# Daniel Cardoso (@danielscardoso.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/danielscardoso.eurosky.social
Headline: Associate Professor at Lusófona University
Location: Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

## About

I am an emerging researcher in the field of communication sciences, and sociology, and am especially interested in topics around gender, sexuality, feminism, and intimate citizenships, within the framework of foucauldian studies.

## Experience

- **Guest Lecturer at NOVA FCSH** (2021 – present)
- **Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona** (2009 – 2019)
  Teaching or taught Socio-Professional Ethics, History of Journalism, History of Communication Media, Research and Investigation Methods, Sociology of Public Opinion and Political Journalism
- **Researcher at Universidade Lusófona** (2009 – 2015)
- **Collaborator at Centro de Investigação Media e Jornalismo** (2008 – 2009)
- **Trainee Journalist at Jornal Público** (2007 – 2007)
- **Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias** (2021 – present)
- **Marie-Curie Fellow at The Manchester Metropolitan University** (2019 – 2021)
  Working on the project CNM-MOVES, under the supervision of Christian Klesse
- **Visiting Professor at FCSH/NOVA** (2016 – 2019)

## Education

- **Universidade Nova de Lisboa** — PhD (2010 – 2016)

## Skills

- Research
- Teaching
- Gender Studies
- New Media
- Lecturing
- University Teaching
- Sexualities
- Sociology
- Social Media
- Qualitative Research
- Research Design
- Feminist Theory
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Higher Education
- English
- Journalism
- E-Learning
- Portuguese
- Editing
- Science
- SPSS
- Public Speaking
- Social Networking
- Blogging
- Multimedia
- Theory
- Public Relations
- Statistics
- Data Analysis
- Teacher Training
- Science Communication
- Short Films
- Writing
- Microsoft Office
- Digital Media
- Human Rights Activism

## Projects

- **II European Geographies of Sexualities** — http://geosexualities.wordpress.com/
  Local Organizing Committee
- **#ON_Sex**

