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Sofia P. Caldeira has presented a poster summarising the insights of the EPH-FEM-PI project during the MCAA 2025 conference, which took place in Kraków, Poland, on 21 and 22 March 2025.

Social media has steadily become a key tool for contemporary feminist and political action. Yet, its use carries not only potential but also risks and tensions that call for a critical and reflexive approach.

Drawing on the years of research of the Ephemeral Feminisms project, a short toolkit was put together with critical insights that aim to highlight relevant issues and prompt reflection.

On 23 January 2025, Sofia P. Caldeira gave a keynote communication entitled "The Age of Self-Representation?" at the event "Digital Horizons: AI, Media and Society." This event was held online and was organised by the students of the Doctoral Programme in Digital Media UP|NOVA|IST.

On 20 November 2024, Sofia P. Caldeira gave a keynote communication entitled "Ephemeral Feminisms? Challenges and Opportunities in Research of Feminist Practices on Instagram Stories" at the methods workshop "How to deal with ephemerality? Opportunities and challenges in analysis of ephemeral (audio-)visual content." This hybrid workshop - held at the ZeMKI of the University of Bremen, Germany, and online - was organised as a pre-conference of the international conference by the DGPuK (German Communication Association) Visual Communication Section and was co-sponsored by the Visual Communication Studies Division of the ICA.

The article “How Can You Be a Feminist if You’re Always Online?” Online Activisms, Ambivalence, and Dis/Connection, co-authored by Ana Jorge and Ana Kubrusly (NOVA University of Lisbon), has been published in the journal Television & New Media.

The article ‘Walking on eggshells’: Exploring tensions and ambivalences in platformised feminist practices on Instagram authored by Sofia P. Caldeira, has been published in the journal Platforms & Society.