Investigating the Brazilian Manosphere: Masculinists performances through memes textualities with Reddit

Gracila Vilaça

Tuesday, 18 October 2022, Room: C3 - 241, Bielefeld University's main building (UHG)

Gracila Vilaça is a PhD student in Social Communication at the Graduate Program of UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - (2020-2024). Her research focuses on the phenomenon of the Brazilian Manosphere by observing the intertwining between platforms, masculinities and memes on Reddit using qualitative methods. She is also a researcher of R-EST - sociotechnical network studies. She is currently a DAAD visiting doctoral student with Prof.'in Julia Roth at Bielefeld University and CIAS for one year.

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