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qualitative research, online communities, fandom, celebrity culture, audience research
Spain, Germany, Argentina

Biography

I am a qualitative social scientist specializing in interpretive, anti-positivist, constructionist epistemologies. I am a Spanish Ministry of Science fellow (Juan de la Cierva Incorporación) at University of Valladolid, in the department of Sociology and Social Work. My research is funded by a European Union grant (NextGenerationEU).

Previously, I worked as lecturer in Media Audiences and Users at the University of Sheffield and was affiliated to the research group Media, Policy and Culture (Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences) from University of Antwerp in Belgium. I was awarded a PhD in Communication and the special prize for outstanding dissertations by Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. I also hold a Master‘s Degree in Media Culture from Paderborn University in Germany and an undergraduate Degree (Licenciatura) in Audiovisual Communication from my homeland, Argentina.

My research interests lie at the intersections of digital and popular cultures with audiences and fandom research. I work within the fields of media studies, media sociology, and anthropology.

My work has been published by Television and New Media, Celebrity Studies, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, among others. I also contributed a chapter to Routledge’s anthology Mediated Intimacies (ECREA Book Series).

Activities

Employment (6)

Universidad de Valladolid: Valladolid, ES

2022-01-01 to present | Spanish Ministry of Science Fellow (Sociology and Social Work)
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University of Sheffield: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, GB

2019-04-01 to 2020-01-06 | Lecturer in Media Audiences and Users (Journalism)
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University of Antwerp: Antwerp, BE

2018-06-01 to 2019-03-30 | Postdoctoral Affiliate Researcher (Communication)
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Volkshochschule Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf, NRW, DE

2016-04-08 to 2016-12-22 | Instructor (German as a Foreign Language)
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2016-10-04 to 2016-12-19 | Lecturer (German for academic purposes)
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Universität Paderborn: Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2011-04-01 to 2011-06-30 | Lecturer (German for international students) (International Office)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Campus de la Comunicació Poblenou: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2013-09-01 to 2018-03-02 | PhD (Communication)
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Universität Paderborn: Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2009-10-01 to 2012-02-10 | MA Mediale Kulturen (media culture) (Media)
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Professional activities (5)

Celebrity Studies Journal: Taylor and Francis, GB

2024-05-02 to present | member of editorial board
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Palgrave Macmillan USA: New York, NY, US

2019-08-17 to present | remunerated monograph proposal reviewer (Sociology and Anthropology)
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd: London, London, GB

2019-07-18 to present | remunerated peer-reviewer (Journalism, Media and Communication)
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Tarragona, ES

2021-10-08 to 2021-11-08 | remunerated member of the external evaluation committee of the MSCA COFUND Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and Communication
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2018-03-03 | outstanding PhD prize (Comunicación)
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Funding (2)

CIDAPE - Climate Inequality and Democratic Action: The Power of Political Emotions

2024-01 to 2027-12 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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101132327

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Digital cultures, fandom, and celebrity from a user-centered perspective

2022-01 to 2024-12 | Contract
Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (Valladolid, ES)
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IJC2020-042743-I

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Works (11)

Fatherly subjectivities on TikTok parodies: The “typical Peruvian dad”

First Monday
2024-09-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García-Rapp
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#MADRES. Parodic Motherhood Discourses on Peruvian TikTok

Visual Communication Quarterly
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García-Rapp; Laura León
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The Fourth Wall and “The Wall”: GoT’s Reception in Argentina, Spain, and Germany

Television & New Media
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García-Rapp
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Teaching and Learning Popular Media Cultures: Fostering enquiry journeys within the messy world of human social life

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
2022-01-01 | Journal article
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From the books to the screens, to the memes and beyond: Fans’ notions of Game of Thrones as an adaptation

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
2021-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García-Rapp
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Trivial and Normative? Online Fieldwork within YouTube’s Beauty Community

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
2019-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García-Rapp
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My Friend Bubz: Building Intimacy as a YouTube Beauty Guru

Mediated intimacies. Connectivities, relationalities and proximities
2017-10-26 | Book chapter
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‘Come join and let’s BOND’: authenticity and legitimacy building on YouTube’s beauty community

Journal of Media Practice
2017-09-02 | Journal article
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Being an online celebrity: Norms and expectations of YouTube’s beauty community

First Monday
2017-07-03 | Journal article
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The digital media phenomenon of YouTube beauty gurus: the case of Bubzbeauty

International Journal of Web Based Communities
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Florencia García Rapp
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Popularity markers on YouTube’s attention economy: the case of Bubzbeauty

Celebrity Studies
2016-10 | Journal article
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Peer review (17 reviews for 13 publications/grants)

Review activity for Celebrity studies. (3)
Review activity for Communication, culture, & critique. (1)
Review activity for Convergence (2)
Review activity for First Monday. (2)
Review activity for Genre : (1)
Review activity for Global media and China. (1)
Review activity for International journal of communication. (1)
Review activity for Journal of contemporary ethnography (1)
Review activity for Networking knowledge (1)
Review activity for Observatorio (OBS*). (1)
Review activity for Open Cultural Studies. (1)
Review activity for Poetics. (1)
Review activity for Social media + society. (1)