Maria-Jose Masanet
Biographic Data
| ID | 351977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria-Jose Masanet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria-Jose |
| FAMILY NAME | Masanet |
| SIGNATURE | MASANET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1217-9840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding the Spanish manosphere through youth: An ethnographic study of young men’s engagement with masculinized online spaces
This article proposes a youth-centred approach to understanding the Spanish manosphere grounded in young men’s perspectives and experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study with teenagers (between 14 and 18 years old) from Barcelona and its metropolitan area, we develop an analytical proposal that identifies three interconnected types of spaces: Open Hard Spaces, where explicitly anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ discourses are more visible; Open S…
Interseccionalidad a través de historias de vida: Cuidado, temporalidad y reflexividad en los estudios de audiencias
Este artículo propone las historias de vida como herramienta metodológica para abordar cuestiones interseccionales complejas en la investigación de audiencias. Comienza con una revisión de la investigación interseccional existente sobre audiencias, junto con contribuciones metodológicas sobre historias de vida procedentes de diversas ciencias sociales. A partir de las conclusiones del proyecto de I+D [Anon], el artículo evalúa tanto el potencial …
‘To be honest, they’re mainly a way to waste time… but they also help me learn things’: The complexities of teens’ social media motivations
This study maps adolescents’ motivations for using the various social media platforms they commonly inhabit. Through an ethnographic approach grounded in the principles of short-term ethnography, we conducted fieldwork in three educational institutions located in Barcelona and its metropolitan area, within the framework of the Transmedia Gender & LGBTI+ Literacy (TRANSGELIT) project. Based on the analysis, we identified seven primary motivations:…
What are teens doing with social media? Mapping everyday practices and uses
Over the past decades, social media has reshaped how individuals, especially younger generations, communicate, express identity, and engage with the world around them. In this context, our research aims to present a detailed map of the practices and uses that young people attribute to social media platforms. Drawing from an ethnographic study with adolescents aged 14–18 from diverse educational centres in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, we id…
From Sexting to Sexpreading: Trivialization of Digital Violence, Gender Differences and Collective Responsibilities
This article starts from a pedagogical disambiguation around sexting elaborated from the socio-educational cooperatives edPAC and CANDELA. This nuanced definition understands sexting as the practice of voluntarily and consensually sharing intimate and sexual content through different platforms and devices. In contrast, sexpreading is understood as the practice of disseminating sexual content without consent. We conducted short-term ethnographic r…
Breaking expectations through personal experiences! Young people reflecting and learning about sexualities and gender through porn: An ethnographic study in Barcelona
Porn studies have a long tradition of researching porn as a cultural artifact in relation to adult audiences. Recently, there has been increasing interest in young people’s uses and perceptions of porn since there is a general concern about its possible harms and dangers. This article aims to shed light on these issues through an ethnographic study carried out in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Our main objective is to understand how teenage…
Learning about sexualities and gender through media: Transcending formal practices, spaces, actors, and experiences
El arquetipo de la "dead-but-not-gone girl" en las series adolescentes de Netflix: Muertas Y Sin Voz
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la representación del arquetipo de la dead-but-not-gone girl en dos series adolescentes de la plataforma Netflix: 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020) y Élite (2018-). Para ello, como técnica de análisis, realizamos la lectura en profundidad de la primera temporada de cada serie. Los resultados apuntan a la representación de unos personajes femeninos inactivos que acaban siendo el objeto de deseo -y de obsesión- de …
Learning with YouTube: Beyond formal and informal through new actors, strategies and affordances
This article focuses on the results from interviews and workshops on teens’ YouTube consumption and use as part of the Transmedia Literacy research project on teens and transmedia collaborative practices carried out in eight countries from Europe, South America and Australia. The project had two main objectives: to detect what teens are doing with media and to determine how they learn to do it. During the fieldwork, YouTube was identified as one …
Gamers never play alone: An interface-centred analysis of online video gaming
Online gaming involves a complex and multidimensional set of practices. This article proposes understanding online video gaming based on an interface-centred approach that goes beyond the classic study of the “graphic user interface”. In this theoretical and analytical framework, the interface is considered the place where human, institutional and technological actors relate to each other and different processes are carried out. The article draws…
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
Teenagers as curators: Digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram
In this paper we draw on the findings on teens’ transmedia practices from the research project Transmedia Literacy carried out in eight countries from Europe, Latin America and Australia between 2015 and 2018. An ethnographic approach that combined different research methods, including questionnaires, participatory-creative workshops, interviews, media diaries and online community observation, was used to explore what teens are doing with media. …
