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Sofia P. Caldeira


Media Society and Literacies

Social Media | Instagram | Everyday Feminism | Politics of Aesthetics

Sofia P. Caldeira is an PhD Auxiliar Researcher at CICANT. She holds a Communication Sciences PhD from Ghent University, Belgium (2020), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Her research focuses primarily on social media, self-representation practices, politics of gender representation, everyday aesthetics, and feminist media studies. Sofia’s research has been published in journals such as Social Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, and Information Communication & Society.

She currently serves as the Young Scholar Representative of ECREA’s Digital Culture and Communication section.

Education

2020: PhD in Communication Sciences. Ghent University, Belgium 

2014: Master’s Degree in Anthropology – Visual Cultures. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade de Lisboa, portugal.

2011: Bachelor’s Degree in Arts & Multimedia. Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal