de reflexões teóricas e socio-históricas, mas também a partir do contacto com uma vasta literatura de auto-ajuda sobre poliamor (tanto online como em formato físico), irei sistematizar três condições fundamentais que, argumento, explicam a emergência e rápida visibilização do poliamor enquanto formato específico e distinto d...

Analysis of the normative uses of 2 Girls, 1 Cup.

Already published: Já publicado: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321937229_Amores_plurais_situados_-_Para_uma_meta-narrativa_socio-historica_do_poliamor

Resumo Este artigo parte de um trabalho exploratório sobre como pessoas jovens, em Portu-gal, usam e pensam os novos media na construção da sua subjetividade, no campo do ati-vismo online em questões ligadas com a cidadania íntima. Usa-se o conceito de interseciona-lidade para compreender como esta atividade é interpretada ou moralmente valorizada...

with Daniel Cardoso (FCSH - UNL; ECATI - ULHT) - presenter Marco Scarcelli (Università di Padova) - discussant January 11th Against a pornographic ontology: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Sexualities Studies and Pornography (15:00-18:00) January 12th Gender and Sexuality in a Portuguese context: Southern Europe and late/unfinished modernity (10:...

Entre o erótico e o pornográfico: Uma abordagem estética, psicossocial e cultural às sexualidades nos media audiovisuais Semana 18-22 de Julho A partir de teorias da Estética, da Psicologia e dos Estudos Culturais e Feministas, este curso pretende explorar de diferentes perspectivas como é que se constitui no espaço audiovisual o erótico e o pornog...

Keynote at the 1st International Queering Partnering Conference, dealing with an affective analysis of the rise of poly-activism in Portugal, and with the importance of constituting archives of the situated rise of poly-activism throughout the world, taking into account how the political becomes personal, and how this personal (affective) dimension...

Este Relatório Científico foi apresentado pela Equipa EU Kids Online Portugal, a partir da sua participação no Projecto #ON_Sex, liderado pela Associação para o Planeamento Familiar (APF), com financiamento parcial da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Junto com estes dois parceiros, estão ainda o Programa Escolhas e o Instituto Português do Desporto e...

A presente tese de Doutoramento estuda quatro usos sexualizados dos novos media: consulta de informação sobre sexualidade e saúde sexual, participação cívica, consumo de pornografia e sexting. O trabalho realizado parte de uma abordagem foucauldiana em que se reflecte sobre o papel das pessoas jovens no contexto do dispositivo de sexualidade e sobr...

A presente tese de Doutoramento estuda quatro usos sexualizados dos novos media: consulta de informação sobre sexualidade e saúde sexual, participação cívica, consumo de pornografia e sexting. O trabalho realizado parte de uma abordagem foucauldiana em que se reflecte sobre o papel dos jovens no contexto do dispositivo de sexualidade e sobre como o...

Apesar das tentativas de melhorar e modernizar a prática da Educação Sexual em Portugal (GTES, 2007), subsistem ainda graves lacunas e desigualdades no acesso à informação sobre sexualidade e saúde sexual por parte dos jovens portugueses que se reflecte nos seus comportamentos, bem como uma postura demissionária por parte de vários pais e educadore...

Cardoso, D. (2015). Del amor a la amistad: la política de las relaciones. In S. Cendal (Ed.), M. Pérez (Trans.), (h)amor2 (pp. 53–66). Madrid: Continta Me Tienes.

Aula do Seminário de Tradução de Inglês na FCSH-UNL, dada a convite da Professora Susana Valdez. A aula na sua totalidade pode ser acedida em http://danielscardoso.net/index.php/pt/academia/77-ptwebsite/academia/191-semtradfcsh15

Introduction: Little attention has been paid to distress in sexual functioning or the sexual satisfaction of people who practice BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism). Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe sociodemographic characteristics and BDSM practices and compare BDSM practitioners' sexual...

Review Margret Grebowicz, Why internet porn matters, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 0-8047-8662-3, pp.135. Margret Grebowicz urges readers to look at Internet pornography through what she calls a 'philosophical register' (p. 2), which she identifies as a 'methodological decision' (p. 3). For Grebowicz, this is done by...

In this paper, I seek to contextualize the fight for the (already accomplished) legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Portugal within the wider frame of LGBT activism in this country (Cascais, 2006), and in the interplay of several differently positioned activists. Within this frame, I will analyze how the theoretical work of Miguel Vale de Alm...