The ‘troubled rebel girl’ and the ‘boy-next-door’: The apparent inversion of gender and love archetypes in 13 Reasons Why, Élite and Sex Education
Teen series play a central role in the socialization process of young people, since they offer portrayals and models that young people can relate to, identify with or modify and break. Previous studies have shown that teen series continue to perpetuate a stereotyped gender representation and usually reproduce a heteronormative relationship model based on the myth of romantic love following the storyline of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The present stud…
Jóvenes producen contranarrativas en las redes
Adolescentes y jóvenes son de los pocos colectivos o grupos que no tienen acceso a los medios generalistas, generan sus contenidos en los medios a través de las redes sociales y otras plataformas, pero no son redactores, guionistas, de la televisión generalista, tardarán en entrar porque son espacios copados por otros grupos. El discurso que se genera hacia ellas y ellos es a través de la mirada de los adultos, mientras las y los jóvenes hicieron…
What are teens doing with YouTube? Practices, uses and metaphors of the most popular audio-visual platform
This article is part of the outcomes of the Transmedia Literacy research project on teens and transmedia collaborative practices carried out in eight countries between 2015 and 2018. A multi-method approach was used in the study (questionnaires, workshops, media diaries, interviews, observation of online communities) to explore what teens are doing with media. This article presents a map of the uses and practices teens make of YouTube. The metaph…
Riesgos de la brecha digital de género entre los y las adolescentes
The gender digital divide between teens from seven countries in Europe, in Australia, and in countries of South America through a socio-cultural perspective is analyzed. The article compares which habits of use and consumption are attributed and performed by adolescents in multiple media and social media, and explores if these uses are grounded in the historically established gender roles. The data come from the Transmedia literacy research proje…
Negotiating Love and Gender Stereotypes among Youn People: Prevalence of “Amor Ludens” and Television Preferences Rooted in Hegemonic Masculinity
This study was carried out in three Iberian-American countries, Colombia, Spain and Venezuela, to identify the stereotypes of love and gender professed among youth and compare them to those they prefer in television fiction series, i.e., those able to influence their identities and values. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the study involved a survey of 485 first-year university students, and a qualitative analysis of the media representatio…
Representing gender-based violence in teen series: Young people’s discourses on the Spanish series Física o Química
Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
Toward a typology of young produsers: Teenagers’ transmedia skills, media production, and narrative and aesthetic appreciation
Based on the qualitative analysis of data from workshops and interviews with teenagers from eight countries, this article aims to determine the degrees of productive, narrative, and aesthetic knowledge that teenagers put into practice when they create their media contents. From a theoretical framework that links teens, informal learning environments, and participatory cultures, the findings point toward three types of teenage produsers: casual, a…
Transmedia literacy in the new media ecology: Teens’ transmedia skills and informal learning strategies
The emergence of new media and platforms has compelled media literacy scholars to review their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. Based on a new conception –‘transmedia literacy’– that moves from traditional media literacy (teaching critical media skills at school) to informal learning and participatory cultures, the research behind the present article aims to understand how new generations are doing things with media and how t…
Myths of Romantic Love and Gender-based Violence in the Fan Forum of the Spanish Teen Series Los Protegidos
By analysing the fan forum of a popular Spanish teen series aimed at young people, Los Protegidos (2010–12), this study explores how stereotypical myths and beliefs about romantic love are maintained. The article interprets comments made by Spanish fans of the series about the reactions and behaviours of the leading couple. We found that fan forum participants evaluate the couple’s behaviour according to gender stereotypes. They justify the male …
Mobile devices in higher education: A pending issue in multidimensional media literacy
Prensky’s concept of the ‘digital native’ received many criticisms, fundamentally as it was considered too optimistic, but also determinist and reductionist: knowing the age of a person does not determine the digital practices they may perform, nor their behaviour. In our previous research young people obtained very low scores in all media literacy dimensions except technology, demonstrating the need for comprehensive media literacy and contradic…
Communication efficiency in education: Increasing emotions and storytelling
The research supporting this paper addresses the problem of educational communication efficacy using a dual methodology strategy. Over 1.200 questionnaires were given out to professionals in four institutions dedicated to persuasive communication; two traditional ?the church and schools? and two more recently created ? journalism and advertising. Probably they are the four groups with more socialising force in the last centuries; For this paper t…
Transmedia literacy in the new media ecology: Teens’ transmedia skills and informal learning strategies
