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Monday |
˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 27 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ |
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9:30 -10:10 |
Welcome by Paulo Nuno Vicente |
Torre B |
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10:10 – 11:40 |
Keynote: Mapping YouTube |
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11:40 – 12:10 |
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12:15 – 13:30 |
Practical Labs [parallel sessions] Researching YouTube Gephi for beginners Raw Graphs: an open-source visualisation platform Extracting meaning from spreadsheets through dataviz |
Torre B Torre B Torre B Torre B |
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Getting to know data extraction + text analysis tools |
Torre B |
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13:30 – 14:30 |
🌮🥗🍱🥙🥘🍚🌭🥐 |
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14:30 – 16:00 |
Practical Lab [parallel sessions] |
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Researching YouTube Bernhard Rieder |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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Gephi for beginners Fábio Gouveia |
Auditório 2 Third floor |
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Raw Graphs: an open-source visualisation platform Serena Del Nero |
T9 Third floor |
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Extracting meaning from spreadsheets through dataviz Elena Aversa |
T5 Second Floor |
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Giacomo Flaim & Beatrice Gobbo |
T6 Second Floor |
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16:20 – 17:10 |
Project Pitches and Group Formation [see project descriptions & slides here] Chair: Ana Marta Flores & Janna Joceli Omena [7 minutes per project] From “tumblr purge” to “female nipples”: Telling a story of platform censorship critique through memes and digital methods Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourse in Brazil Method maps: accounting for and situating the work with digital tools Cross-Platform Digital Networks: Exploring the narrative affordances of force-directed layouts and data relational nature |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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17:10 – 18:00 |
Meet & Greet Chair: Ana Marta Flores |
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Tuesday |
˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 28 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ |
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9:30 -11:00 |
Practical Lab [parallel sessions] |
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Visual Network Analysis [part 1] Tommaso Venturini |
Auditório 2 Third floor |
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Shaping questions for Trends Studies through Digital Methods Ana Marta Flores |
T9 Third floor |
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Researching YouTube Bernhard Rieder |
T5 Second Floor |
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Doing research with digital images: Clarifai API interface |
T11 Third floor |
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Building Hashtag-Image Networks |
T10 Third floor |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Practical Lab [parallel sessions] [see the table, descriptions requirements here] Visual Network Analysis [part 1] Tommaso Venturini |
Auditório 2 Third floor |
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Using natural language processing tools for data analysis and extraction Benjamin Meindl |
T9 Third floor |
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL Marc Smith |
T5 Second Floor |
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Doing research with digital images: Clarifai API interface Elena Aversa & Serena Del Nero |
T6 Third floor |
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Building Hashtag-Image Networks Elena Pilipets |
T10 Third floor |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
🌮🥗🍱🥙🥘🍚🌭🥐 |
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13:40 – 14:40 |
Masterclass: “Countering Misinformation on Social Media Platforms” Johnnatan Messias (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) Chair: Elena Pilipets |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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14:40 – 18:00 |
Project work I [discuss, explore and define] |
Available Rooms T10, T11 |
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From “Tumblr purge” to “female nipples” Cross-Platform Digital Networks |
T10 |
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Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourse in Brazil Method maps: accounting for and situating the work with digital tools |
T11 |
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<<Extra Activities & Optional Meetings>> |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
Q&A with Tommaso Venturini on visual network analysis (VNA) |
T5 Second Floor |
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Q&A with Marc Smith & getting ready to work with NodeXL |
T9 Third floor |
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Wednesday |
˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 29 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ |
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9:30 -11:00 |
Practical Labs [parallel sessions] |
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Visual Network Analysis [part 2] Tommaso Venturini |
T5 Second Floor |
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Giacomo Flaim & Beatrice Gobbo |
T10 Third floor |
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL Marc Smith |
T11 Third floor |
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Data mining and visualisation with R Hamdan Azhar [cancelled] |
T9 Third floor |
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Using natural language processing tools for data analysis and extraction Benjamin Meindl |
T6 Second Floor |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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11:30 – 13:15 |