No âmbito de um estudo exploratório sobre as representações Kink/BDSM na imprensa escrita portuguesa, o presente trabalho procura compreender a produção mediática sobre BDSM em articulação com o fetichismo. A partir da análise de quatro reportagens escritas que abordam de forma central o fetichismo – e recorrendo a Análise Quantitativa de Discurso...

Stemming from the auto-ethnographic telling of a round-table organized by a lesbian-focused activist group in Lisbon, Portugal, the authors reflect on the intersections between doing research, spreading that research, doing activism and working with / listening to sexual minorities as a way of critically involving the LGBT community and their conce...

Working Paper / Commentary

In times of changing sexualities and identity politics, some people are changing the way they define relationships, from sex-related words, and to feelings-related words. Polyamory, meaning literally “loving many”, is one such case. Polyamory makes sex a peripheral subject in defining a relationship, but the original referential is still there: mon...

Em que locais acedem as crianças à internet, dentro e fora de casa? Que usos fazem da rede? Quando incorrem em riscos, como lidam com eles? E que influência têm os seus pais, professores, amigos e outras fontes de informação nos modos como usam a internet?Este livro responde a estas questões, discutindo resultados nacionais do inquérito europeu do...

Introdução Dá-se o nome de cultura de quarto à tendência crescente que empurra os jovens, cada vez mais, para o espaço do seu quarto. Este empurrão toma várias formas: o do tempo lá passado (a dormir, mas também a socializar com outros jovens) e o do conjunto de tecnologias de mediação que o jovem tem à sua disposição. A televisão no quarto, o rádi...

www.interact.com.pt/17/poliamor/

Se as novas tecnologias não garantem, em si mesmas, o surgimento de uma nova ordem social, abrem ainda assim possíveis novos espaços de participação política e cívica. Partindo de uma concepção de espaço público habermasiano centralizado, uno e masculino, para a multiplicidade de contra-públicos evidenciados pelas críticas feministas e potenciados...

Partindo de uma expressão auto-reflexiva, este trabalho pretende analisar os modos de expressão e presença em espaço público das relações poliamorosas. A diversidade de apropriações do espaço público por parte dos diferentes grupos sexuais e relacionais parece ser assim um elemento de construção de uma forma diferenciada de cosmopolitismo nas cidad...

English translation from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261760816_Poliamor_ou_Da_Dificuldade_de_Parir_um_Meme_Substantivo?ev=prf_pub

This Thesis aims to determine if the users of the alt.polyamory mailing list, by telling their personal experiences in writing, are actually performing in a queer way, questioning mono-normativity and a heterocentric view on society, by being self-reflexive and caring for their self (gnothi seauton) through writing (as ethopoiesis) and reading of t...

Não surpreenderá ninguém se se disser, seguindo apenas o senso comum, que as revistas femininas e masculinas estão pensadas para um público que se pre-tende muito homogéneo, heterossexual, pretensamente monógamo e caucasiano. Portanto, também não será grande surpresa o facto de as relações heterossexuais monógamas serem as mais dominantes na agenda...

ICT are often seen as useful tools for educative purposes, in an instrumental perspective that corresponds to a certain appropriation of technology for social mobility. The investment on ICT from families as well as from State derives from an expectation on their utility regarding the children’s education, as long as - and in so far – as they are r...

A partir de um estudo de caso numa escola privada religiosa de 2º e 3º ciclos equipada com computadores, quadros interactivos e acesso à Internet ao abrigo do projecto "Escola do Futuro" da Portugal Telecom, são traçadas as principais conclusões sobre as representações sobre as potencialidades e limitações da Internet para a educação. Através de ob...

O jornalismo é pensado, acima de tudo, como o acto de transporte de uma realidade, de um acontecimento, para o leitor, espectador, tornando-o presente à cena em questão. Porém, nem sempre existe um acontecimento em questão. Quando se trata de reportar ideias, que dispositivos activam os jornalistas, que métodos empregam para transmitir um ethos, um...

Neste artigo apresentam-se tendências da imprensa portuguesa no tratamento da relação de crianças com as novas tecnologias, encontradas em análises de imprensa sobre jornais de informação geral e orientados para as famílias. Marcadas pela escassez relativamente a outras temáticas sobre crianças, centradas sobretudo no offline, essas notícias perman...

Baseada em resultados de um estudo comparado entre 21 países europeus promovido pela rede europeia EU Kids Online (www.eukidsonline.net) e nos quais Portugal participou e em inquéritos recentes feitos no país sobre como crianças e jovens usam os meios de comunicação, entre eles a Internet, esta comunicação pretende delinear em traços largos os perf...