Helton Levy

Books

Levy, H. (2023) Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture. Bloomsbury.

Levy, H. (2018) The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil: Peripheral Media. Lexington Books.

Peer-reviewed articles

Levy, H. & Harding, J. (2026) Feeling Unwanted: Understanding digital place-making and uncertainty in EU Settlement Scheme digital communities. Sociological Research Online.

Levy, H. & Diamanti, E. (2026) Spray with Inclusion: Graffiti and Street Art as Digital Social Justice Practice in Contemporary Rome. Lever Press. 

Levy, H. (2025) ‘Welcome to favelas, but in Italy’: Urban precariousness, right-wing ideology, and phatic nihilism on social media. Discourse & Society.

Levy, H. (2024) Trans vocabularies: topics, clashes, and affordances in YouTube streaming wars, Information, Communication & Society.

Levy, H. (2024). Book review: Deepfakes by Graham Meikle. International Journal of Communication, 18, 3.

Levy, H. (ed.) (2023) Streets of Latin America: New Battlegrounds of Change. Alternautas. 10 (2)

Levy, H. (2023). Book review: The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy and Postcolonial Transformation in Latin America by Simone Vegliò. Alternautas, 10 (2)

Levy, H., & Diamanti, E. (2023). Spray without politics? Contrasting street-based perceptions and computer vision framings of graffitied Rome. Convergence.

Levy, H. (2023) Book review: Like a River by Daniel Lyons. Alternautas 10 (1)

Levy H; Mercea D. (2021) Exploring narrative linearity between Twitter and the news: Echoes of the Arab Spring in Brazil. Discourse & Society.

Levy, H. (2021). D. Travers Scott, Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality:“What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?”. International Journal of Communication, 15, 3.

Levy, H. (2020) Surveying research on favelas and the media: emphases and absences in decades of critical explorations. Popular Communication.

Levy, H. (2020). Grammars of contestation and pluralism: Paulo Freire’s action in Brazil’s periphery and the rise of right-wing discourse on YouTube. International Communication Gazette.

Levy, H. & Sarmento, C. (2020) Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 15(1), pp.19–36.

Levy, H. (2020) What do massive protests tell about a nation? Book Review: Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests by César Jiménez-Martínez. LSE Review of Books.

Mercea, D; Levy, H. (2019) Cuing Collective Outcomes on Twitter: A Qualitative Reading of Movement Social Learning. International Journal of Communication, 13 (1) (2019).

Mercea, D. & Levy, H. (2019) The Activist Chroniclers of Occupy Gezi: Counterposing Visibility to Injustice. In: McGarry, A., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Jenzen, O., & Korkut, U. (eds) (2018). The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. Amsterdam University Press.

Levy, H. (2018). Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2), pp.61–76.

Levy, H. (2018). “From the media of the periphery to peripheral media: The changing priorities of Brazil’s alternative ecology”. The Communication Review, 21 (4), p. 296.

Levy, H. (2018) Reading Stuart Hall as an Immigrant. Book review: Stuart Hall, A Life Between Two Islands. 

Levy, H. & Sarmento, C. (2017) Watching the 2016 Olympics on Brazil’s Alternative Media: From platform hijack to discourse autonomy. Journalism.

Levy, H. (2017) Online self-representation in Brazil’s favelas: Personalising the Periphery. First Monday. 23 (8).

Levy, H. (2017) Book review: British Representations of Latin America by Luz Elena Ramírez.

Levy, H. (2016) Reporting the 2014 World Cup: football first and social issues last. Sport and Society, 1- 11.

Levy, H. (2015) Book review: Networked Publics and Digital Contention by Mohamed Zayani. LSE Review of Books.

Levy, H. (2015) Book review: Networks of Outrage and Hope by Manuel Castells. LSE Review of Books.

Levy, H. (2012). Entre a fé e a notícia: Jornalismo gospel no Brasil. Artepalavra.

Reviews received

Jarrín C. A. (2024). Book review: Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture. Alternautas.  

Alves, P.F. (2019). Book review: The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil: Peripheral Media. Information, Communication and Society.  

Media pieces or appearances

Levy, H. (2019) How evangelical news websites shape the views of millions of Brazilians. The Conversation UK.

Levy, H. (2018) Revisiting Pasolini’s Love Meetings.

Levy, H. (2018) The long history of religious intolerance in Brazil.

Levy, H. (2017) Favela media and the build-up of peripheral subjectivities. Discover Society. December edition. Digital imaginaries.

Levy, H. (2016) Reenacting Slavery and Power in Debret: An interview with artist Vasco Araújo.

Levy, H. (2016) Raízes da intolerância religiosa no Brasil. Projeto Colabora.

Levy, H (2015) The rise of Brazil’s free journalists. Open Democracy.

Levy, H. (2014) Seeing full circles: The flipside of a literary festival.

Levy, H. (2014) Stretching continents: Pangaea at Saatchi Gallery.