Maria João Silveirinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria João Silveirinha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria João |
| FAMILY NAME | Silveirinha |
| SIGNATURE | SILVEIRINHA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0702-3366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Being a Good Worker, a Good Mother, a Good Carer: Women Journalists, Motherhood, and Caregiving
This paper examines the relationship between journalism, caregiving, and family-building, focusing on women journalists in Portugal. Drawing on a critical thematic analysis of thirty interviews, it explores an analytic framework that includes cultural, structural, and agentic dimensions of career limitations, organised in three overarching themes. The first examines how women journalists experience work constraints stemming from traditional cultu…
“Journalists are Prepared for Critical Situations … but We are Not Prepared for This”: Empirical and Structural Dimensions of Gendered Online Harassment
This article discusses online harassment against women journalists exploring self-reported incidents, effects, and trust in safety mechanisms. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews of women journalists in Portugal, we use a feminist and critical realist framework to explore the causal structures and generative mechanisms that explain their vulnerability to online abuse. We identify three overarching themes: increasing visibility in a …
Observing gender in the newsroom: Insights from an ethnographic study
A large body of research has documented gender bias in the news coverage of women. Despite small gains in recent years, namely on television, and the growing percentage of females in the workforce, substantial underrepresentation of women in the news has remained. To explore journalists’ social and professional world as a milieu of the lived professional and culturally grounded understandings of gender, we conducted participant observation of a t…
Assédio e hostilidade online contra jornalistas: Da Instrumentalização Do "Jornalixo" À Desvalorização Da Violência
Apesar das esperanças depositadas nos potenciais benefícios de uma maior aproximação entre jornalistas e audiências no espaço digital, a possibilidade de as audiências comentarem ou acederem facilmente aos/às jornalistas tornou-se um problema reconhecido. O assédio e os ataques em linha a estes/as profissionais, mais visíveis com o crescimento da extrema-direita, tornaram-se problemas relevantes que têm também dimensões de género. A partir de um …
Situacionismo de sexo: Um diagnóstico feminista à Plataforma de Pequim passados 25 anos
The article aims to perform a feminist analysis of the 25 years of the Beijing Action Platform through a discussion of the ambiguities of the terms 'gender' and mainstreaming as introduced in the Platform, reflecting on the ramifications and consequences of their use in the intersection with increasingly consolidated neoliberal policies in recent decades. At issue is the recognition of the multiple issues related to multiculturalism underlying th…
Estudos sobre as mulheres» em Portugal Pós-Declaração de Pequim – Estudo bibliométrico das revistas ex æquo e Faces de Eva
In this article we present and discuss a set of results of a bibliometric study of the journals ex aequo and Faces de Eva. The metadata of 259 texts of Faces de Eva and 399 of ex aequo's, published between 1999 and 2019, were incorporated into a framework basis which included authors, their institutional and geographical affiliations and as well as all the titles, abstracts and keywords. The results show that Womens, Gender and Feminist Studies (…
Him Too? Cristiano Ronaldo and the News Coverage of a Rape Case Allegation
This paper uses critical thematic analysis to explore the news media coverage of a rape allegation case against the football player Cristiano Ronaldo. After providing the context of the case, we examine the literature on how rape cases are represented by the news media. We then proceed to a critical thematic analysis of a purposive sample of Portuguese national newspapers, first identifying ten sub-themes in a total of 140 news stories and opinio…
Framing street harassment: Legal developments and popular misogyny in social media
In September 2015, following the ratification of Istanbul Convention by Portugal, addressing someone with unwanted verbal “sexual proposals” became a criminal offence. This however, barely meets the requirements of the treaty and is far from what was first discussed about sexual harassment both in the Portuguese Parliament and more broadly in the media. When the criminalization of “piropo”—the Portuguese colloquial word for “catcalling”—was first…
A distant finish line for women: Gender and the sports press in Portugal (1996-2016)
In this paper we examine the overall evolution of the coverage of women's sports by the three Portuguese daily sports newspapers (A Bola, O Jogo and Record), as well as the potential sexual objectification of female athletes. To this end, we conducted an analysis of the news and photographs published by these three daily newspapers over a period of 20 years , based on a random sample. A total of 2,414 news items, including 1,207 articles and 1,20…
Bolhas de verdade: Cinco alfinetes para (re)construir a democracia
