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Gisela Castro Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil
Gisela G. S. Castro holds a PhD in Communication and Culture (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and a BSc in Psychology from the same University in her hometown Rio. She is a full professor at the Graduate Studies Program in Communication and Consumption Practices she helped found at the Advanced School of Advertising and Marketing (ESPM, São Paulo). Gisela was a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work was funded by FAPESP and supervised by Mike Featherstone. She investigates the production of subjectivities and modes of sociability in a media-saturated world. Her current research examines the commodification of ageing and longevity in the logics of promotional culture. She publishes regularly, mostly in Brazil. She is an author in Virpi Ylanne’s edited collection Ageing and the Media: international perspectives (Polity Press, 2022).
