Vítor Blanco-Fernández
Biographic Data
| ID | 233012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vítor Blanco-Fernández |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vítor |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanco-Fernández |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCO-FERNÁNDEZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4906-3577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Audiovisual Fiction to Reduce Prejudices Against Non-Binary People
Non-binary communities advocate for greater inclusion of their identities in the media, as lack of visibility and awareness remains a significant cause of prejudice against this population. This study investigates the impact of media representations of non-binary individuals on audience attitudes. Specifically, it draws on narrative transportation theory to examine how different narrative types affect their viewers’ openness to such identities. A…
Queer Futures Studies and Critical Futures Studies
This paper aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between Queer Futures Studies (QFS) and Critical Futures Studies (CFS). It begins by advocating for fluid and expansive approaches to queer futurity, cultivating a non-dualistic dialogue between Lee Edelman’s anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz’s utopian futurism, two keystones of time-oriented queer theory. Then, it brings queer theories into conversation with critical futur…
Researching non-binary identities across the media ecosystem
From “Pinkwashing” to “Forced Inclusion”
Adolescents’ perspectives are often overlooked in media research due to adult-centric biases. However, teenagers’ opinions are crucial in social debates and it is important to understand their relationship with media, including LGBTIQ+ acceptance. This study addresses the question: How do teenage audiences (14–18) engage with LGBTIQ+ issues in the transmedia audiovisual ecosystem? Short-term ethnography was conducted with 59 teenagers from Barcel…
Representation of Young Non-Binary Characters in Mainstream Fiction
Arte digital y temporalidades queer
Las obras de arte digital nos permiten visualizar ideas complejas y abstractas. Este artículo pone el foco en epistemologías alternativas sobre el tiempo expresadas a través del arte digital contemporáneo. Su objetivo es analizar cómo la obra de Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Morehshin Allahyari y Heesoo Kwon muestra temporalidades queer contrarias a la crono-normatividad cis-heterosexual y colonial. Para ello, comienza por describir teóricamente l…
Thinking the future otherwise
Discussions within queer time studies often hinge upon a simplistic binary division between Lee Edelman's anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz's queer utopianism. This article aims to reframe this discourse, acknowledging its limitations and proposing alternative approaches to conceptualizing the future through a queer lens. Beginning with a brief overview of both the queer anti-social thesis and future-oriented utopias, this article explores alt…
I Am they.' Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions
This qualitative research uses a case study to observe non-binary representation in TV fiction. The Dan character from the Spanish series HIT (RTVE, 2020-present), who is the first openly non-binary character in Spanish TV fiction, is analyzed through the lens of Queer Media Studies. The research applies a combination of content and discourse analysis. Qualitative content categories include a character's visibility, identity, relevance, embodimen…
Ciberfeminismos Para El Cambio De Siglo. Discusiones Ciberfeministas Entre 1997 Y 2001
Entre 1997 y 2001, el colectivo ciberfeminista Old Boys Network (OBN) organizó tres Internacionales Ciberfeministas. El objetivo de este artículo es definir los cambios en el pensamiento ciberfeminista durante este periodo. Para ello, acudo a las tres publicaciones que acompañaron a dichos encuentros. Con un primer análisis cuantitativo localizo los temas fundamentales y su frecuencia. Con un segundo análisis cualitativo, describo el devenir de l…
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”
This article analyses LGBTIQA+ playing experiences of Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH). It first surveys LGBTIQA+ players of ACNH, with questions regarding ways of playing, identity, community, and fanfiction practices. It also analyses LGBTIQA+ ACNH YouTube videos, divided into three main categories: design, gaming, and fanfiction. The first category, design, is analyzed quantitatively. The second and third categories follow a qualitative ana…
The post-digital labyrinth. Understanding post-digital diversity through CGI volumetric aesthetics
Coined in 1998, the term post-digital has been used and discussed in several heterogenous disciplines and debates, to the point that it has now ramified into diverse, confusing and overlapping definitions and purposes, which constitute what I have called the post-digital labyrinth . Considering the theoretical works on post-digitality published up until the mid-2010s, I propose five different approaches to the post-digital condition : 1) digital …
Tinder un-choosing. The six stages of mate discarding in a patriarchal technology
We analyse rejection experiences in mobile dating applications (MDA), in particular Tinder, based on the variables of gender and age. To do so, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with forty (40) heterosexual Tinder users (10 women aged 18–28 years, 11 women aged 40–60, 10 men aged 18–28, and 9 men aged 40–60). Results showed that rather than explicitly hostile experiences, users encounter a gamified soft-rejection technology where b…
Narrativas del siendo. Videoarte español en el cuestionamiento del sexo, género y sexualidad normativas
A través del análisis de diferentes piezas de videoarte español de las últimas dos décadas argumento la capacidad de este medio audiovisual para cuestionar la construcción normativa del sexo, del género y de la sexualidad, así como para establecer representaciones y condiciones favorables a su subversión. En primer lugar, propongo la emergencia de contra-discursos simbólicos, culturales y auto-representativos como uno de los rasgos característico…
I Am they.' Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions
This qualitative research uses a case study to observe non-binary representation in TV fiction. The Dan character from the Spanish series HIT (RTVE, 2020-present), who is the first openly non-binary character in Spanish TV fiction, is analyzed through the lens of Queer Media Studies. The research applies a combination of content and discourse analysis. Qualitative content categories include a character's visibility, identity, relevance, embodimen…