The emergence of new media and platforms has compelled media literacy scholars to review their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. Based on a new conception –‘transmedia literacy’– that moves from traditional media literacy (teaching critical media skills at school) to informal learning and participatory cultures, the research behind the present article aims to understand how new generations are doing things with media and how t…
Teenagers as curators: Digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram
In this paper we draw on the findings on teens’ transmedia practices from the research project Transmedia Literacy carried out in eight countries from Europe, Latin America and Australia between 2015 and 2018. An ethnographic approach that combined different research methods, including questionnaires, participatory-creative workshops, interviews, media diaries and online community observation, was used to explore what teens are doing with media. …
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
Communication efficiency in education: Increasing emotions and storytelling
The research supporting this paper addresses the problem of educational communication efficacy using a dual methodology strategy. Over 1.200 questionnaires were given out to professionals in four institutions dedicated to persuasive communication; two traditional ?the church and schools? and two more recently created ? journalism and advertising. Probably they are the four groups with more socialising force in the last centuries; For this paper t…
Toward a typology of young produsers: Teenagers’ transmedia skills, media production, and narrative and aesthetic appreciation
Based on the qualitative analysis of data from workshops and interviews with teenagers from eight countries, this article aims to determine the degrees of productive, narrative, and aesthetic knowledge that teenagers put into practice when they create their media contents. From a theoretical framework that links teens, informal learning environments, and participatory cultures, the findings point toward three types of teenage produsers: casual, a…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
Learning about sexualities and gender through media: Transcending formal practices, spaces, actors, and experiences
Negotiating Love and Gender Stereotypes among Youn People: Prevalence of “Amor Ludens” and Television Preferences Rooted in Hegemonic Masculinity
This study was carried out in three Iberian-American countries, Colombia, Spain and Venezuela, to identify the stereotypes of love and gender professed among youth and compare them to those they prefer in television fiction series, i.e., those able to influence their identities and values. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the study involved a survey of 485 first-year university students, and a qualitative analysis of the media representatio…
Representing gender-based violence in teen series: Young people’s discourses on the Spanish series Física o Química
Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…
Myths of Romantic Love and Gender-based Violence in the Fan Forum of the Spanish Teen Series Los Protegidos
By analysing the fan forum of a popular Spanish teen series aimed at young people, Los Protegidos (2010–12), this study explores how stereotypical myths and beliefs about romantic love are maintained. The article interprets comments made by Spanish fans of the series about the reactions and behaviours of the leading couple. We found that fan forum participants evaluate the couple’s behaviour according to gender stereotypes. They justify the male …
Mobile devices in higher education: A pending issue in multidimensional media literacy
Prensky’s concept of the ‘digital native’ received many criticisms, fundamentally as it was considered too optimistic, but also determinist and reductionist: knowing the age of a person does not determine the digital practices they may perform, nor their behaviour. In our previous research young people obtained very low scores in all media literacy dimensions except technology, demonstrating the need for comprehensive media literacy and contradic…
From Sexting to Sexpreading: Trivialization of Digital Violence, Gender Differences and Collective Responsibilities
This article starts from a pedagogical disambiguation around sexting elaborated from the socio-educational cooperatives edPAC and CANDELA. This nuanced definition understands sexting as the practice of voluntarily and consensually sharing intimate and sexual content through different platforms and devices. In contrast, sexpreading is understood as the practice of disseminating sexual content without consent. We conducted short-term ethnographic r…
Breaking expectations through personal experiences! Young people reflecting and learning about sexualities and gender through porn: An ethnographic study in Barcelona
Porn studies have a long tradition of researching porn as a cultural artifact in relation to adult audiences. Recently, there has been increasing interest in young people’s uses and perceptions of porn since there is a general concern about its possible harms and dangers. This article aims to shed light on these issues through an ethnographic study carried out in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Our main objective is to understand how teenage…
Riesgos de la brecha digital de género entre los y las adolescentes
The gender digital divide between teens from seven countries in Europe, in Australia, and in countries of South America through a socio-cultural perspective is analyzed. The article compares which habits of use and consumption are attributed and performed by adolescents in multiple media and social media, and explores if these uses are grounded in the historically established gender roles. The data come from the Transmedia literacy research proje…
Highly qualified students? Research into the media competence level of Spanish youth