## Publications

- Explicitness in monogamous and nonmonogamous relationships - a methodological proposal for data collection — 18th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology
- Sexuality as a lived experience – preliminary analysis of the evolution in identification and interest in kink and BDSM throughout the life course — 18th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology
- Explicitness in monogamous and nonmonogamous relationships - a methodological proposal for data collection — 18th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology
- Sexuality as a lived experience – preliminary analysis of the evolution in identification and interest in kink and BDSM throughout the life course — 18th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology
- Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire on Kinky and BDSM Fantasies and Activities in Portuguese Adults — The Journal of Sex Research (https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2025.2518527)
- Why should the state recognize non-conjugal unions? An analysis of the debate around their legal recognition — What is a family? Law and regulation in a transdisciplinary context (https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-is-a-family-law-and-regulation-in-a-transdisciplinary-context)
- As decisões que não tomamos — Líder Magazine (https://lidermagazine.sapo.pt/as-decisoes-que-nao-tomamos/)
- Queer Is In: Non-binary Representation in the Portuguese Fashion — Sustainability in Fashion: Creativity, Education, and Innovation (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80991-0_21)
- Framing Empathy: Examining Audience Responses to Female-On-Male Sexual Violence — Sexuality & Culture (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-025-10332-5)
- “But Some People Still Think That Men Cannot be Raped”: A Qualitative Study on Portuguese Judges’ Perceptions Regarding Rape Perpetrated by Women Against Adult Men — International Journal of Sexual Health (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2025.2509827)
- Cascais, A. F. (2025). Estar além: A persona queer de António Variações. — Centro de Estudos Sociais (https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/16935)
- Beyond Equality—Non-Monogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage — Social Sciences (https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040233)
- Apresentação do dossiê: Desafiar la monogamia: declaración de intenciones — Revista Periódicus (https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaperiodicus/article/view/66030)
- Fluidez Sexual e BDSM: A Importância do Género para Praticantes de BDSM — 4.º Simpósio Doutoral de Psicologia U.NORTE
- encode_excel.py (https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.35695.96166)
- Graphic Novels against Gender-Based Violence in the Lusophone Context: A Mapping — Repositório de Dados da Universidade do Minho
- Graphic Novels against Gender-Based Violence in the Lusophone Context: A Selection — Repositório de Dados da Universidade do Minho
- O que há de queer na não-monogamia, atualmente?
- Diversity in Partner Number Sexuality via Sexual Configurations Theory — Archives of Sexual Behavior (https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/72448771/)
- «#MeToo, és tu?»: Incertezas ativistas ontológicas por entre tensões e re-mobilizações portuguesas contra a violência de género no Twitter — Ativismo, participação e cidadania digital (http://hdl.handle.net/10437/15318)
- Dressing Down the Binary: Fashion and Clothing as Embodied Practices of Non-Binary Genderings — Fashion and Sustainability Conference 2024
- Reframing the role of communication in consensual and/or ethical (non)monogamies: A proposal for a change in academic terminology — Open Research Europe (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17502.1)
- Ciberculturas, Racismo e Imprensa (https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/a2adaa5a-0a6b-401e-957b-b937d9a56ddb)
- Constructing Sexual Victimization: A Thematic Analysis of Reader Responses to A Literary Female-on-Male Rape Story on Goodreads — The Journal of Sex Research (https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2172135)
- EP44 - Amores Líquidos, Diversidade e Era Digital (https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/054d8f08-60c7-443f-91d2-da07b873c8ea)
- “Men can't handle it” — Portuguese youngsters reifying and contesting masculinities through online media (http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003344155-6)
- Prazer sexual? Tensões e desigualdades genderizadas — Saúde sexual e reprodutiva num Portugal Multicultural: Olhares pluridisciplinares (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385378765_Prazer_sexual_Tensoes_e_desigualdades_genderizadas)
- Entre o silêncio das cordas [In the silence of ropes] — Indizível
- Sexual fluidity, BDSM and gender — Sexuality and Culture (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/5e14a74f-26bc-45fd-a3fe-5d1233935e75)
- A Qualitative Study on University Students’ Perceptions Regarding Sexual Violence Perpetrated by Women Against Men — Sexuality Research and Social Policy (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/01f653b3-dbfd-4133-8163-7d2e763cbe1e)
- Diversity in partner number sexuality via Sexual Configurations Theory — International Academy of Sex Research 2023 Conference
- Diversity in partner number sexuality via Sexual Configurations Theory — Queen's Honours Thesis Psychology Research Day
- Navigating Dissonant Desires — The Power of BDSM (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/d2fc42e0-0cfa-4094-be16-fbe56e06a13b)
- Knowing the legal barriers and opportunities in preventing sexual offenses against minors and implementing Prevent It 2.0: Perspectives of the Criminal Police - A preregistration plan — OSF Registries
- Digital sex work? — Identities and Intimacies on Social Media (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/ccc4063d-9a4e-4f0b-bbc6-88680bd2ece4)
- Lay people´s myths regarding pedophilia and child sexual abuse — Sexual Medicine Reviews (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/ae25d2ff-c63c-4afc-9cd0-f1435492ff02)
- Introduction : parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives — Sexualities (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/78089bbe-67f5-41c1-a9c5-9c6d1d31de92)
