Joana dos Reis Freitas

Joana Freitas is a PhD student in Musicology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon with a FCT PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/139120/2018). She completed her master’s degree with a dissertation titled «The music is the only thing you don’t have to mod’: the musical composition in modification files for videogames» and is an integrated researcher of the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM). She’s a coordinator of the Research Cluster in Music and Cyberculture (CysMus) and member of the Research Clusters of Gender and Music (NEGEM) and Sociology of Music (SociMus), all three integrated in the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC). Her main areas of interest are videogame music, film music, audiovisual media, interactivity, digital culture and cybercommunities, gender and sexuality.