ECREA
SECTION GENDER AND COMMUNICATION

 

Section Gender and Communication

Who's who?

+ Chair: Tonny Krijnen



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Krijnen's website
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Tonny Krijnen studied Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in media and audience studies. Her master-thesis concerned gendered pleasures when watching the television serial Ally McBeal. After her master's degree, she worked on her dissertation called There Is More(s) in Television. Studying the relationship between television and moral imagination. At the moment, Tonny works as an assistant professor Media and Communication at the Faculty of History and Arts of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her research interests focus on morality, television, production and content, and gender on which she publihses both internationally as nationally. Amongst her main publications is Gendered Transformations: Theories and Practices on Gender and Media.

 

+ Vice- Chair: Claudia Alvares

Claudia Alvares

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Homepage Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
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Claudia Alvares is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal, where she directs the Centre in Applied Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (CICANT) as well as a Masters Programme in Journalism, Politics and Contemporary History. She obtained a Ph.D from Goldsmith's College, University of London, in June 2001, under the British Council Chevening Scholarship and the Portuguese Government/European Union Praxis XXI joint Scholarship. Vice-Chair of the ECREA Gender and Communication section, Alvares is Principal Investigator of four research projects, funded by the European Union, focusing on the relationship between gender and media, the latest of which centres on Female Civic Engagement Online. She is, moreover, one of the partners of the UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment that has recently been established at the University of Cyprus. Amongst her main publications are Humanism after Colonialism (2006), Representing Culture: Essays on Identity, Visuality and Technology (2008), Perspectivas Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2008), Teorias e Práticas dos Media: Situando o Local no Global (2010) and Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media (2010).  Alvares is currently working on a book resulting from one of her European Union-funded research projects.

 



+ Vice Chair: Sofie Van Bauwel

 

 

 

 

 

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Sofie Van Bauwel is an Assistant Professor at the Departement of Communication studies at the Ghent University were she teaches on audiovisual communciation, gender and media and television studies. She is part of the research center CIMS and her main field of interest is gender, media and film and television. She is involved in several projects with a focus on the media as signifying articulations in visual popular culture and publishes internationally and nationally on popular media culture, feminist theory and film.



+ Representative Young Scholars Network: Carla Cerqueira

 

 

 

 

 

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Carla Cerqueira is a PhD candidate at the Communication Sciences department at University of Minho (Portugal) and a researcher for the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS). Her research interests include gender  and media studies, feminist epistemology and technologies.
Her first academic degree is in Social Communication (2000-2005), by the Communication Sciences Department in University of Minho and she hold a Post-Graduate Degree in Communication Sciences – Journalism and Information (from the same university).
She worked as a journalist/ collaborator during her degree in Social Communication and did a student internship in a national television channel. She has also worked as a freelance reporter in newspapers, online news sites and magazines for about two years.
She has participated in several national and international conferences and she has published some papers in conference proceedings and journals.
She maintains an active involvement with a Portuguese non-governmental organization (UMAR), where she is working in a project about gender represen- tations in Portuguese media.

Since 2009 she is the Gender and Communication representative of the ECREA Young Scholars Network.





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