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- On and off: digital practices of connecting and disconnecting across the life coursePublication . Ganito, Carla; Jorge, AnaIn a time of ubiquitous and permanent access to the internet made available to more and more people, emergent research has focused on audiences’ practices to disconnect from the internet, to go offline and to remove their presence and visibility from online spaces. Connectivity being a central element of ‘social media logic’, disconnecting has been analyzed particularly in relation to social networking sites. In this paper, we aim at tracking people’s practices of connecting and disconnecting in relation to their life course. The life course approach enables the researcher to account for change and complexity. Our study thus analyses trajectories that are understood as sequences of roles and experiences incorporating social context and individual variation. We base the analysis of these trajectories on the principle of agency, where people construct their own life course through daily choices and practices within the limits and opportunities of given historical and social circumstances. It is important to understand the differences in touchpoints with technology and the difference in affordances at each life stage. This could serve as a basis for the definition of better policies towards Internet use in schools, companies and society at large, to better frame the right to connect and disconnect. In this paper, we present results from a mixed-method exploratory study, conducted in Portugal, that sought to map intentions and tactics that users of the internet develop to build offline spaces where internet access or the use of online services is suspended.
- ‘It’s time for action, not words’ – training students to translate Amílcar Cabral’s final speech into Portuguese sign language: Portuguese sign language at the crossroads of postcolonial studies and sign language translation studiesPublication . Gil, CristinaIn 2024, Portugal commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, marking the end of a 41-year dictatorship and colonial wars. In this context, a group from Portugal’s oldest institution offering higher education for Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpreters – the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – undertook a voluntary project to translate Amílcar Cabral’s final speech into LGP. The project aimed to create an accessible video with LGP, Portuguese subtitles, and Cabral’s original audio to engage diverse audiences and provide educational content. Led by two professors with extensive interpreting experience, the project involved third-year students of a Translation and Interpretation of Portuguese Sign Language program (TILGP) and relied on collaboration with Deaf advisors to select appropriate signs. It sparked discussions within the Portuguese Deaf Community on decolonising LGP signs and examining racism in those signs from Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) perspectives. The project explored the challenges of interpreting a historically-significant speech, focusing on cultural and historical nuances of Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, and Portugal. This article examines ethical, cultural, and technical aspects, showing how such projects enhance interpreter competence and intercultural mediation, and highlights extracurricular activities’ role in improving sign language translation skills.
- The role of the social media user: affordances and social responsibilityPublication . Roberts, JessicaAt a critical moment in history, the Hutchins Commission (1947) was convened to assess the role of the free press in a democratic society, articulating the social responsibility theory of the press. Nearly 80 years later, social media have become a part of everyday life for people around the world. More people than ever can now create, disseminate, analyze, and filter information to reach a broad public, with huge consequences for public information, but little attention to the role users play in shaping information on social media and the responsibility that comes with it. This study examines what the affordances of social media platforms, such as “frictionless” design and endless scroll, communicate to users about their roles and responsibilities, focusing on two of the most popular platforms, Instagram and Facebook. Role theory is used as a framework to understand how users might interpret their roles and responsibilities, as communicated by the platforms’ affordances. The social responsibility theory of the press is applied to understand how we might reconsider the responsibilities of social media users in democratic societies, focusing on the role users play in shaping the information others see and how they might be made more aware of that role.
- ‘Hi, Carlinhos, how are the unicorns?’ Forms of address as stance-taking devices in the housing crisis debate on Portuguese X/TwitterPublication . Faria, RitaThis study examines forms of address in European Portuguese (EP) as stance-taking devices, reinforced by impoliteness, in a corpus of 410 tweets posted in response to the Lisbon mayor’s measures and policies to combat the current housing crisis. The study hypothesises that the complex EP address system is used dynamically, with few discursive constraints emerging from settings and interlocutors, and that this dynamic usage is then employed to signal (mis)alignment with the mayor’s policies. By means of a qualitative annotation of the corpus and an examination of code relations (how, or if, the different codes, or annotation labels, intersect), the study concludes that EP forms of address are deployed to their full semantic range in the corpus, thus confirming the first hypothesis. The subsequent hypothesis, positing that forms of address are prominent stance-taking devices, is not fully supported. The main nexus between stance and address links the anti-policies stance to indirect address, surpassing expressed, direct forms such as pronouns or nominal forms. However, this and other preferences emerging from the analysis (namely, a leaning towards more generalised impoliteness devices instead of more confrontational ones) point to the importance of linguistic indirectness in EP, which can be culturally motivated. An important conclusion is that EP address comprises nuanced sociocultural factors that should be acknowledged especially in educational settings so as to facilitate the use and learning of these forms. Finally, by focusing on online address as part of the debate on the housing crisis, this study has uncovered significant anti-immigration discourses marking an oppositional, anti-policies stance warranting further investigation addressing the current climate of disruption and crisis.
