Carolina Matos

Visiting Associate Professor, Spring and Summer 2023

Office

WCB 1020-C

Phone

Email

cxm2563@miami.edu

Dr Carolina Matos was a visiting associate professor (Spring and Summer 2023) in Global Communications at the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the School of Communication, University of Miami and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Media at the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at the School of Communications and Creativity, City, University of London, UK. She is also the Programme Director of the MAs in Media and Communications and International Communications and Development (ICD) and until August 2022 was based in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London.

Matos has nearly 30 years of professional experience, in academia and journalism, having been a former full-time journalist for over 10 years before becoming an academic. She has been teaching and researching for over 20 years in universities throughout the UK and has also been a visiting researcher abroad, from Brazil to Finland and the US. Matos has taught at the LSE, Goldsmiths College, UEL and the University of Essex. In 2022, Matos was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP UERJ) in Rio, Brazil.

Matos is an expert in the field of gender, media and development and researches the role of media in processes of social change. Matos obtained her PhD in Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London with a thesis on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Brazil in the post-dictatorship context. A former journalist, Matos has also worked in Brazil for several media companies, including Reuters, Folha, Globo.com and Unesco. She has authored three books: Journalism and democratic politics in Brazil (Publifolha/Lexington Books, 2008), Media and politics in Latin America (IB Tauris/Civilização Brasileira, 2012, winner of the Premio Jabuti prize first category Communications) and Globalization, gender politics and the media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and several articles in journals and books.

Her research is on media, gender and development, the role of communications for social change, digital media and new technologies, democracy and the public sphere as well as health communications and sexual and reproductive health and rights. In 2018, Matos was successful in obtaining funding for the research project, Gender, health communications and online activism in the digital age, through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) (2019-2022), which will be published in June 2023 by McGill Queen’s University Press under the title Gender, communications and reproductive health in international development.

Matos is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and is currently co-chair of the Gender and Communications section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

Office:
Center for Communication, Culture and Change
Room: 1020-C

Selected publications

MATOS, C. NGO’s and advocacy communications on sexual and reproductive health and rights: from the North to the South, in Feminist Media Studies. 2020

MATOS, C. Feminist media studies across borders: re-visiting studies within the Brazilian national context, in Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 20, issue 2; 2019

MATOS, C.  New Brazilian feminism and online networks: cyberfeminism, protest and the female “Arab Spring”, in International Sociology, vol. 32, number 3, p. 417-434; 2017

MATOS, C. Media democratization in Brazil: achievements and future challenges, in Critical Sociology, p. 863-876; 2012

MATOS, Carolina Comparing Media Systems: the role of the public media in the digital age, in The Global Studies Journal, Common Ground Publishing, vol. 2, issue 3, p. 203-220; 2009

Books

MATOS, C (2023) Gender, communications and reproductive health in development, McGill Queen’s University Press, forthcoming

MATOS, C. Globalization, gender politics and the media (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books; 2016)

MATOS, C. Media and politics in Latin America: globalization, democracy and identity (London: I.B Tauris; 2012)

MATOS, C. Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil, (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books; 2008)