Lecturer in Creative Industries
Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
I have a background in film, media studies and journalism, I currently focus on media and culture, with particular emphasis on digital environments. My current research interests include online culture, internet memes, remix, DIY and participatory culture. I am also interested in media representation regarding gender and identity.
Book Chapter
Online culture spaces in offline commercial places
Esteves V (2025) Online culture spaces in offline commercial places. In: Digital Advertising Evolution. 1 ed. Routledge, pp. 108-120. https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Advertising-Evolution/MacRury-Manika/p/book/9780367767730; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003168485-10
Article
Climate dissociations: Trade associations, energy policy and climate communications in Europe
Dinan W, Esteves V, Harkins S & Hills S (2025) Climate dissociations: Trade associations, energy policy and climate communications in Europe. Goutte S (Editor) PLOS Climate, 4 (1), Art. No.: e0000467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000467
Book Chapter
Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements?
Esteves V (2024) Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements?. In: Marschner N, Richter C, Patz J & Salheiser A (eds.) Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy International Perspectives. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag GmbH, pp. 207-220. https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/soziologie/contested_climate_justice_challenged_democracy-18364.html
Book Chapter
Climate Obstruction in Scotland: the politics of oil and gas
Dinan W, Esteves V & Harkins S (2024) Climate Obstruction in Scotland: the politics of oil and gas. In: Brulle RJ, Roberts JT & Spencer MC (eds.) Climate Obstruction Across Europe. New York, NY 10016, United States of America: OUP, pp. 57 - 79. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197762042.001.0001
Book Chapter
Online climate denialism: Eco-systems and echo chambers
Dinan W, Bernardi C, Esteves V & Harkins S (2022) Online climate denialism: Eco-systems and echo chambers. In: Hansen A & Cox R (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. 2nd Edition ed. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Environment-and-Communication/Hansen-Cox/p/book/9780367634483
Book Chapter
I can haz rights?: online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism)
Esteves V (2018) I can haz rights?: online memes as digital embodiment of craft(ivism). In: Meikle G (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. UK: Routledge, pp. 187-195.
Book Chapter
Internet Memes: Transnational Products of (Home Made) Cyberculture
Esteves V (2015) Internet Memes: Transnational Products of (Home Made) Cyberculture. In: Baumann S & Flegal M (eds.) All the World’s a Stage: Theorizing and Producing Blended Identities in a Cybercultural World. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL, pp. 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404205_006
Book Chapter
'LOOK @ THIS FUKKEN DOGE' - Internet memes and remix cultures
Esteves V & Meikle G (2015) 'LOOK @ THIS FUKKEN DOGE' - Internet memes and remix cultures. In: Atton C (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 561-570. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717241
Book Review
Complex and Troublesome Relations
Esteves V (2013) Complex and Troublesome Relations. Review of: Amateur Media: Social, Cultural and Legal Perspectives, Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas (eds), Oxford: Routledge, 2012, 240pp. ISBN 9780415782654. Cultural Studies Review, 19 (1), pp. 314-321. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/3225/3442