Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres

Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, Inês is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She has developed research on sociability in digital social networks, participation, and social media; gender and media; feminist media studies; masculinities; media and digital literacy; technologies and active aging; audiences; and disinformation.Rita Basílio de Simões is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. PhD in Communication Sciences, her research interests focus on media and gender, digital sociability, hate speech and violence, critical internet studies, and media regulation.Sofia José Santos is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. PhD in International Relations, Sofia studies the politics of media representations and media production from a critical and feminist perspective, focusing on international relations; peace, violence, and security studies; masculinities; and technopolitics.

• Chapter 1: Masculinities and the digital realm across Europe: exploring heterogeneity, diversity, and non-linearityChapter 2: Contemporary masculinities in Portuguese media: ruptures and permanence in Gillette’s advertisingChapter 3: (De)constructing masculinities in newsmagazines in the #MeToo eraChapter 4: Construction of teenage masculinity in Spain through digital media consumption: video games, male YouTubers, sexist attitudes, and online communitiesChapter 5: Italian young people and masculinities in the social mediaChapter 6: “Men can’t handle it”: Portuguese youngsters reifying and contesting masculinities through online mediaChapter 7: Sport, Instagram, and Masculinities: Hybrid and hegemonic traits amongst hockey-playing men in SwedenChapter 8: To conquer and protect: Unpacking the Russian instrumentalization of gendered rhetoric in digital RT amidst the Russian-Ukraine warChapter 9: Whose rage is legible? Mediated misogyny and feminist politics of emotionChapter 10: New horizons for researching masculinities in the new media age