In our article we seek to reflect on the implications of the word "post-truth" as a way of characterizing our societies suffering from a media, cultural, social and political malaise. We believe that the important research that has already been produced on this issue linking it to the media culture should extend its scope beyond the media in order to understand the unprecedented advance of populism and its formulas that support ultra-right moveme…
Planos de igualdade de género nos media: Para uma (re)consideração do caso português
Os Planos Nacionais para a Igualdade são um dos instrumentos de política que os governos nacionais utilizam como expressão dos seus compromissos para com a igualdade de género e outros grupos desfavorecidos rumo à igualdade. Uma análise destes Planos, no caso português, mostra que embora tenha havido ganhos amplamente importantes na sua adoção, uma das suas áreas de preocupação - as mulheres e os meios de comunicação - foi sempre apenas brevement…
As mulheres tentam compensar. O verbo «compensar» é terrível, não é? Género e jornalismo em tempos de mudança
Women try to compensate. The verb 'compensate' is terrible, isn't it? Gender and journalism in times of change Nowadays, journalism is under major changes. In particular, the digital revolution has brought profound changes in the way news is produced and consumed, as well as in the professional identity. It is, moreover, transformations that seem to penalize female professional, perpetuating gender inequalities. In this paper, we focus precisely …
No encalço das mulheres de Chicago: Conexões Orgânicas E Radicais Do Pragmatismo Clássico Americano
No nosso texto procuramos reencontrar as ligações pragmáticas desenvolvidas em Chicago na viragem para o século XX a uma visão feminista da sociedade como um todo orgânico. Para o efeito, revisitamos o contributo de Jane Addams, uma das pioneiras teóricas sociais americanas. Embora não diretamente associada com a Escola de Chicago, o seu trabalho seria muito influente para diversos autores da Escola que também a influenciaram. Destes, destacamos …
Acting on the Body of the Audience: Dictatorship, hegemony, and gender censorship in Portugal
This paper studies the particularly restrictive context of patriarchal culture against the backdrop of the political dictatorship in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century, in terms of its moral hegemony and the rigid boundaries that it imposed on gender roles. It is within this context that media reception was forced to find a space for interaction with everyday life. Based on biographic interviews with women born in the first decades o…
In Journalism, We Are All Men: Material voices in the production of gender meanings
This study uses qualitative data to examine how male and female professionals in newsrooms experience and vocalize gender both in their lifeworlds and in media production in general. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with 18 Portuguese journalists. The responses were analysed through phenomenological and feminist lenses and indicated the issues men and women considered salient or negligible within our realms of inquiry. The stu…
As mulheres e a afirmação histórica da profissão jornalística: Contributos para uma não-ossificação da História do jornalismo
The place and role that women played in the history of journalism is still, amongst us, quite invisible and unquestioned. In the spirit of not only documenting, but theorizing history, the text aims to consider the intersection of the early stages of journalism as a profession with the entrance of the first women in the profession, and revisits the national and international press in the nineteenth century and the turn to the twentieth century, r…
Displacing the “Political”: The “personal” in the media public sphere
According to an old Portuguese saying, in quarrels “between husband and wife, nobody sticks in a spoon,” indicating, in other words, that certain domestic issues are to be kept “private.” Although when applied to domestic violence this is now legally false and despite the many national deaths and injuries to women and children, many social constraints keep the issue out of the national public sphere. The exceptions to this are the police or offic…
Organizing Experience: The Launch of the European Currency in the Portuguese Press
This article analyses press discourse in organizing the experience of social life through a case study of reports and comments on the construction of Europe. The research is grounded in the concept of ‘frame’ proposed by Goffman and developed by other authors including Entman. The coverage of the first days of the single currency in the opinion and news discourse of two Portuguese newspapers is analysed, combining insights from these authors. The…
A construção discursiva dos imigrantes na imprensa1
A identidade pública dos imigrantes depende de um conjunto de factores que vão das práticas do Estado na sua regulamentação à intervenção institucional das diferentes organizações. Os imigrantes raramente têm uma palavra a dizer na construção desta identidade, uma vez que o seu acesso ao espaço público é quase nulo. No nosso texto procuramos averiguar, num dos lugares privilegiados da construção desta imagem – a imprensa –, como o discurso jornal…
In Journalism, We Are All Men: Material voices in the production of gender meanings