- Pensar a(s) Família(s) para além da(s) Monogamia(s) [Thinking families beyond monogamies] — Revista Insubmissa (https://www.associacaoplanoi.org/revista-insubmissa/)
- A Criança Cidadã e a Criança-Objecto ou, Da Parentalidade como Omnipotência — Setenta e Quatro (https://setentaequatro.pt/ensaio/crianca-cidada-e-crianca-objeto-ou-da-parentalidade-como-omnipotencia)
- Choking Autoerotic Asphyxiation: For a Reconfiguration of Discourses Around Breath Play — The Journal of Sexual Medicine (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.03.535)
- Consensual Non/Monogamies (CNM) and Sexual Justice — International Journal of Sexual Health (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/1a2e785b-20ef-4e91-8531-2892c9ab1132)
- Lay people''s perceptions, attitudes and beliefs regarding pedophilia and child sexual abuse — International Journal of Sexual Health (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/cf5e35d8-0e98-4a0b-a39c-b12d2fb04182)
- List of Opinion Pieces on Joacine Katar Moreira - 2nd half of 2019 — figshare
- Living outside the box - Consensual Non-Monogamies, Intimacies and Communities. Notes on Research and Terminology — The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy: Affirming Mental Health Practices (https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/630687/)
- Maximizing the Audiences: Portuguese Parties' Facebook Presence in 2019 — General Online Research Conference 2022 (GOR 2022)
- História dos Ativismos Feministas em Portugal (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/e24b6d0d-8180-473e-ae9d-b15ea1fedad3)
- O poder das palavras [The power of words] — Media, masculinidades e equidade de género: O papel da comunicação na transformação social (https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/121272)
- The bodies of the (digitized) body: Experiences of sexual(ised) work on OnlyFans — MedieKultur (https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/122642)
- Interview with Meg-John Barker — Sexualities (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/bd3b728b-548d-445a-bb82-5e25987dbd51)
- Consensual non-monogamies: Policy and Political activist perspectives from Portugal and the UK — Manchester Metropolitan University (https://www.danielscardoso.net/images/docs/short%20report%20political%20cnm-moves_final.pdf)
- Consensual Non-monogamies in the UK press: The Years 2010-2014 — CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (https://www.danielscardoso.net/images/docs/short%20report%20uk1_vfinal.pdf)
- Obscenity, Pornography, Morality: Moral Power as Carnal Resonance — Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/10090)
- Breaking the Silence — Gender and Sexuality in the European Media (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/9c3ee92b-f14f-4abe-a89c-b6c432da3d61)
- Defining polyamory — Archives of Sexual Behavior (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/e98fe4d7-0f58-4880-9270-8870fbe1254e)
- (De)Politicizing Polyamory: Social Media Comments on Media Representations of Consensual Non-Monogamies — Archives of Sexual Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01887-5)
- Breaking the silence: Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal — Gender and Sexuality in the European Media: Exploring Different Contexts Through Conceptualisations of Age
- Diversidade relacional e olhares mediáticos — Revista Communitas (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/d6d5cb40-7617-4d62-8256-0b457e613172)
- The bodies of the (digitised) body — MedieKultur (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/1e0ba228-d44e-4d01-86c4-088b41c84f11)
- The value of print, the value of porn — Porn Studies (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/b772430a-40d6-45c2-92bd-81abdcda8da1)
- Género e experiências digitais. Tensões entre estereótipos e autonomias — Nós na Rede: Ambientes digitais de crianças e jovens
- Pornography as Education — The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
- Women's Lifestyle Magazines — The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
- Ten years of consensual non-monogamies in the media in Portugal - An analysis of news coverage (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/rcass/cnm-moves/Short-Report-PT-en_v7_FINAL.pdf)
- Dez anos de não-monogamias consensuais nos media em Portugal – Uma análise da cobertura jornalística (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/rcass/cnm-moves/Short-Report-PT_v4.pdf)
- On bonding, bondage and emotion — Eat More Bondage
- Facing polyamorous lives — Sexual and Relationship Therapy (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/6f67b416-15a5-4e00-8983-3ef15137a0f1)
- Género e experiências digitais. Tensões entre estereótipos e autonomias [Gender and digital experiences: Tensions between stereotypes and autonomies] — Nós na Rede: Ambientes digitais de crianças e jovens
- Situações problemáticas na internet e modos de lidar com elas [Problematic situations on the internet and ways of dealing with it] — Nós na Rede: Ambientes digitais de crianças e jovens
- The Political is Personal — Sociological Research Online (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/994e3f90-17c4-4611-9e13-02803f889119)
- “Que situações na internet incomodam pessoas da tua idade?” As respostas de crianças e jovens portugueses — V Congresso Literacia, Media e Cidadania - Livro de Atas (http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/cecs_ebooks/article/view/3246)
- A Construção da Identidade dos Novos Partidos em Páginas Oficiais do Facebook [The identity constrcution of new parties in official Facebook pages] — Journal of Digital Media & Interaction (https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi/article/view/3822)
- ‘Loving many’ — Gender and love (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/ebc9a77a-30be-4b2e-875e-1bd5c92de7bb)
- Watchdogs in the Social Network: A Polarized Perception? — Observatorio (OBS*) (http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/1367)
- Notas sobre a Criança transviada: considerações queerfeministas sobre infâncias — Revista Periódicus (https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i9.25755)
- Bodies and BDSM: Redefining Sex Through Kinky Erotics — The Journal of Sexual Medicine (https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(18)30134-6/fulltext)
- Review of the book Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia — Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (http://www.lectitopublishing.nl/Article/Detail/power-knowledge-and-feminist-scholarship-an-ethnography-of-academia)