Thinking the future otherwise
Discussions within queer time studies often hinge upon a simplistic binary division between Lee Edelman's anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz's queer utopianism. This article aims to reframe this discourse, acknowledging its limitations and proposing alternative approaches to conceptualizing the future through a queer lens. Beginning with a brief overview of both the queer anti-social thesis and future-oriented utopias, this article explores alt…
Researching non-binary identities across the media ecosystem
Representation of Young Non-Binary Characters in Mainstream Fiction
Narrativas del siendo. Videoarte español en el cuestionamiento del sexo, género y sexualidad normativas
A través del análisis de diferentes piezas de videoarte español de las últimas dos décadas argumento la capacidad de este medio audiovisual para cuestionar la construcción normativa del sexo, del género y de la sexualidad, así como para establecer representaciones y condiciones favorables a su subversión. En primer lugar, propongo la emergencia de contra-discursos simbólicos, culturales y auto-representativos como uno de los rasgos característico…
The post-digital labyrinth. Understanding post-digital diversity through CGI volumetric aesthetics
Coined in 1998, the term post-digital has been used and discussed in several heterogenous disciplines and debates, to the point that it has now ramified into diverse, confusing and overlapping definitions and purposes, which constitute what I have called the post-digital labyrinth . Considering the theoretical works on post-digitality published up until the mid-2010s, I propose five different approaches to the post-digital condition : 1) digital …
Tinder un-choosing. The six stages of mate discarding in a patriarchal technology
We analyse rejection experiences in mobile dating applications (MDA), in particular Tinder, based on the variables of gender and age. To do so, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with forty (40) heterosexual Tinder users (10 women aged 18–28 years, 11 women aged 40–60, 10 men aged 18–28, and 9 men aged 40–60). Results showed that rather than explicitly hostile experiences, users encounter a gamified soft-rejection technology where b…
Ciberfeminismos Para El Cambio De Siglo. Discusiones Ciberfeministas Entre 1997 Y 2001
Entre 1997 y 2001, el colectivo ciberfeminista Old Boys Network (OBN) organizó tres Internacionales Ciberfeministas. El objetivo de este artículo es definir los cambios en el pensamiento ciberfeminista durante este periodo. Para ello, acudo a las tres publicaciones que acompañaron a dichos encuentros. Con un primer análisis cuantitativo localizo los temas fundamentales y su frecuencia. Con un segundo análisis cualitativo, describo el devenir de l…
“Video Games Were My First Safe Space”
This article analyses LGBTIQA+ playing experiences of Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH). It first surveys LGBTIQA+ players of ACNH, with questions regarding ways of playing, identity, community, and fanfiction practices. It also analyses LGBTIQA+ ACNH YouTube videos, divided into three main categories: design, gaming, and fanfiction. The first category, design, is analyzed quantitatively. The second and third categories follow a qualitative ana…
Arte digital y temporalidades queer
Las obras de arte digital nos permiten visualizar ideas complejas y abstractas. Este artículo pone el foco en epistemologías alternativas sobre el tiempo expresadas a través del arte digital contemporáneo. Su objetivo es analizar cómo la obra de Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Morehshin Allahyari y Heesoo Kwon muestra temporalidades queer contrarias a la crono-normatividad cis-heterosexual y colonial. Para ello, comienza por describir teóricamente l…
Thinking the future otherwise
Discussions within queer time studies often hinge upon a simplistic binary division between Lee Edelman's anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz's queer utopianism. This article aims to reframe this discourse, acknowledging its limitations and proposing alternative approaches to conceptualizing the future through a queer lens. Beginning with a brief overview of both the queer anti-social thesis and future-oriented utopias, this article explores alt…
I Am they.' Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions
This qualitative research uses a case study to observe non-binary representation in TV fiction. The Dan character from the Spanish series HIT (RTVE, 2020-present), who is the first openly non-binary character in Spanish TV fiction, is analyzed through the lens of Queer Media Studies. The research applies a combination of content and discourse analysis. Qualitative content categories include a character's visibility, identity, relevance, embodimen…
Researching non-binary identities across the media ecosystem
From “Pinkwashing” to “Forced Inclusion”
Adolescents’ perspectives are often overlooked in media research due to adult-centric biases. However, teenagers’ opinions are crucial in social debates and it is important to understand their relationship with media, including LGBTIQ+ acceptance. This study addresses the question: How do teenage audiences (14–18) engage with LGBTIQ+ issues in the transmedia audiovisual ecosystem? Short-term ethnography was conducted with 59 teenagers from Barcel…
Representation of Young Non-Binary Characters in Mainstream Fiction
Audiovisual Fiction to Reduce Prejudices Against Non-Binary People
Non-binary communities advocate for greater inclusion of their identities in the media, as lack of visibility and awareness remains a significant cause of prejudice against this population. This study investigates the impact of media representations of non-binary individuals on audience attitudes. Specifically, it draws on narrative transportation theory to examine how different narrative types affect their viewers’ openness to such identities. A…
Queer Futures Studies and Critical Futures Studies
This paper aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between Queer Futures Studies (QFS) and Critical Futures Studies (CFS). It begins by advocating for fluid and expansive approaches to queer futurity, cultivating a non-dualistic dialogue between Lee Edelman’s anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz’s utopian futurism, two keystones of time-oriented queer theory. Then, it brings queer theories into conversation with critical futur…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works)