This study uses qualitative data to examine how male and female professionals in newsrooms experience and vocalize gender both in their lifeworlds and in media production in general. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with 18 Portuguese journalists. The responses were analysed through phenomenological and feminist lenses and indicated the issues men and women considered salient or negligible within our realms of inquiry. The stu…
Framing street harassment: Legal developments and popular misogyny in social media
In September 2015, following the ratification of Istanbul Convention by Portugal, addressing someone with unwanted verbal “sexual proposals” became a criminal offence. This however, barely meets the requirements of the treaty and is far from what was first discussed about sexual harassment both in the Portuguese Parliament and more broadly in the media. When the criminalization of “piropo”—the Portuguese colloquial word for “catcalling”—was first…
Him Too? Cristiano Ronaldo and the News Coverage of a Rape Case Allegation
This paper uses critical thematic analysis to explore the news media coverage of a rape allegation case against the football player Cristiano Ronaldo. After providing the context of the case, we examine the literature on how rape cases are represented by the news media. We then proceed to a critical thematic analysis of a purposive sample of Portuguese national newspapers, first identifying ten sub-themes in a total of 140 news stories and opinio…
As mulheres tentam compensar. O verbo «compensar» é terrível, não é? Género e jornalismo em tempos de mudança
Women try to compensate. The verb 'compensate' is terrible, isn't it? Gender and journalism in times of change Nowadays, journalism is under major changes. In particular, the digital revolution has brought profound changes in the way news is produced and consumed, as well as in the professional identity. It is, moreover, transformations that seem to penalize female professional, perpetuating gender inequalities. In this paper, we focus precisely …
Observing gender in the newsroom: Insights from an ethnographic study
A large body of research has documented gender bias in the news coverage of women. Despite small gains in recent years, namely on television, and the growing percentage of females in the workforce, substantial underrepresentation of women in the news has remained. To explore journalists’ social and professional world as a milieu of the lived professional and culturally grounded understandings of gender, we conducted participant observation of a t…
Estudos sobre as mulheres» em Portugal Pós-Declaração de Pequim – Estudo bibliométrico das revistas ex æquo e Faces de Eva
In this article we present and discuss a set of results of a bibliometric study of the journals ex aequo and Faces de Eva. The metadata of 259 texts of Faces de Eva and 399 of ex aequo's, published between 1999 and 2019, were incorporated into a framework basis which included authors, their institutional and geographical affiliations and as well as all the titles, abstracts and keywords. The results show that Womens, Gender and Feminist Studies (…
Acting on the Body of the Audience: Dictatorship, hegemony, and gender censorship in Portugal
This paper studies the particularly restrictive context of patriarchal culture against the backdrop of the political dictatorship in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century, in terms of its moral hegemony and the rigid boundaries that it imposed on gender roles. It is within this context that media reception was forced to find a space for interaction with everyday life. Based on biographic interviews with women born in the first decades o…
Displacing the “Political”: The “personal” in the media public sphere
According to an old Portuguese saying, in quarrels “between husband and wife, nobody sticks in a spoon,” indicating, in other words, that certain domestic issues are to be kept “private.” Although when applied to domestic violence this is now legally false and despite the many national deaths and injuries to women and children, many social constraints keep the issue out of the national public sphere. The exceptions to this are the police or offic…
A distant finish line for women: Gender and the sports press in Portugal (1996-2016)
In this paper we examine the overall evolution of the coverage of women's sports by the three Portuguese daily sports newspapers (A Bola, O Jogo and Record), as well as the potential sexual objectification of female athletes. To this end, we conducted an analysis of the news and photographs published by these three daily newspapers over a period of 20 years , based on a random sample. A total of 2,414 news items, including 1,207 articles and 1,20…
Planos de igualdade de género nos media: Para uma (re)consideração do caso português
Os Planos Nacionais para a Igualdade são um dos instrumentos de política que os governos nacionais utilizam como expressão dos seus compromissos para com a igualdade de género e outros grupos desfavorecidos rumo à igualdade. Uma análise destes Planos, no caso português, mostra que embora tenha havido ganhos amplamente importantes na sua adoção, uma das suas áreas de preocupação - as mulheres e os meios de comunicação - foi sempre apenas brevement…
As mulheres e a afirmação histórica da profissão jornalística: Contributos para uma não-ossificação da História do jornalismo