Keynote: What do we See when We look at Networks by Tommaso Venturini (Centre for Internet and Society | Public Data Lab) Chair: Janna Joceli Omena |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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14:20 – 15:50 |
Practical Labs [parallel sessions] |
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When dataviz is ugly Beatrice Gobbo & Giacomo Flaim |
T10 Third floor |
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL Marc Smith |
T11 Third floor |
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Data mining and visualisation with R Hamdan Azhar [cancelled] |
T9 Third floor |
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Using natural language processing tools for data analysis and extraction Benjamin Meindl |
T6 Second Floor |
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15:50 – 18:00 |
Project work II 💻⌛️🤓 [discuss, explore and define] |
Available Rooms T5, T9, T10, T11 |
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From “tumblr purge” to “female nipples” |
T9 |
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Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourse in Brazil |
T10 |
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Method maps: accounting for and situating the work with digital tools Cross-Platform Digital Networks |
T11 |
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17:00 – 18:00 |
<< Optional Meeting>> |
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Q&A with Tommaso Venturini on visual network analysis (VNA) |
T6 Second Floor |
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Thursday |
˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 30 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ |
locations and rooms |
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9:30 -11:00 |
Project work III 💻⌛️⌛️🤓 [explore and discuss, analyse and report] |
Available Rooms T5, T9,T10, T11 |
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From “tumblr purge” to “female nipples” |
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Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourse in Brazil |
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Method maps: accounting for and situating the work with digital tools Cross-Platform Digital Networks |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Project work IV |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
🌮🥗🍱🥙🥘🍚🌭🥐 |
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13:30 – 15:30 |
Project work V |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ |
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16:00 – 17:30 |
Project work VI |
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Friday |
˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 31 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ |
locations and rooms |
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9:30 -11:00 |
[Last day] Project work VII [analyse and report, final discussions, get ready for presentation!] 💻⌛️⌛️⌛️😱😬💪 |
Available Rooms T5, T9, T10, T11 |
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Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourse in Brazil
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Method maps: accounting for and situating the work with digital tools |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Project work VIII |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
🌮🥗🍱🥙🥘🍚🌭🥐 |
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13:30 – 15:30 |
Project work XI |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ |
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16:00 – 16:10 |
Collective photo in external stairs of Torre B |
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16:15 – 18:00 |
Presentations 😉👩🏻💻👨🏾💻 Chair: Janna Joceli Omena (15m for each group + 5m for questions) |
Auditório 1 First floor |
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18:01 |
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(3m walk from NOVA FCSH) |
iNOVA Media Lab ˚ ˚ SMART
iNOVA Media Lab is an applied research laboratory devoted to an interdisciplinary convergence of digital media and emerging technologies. The lab is coordinated by:
Paulo Nuno Vicente started his career as a non-fiction multimedia storyteller. As a journalist and as a documentary filmmaker he has worked mainly in the so-called «global south»: Guinea-Bissau, Ceuta and Melilla, São Tomé and Príncipe, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel and the West Bank, Cape Verde, Chad and Central African Republic, Brazil, Kenya, Senegal, Mozambique and South Africa. In 2013, he founded Bagabaga Studios, an interdisciplinary co-op dedicated to digital media production and training. PhD in Digital Media in 2013, in the scope of UT Austin Portugal Program, he was a recipient of the 2016 Fellowship of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2015, at NOVA University of Lisbon, where he works as an Assistant Professor, he founded (and since then coordinates) iNOVA Media Lab. The lab brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersections of media arts, sciences and technologies.
SMART is a research group of iNOVA Media Lab specialised in Social Media Research Techniques that aims to conduct exploratory studies advanced by digital methods.
Ana Marta M. Flores holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in journalism from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) with a partial completion at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and is graduated in Social Communication & Journalism. Currently, investigates how trends studies and digital methods can contribute to a better understanding of the public. Flores is also a member of the Center for Studies and Production in Hypermedia Applied to Journalism (Nephi-Jor/UFSC/Brazil), and a researcher at Social Media Research Techniques (SMART/Nova Lisboa/Portugal) at iNOVA Media Lab. Professionally, Flores has experience in print (newspaper and magazine), TV, web journalism, radio and content management for social networks. Since 2014 he has been teaching in postgraduate courses (specialization and MBA) with a focus on digital media.
Débora Alves has a degree in Communication Sciences and a specialization in Development of Multimedia Products. She is currently doing an internship at the iNOVA Media Lab and attending a master in Science Communication at NOVA FCSH (Portugal).
