Lorena Rubia Pereira Caminhas

I am an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University and hold a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. Prior to my current position, I held a FAPESP Postdoctoral Research Grant (2020/02268-4) and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthroposophy at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and as a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). 

My research interests lie in Media and Gender Studies, particularly in digital media and platforms, labour, platform governance and intersectionalities (gender, race, class, nationality). Over the past nine years, I have investigated the development of digital sex markets in Brazil and the emergence of local sex platforms, focusing on issues of labor, regulation, diversity and inequalities.

Beyond that, I have extensive experience in television and film studies and have conducted research on the representation of gender roles and gender-based violence in Brazilian telenovelas.

I welcome inquiries from individuals interested in researching digital media and the television and film industries, particularly through an intersectional lens, with a focus on inequalities and from a Global South perspective.