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Email:: V.M.Cardo@soton.ac.uk

Dr Valentina Cardo BSc (Hons, Politics), MA (Politics), PhD (Politics)

Associate Professor of Politics and Identity, Director of Internationalisation

Dr Valentina Cardo is Associate Professor of Politics and Identity and co-Director of Intersectionality: Politics - Identities - Cultures (iPIC) Research Group.

Valentina’s teaching and research expertise are located within the broader field of political communication, journalism and gender politics. She has published her research on topics such as celebrity politics, e-government, gender and politics and popular culture and citizenship.

She has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate courses on online media and democracy; gender, politics and media; Journalism. She has also supervised a number of PhD students in these research areas.

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Research interests

Valentina’s research and teaching branch across three interconnected strands: questions of power, identity and difference; the changing relationship between the media and modes of political and civic agency; and the impact of digital technologies on traditional communication strategies.

She is co-investigator (with Dr Tom Irvine, MUS) for the Turing Institute Pilot Project Jazz As Social Machine

Valentina teaches and supervises several PhD students in the areas of online media and democracy; gender, politics and media; journalism; art, politics and feminism, music and political activism.

Research group

iPIC

Research project(s)

Jazz as Social Machine

The project takes the idea of the "social machine" as its point of departure. Jazz is made on the basis of "operations" (interactive improvisation) performed on "data" (song structures, rhythmic conventions etc). The project argues that jazz as a global practice is a "social machine" (e.g. Wikipedia). It aggregates the "energy" of networked participants - their data - and converts this via interaction into meaning.

Director of Internationalisation
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Co-Lead
Athena Swan Co-Chair

PhD Supervision

Valentina’s current PhD students are:

Uri Agnon (with Music): music and protest
Ozlem Demirkol: Political Conversation on Turkish Twitter
Dingkai (Elio) Hao: Fashion Film and Identity
Caroline Lo: Feminist Textile Art
Cat Morgan (with Politics and WSI): Feminist Twitter
Michele Zadra (with Politics and WSI): Online Political Deliberation and EU Citizens

In the past, Valentina has supervised PhDs in citizen journalism and the Arab Spring; online construction of Indonesian ethnic identity; digital activism in India; gender, sexuality and online celebrity politics in China and Hong Kong, online media and pluralism in Pakistan, political marketing.

Valentina is keen to supervise students in all areas of political communication, art and politics, journalism, gender politics, activism, politics and the mass media (including popular culture).

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Articles

Chughtai, H., Myers, M., Young, A. G., Borsa, T., Cardo, V., Demirkol, O., Morgan, C., Morton, S., Prior, C., Wilkin, J., Young, E., & Özkula, S. M. (2020). Demarginalizing interdisciplinarity in IS research: interdisciplinary research in marginalization. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 46(1), 296–315. [13]. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04613
Cardo, V. (2020). Gender politics online? Political women and social media at election time in the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand. European Journal of Communication, 36(1), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120968962
Curtis, N., & Cardo, V. (2018). Superheroes and third-wave feminism. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1351387
Cardo, V. (2018). Technology, popular culture and everyday life: the electoral defeat of New Zealand Internet MANA. Information Polity, 23(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-170038
Cardo, V. (2014). Celebrity politics and political representation: The case of George Galloway MP on Celebrity Big Brother. British Politics, 9(2), 146-160. https://doi.org/10.1057/bp.2013.22
Cardo, V. (2011). The Amazing Mrs Politician: television entertainment and women in politics. Parliamentary Affairs, 64(2), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq056
Salter, B., Cooper, M., Dickins, A., & Cardo, V. (2007). Stem cell science in India: emerging economies and the politics of globalization. Regenerative Medicine, 2(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.2217/17460751.2.1.75

Book Chapters

Cardo, V. (Accepted/In press). (In)Equality, Expertise and the Covid Crisis: An Intersectional Analysis. In Beyond the Virus: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities raised by COVID-19
Cardo, V., Ross, K., Bachmann, I., Moorti, S., & Scarcelli, C. M. (2020). Editors' Introduction. In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication (pp. i - vi). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128
Cardo, V. (2020). Gender, technology and political communication. In K. Ross, I. Bachmann, V. Cardo, S. Moorti, & M. Scarcelli (Eds.), The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128
Cardo, V., Ross, K., Bachmann, I., Moorti, S., & Scarcelli, M. (2020). The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication - Introduction. In K. Ross, I. Bachmann, V. Cardo, S. Moorti, & C. M. Scarcelli (Eds.), The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128
Cardo, V. (2011). ‘Voting is easy, just press the red button’: communicating politics in the age of Big Brother. In K. Brants, & K. Voltmer (Eds.), Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy (pp. 231-247). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294783_14
Cardo, V., & Street, J. (2007). Vote for me: playing at politics. In K. Riegert (Ed.), Politicotainment: Television’s Take on the Real (pp. 109-128). Peter Lang Publishing.

Conferences

Cardo, V., Roth, S., & Ryan, M. (2021). Introduction to WebSci’21 Workshop ‘Democratic Futures and the Web’. In WebSci '21: WebSci '21 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 Virtual Event United Kingdom June 21 - 25, 2021 (pp. 130-131). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). https://doi.org/10.1145/3462741.3466724
Cardo, V. (2014). Outside the heat of the New Zealand 2014 General Election: an academic perspective. Paper presented at New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Cardo, V. (2014). Plenary: teaching feminism, teaching as a feminist: a conversation. Paper presented at New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Cardo, V. (2014). Where Are The Women? Reproductive Politics and Digital Media in the 2012 US Presidential Election. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference, United Kingdom.
Cardo, V. (2013). Twittering Women or Tweeting Candidates: the Case if the US Presidential Election. Paper presented at International Communication Association Annual Conference, United Kingdom.

Report

Rowland-Campbell, A., Vitale, M., Cardo, V., & Thompson, P. (2014). Government as a social machine: the implications of government as a “social machine” for making and implementing market-based policy - Report 2: the Machines. Australian Policy Online. https://doi.org/10.4225/50/558216E570B17

Since 2006, Valentina has taught at the University of East Anglia and the University of Auckland (NZ) on a variety of modules, including Online Media and Democracy, Journalism, Politics and Popular Culture, Gender, Politics and Media.

She joined WSA in June 2016 and is the module coordinator for Design 1.

Dr Valentina Cardo
Room number 1035

Room Number : 63F/1035

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