Elena Pilipets is a postdoc researcher at the department of Media and Communication Studies, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria and SMART (Social Media Research Techniques) researcher with iNOVA Media Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Media Theory and Cultural Studies (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and now works on the issues of social media circulation, algorithmic control, automated and affective engagement. Her teaching and research interests are media cultural studies, internet research, digital methods, affect, and actor-network theory. Ongoing projects: https://www.cais.nrw/en/fellow_pilipets_en/.
Janna Joceli Omena is a member of iNOVA Media Lab where she leads the group SMART and the #SMARTdatasprint I Digital Media Winter Institute. Besides theorizing digital methods, her main research interests are platform studies and visual network analysis. Her current research concerns the technicity of social media platforms and how it facilitates or compromises digital research. Janna shares her research insights in https://thesocialplatforms.wordpress.com and tweets at @JannaJoceli. Her papers are available in Academia and presentations in SlideShare.
Speakers ˚ ˚
Bernhard Rieder is Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam. Besides doing digital methods based work, his research focuses on the history, theory, and politics of software, particularly on the role of algorithms in social processes and the production of knowledge. He has worked as a Web programmer on various projects and is currently working on a book that investigates the history and cultural significance of information processing techniques.
Janna Joceli Omena is a member of iNOVA Media Lab where she leads the group SMART and the Digital Media Winter Institute I #SMARTdatasprint. Besides theorizing digital methods, her main research interests are platform studies and visual network analysis.
Johnnatan Messias is a second-year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) with Prof. Dr Krishna P. Gummadi as his advisor. In 2017, he completed an MSc degree in Computer Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Tommaso Venturini is a researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society. He is also an associate researcher of INRIA and of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris and founding member of the Public Data Lab. In 2017 and 2018, he has been a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon and recipient of the “Advanced Research” fellowship of the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. In 2016, he has been “digital methods lecturer” at the Department of Digital Humanities of King’s College London. From 2009 to 2015, he has coordinated the research activities of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris.
Collaborators (tutors, designers, developers & researcher management) ˚ ˚
Ana Marta M. Flores holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in journalism from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) with a partial completion at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and graduated in Social Communication & Journalism.
Bernhard Rieder is Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam.
Beatrice Gobbo is a PhD student in Design at Politecnico di Milano and she’s currently working at DensityDesign Lab. She’s specializing in data visualisation and her current research in design is in between information visualisation, computer science and social sciences.
Benjamin Meindl is conducting his doctoral research in Leaders for Technical Industries at IN+ (Técnico Lisbon), within the MIT Portugal Program. He researches the implications of technologies on employment in manufacturing. Using natural language processing techniques allows him to extract data on technological progress from patents and scientific publications, as a basis for his analysis.
Catarina Barros studied Literature and Philosophy. She’s currently doing her master in Philosophy at NOVA FCSH, while working as a Research Manager at IFILNOVA. She worked with books and artists most of her life. Her last project was TYRO, an artificial intelligence chatbot created by the artists collective CADA.
Fábio Gouveia is a Public Health Technologist at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – Brazil, leader of the Science, Data, Networks and Metrics Research Group (Scimetrics) and participates as a researcher at the Zika Social Sciences Network. Biologist, master in Microbiology and Immunology and DSc in Biological Chemistry (Education, Management and Diffusion of Biosciences), he did a short post-doctorate as Visiting Fellow at Katolieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) selected in the 2009 call for proposals from the Coimbra Group Scholarships Program for Young Professors and Researchers from Latin American Universities. Develops research in the area of Information Science with emphasis on Metrics Information Studies (Scientometrics, Webometrics, Altmetrics, Science and Technology Indicators and Innovation), Digital Methods, STS, Data Science and Blockchain Technology, and in the area of Science and Health Communication, with emphasis on internet and social media studies.
Giacomo Flaim is a multidisciplinary Designer from Italy, in love with Information Design and User Experience Design. MA graduate @ Politecnico di Milano in Communication Design and previously Erasmus Student @ Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft in Berlin. Giacomo is currently based in Milan where he works as a freelancer.