- Editorial — Graduate Journal of Social Science
- Celos, género y comunidad — (h)amor3: celos y culpas
- Making games, making literacy — Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, ECGBL 2018 (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/1e6e12ef-d6d8-4bd9-bef7-724fa72c114d)
- Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies — Graduate Journal of Social Science
- Paralelismos y divergencias: activismos LGBTI en Portugal y en Brasil — La Primavera Rosa: Indentidad Cultural y Derechos LGBTI en el Mundo
- Amores plurais situados - Para uma meta-narrativa socio-histórica do poliamor — Tempo da Ciência (http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/tempodaciencia/issue/viewIssue/946/10)
- Editorial — International Journal of Film and Media Arts
- Género, sexualidade e ativismo online: Um olhar intersecional para o papel da participação cívica na internet por jovens portugueses — ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres
- Videogames and narratives — INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS
- Amores Plurais Situados - Para uma meta-narrativa sociohistórica do poliamor — Revista Tempo da Ciência
- Editorial — International Journal of Film and Media Arts (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/f8bb7508-d0a1-4220-b728-04829bac607d)
- Gazing upon the (disgusted) gaze: the abnormal regulation of ‘normal’ sexuality — Porn Studies (http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85038246852&partnerID=MN8TOARS)
- ‘I sort of knew what i was, so i wanted to see what awaited me’ — LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/d2cf422c-3d79-48e9-a063-90ff2aa1306f)
- Poliamor numa perspectiva genderizada - Discriminação e preconceitos na voz de mulheres em não-monogamias consensuais — 1st International Congress of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies
- Polyamory as a gendered experience: Portuguese women talk about non-monogamies and discrimination — 6º Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
- Relatório Científico do Projeto #ON_Sex — Associação para o Planeamento da Família (http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/ref.20160087)
- Del amor a la amistad
- Sexual Satisfaction and Distress in Sexual Functioning in a Sample of the BDSM Community: A Comparison Study Between BDSM and Non-BDSM Contexts — Journal of Sexual Medicine (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12835/abstract;jsessionid=09E0B75321779961396A19C128A3D555.f03t03)
- Review: Grebowicz, Margret. Why internet porn matters. — Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (http://www.participations.org/Volume%2011/Issue%202/16.pdf)
- My Spivak is bigger than yours: (Mis-)representations of polyamory in the Portuguese LGBT movement and mononormative rhetorics — LES Online (http://lespt.org/lesonline/index.php?journal=lo&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=82)
- Portuguese youngsters, new media and sexuality – information, activism and pleasure-seeking experiences (https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/2fd9c3b5-a845-4488-b098-6e9c97cd638a)
- The voyeuristic fascination of sexual alterity: BDSM and kink representations in Portuguese journalism (https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/eb2042f4-0436-43c4-b0a6-964a8de71910)
- Em casa e no quarto: modelos de uso da internet por crianças e jovens (9-16 anos) — Nascidos Digitais: Novas Linguagens, Lazer e Dependências
- Debating Polyamory as Research: an Auto-Ethnographic Account of a Round-Table on Polyamory and Lesbianism — Les Online
- Crianças e Internet em Portugal: ACESSOS, USOS, RISCOS, MEDIAÇÕES - resultados do inquérito europeu EU Kids Online — Minerva Coimbra
- A cultura do quarto e o uso excessivo da internet. Resultados Nacionais do inquérito EU Kids Online — Crianças e Internet em Portugal. Acessos, Usos, Riscos, Mediações: Resultados do Inquérito Europeu EU Kids Online
- Ficção Científica (Social): as ténues fronteiras entre real e ficção — Cibercultura e Ficção
- Reflex(ã)o nas sombras — Revista (in)visível (http://revistainvisivel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/artigo-daniel-cardoso-invisivel-um.pdf)
- ‘Loving Many’: Polyamorous Love, Gender and Identity — Gender and Love: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Polyamory, or The Harshness of Spawning a Substantive Meme — Interact (http://interact.com.pt/17/poliamor/)
- Argumentação numa esfera pública reticular: as vozes femininas online — Comunicação & Informação (http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/ci/article/view/22444)
- Experiências de poliamor no espaço público: auto e hetero escrita etnográfica
- Polyamory — Culture, Health and Sexuality (https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/7e1f4fb7-93df-4222-b45b-883d9cdad71a)
- Polyamory: Gender and Non-Monogamy on the Internet — Culture, Health & Sexuality (https://publons.com/publon/33429790/)
- As desigualdades do amor — Comunicação & Cultura (https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/comunicacaoecultura/article/view/535)
- Amando vári@s - Individualização, redes, ética e poliamor
- Acessos e Usos: estudo de caso sobre a mediação das tecnologias em contexto escolar — Actas do Congreso SOPCOM / Ibérico (http://conferencias.ulusofona.pt/index.php/sopcom_iberico/sopcom_iberico09/paper/view/236/208)
- Guia do/a Formador/a de “Sessão de Sensibilização em Segurança Online de Crianças”
- Polyamory as a possibility of feminine empowerment — Proceedings of the 9th Conference of European Sociological Association
- Media e Direitos das Crianças
- Notícias desalinhadas de crianças em linha. Como a imprensa configura riscos e oportunidades da Internet — Comunicação e Sociedade
- “Os baldas tomam as ruas”: Jovens, política e cidadania no Reino Unido
- Será possível uma voz global? Crianças migrantes, novos media e limites do empowering
- Referências ao conflito israelo-palestiniano em imprensa Portuguesa 7Out-7Nov 2023

## Volunteering

- Activist at PolyPortugal

## Honors and awards

- Vencedor de "Para ter saúde sexual, imagine-se e retrate-se com direitos sexuais"

## Languages

- Portuguese (native)
- English (native)
- French (limited_working)

## Other profiles

- orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7864-7531