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Virginia Villaplana Ruiz
Virginia Villaplana Ruiz is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Murcia (Spain) and, since 2017, she has also served as Senior Researcher for the Institute of Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (InCom-UAB). She engages in and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community grownth. She is the author or editor of #Netnarcocultura. Estudios de género y juventud en la Sociedad red (with Alejandra León, 2022), Softfiction. Políticas visuales de la emocionalidad y el deseo. Un homenaje al cine de Chick Strand (2016), El instante de la memoria. Una novela documental (2010), Cinema infinito / Cinema infinit / Infinite Cinema (2007) y Cárcel de amor. Relatos culturales de la violencia de género (co-edited with Berta Sichel, 2005). She has written numerous essays on queer memory, the documentary essay film, digital media culture and Spanish cinema. As a media-artist, writer, and video essayist based in Spain, she investigates transnational relations under the impact of the digital memory of queer people and resources, and information concerning different forms of social exclusion (sex work, prison, and borders). She is a visiting professor in the Master in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts. Feminist and Cuir/Queer Perspectives at Miguel Hernández University. She has taught and researched in several European and Latin American universities: University of London, University Centre of Limburg, University of Roehampton, Institute of International Visual Arts (Londres), Lund University, and University of Antwerp, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad del Uruguay, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Colegio de la Frontera (Baja California), y Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile. Her teaching focuses on “the political” in communication media theory, discourse analysis, queer and gender studies, cinema, participatory culture and technology. She has also been a member of the artists’ collective Subtramas (exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía and the co-editor of the journal Arte y políticas de indentidad.
Books
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia & León Alejandra (2022). #NetNarcocultura. Estudios de Género y Juventud en la sociedad red. Historia y discursos culturales. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Cátedra Unesco, Barcelona.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia, ed. Softfiction (2016). Políticas visuales de la emocionalidad, la memoria y el deseo. Un homenaje al cine de Chick Strand. Bilbao: Consonni.
Book Chapters
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia& Alejandra León (2022). “Net-narcoculture. Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances.” In The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 2). Digital Media, Daily Life and Public Engagement. Eds. David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw. Routledge, pp. 32-46.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2020). “Transnational Feminist Activism to Reframe Femicide: The Case of #NiuNaMenos and #VivasNosQueremos.” In Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice. Eds. M. J. Gámez Fuentes, S. Núñez Puente and E. Gómez Nicolau. Routledge, pp. 112-123.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2020). “Queering the Prison: Communication, Social Justice and the Expression of and the Expression of Genre Subjectivities in the Spanish Prison System.” In Art, Law, Power: Perspectives on Legality and Resistance in Contemporary Aesthetics. Counterpress, pp. 91-110.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2019). “Social cinema 3.0 and digital memory-work: participatory communication and psychic diversity.” In Knowledges, Practices and Activism from Feminist Epistemologies. Ed. Eulalia Pérez Sedeño. Vernon Press, Science, Technology and Society IFS-CCHS CSIC, pp. 61-74.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2017). “After-image. documentalidad, activismos digitales y narrativas de la memoria. Haciendo prácticas visuales feministas queer sobre emocionalidad, estudios culturales y comunicación en la cultura red.” In Secuencias de la experiencia, estadios de lo visible. Lecturas en torno al audiovisual en España. Ed. A. Martínez Collado. Brumaria, pp. 246-269
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2017). “Agencia.” In Barbarismo queer y otras estrújulas. Eds. Lucas R. Platero Méndez, María Rosón y Esther Ortega. Editorial Bellaterra, pp. 19-29
Supervisors: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H3UQdNEAAAAJ&hl=es
Books
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia & León Alejandra (2022). #NetNarcocultura. Estudios de Género y Juventud en la sociedad red. Historia y discursos culturales. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Cátedra Unesco, Barcelona.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia, ed. Softfiction (2016). Políticas visuales de la emocionalidad, la memoria y el deseo. Un homenaje al cine de Chick Strand. Bilbao: Consonni.
Book Chapters
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia& Alejandra León (2022). “Net-narcoculture. Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances.” In The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 2). Digital Media, Daily Life and Public Engagement. Eds. David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw. Routledge, pp. 32-46.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2020). “Transnational Feminist Activism to Reframe Femicide: The Case of #NiuNaMenos and #VivasNosQueremos.” In Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice. Eds. M. J. Gámez Fuentes, S. Núñez Puente and E. Gómez Nicolau. Routledge, pp. 112-123.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2020). “Queering the Prison: Communication, Social Justice and the Expression of and the Expression of Genre Subjectivities in the Spanish Prison System.” In Art, Law, Power: Perspectives on Legality and Resistance in Contemporary Aesthetics. Counterpress, pp. 91-110.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2019). “Social cinema 3.0 and digital memory-work: participatory communication and psychic diversity.” In Knowledges, Practices and Activism from Feminist Epistemologies. Ed. Eulalia Pérez Sedeño. Vernon Press, Science, Technology and Society IFS-CCHS CSIC, pp. 61-74.
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2017). “After-image. documentalidad, activismos digitales y narrativas de la memoria. Haciendo prácticas visuales feministas queer sobre emocionalidad, estudios culturales y comunicación en la cultura red.” In Secuencias de la experiencia, estadios de lo visible. Lecturas en torno al audiovisual en España. Ed. A. Martínez Collado. Brumaria, pp. 246-269
Villaplana-Ruiz, Virginia (2017). “Agencia.” In Barbarismo queer y otras estrújulas. Eds. Lucas R. Platero Méndez, María Rosón y Esther Ortega. Editorial Bellaterra, pp. 19-29
Supervisors: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H3UQdNEAAAAJ&hl=es
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