Hamdan Azhar is a Data scientist and quantitative researcher with 7 years of experience and proven record of impact. Passionate about discovering actionable insights in complex datasets, meaningful storytelling, and asking the right questions. Self-motivated and entrepreneurially minded with robust cross-functional experience working with Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Sales, as well as in client-facing roles. Expertise in experimental design (A/B testing), survey methodology, data analysis (Hive, Presto, SQL), and statistical modeling and visualization (R). Passionate about mentorship and development; prolific public speaker and writer. Taught data science courses at Boston University and City University of New York.
Elena Aversa is a communication and information designer based in Italy. With a previous Bachelor in Architectural Science, she completed the Master’s level degree in Communication Design with excellent results and with a thesis aiming attention at the circulation of disinformation phenomena through the Italian Facebook network. She also discussed her thesis, Trame Ascose, during the 2019 First Draft summit against disinformation held in Milan. In the past two years she had the chance to collaborate with Density Design, Accurat, Pagella Politica SRLS and Water Grabbing Observatory.
Elena Pilipets is a postdoc researcher at the department of Media and Communication Studies, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria and SMART (Social Media Research Techniques) researcher with iNOVA Media Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Media Theory and Cultural Studies (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and now works on the issues of social media circulation, algorithmic control, automated and affective engagement. Her teaching and research interests are media cultural studies, internet research, digital methods, affect, and actor-network theory. Ongoing projects: https://www.cais.nrw/en/fellow_pilipets_en/.
Janna Joceli Omena is a doctoral researcher in Digital Media at Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (FCSH). She is also the coordinator of SMART (Social Media Research Techniques) in iNOVA Media Lab.
Jason Chao is a technologist and human rights activist. Chao is currently a PhD student and researcher at the University of Siegen. He received an MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures from the University of Warwick and an MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London.
Johnnatan Messias is a second-year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) with Prof. Dr Krishna P. Gummadi as his advisor. In 2017, he completed an MSc degree in Computer Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Marc Smith is a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer-mediated interaction. Smith leads the Connected Action consulting group and lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. Smith co-founded and directs the Social Media Research Foundation, a non-profit devoted to open tools, data, and scholarship related to social media research.
Serena Del Nero graduated with DensityDesign Lab in 2019, with a Master Thesis about the collaborative research methodologies between Digital Humanities and Information Design. She worked with the Lab on a project about the Italian writer Italo Calvino for one year, focusing her research on data visualization. Now she’s working in Milan as a communication designer.
Tommaso Venturini is a researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society. He is also an associate researcher of INRIA and of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris and founding member of the Public Data Lab.
Participants ˚ ˚
Daniela van Geenen is a PhD-candidate at the Locating Media research group (University of Siegen), investigating ‘critical technical practice’ in sensor technologies and sensing practices in the context of public, urban spaces. Her work tackles the question of the (scholarly) conduct that the work with digital methods demands, challenged by the need to design accountable software and algorithmic tools. Daniela is also a lecturer in data journalistic practice and data visualization at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and an affiliated researcher at the Datafied Society research platform.
Elaine Rabello is an Associate Professor at Social Medicine Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, member of BIOMEDSCI Group of Social Studies on Technoscience and Health. She is also a Guest Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, executive coordinator of Social Sciences and Zika Network. Psychologist, PhD in Collective Health/Public Health, she develops digital research on STS, focused on the dynamics of health knowledge circulation and its uses, benefits and consequences to different stakeholders.
Elisa Kannasto is a PhD Student in the University of Vaasa, Finland and she is currently working as a Senior Lecturer of Communications in the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences. Her PhD focuses on the construction of political personal brands in political campaigns on social media. She is applying digital methods to research online discussion, especially on Facebook. She is also a board member of Rajapinta, which is a scientific association that advocates the social scientific study of ICT and ICT applications to social research in Finland.
Ilo Aguiar is a researcher at iNOVA Media Lab. He received his PhD in Digital Media from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UT Austin Program | Portugal). His main research aims to examine how the audience interacts and evaluates data visualizations in news media. Alexandre has worked as editor-in-chief at G1 Ceará and as a reporter in several news organizations, such as Portal Verdes Mares and TV Cidade. He has also worked as a web editor and social media editor in political campaigns and advertising.
Fernanda Benquerer Costa is a psychiatrist with a research focus on suicide prevention. I currently work with Public Health Policies and I’m interested in how new technologies can help with suicide prevention. I also have an interest in the impact suicide prevention campaigns have on the general public, and social media data could be a way to find that out.