The place and role that women played in the history of journalism is still, amongst us, quite invisible and unquestioned. In the spirit of not only documenting, but theorizing history, the text aims to consider the intersection of the early stages of journalism as a profession with the entrance of the first women in the profession, and revisits the national and international press in the nineteenth century and the turn to the twentieth century, r…
A construção discursiva dos imigrantes na imprensa1
A identidade pública dos imigrantes depende de um conjunto de factores que vão das práticas do Estado na sua regulamentação à intervenção institucional das diferentes organizações. Os imigrantes raramente têm uma palavra a dizer na construção desta identidade, uma vez que o seu acesso ao espaço público é quase nulo. No nosso texto procuramos averiguar, num dos lugares privilegiados da construção desta imagem – a imprensa –, como o discurso jornal…
Displacing the “Political”: The “personal” in the media public sphere
According to an old Portuguese saying, in quarrels “between husband and wife, nobody sticks in a spoon,” indicating, in other words, that certain domestic issues are to be kept “private.” Although when applied to domestic violence this is now legally false and despite the many national deaths and injuries to women and children, many social constraints keep the issue out of the national public sphere. The exceptions to this are the police or offic…
Organizing Experience: The Launch of the European Currency in the Portuguese Press
This article analyses press discourse in organizing the experience of social life through a case study of reports and comments on the construction of Europe. The research is grounded in the concept of ‘frame’ proposed by Goffman and developed by other authors including Entman. The coverage of the first days of the single currency in the opinion and news discourse of two Portuguese newspapers is analysed, combining insights from these authors. The…
As mulheres e a afirmação histórica da profissão jornalística: Contributos para uma não-ossificação da História do jornalismo
The place and role that women played in the history of journalism is still, amongst us, quite invisible and unquestioned. In the spirit of not only documenting, but theorizing history, the text aims to consider the intersection of the early stages of journalism as a profession with the entrance of the first women in the profession, and revisits the national and international press in the nineteenth century and the turn to the twentieth century, r…
Acting on the Body of the Audience: Dictatorship, hegemony, and gender censorship in Portugal
This paper studies the particularly restrictive context of patriarchal culture against the backdrop of the political dictatorship in Portugal in the middle of the twentieth century, in terms of its moral hegemony and the rigid boundaries that it imposed on gender roles. It is within this context that media reception was forced to find a space for interaction with everyday life. Based on biographic interviews with women born in the first decades o…
In Journalism, We Are All Men: Material voices in the production of gender meanings
This study uses qualitative data to examine how male and female professionals in newsrooms experience and vocalize gender both in their lifeworlds and in media production in general. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with 18 Portuguese journalists. The responses were analysed through phenomenological and feminist lenses and indicated the issues men and women considered salient or negligible within our realms of inquiry. The stu…
As mulheres tentam compensar. O verbo «compensar» é terrível, não é? Género e jornalismo em tempos de mudança
Women try to compensate. The verb 'compensate' is terrible, isn't it? Gender and journalism in times of change Nowadays, journalism is under major changes. In particular, the digital revolution has brought profound changes in the way news is produced and consumed, as well as in the professional identity. It is, moreover, transformations that seem to penalize female professional, perpetuating gender inequalities. In this paper, we focus precisely …
No encalço das mulheres de Chicago: Conexões Orgânicas E Radicais Do Pragmatismo Clássico Americano
No nosso texto procuramos reencontrar as ligações pragmáticas desenvolvidas em Chicago na viragem para o século XX a uma visão feminista da sociedade como um todo orgânico. Para o efeito, revisitamos o contributo de Jane Addams, uma das pioneiras teóricas sociais americanas. Embora não diretamente associada com a Escola de Chicago, o seu trabalho seria muito influente para diversos autores da Escola que também a influenciaram. Destes, destacamos …
Planos de igualdade de género nos media: Para uma (re)consideração do caso português
Os Planos Nacionais para a Igualdade são um dos instrumentos de política que os governos nacionais utilizam como expressão dos seus compromissos para com a igualdade de género e outros grupos desfavorecidos rumo à igualdade. Uma análise destes Planos, no caso português, mostra que embora tenha havido ganhos amplamente importantes na sua adoção, uma das suas áreas de preocupação - as mulheres e os meios de comunicação - foi sempre apenas brevement…
Bolhas de verdade: Cinco alfinetes para (re)construir a democracia
