Rita Sepúlveda is a post-doctoral researcher at ICNOVA – Instituto de Comunicação da Nova. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE). Rita researches collective expressions and their dynamics in digital environments. Her work has focused on the transformation of intimacy in the context of the appropriation of digital platforms. Since 2019, she teaches, in several courses, curricular units in the area of communication, with a particular focus on methodologies and online social networks.

Ana Marta M. Flores holds a PhD in journalism and is a researcher at ICNOVA/iNOVA Media Lab and Obi.Media, affiliated with NOVA University Lisbon. She is also a research collaborator at the Trends and Culture Management Lab, part of the University of Lisbon’s CEAUL. Presently, Ana Marta is engaged as a postdoctoral researcher in the MyGender project at the University of Coimbra, while also assuming the role of communication officer for the Digital Culture and Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).