- The evolution of gender representation in two editions of a Spanish as a foreign language textbookPublication . Pereira, Grauben Navas de; Chenoll, AntónioTextbooks play a crucial role in the foreign language learning and teaching process: they support teachers when preparing, organizing and evaluating the foreign language acquisition process. Additionally, they have a considerable bearing in the representation of culture and of gender roles (Fernández Darraz, 2010). A textbook should transmit the values associated with the language students are learning and it should moreover encourage critical work on these values in general. Commercial, political, or pedagogical considerations (Morales & Cassany, 2020) cannot justify an aseptic presentation of reality that does not consider the presence of women in egalitarian roles, or the questioning of the depiction of classical roles as opposed to a more diverse representation that would enable the promotion of equality in general terms (Fernández Darraz, 2010). On many occasions, this equity in representation is made explicit in the images selected (particularly in larger publishers, where particular care is taken regarding this aspect), since visual representations are more evident. But there are other aspects and components of a textbook that also account for these cultural features, such as texts, audios, and videos. Notwithstanding the importance of this representation, there seems to be a lack of significant studies that examine textbooks used in Spanish as a Foreign Language from a comprehensive social and gender perspective. Therefore, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the text and images contained in two editions of a complete textbook (Aula Internacional 1 Nueva Edición (2013) and Aula Internacional Plus 1 (2020)) using the qualitative data analysis programme At las.ti. Based on this analysis, we highlight the social dimension of Spanish as a Foreign Language Teaching and focus on the relationship between language usage and texts and images contained in the textbook. We examine several variables such as gender representation, roles, age, and ethnicity using an inductive-deductive methodology. Through an in-depth analysis of the construction of gender equality in the book, we assess the use of inclusive language and the visual representations of gender in each textbook. Through the diachronic comparison of the two editions of the textbook, it will also be possible to assess whether there have been some accurate and precise changes in terms of gender representation or not. The analysis is guided by Critical Discourse Analysis, based on frequency and order of appearance. This analysis could be a valuable aid for teachers interested in encouraging a conscious transmission and questioning of the values associated with the culture under study through critical work on these values and themes in class.
- Why do we archive? Ethical, political, and technical reflections on art collections in psychiatric institutionsPublication . Franco, Stefanie GilThis article begins with the question: “Why do we archive?” It reflects on art collections produced within contemporary psychiatric institutions in Portugal. It explores the ethical, bureaucratic, and political dimensions involved in the care and circulation of these works, created by people with lived experience of madness. Considering efforts to deinstitutionalize large psychiatric hospitals, the article examines specific cases of still-operational Portuguese institutions that house artistic archives. It problematises the status of these productions, which often oscillate between becoming defunct archives, being discarded, or circulating within art brut and outsider art circuits, raising questions regarding artist rights and the use of these works following the death or discharge of their creators. The analysis is structured around two main axes: first, the role of psychiatric institutions in light of the challenges posed by reforms to Mental Health Law; and second, the circulation of these artistic expressions and their contemporary discourses, with a focus on the Portuguese context. Finally, the article emphasises the urgent need to reconsider the management and preservation of these artistic archives, highlighting the tension between protecting privacy and providing access to the memory of institutionalised subjects, and questioning the current role of asylums as custodians of these cultural and human legacies.
- Das palavras às coisas: Portugal e a China na Europa do século XVIIPublication . Lopes, Marília dos SantosOs contactos marítimos entre a Europa e a China irão revelar-se um decisivo e particular motor de uma ampla e diversificada rede de relações praticadas à escala global. A chegada de relatos de espanto e surpresa irá dar azo a um forte e intenso interesse face uma terra tão prodigiosa e abastada, cuja imagem se irá rapidamente propagar pela Europa. A acompanhar as notícias das narrativas de viagens chegam igualmente materiais e objetos que irão originar grande curiosidade e encanto. Numa crescente economia mercantil global, a China conquistará um papel de relevo, visto que as suas mercadorias e artefactos de grande engenho e arte rapidamente se tornam alvo de uma inúmera procura. Que notícias são estas? O que representam estes novos conhecimentos? Que produtos e objetos são os que a Europa procura adquirir, usar, colecionar e, mais tarde, imitar? Como chegam à Europa e que impacto irão ter no seu quotidiano? Qual o papel dos portugueses nesse intercâmbio de notícias e “cousas” da China? Estas são algumas das perguntas a que o presente artigo intentará responder a partir de concretos exemplos da recepção e apropriação da cultura chinesa em Portugal e na Europa.
