Fernanda Veiverberg is an interdisciplinary scholar and postdoctoral research fellow at the DTD Lab. Her research explores the cultural and political processes through which digital media shape social perceptions of intimacy and sexuality.
Fernanda employs qualitative methods, digital ethnography, discourse and rhetorical analysis, to examine how media technologies influence cultural narratives, public discourse, and forms of governance. At the DTD Lab, she is expanding her research on the relationships among digital media, sexuality, morality, and emerging technologies, with particular attention to cultural understandings of intimacy, identity, social life, and forms of regulation.
Her PhD dissertation in communication at the University of Southern Mississippi examined the historical and contemporary construction of pornography as legal and cultural discourse in the Southern United States. She also holds an MA in cultural anthropology from the same institution, where her research focused on online sex work. Before pursuing graduate studies in the US, she earned undergraduate degrees in history and philosophy from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, and built an extensive background in Brazilian public education through teaching, educational research, and professional practice.
Fernanda’s work has been published in Sexuality & Culture, Sexualities, and Feminist Media Studies, as well as in the De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures. She has also presented her research at numerous national and international conferences.
