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• workRoom C30 Trent
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Fernanda.Amaral@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Fernanda Amaral is an Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies. She holds a PhD in Media Discourse from De Montfort University, an MBA in Strategic Communication and a BSc (Hons) in Journalism. Her research has focused on the dynamics between misrepresentation, violence and voice poverty, analysing the struggles to produce counter-narratives supported by digital tools to challenge the status quo.

Expertise Summary

Fernanda's research is interdisciplinary and has focused on the transformations heralded by the introduction of modern communication technology on struggles for voice, justice, and memory in Latin America. Her main reflections gravitate around counter-narratives of police-citizen encounters that challenge the mainstream representation of those events, with a particular emphasis on racialised regimes of representation and remembrance, and activist memory.

Recent Publications

• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2022. Memory Studies.
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2021. Voices from the favelas: media activism and counter-narratives from below Rowman & Littlefield.
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2021. The militarisation of the security forces and the targeting of the poor: an analysis of the rise in police brutality in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic.. In: PRICE, STUART and HARBISHER, BEN, eds., Power, Media, and the Covid 19 Pandemic: framing public discourse. Routledge. 123-135
• HANSKA, MAX, BAHIYA, AHMED, AMARAL, FERNANDA and SUI, YU, 2020. Communications -The European Journal of Communication Research.

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• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2022. Memory Studies.
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2021. Voices from the favelas: media activism and counter-narratives from below Rowman & Littlefield.
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2021. The militarisation of the security forces and the targeting of the poor: an analysis of the rise in police brutality in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic.. In: PRICE, STUART and HARBISHER, BEN, eds., Power, Media, and the Covid 19 Pandemic: framing public discourse. Routledge. 123-135
• HANSKA, MAX, BAHIYA, AHMED, AMARAL, FERNANDA and SUI, YU, 2020. Communications -The European Journal of Communication Research.
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2019. They have something to say: a study of social media use and public discourse in the Rio de Janeiro favelas
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2019. Luta e voz nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro: representatividade, estereo虂tipo, identidade e democracia a虁s margens da cidade CSOnline 鈥� Revista Eletro虃nica de Cie虃ncias Sociais. 78-95
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2019. Contos a虁 margem: letramentos de sobrevive虃ncia e midiativismo nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro Revista Mi虂dia e Cotidiano. 13, 121-140
• AMARAL, FERNANDA, 2019. Violence and impunity in Rio de Janeiro鈥檚 favelas: citizens, smartphones and police malpractice. In: PRICE, STUART, ed., Journalism, Power and Investigation - Global and Activist Perspectives Routledge. 160-174
• HANSKA, MAX, BAHIYA, AHMED, AMARAL, FERNANDA and SUI, YU, 2019. The public sphere: From theory to its diverse manifestations. In: CHIUMBU, S and IQANI, M, eds., Media Studies: Decolonizing concepts Oxford University Press. 80-95