- Minimalism, media spectacle, and the paradox of excess: artistic representations of Carl Andre’s controversiesPublication . Weinholtz, TeresaAlthough often celebrated as a pioneer of minimalist art, Carl Andre is equally recognised for the media spectacles surrounding his career. In this paper, I examine the paradox of minimalism at the intersection of cultural excess, focusing on two scandals reimagined in contemporary works: Elisabetta Benassi’s It Starts with the Firing (2017) and Xochitl Gonzalez’s Anita de Monte Laughs Last (2024). Benassi’s work revisits the scandal surrounding Tate Gallery’s acquisition of Andre’s sculpture Equivalent VIII (1966), exemplifying how minimalism can provoke an excess of media scrutiny. Benassi compiles this cultural overreaction into an artist’s book, transforming newspaper headlines into a commentary on excess in art criticism. In contrast, Gonzalez’s novel engages with the controversy regarding the death of Andre’s wife, artist Ana Mendieta, and his subsequent acquittal in her murder trial. Through the fictionalised character Anita de Monte, the novel portrays Mendieta’s life, work, and untimely death, exploring how the art world tends to disregard women’s voices. While they draw on distinct events, both Gonzalez’s novel and Benassi’s artist’s book centre on pivotal scandals around Andre’s life and career. Through a comparative visual and literary analysis, I consider the role of artistic and literary portrayals of these controversies in reshaping contemporary perceptions of the art world. Ultimately, I investigate how these representations reflect and comment upon the paradoxical culture of excess around a representative of minimalism like Carl Andre.
- Introdução ao dossier temático: periferia enquanto processo e espaçoPublication . Rosário, Filipa; Francisco, André; Rebelatto, FranEste dossier propõe uma reflexão crítica sobre o conceito de periferia, enquanto categoria espacial ou geográfica e como um processo dinâmico, relacional e multidimensional. Partindo do questionamento das leituras que opõem centro e periferia segundo lógicas de distância, privação e subordinação, a periferia é enquadrada como espaço material e simbólico produzido por relações de poder, dinâmicas capitalistas e práticas sociais, culturais e estéticas de resistência. Ao mobilizar contributos da geografia crítica, da sociologia urbana e dos estudos culturais, defende-se a distinção entre periferia geográfica e periferização enquanto processo histórico e político que pode decorrer em zonas remotas e no interior de territórios centrais. O dossier destaca, também, a produtividade social, cultural e epistemológica das periferias, sublinhando o seu papel enquanto espaço de inovação, de cidadanias insurgentes e de produção de conhecimento. Neste contexto, a paisagem, enquanto dispositivo relacional que condensa temporalidades, regimes de visibilidade e práticas espaciais, permite compreender como os territórios periféricos são vividos, disputados e representados. Medium de representação e prática geradora de espaço, de memória e de pensamento crítico, o cinema ocupa, naturalmente, um lugar central nesta abordagem. Ao analisar filmes e cinematografias provenientes de diferentes contextos geográficos e históricos, os ensaios aqui reunidos questionam estéticas contra-hegemónicas e formas de resistência simbólica. Assim, “Espaços Periféricos” confirma a periferia como lugar epistemológico e o cinema como ferramenta crítica capaz de desestabilizar hierarquias, questionar imaginários dominantes e reconfigurar os modos de ver e pensar o mundo contemporâneo.
- Creativity at play: content-creators and micro-entrepreneurship in animal crossing: new horizonsPublication . Ferreira, Cátia; Ganito, Carla; Goncalves, SoraiaDigital games have evolved significantly since their emergence in the 1970s, offering users not only entertainment but also opportunities for creativity, entrepreneurship, and community building. This study explores these dynamics through a case study of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) (Nintendo EPD, 2020), focusing specifically on a selected group of prominent content creators active on platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and TikTok. These individuals engage in practices that extend beyond gameplay, including streaming, digital design services, and fan-made merchandise. Drawing on a theoretical framework centred on participatory culture, platformization, and fan labour, the article investigates how ACNH (Nintendo EPD, 2020) supports hybrid models of creativity and monetization within platform economies. Based on qualitative methods —namely document analysis and semi-structured interviews— the study examines how in-game tools and community infrastructures facilitate expressive and entrepreneurial forms of engagement for this specific profile of players. While not representative of the broader player base, the findings offer insights into how digital games can function as ecosystems where creative labour intersects with micro-entrepreneurship.