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.

‘“Audio modding for immersion in The Elder Scrolls”: Co-Criação, partilha e interacções na cibercomunidade do site Nexus Mods’. In Log in, Live on: Música e Cibercultura Na Era Da Internet Das Coisas, edited by Paula Gomes Ribeiro, Joana Freitas, Júlia Durand, and André Malhado, 210–41. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Edições Húmus / CESEM – Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical.

‘“Gender Wars in Videogames”: A representação de protagonistas femininas em videojogos’. In Estudos de Género: Diversidade de Olhares Num Mundo Global, edited by Anália Torres, Dália Costa, and Maria João Cunha, 323–40. Lisboa: ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas. http://cieg.iscsp.ulisboa.pt/images/eBook/eBook_estudos_de_genero_diversidade_de_olhares_num_mundo_global.pdf.

‘Music, Interaction and Cinematicability: Between Bound and Abzû’. In Videojogos 2018: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, edited by Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Amado, and Pedro Cardoso, 135–52. Porto: i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society. https://vj2018.fba.up.pt/files/VJ2018-Proceedings-full.pdf.

‘“So Medieval like, so Gentle, so Perfect”: As categorias musicais da banda sonora do videojogo The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’. Revista de Ciências Da Computação 12 (Especial (2017)): 65–80. https://doi.org/10.34627/rcc.v12iEspecial.14.