Daniel Cardoso
danielscardoso.bsky.social
Daniel Cardoso
@danielscardoso.bsky.social
they/them
Associate Professor @ Lusófona University
www.danielscardoso.net
Ines Amaral, Sara De Vuyst and myself welcome your contributions to the Special Issue, "Contemporary Digitalized #Gender Politics: #Sociological Thinking on Gender and #Sexualities in #communication"! ❤️ #CFP

Due Sept 2026 — rolling publication

Please spread the call!
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
An amazing new paper by Sari van Anders which explains so much in such a simple way. I am definitely going to be using this with students, moving forward! #gendersky
link.springer.com/10.1007/s105...
Men and Women: Gender Ideology and the Gender Binary - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior -
link.springer.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Survey data shows people think the homo economicus model of calculated selfishness describes men more than women. But what does people's actual behavior reveal? Data suggests men are more like homo economicus--but only in Western cultures. #PsySky #GenderSky
September 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Between Faith and Identity: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Terreiros in Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth This study analyzes how LGBTQ+ youth find support in Afro-Brazilian terreiros, exploring
their experiences, particularly regarding belonging, social support, and identity development.
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#sociology link
September 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Forthcoming new edited collection

Fandom in Marginalized Communities
Rethinking Media Effects and Fans

Edited By Leah Dajches, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/Fandom-in-Ma...
Fandom in Marginalized Communities: Rethinking Media Effects and Fans
An innovative edited collection which examines fandom in marginalized communities from an empirically based, media psychology perspective. This book specifically focuses on fandom communities and cult...
www.routledge.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Gothic Pride: Examining the Effects of American Gothic Television (e.g. #wednesday) on Sexual Minority Youth’s Sexual Identity Affirmation and Psychological well-Being by Leah Dajches & Juliana L. Barbati
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
two girls in school uniforms are standing next to each other with the words good netflix on the bottom
ALT: two girls in school uniforms are standing next to each other with the words good netflix on the bottom
media.tenor.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This would've been SO MUCH easier if y'all had listened to sex workers 7 years ago, and 15 years ago, and 30 years ago, and 40 years ago, and...
Glad to see the pushback on payment processors regarding games. But remember, the fight is far from over. There is still an effort to criminalize porn, and hopefully we all know by now that porn can mean anything from OF to books to games to magazine covers.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/13/p...
Republican bill would ban all porn in the US
Republicans have reintroduced a bill which aims to ban porn in its entirety across the US, causing immense concern among adult creators.
www.thepinknews.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Yes, most people start jobs for financial reasons.

It's sad that we need this research but good work as always to SWAI
August 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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This is a feature, not a bug. Adults don't want to scan their face or upload an ID every time they go to access sex-related content.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
Data suggests leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in two weeks.
www.bbc.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"The games purge also serves as yet another example of the way payment processors have become weaponized by both governments and activists, since they can serve as a means of suppressing speech without having to resort to more unconstitutional or objectionable methods."
The anti-porn crusade comes for online games
Activists pressure payment processors, who in turn pressure game marketplaces. Now many video games and visual novels are disappearing.
reason.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Unaffected Polarisation? Populism and Affective Polarization in comparative perspective With both affective polarization and populism on the rise in several countries, many have proposed a link between the two phenomena. Yet, research offers little direct evidence on whether popu
#sociology link
August 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
August 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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'This policy doesn’t just breed contempt for specific laws—it undermines the concept of legitimate governance. When laws are this disconnected from technological & social reality, it signals the people making them don’t understand what they’re regulating or don’t care whether their policies work.'
"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
@mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube
Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
www.techdirt.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Daniel Cardoso fala-nos da polémica em torno da disciplina de #Cidadania e Desenvolvimento, questionando a sua eficácia prática e o valor simbólico que lhe é atribuído por diferentes setores políticos.
gerador.eu/cidadania-co...
Cidadania como linha na areia
Nas Gargantas Soltas de hoje, Daniel Cardoso fala-nos da polémica em torno da disciplina de
gerador.eu
August 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Wanted to share that I proposed starting a queer affinity group in the IEEE Info Theory Society! big thanks to Anand + Lalitha for their amazing support in making it possible.

Just a first step, but hoping it grows into something meaningful for LGBTQ+ folks + allies in info theory!
If you are or know an information theorist who would be interested in joining a Queer in IT group (QuIT is a bad acronym, looking for suggestions), please fill out (or send to the person you know) a link to our survey!
Help Shape a Queer Affinity Group within the Information Theory Society | IEEE Information Theory Society
www.itsoc.org
May 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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It's funny to see conservatives actually recognize that "gender identity" is a thing when they need it to be.