In our article we seek to reflect on the implications of the word "post-truth" as a way of characterizing our societies suffering from a media, cultural, social and political malaise. We believe that the important research that has already been produced on this issue linking it to the media culture should extend its scope beyond the media in order to understand the unprecedented advance of populism and its formulas that support ultra-right moveme…
Him Too? Cristiano Ronaldo and the News Coverage of a Rape Case Allegation
This paper uses critical thematic analysis to explore the news media coverage of a rape allegation case against the football player Cristiano Ronaldo. After providing the context of the case, we examine the literature on how rape cases are represented by the news media. We then proceed to a critical thematic analysis of a purposive sample of Portuguese national newspapers, first identifying ten sub-themes in a total of 140 news stories and opinio…
Framing street harassment: Legal developments and popular misogyny in social media
In September 2015, following the ratification of Istanbul Convention by Portugal, addressing someone with unwanted verbal “sexual proposals” became a criminal offence. This however, barely meets the requirements of the treaty and is far from what was first discussed about sexual harassment both in the Portuguese Parliament and more broadly in the media. When the criminalization of “piropo”—the Portuguese colloquial word for “catcalling”—was first…
A distant finish line for women: Gender and the sports press in Portugal (1996-2016)
In this paper we examine the overall evolution of the coverage of women's sports by the three Portuguese daily sports newspapers (A Bola, O Jogo and Record), as well as the potential sexual objectification of female athletes. To this end, we conducted an analysis of the news and photographs published by these three daily newspapers over a period of 20 years , based on a random sample. A total of 2,414 news items, including 1,207 articles and 1,20…
Situacionismo de sexo: Um diagnóstico feminista à Plataforma de Pequim passados 25 anos
The article aims to perform a feminist analysis of the 25 years of the Beijing Action Platform through a discussion of the ambiguities of the terms 'gender' and mainstreaming as introduced in the Platform, reflecting on the ramifications and consequences of their use in the intersection with increasingly consolidated neoliberal policies in recent decades. At issue is the recognition of the multiple issues related to multiculturalism underlying th…
Estudos sobre as mulheres» em Portugal Pós-Declaração de Pequim – Estudo bibliométrico das revistas ex æquo e Faces de Eva
In this article we present and discuss a set of results of a bibliometric study of the journals ex aequo and Faces de Eva. The metadata of 259 texts of Faces de Eva and 399 of ex aequo's, published between 1999 and 2019, were incorporated into a framework basis which included authors, their institutional and geographical affiliations and as well as all the titles, abstracts and keywords. The results show that Womens, Gender and Feminist Studies (…
Assédio e hostilidade online contra jornalistas: Da Instrumentalização Do "Jornalixo" À Desvalorização Da Violência
Apesar das esperanças depositadas nos potenciais benefícios de uma maior aproximação entre jornalistas e audiências no espaço digital, a possibilidade de as audiências comentarem ou acederem facilmente aos/às jornalistas tornou-se um problema reconhecido. O assédio e os ataques em linha a estes/as profissionais, mais visíveis com o crescimento da extrema-direita, tornaram-se problemas relevantes que têm também dimensões de género. A partir de um …
“Journalists are Prepared for Critical Situations … but We are Not Prepared for This”: Empirical and Structural Dimensions of Gendered Online Harassment
This article discusses online harassment against women journalists exploring self-reported incidents, effects, and trust in safety mechanisms. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews of women journalists in Portugal, we use a feminist and critical realist framework to explore the causal structures and generative mechanisms that explain their vulnerability to online abuse. We identify three overarching themes: increasing visibility in a …
Observing gender in the newsroom: Insights from an ethnographic study
A large body of research has documented gender bias in the news coverage of women. Despite small gains in recent years, namely on television, and the growing percentage of females in the workforce, substantial underrepresentation of women in the news has remained. To explore journalists’ social and professional world as a milieu of the lived professional and culturally grounded understandings of gender, we conducted participant observation of a t…
On Being a Good Worker, a Good Mother, a Good Carer: Women Journalists, Motherhood, and Caregiving
This paper examines the relationship between journalism, caregiving, and family-building, focusing on women journalists in Portugal. Drawing on a critical thematic analysis of thirty interviews, it explores an analytic framework that includes cultural, structural, and agentic dimensions of career limitations, organised in three overarching themes. The first examines how women journalists experience work constraints stemming from traditional cultu…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Journalism (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)