The article presents results of the media competence of Spanish youth. The methodological tool used, a sociological survey, was created from proposals by more than 50 recognized experts in this field. It is focused on six major dimensions: languages, technologies, interaction processes, production and diffusion processes, aesthetics and ideology and values. The study population is 1,430 youngsters. The results are significant: Spanish youth score…
Highly qualified students? Research into the media competence level of Spanish youth
The article presents results of the media competence of Spanish youth. The methodological tool used, a sociological survey, was created from proposals by more than 50 recognized experts in this field. It is focused on six major dimensions: languages, technologies, interaction processes, production and diffusion processes, aesthetics and ideology and values. The study population is 1,430 youngsters. The results are significant: Spanish youth score…
Advice on life? Online fan forums as a space for peer-to-peer sex and relationships education
Previous research has pointed to the potential of entertainment media as a source of informal sex education for young people. New social media may offer additional potential in this respect. In this paper, we consider the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of online fan forums, via a case study of the forums of the controversial British teen drama series Skins. We analyse discussions of the realism of the series' representation of teenage …
Mobile devices in higher education: A pending issue in multidimensional media literacy
Prensky’s concept of the ‘digital native’ received many criticisms, fundamentally as it was considered too optimistic, but also determinist and reductionist: knowing the age of a person does not determine the digital practices they may perform, nor their behaviour. In our previous research young people obtained very low scores in all media literacy dimensions except technology, demonstrating the need for comprehensive media literacy and contradic…
Communication efficiency in education: Increasing emotions and storytelling
The research supporting this paper addresses the problem of educational communication efficacy using a dual methodology strategy. Over 1.200 questionnaires were given out to professionals in four institutions dedicated to persuasive communication; two traditional ?the church and schools? and two more recently created ? journalism and advertising. Probably they are the four groups with more socialising force in the last centuries; For this paper t…
Toward a typology of young produsers: Teenagers’ transmedia skills, media production, and narrative and aesthetic appreciation
Based on the qualitative analysis of data from workshops and interviews with teenagers from eight countries, this article aims to determine the degrees of productive, narrative, and aesthetic knowledge that teenagers put into practice when they create their media contents. From a theoretical framework that links teens, informal learning environments, and participatory cultures, the findings point toward three types of teenage produsers: casual, a…
Transmedia literacy in the new media ecology: Teens’ transmedia skills and informal learning strategies
The emergence of new media and platforms has compelled media literacy scholars to review their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. Based on a new conception –‘transmedia literacy’– that moves from traditional media literacy (teaching critical media skills at school) to informal learning and participatory cultures, the research behind the present article aims to understand how new generations are doing things with media and how t…
Myths of Romantic Love and Gender-based Violence in the Fan Forum of the Spanish Teen Series Los Protegidos
By analysing the fan forum of a popular Spanish teen series aimed at young people, Los Protegidos (2010–12), this study explores how stereotypical myths and beliefs about romantic love are maintained. The article interprets comments made by Spanish fans of the series about the reactions and behaviours of the leading couple. We found that fan forum participants evaluate the couple’s behaviour according to gender stereotypes. They justify the male …
Negotiating Love and Gender Stereotypes among Youn People: Prevalence of “Amor Ludens” and Television Preferences Rooted in Hegemonic Masculinity
This study was carried out in three Iberian-American countries, Colombia, Spain and Venezuela, to identify the stereotypes of love and gender professed among youth and compare them to those they prefer in television fiction series, i.e., those able to influence their identities and values. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the study involved a survey of 485 first-year university students, and a qualitative analysis of the media representatio…
Representing gender-based violence in teen series: Young people’s discourses on the Spanish series Física o Química
Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
The ‘troubled rebel girl’ and the ‘boy-next-door’: The apparent inversion of gender and love archetypes in 13 Reasons Why, Élite and Sex Education
Teen series play a central role in the socialization process of young people, since they offer portrayals and models that young people can relate to, identify with or modify and break. Previous studies have shown that teen series continue to perpetuate a stereotyped gender representation and usually reproduce a heteronormative relationship model based on the myth of romantic love following the storyline of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The present stud…
Jóvenes producen contranarrativas en las redes
Adolescentes y jóvenes son de los pocos colectivos o grupos que no tienen acceso a los medios generalistas, generan sus contenidos en los medios a través de las redes sociales y otras plataformas, pero no son redactores, guionistas, de la televisión generalista, tardarán en entrar porque son espacios copados por otros grupos. El discurso que se genera hacia ellas y ellos es a través de la mirada de los adultos, mientras las y los jóvenes hicieron…