Every legal push to restrict "gender identity" just ends up reaffirming how arbitrary and subjective "gender" is. Men can't wear dresses!

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May 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Please share and sign

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May 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academia
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Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academia
In early March, I warned of authoritarian like attacks on science and universities. Six weeks later and the Trump administration has gone even further than feared.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Então, “não são prioritárias”? Ora bem, por vezes, prevê-se risco de chuva e vem um dia solarengo, mas recebemos mensagens SMS. São previsões e ainda bem que sabemos delas. Se “não são prioritárias” no caso de um “apagão” nacional, quando o são? Quais são, então, as ‘prioridades’ da Proteção Civil?
Proteção Civil. "As mensagens de aviso não são prioritárias" - Renascença
Presidente da Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil adianta que, 48 horas depois, ainda não se sabe a origem do "apagão" de segunda-feira.
rr.pt
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.

my latest for @thenation.com
The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
www.thenation.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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My new open-access article in International Political Sociology is about “visual politics”, a growing subfield of International Relations. It considers how visual politics is structured to ignore race and racism and why it shouldn’t. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
The Racial Visual Imaginary of International Relations
Abstract. Visual politics is a thriving subfield of international relations (IR) that traces its origin to the “visual turn” at the turn of the century. Ho
academic.oup.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Existem, em #Portugal, várias análises ao fenómeno #MeToo - maioritariamente dedicadas a explorar as representações do movimento.
Pela primeira vez publicado um trabalho exaustivo sobre o USO desta hashtag em Portugal. Ao abrigo das atividades do FEMglocal! #gendersky
hdl.handle.net/10437/15318
«#MeToo, és tu?» : incertezas ativistas ontológicas por entre tensões e re-mobilizações portuguesas contra a violência de género no Twitter
The #MeToo movement started on Twitter in 2006, aiming to give visibility to shared narratives of victims of gender-based violence, highlighting its systemic nature. In this sense, technical accessibility to the networked communication platform was an advantage for the dissemination of stories related to the sphere of intimacy, and made it possible to mobilize a specific audience with the ability to occupy technological, social, and discursive space in a highly contested area. This chapter is based on the collection of tweets made until the end of 2022 (inclusive) that contain the hashtag #MeToo, or #EuTambém (Portuguese for "MeToo"), and the word "Portugal" or that were published in Portugal. The aim is to conduct the first complete analysis of the history of this hashtag in Portugal, and to understand how the 'Portuguese-ness' of the use of #MeToo manifests itself. Based on the analysis of the content of the tweets and the network of social actors and reach (through replies, reactions, and shares), we show that: 1) the ontological status of a Portuguese #MeToo, or its mere possibility, is in constant contestation and reaffirmation; 2) corporate media still have a predominant role in pre-defining discursive frameworks on Twitter, creating responsive rather than proactive mobilizations; 3) the discursive performance associated with #MeToo is sometimes accompanied by a non-use of the hashtag, denoting a rejection but not a refusal to participate in the debate.
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April 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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highly recommended article on "Intersectional power struggles in feminist movements" - theoretically as well as empirically very insightful and I learnt a lot from reading the article, written by @marinampuig.bsky.social 👍
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#GenderSky
Intersectional power struggles in feminist movements: An analysis of resistance and counter‐resistance to intersectionality
This article develops an analytical framework to study the power struggles between majoritized women and minoritized women within feminist movements in relation to the adoption of intersectional prac...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

Katy Brown & Antonia Vaughan discuss the ethics behind researching the far-right

"Talking ‘about’ the far right as researchers: between responsibility, safety and neoliberal success"

Available now on 👀 EARLY VIEW
📖➡️ doi.org/10.1332/2515...

PoliSky GenderSky
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Existem, em #Portugal, várias análises ao fenómeno #MeToo - mas maioritariamente dedicadas a explorar as representações do movimento.
Pela primeira vez surge publicado um trabalho exaustivo sobre o USO desta hashtag em Portugal. Ao abrigo das atividades do FEMglocal! 🥰
(PDF) «#MeToo, és tu?» Incertezas ativistas ontológicas por entre tensões e re-mobilizações portuguesas contra a violência de género no Twitter
PDF | Este capítulo, enquadrado no projeto de investigação FEMglocal, começa por explorar o conceito de ativismo e as transformações que o uso de... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
April 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM