Yasmine Feital Cal�ado Barbosa

Overview

Yasmine is a PhD researcher at the Department of Journalism funded by the School of Communication & Creativity. She holds a Master in Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG/Brazil) and a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP/Brazil). During her masters, she investigated gender performativities and audiovisual culture, and acted as a researcher in the research group on media, gender and activism. As an undergraduate, she developed a monograph on online hate speech in articles on the Brazilian news portal G1, and the research was awarded the Adelmo Genro Filho prize in 2021, from the Brazilian Association of Journalism Researchers (SBPJor). Yasmine also acted as an undergraduate research assistant funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Yasmine researches, above all, themes related to feminist and gender studies, media, misogyny on the internet, hate speech, audiovisual culture, childhoods and narratives.

As a journalist, she worked at the Nuclear Technology Development Center (CNEN/CDTN), reporting on health, the environment and science and technology. At CDTN, Yasmine also worked as a press and public relations advisor, building and implementing the institution's organizational communication plan and maintaining the relationship between CDTN, journalistic outlets and stakeholders. She has experience with social media production, production and editing of radio journalism and television journalism at Mariana City Hall and at Agência Primaz de Comunicação. As a journalist in these vehicles, she reported on topics such as politics, sports, cities, health and the environment.

Qualifications

• Teaching, learning and assessment, City St George's, University of London, January - May 2025
• Master's degree, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2021 - May 2023
• BA, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2016 - October 2020

Employment

• Research assistant, City St George's, University of London, United Kingdom, July 2025 - present
• Research assistant, City St George's, University of London, United Kingdom, July 2025 - present
• Graduate teaching assistant, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2024 - January 2025
• Visiting lecturer, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil, June 2022
• Visiting lecturer, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, June - December 2022
• Graduate teaching assistant, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, March - December 2022
• Student representative, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, August 2021 - August 2022
• Journalist, Prefeitura Municipal de Mariana, Brazil, September 2019 - November 2020
• Journalist, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Brazil, August 2019 - July 2023
• Journalist, Primaz - Agência de Comunicação, Brazil, February - December 2019

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), Portuguese (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Spanish - Latin American (can read, understand spoken)

Title of thesis: Framing the gatekeeping process from a gender perspective: When the manosphere intersects with journalism

October 2023

Summary of research

In this research, Yasmine is interested in investigating if contemporary journalistic narratives and dynamics help to legitimise masculinist hate speech on social media. In order to do that, she intends to analyse one of the most media-reported trials with Hollywood actors: the one that involved Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Research students

1^stsupervisor

• Dr Lindsey Blumell, Reader

2^ndsupervisor

• Dr Glenda Cooper, Reader

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