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

Lecturer in Global Media Management, Associate Director of Doctoral Research

Dr Valentina Cardo is Lecturer in Global Media Management and Associate Director of Doctoral Research at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

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 group

Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research group

Associate Director of Doctoral Research

PhD Supervision

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, journalism, gender politics, activism, politics and the mass media (including popular culture).

Currently supervising: Naciye, Ozlem Demirkol: Micro-celebrity Agency in Collective Sense Making Processes in the Networked Political Discourse on Twitter

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Articles

Curtis, N., & Cardo, V. (2018). Superheroes and third-wave feminism. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3), 381-396. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.3233/IP-170038
Curtis, N., & Cardo, V. (Accepted/In press). Superhero comics and third wave feminism. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3).
Cardo, V. (2014). Political representation and popular culture: when Big Brother met George Galloway, MP. British Politics, 9(2), 146-160. DOI: 10.1057/bp.2013.22
Cardo, V. (2011). The Amazing Mrs Politician: television entertainment and women in politics. Parliamentary Affairs, 64(2), 311-325. DOI: 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. DOI: 10.2217/17460751.2.1.75

Book Chapters

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. DOI: 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). Oxford, GB: Peter Lang Publishing.

Conferences

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. DOI: 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
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Room Number: 63F/1035

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