Recent publications
2025 Kubrusly, A. Recursos Práticos para o Bem-Estar Digital Juvenil: Temas e Estratégias. Medi@ções, 13(1), 35–49. https://doi.org/10.60546/mo.v13i1.433
2025 Caldeira, S. P., Jorge, A., & Kubrusly, A. “How Can You Be a Feminist if You’re Always Online?” Online Activisms, Ambivalence, and Dis/Connection. Television & New Media, 26(4), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241281693
2024 Marôpo, L., Torres, J., Grácio, J., Senos, S. Loureiro, M. J., Kubrusly, A. As culturas digitais infantojuvenis ocupam a escola: a visão dos professores. Estudo em Comunicação, 39(2), 60-77. http://doi.org/10.25768/1646-4974n39v2a04
2024 Kubrusly, A., Marôpo, L., & Batista, S. Big data literacy for youth: an intervention agenda. Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 60, 114–137. https://doi.org/10.34619/jvda-wgve
Current research projects
2025 Kids, KidTech and the Metaverse: Global childhoods in digital capitalism project
PIs: Dr. Natalie Coulter (York University) and Dr. Rebekah Willett (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Questioning KidTech explores the shift where much of children’s daily lives have moved into online spaces; and in this shifting reality, we ask what it means to be a child in these spaces. We need to understand what these digital spaces are, how they are experienced, and how they are shaping children’s social, cultural and economic lives. https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/
2024-2025 Digital Well-being: a participatory action-research project
PI: Dr. Lídia Marôpo
This pedagogical innovation project aims to explore the theme of digital well-being through a participatory action-research involving undergraduate students in Social Communication at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. In this context, undergraduate students will undertake the role of researchers and educators, by creating an educative workshop about this theme for high school students.
Upcoming conferences and other events
October 2025 Caldeira, S. P. & Kubrusly, A. Navigating ambient toxicity in platformised feminist practices. AoIR Conference, Niterói, Brazil
October 2025 Doctoral Colloquium: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.
August 2025 Kubrusly, A. From datafication to digital well-being: a missing link in educational resources. Emerging Research on Datafied Living Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
August 2025 Kubrusly, A., Caldeira, S. P., & Lamartine, C. Dis/connected feminism: exploring the International Women’s Day march in Portugal. Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Online.
August 2025 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School. Södertörn University, Flemingsberg, Sweden.
July 2025 Batista, S., Urbano, C., Kubrusly, A., Pappámikail, L. & Marôpo, L. O digital na escola do futuro: narrativas utópicas e distópicas de professores em formação. Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Azores, Portugal.
July 2025 Kubrusly, A., Marôpo, L., & Batista, S. O que é o bem-estar digital? Perspetivas de alunos do ensino secundário. Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Azores, Portugal.
April 2025 Kubrusly, A. Digital well-being according to adolescents: ‘think aloud’ tours and youth juries. Youth Perspectives on Digital Media Methods Workshop. Online.
March 2025 Jorge, A., Caldeira, S. P., & Kubrusly, A. Ambiências de social media. I Colóquio de Estudos Atmosféricos, Niterói, Brasil.
March 2025 Kubrusly, A. Digital Well-being and Youth: The development of a holistic conceptual framework. Interrogating the Lifeworld: Critical Futures and Ways of Being, Toronto, Canada.
