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University of Exeter, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, Department Member
- Universidade de Coimbra, Sociology, Department Memberadd
- Feminist Sociology, Sociology of Music, Sociology of Literature, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Media Sociology, and 54 moreVisual Sociology, Popular Music Studies, Anthropology of Music, Literature and Music, Women and Music, Sex and Gender, Gender Studies, Music and Gender, Pragmatic Sociology, Value Theory, Ethnomusicology, Sound studies, New Media Studies, Technoculture, Video Games, Digital Media, Ethnography, Microethology, Everyday Life, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, Immaterial Labour, Pragmatism, Ethnomethodology, Ethnopoetics, OBITEL - Observatório Ibero Americano de Ficção Televisiva, Economic Sociology, Informal Economy, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Subcultural entrepreneurs, Art ‘beyond the gallery’, Parent Child Relationships, Anthropology of Gender, Diffusion of Innovations, Women in Metal Music, Digital museum audience, Digital cultural audience, Digital Heritage, Digital Cultural Heritage, Designing Criteria for Interactive Exhibits for Enhanced Science Learning & Social Inclusiveness of Science Centres & Museums, Museums and Interactive Exhibits, Algorithmic Art, Interactive Storytelling, Non linear narratives, Generative Art, Expanded Cinema, Speculative Design, Museum Studies, Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities, Museum, Participation, New Technologies, Creative workforce, Arts-based service learning, and Work and Identityedit
- I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Exeter. My main research interests are in the field of socio-music studies, gender and feminist studies, everyday life, new media studies, from a pragmatic and ecological perspective, and informed by qualitative methodologies. I'm also interested i... moreI hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Exeter. My main research interests are in the field of socio-music studies, gender and feminist studies, everyday life, new media studies, from a pragmatic and ecological perspective, and informed by qualitative methodologies. I'm also interested in the field of Sociology of Literature, and my Master in Sociology was about the uses of blogs by (amateur) poets.edit
This article discusses the role of rock musicking as a medium for family relationships. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with women who self-identify as rock music lovers, it analyses intergenerational rock musicking processes... more
This article discusses the role of rock musicking as a medium for family relationships. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with women who self-identify as rock music lovers, it analyses intergenerational rock musicking processes and informal learning. Music, together with other activities, aesthetic materials, technologies and narratives, is an essential element in family relationships and part of the parenting cultural toolkit, both for fathers, as the daughters remember and describe them, and for the mothers themselves. For women rock fans who become mothers, rock music articulates more empowering versions of maternal subjectivities, and specific settings – such as car journeys – can constitute “music asylums”. Taking two dyadic family relationships (father-daughter; mother-children), I argue that family and domestic spaces are relevant when analyzing everyday rock musicking.
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Este artigo parte de um levantamento do uso de meios electrónicos em rede para a produção e publicação de poesia em Portugal. Consideramos quer a poesia publicada e distribuída digitalmente, quer a poesia electrónica em sentido estrito,... more
Este artigo parte de um levantamento do uso de meios electrónicos em rede para a produção e publicação de poesia em Portugal. Consideramos quer a poesia publicada e distribuída digitalmente, quer a poesia electrónica em sentido estrito, isto é, a poesia que depende de códigos de programação e de aplicações de software específicas. A nossa abordagem combina uma análise específica do meio e das propriedades formais das obras e publicações com uma análise sociológica das relações sociais de produção em diversos grupos e comunidades. Estamos interessados em observar de que modo as práticas de escrita têm vindo a utilizar o meio digital para criar, publicar e distribuir poesia. O espaço de escrita electrónico oferece um canal e um suporte alternativo ao meio mais dispendioso da impressão e distribuição em papel. Além disso, alarga as materialidades da literatura a formas e práticas intermédia que tiram partido das capacidades de convergência dos meios de comunicação promovidas pela digitalidade. Tentamos compreender ainda a dinâmica social deste campo literário particular e das suas redes de interacção, na medida em que reflectem, contestam ou transformam o campo literário mais amplo.
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a&e are an experimental and performance poetry group in Portugal. Their work is available online in the archive PO.EX: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature. PO.EX is an ongoing project focused on electronic and... more
a&e are an experimental and performance poetry group in Portugal. Their work is available online in the archive PO.EX: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature. PO.EX is an ongoing project focused on electronic and experimental literature initiated in 2005 by Professor Rui Torres (Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto).