Caroline Jacobi, M.Sc.

About me

PhD candidate in the Eco-Pós Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, whose research explores the potential contributions of photography to the preservation of territories through the creation of critical landscapes images and the promotion of practices of attention with these landscapes.
She is a researcher, photographer, and communicator, and her research focuses on: communication, the environment, climate change, photography, images, advertising, and reception.
Member of the research groups FIP - Photography, Image, and Thought, affiliated with Eco-Pós UFRJ, and Terranias - Nucleos for Ecological Thought, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at PUC-Rio.

She holds a master’s degree in Communication and Information from the Graduate Program at the University of Rio Grande do Sul (2019), with a thesis on the reception of environmental imagetic themes in Brazilian television advertising. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the ESPM - Sul, with a final thesis investigating visual approaches related to climate change.

From 2016 to 2024, she worked as a photographer and communicator with institutions, cultural projects, and social initiatives such as the Vila Flores Poa Cultural Institute, Territórios - Cervejas e Movimentos, Fluxo School of Photography, the Mario Quintana House of Culture, and the Campus Anthropocene Latin America.
She has organized and collaborated on photography exhibitions, such as the collective exhibition and artist residency “E lá no Fundo o que é que tem?” (And What’s Over There in the Bottom?) from the independent studies program Humusidades; and the digital exhibition Odilo, which received funding from the FAC Digital call for proposals.
In 2020, she taught photography courses and workshops at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, and more recently, in 2025, she taught a series of classes on Photography and Landscape at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for the bachelor programs in journalism and advertising.

In 2015, she participated in the founding of and has since served as a socio-environmental activist for the Coletivo Ambiente Crítico, which supports social movements in causes of environmental preservation and social justice in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre.
Since 2015, she has been conducting artistic research on photography and landscape, having been part of study groups on experimental photography at Barraco Cultural and Planta Estudos Visuais.

Publications

Jacobi, C.. Fotografia como atenção e ficção: paisagens e existências. In: Ludimilla Carvalho Wanderlei. (Org.). Seminário Imagem e Arte: poéticas e políticas do sentir latino-americano. 1ed.: , 2025, v. , p. 151-163.https://producoeseafins.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/imagem-e-arte-poeticas-e-politicas-do-sentir-latino-americano-organizacao-de-e-book/

Jacobi, C; Vecchia, I. D. . Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. 1. ed. Berlin: Transcript Berlag, 2024. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/ed/a8/59/oa9783839470558L6jxdBWekzIKp.pdf

Jacobi, C., Steigleder, D., Fante, E., & Loose, E. (2024). The Hybridisation of Journalism in Fostering Engagement with the Climate Cause: A Reception Study with Brazilian Activists. Revista Lusófona De Estudos Culturais, 11(1), e024002. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.5413

Beling Loose, E., Fante, E. M., Maldaner Jacobi, C., & Thiesen, L. J. . (2022). CAN CLIMATE COVERAGE LEAD TO ACTION? Activists’ view of journalism. Revista Ciências Humanas, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.32813/2179-1120.2022.v15.n3.a923

Jacobi, C. M., & Piedras, E. R. (2021). Consumo midiático e apropriações do público diante do fluxo televisivo. Conexão: comunicação e cultura. Caxias do Sul. Vol. 20, n. 39 (jan./jun. 2021), p. 52-68.https://lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/252182/001152167.pdf?sequence=1