What are teens doing with YouTube? Practices, uses and metaphors of the most popular audio-visual platform
This article is part of the outcomes of the Transmedia Literacy research project on teens and transmedia collaborative practices carried out in eight countries between 2015 and 2018. A multi-method approach was used in the study (questionnaires, workshops, media diaries, interviews, observation of online communities) to explore what teens are doing with media. This article presents a map of the uses and practices teens make of YouTube. The metaph…
Riesgos de la brecha digital de género entre los y las adolescentes
The gender digital divide between teens from seven countries in Europe, in Australia, and in countries of South America through a socio-cultural perspective is analyzed. The article compares which habits of use and consumption are attributed and performed by adolescents in multiple media and social media, and explores if these uses are grounded in the historically established gender roles. The data come from the Transmedia literacy research proje…
Learning with YouTube: Beyond formal and informal through new actors, strategies and affordances
This article focuses on the results from interviews and workshops on teens’ YouTube consumption and use as part of the Transmedia Literacy research project on teens and transmedia collaborative practices carried out in eight countries from Europe, South America and Australia. The project had two main objectives: to detect what teens are doing with media and to determine how they learn to do it. During the fieldwork, YouTube was identified as one …
Gamers never play alone: An interface-centred analysis of online video gaming
Online gaming involves a complex and multidimensional set of practices. This article proposes understanding online video gaming based on an interface-centred approach that goes beyond the classic study of the “graphic user interface”. In this theoretical and analytical framework, the interface is considered the place where human, institutional and technological actors relate to each other and different processes are carried out. The article draws…
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
Teenagers as curators: Digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram
In this paper we draw on the findings on teens’ transmedia practices from the research project Transmedia Literacy carried out in eight countries from Europe, Latin America and Australia between 2015 and 2018. An ethnographic approach that combined different research methods, including questionnaires, participatory-creative workshops, interviews, media diaries and online community observation, was used to explore what teens are doing with media. …
Learning about sexualities and gender through media: Transcending formal practices, spaces, actors, and experiences
El arquetipo de la "dead-but-not-gone girl" en las series adolescentes de Netflix: Muertas Y Sin Voz
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la representación del arquetipo de la dead-but-not-gone girl en dos series adolescentes de la plataforma Netflix: 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020) y Élite (2018-). Para ello, como técnica de análisis, realizamos la lectura en profundidad de la primera temporada de cada serie. Los resultados apuntan a la representación de unos personajes femeninos inactivos que acaban siendo el objeto de deseo -y de obsesión- de …
What are teens doing with social media? Mapping everyday practices and uses
Over the past decades, social media has reshaped how individuals, especially younger generations, communicate, express identity, and engage with the world around them. In this context, our research aims to present a detailed map of the practices and uses that young people attribute to social media platforms. Drawing from an ethnographic study with adolescents aged 14–18 from diverse educational centres in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, we id…
From Sexting to Sexpreading: Trivialization of Digital Violence, Gender Differences and Collective Responsibilities
This article starts from a pedagogical disambiguation around sexting elaborated from the socio-educational cooperatives edPAC and CANDELA. This nuanced definition understands sexting as the practice of voluntarily and consensually sharing intimate and sexual content through different platforms and devices. In contrast, sexpreading is understood as the practice of disseminating sexual content without consent. We conducted short-term ethnographic r…
Breaking expectations through personal experiences! Young people reflecting and learning about sexualities and gender through porn: An ethnographic study in Barcelona
Porn studies have a long tradition of researching porn as a cultural artifact in relation to adult audiences. Recently, there has been increasing interest in young people’s uses and perceptions of porn since there is a general concern about its possible harms and dangers. This article aims to shed light on these issues through an ethnographic study carried out in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Our main objective is to understand how teenage…
Understanding the Spanish manosphere through youth: An ethnographic study of young men’s engagement with masculinized online spaces
This article proposes a youth-centred approach to understanding the Spanish manosphere grounded in young men’s perspectives and experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study with teenagers (between 14 and 18 years old) from Barcelona and its metropolitan area, we develop an analytical proposal that identifies three interconnected types of spaces: Open Hard Spaces, where explicitly anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ discourses are more visible; Open S…
Sociology (19 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)