Nadine Strauß is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Previously she has worked as a Postdoc at the Media Innovation Lab of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. She obtained her PhD from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include political communication, journalism studies, financial communication, sustainability and news use.
Monika Skazedonig studies media and communication with a focus on Cultural Studies in Klagenfurt. Since January 2019 I work at the Department of Media and Communication in Klagenfurt and I’m interested in new social movements in the age of climate crisis like Fridays for Future and Xtinction Rebellion. Methodologically I work with a situational analysis and want to combine it with digital methods.
Helen Holmdal Petersen is a strong creative mind, with great desire and skills to strengthen and shape the visual universe across media. Experienced creative designer with a demonstrated history of working in the graphic design industry, both on- and off-line. Skilled in UI, UX, infographic visualisation, digital strategy, graphics, logo design, advertising, branding and identity. With a master’s in Cross Media Communication from Københavns Universitet.
Simone Evangelista Cunha is a researcher and journalist with a Master’s and Doctorate degree in Communication from Fluminense Federal University (PPGCOM/UFF). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the same institution, developing research regarded to cultural and affective practices in digital platforms in Brazilian contemporary context. My interests include the reconfiguration of labour experience and the popularization of anti-feminist and anti-scientific discourses on YouTube.
Veronica Israel Turim is a PhD candidate researching the changes that social media platforms have introduced in the communication between politics, media and citizenship by analysing data regarding the use of these actors on Twitter. Currently, focus on learning digital data analysis methods and I am passionate about finding insights, patterns and connections to answer research questions. I am also interested in focusing on data bias and the impact of a datafied and algorithm-based society.
Alexandra Deem is a PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin in the John F. Kennedy Graduate School of North American Studies. Her dissertation research investigates the social media activity of right-wing women in order to understand their role in burgeoning far-right digital cultures and activism. She conducts her research at the intersection of cultural studies, media studies, and digital ethnography.
Francisca Alves Cardoso is a Biological Anthropologist with significant experience in the analysis of Human Osteological Remains and their use assess biological profiles and patterns of wealth and health. I have explored Human Identified Skeletal Collections aiming to comprehend and build human past, highlighting the limitations of understanding social and cultural constructs based on biology expanding the concept of Bone Matters. Presently my research widens to topics related to ethical and legal issues on the use of human remains, both real and digital, in research and teaching.
Marcia Rodrigues Lisboa is graduated in Communication – Journalism, Master in Communication and Culture, a doctorate in Information and Communication in Health. I’m currently the coordinator of the communication research laboratory, in Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a centenary Brazilian research and teaching institution. I work in investigations on journalistic mediation processes, production of meanings about health risks, appropriation of journalistic products by adolescents, and digital media.
Ekaterina Grishaeva works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia). She also leads the research project Social media as an agent of the transformation of Russian Orthodoxy, funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked in 2014 at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria), in 2014-2015 at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), in 2017 at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden). Her current research interests include the theory of mediatization, the impact of digital technologies on the transformation of post-Soviet societies, political control over the Internet.
Géraldine Bengsch is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London. She is interested in how language is used to create engagement in interpersonal and intercultural conversations. Her work currently focuses on asymmetric interactions between an expert and a layperson, extending to experiences of pre-clinical neurodegenerative diseases in crosscultural families.
Shenglan Qing is a PhD Candidate in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her PhD study started in October of 2017. Her dissertation focuses on reality television programs on Twitter in Spain and Weibo in China. She has participated in a research project related to social media and television programs in the research group GRISS-UAB. She also participated in the Digital Method Summer School at the University of Amsterdam in 2019. Her Master’s degree in communication came from UAB in 2016. She received her Bachelor degree in Spanish in Central-South University (China) in 2015.
Ana Pinto Martinho is the online publisher of the European Journalism Observatory in Portuguese, she is a member of the team that coordinates the Portuguese ISCTE-IUL Newsmetter, and a researcher at the Science and Communication Laboratory of ISCTE-IUL. She also contributes for the Digital News Report, issued by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, on the Portuguese analysis. She also coordinates the data journalism and visual journalism courses at CENJOR (the Portuguese official center for training journalists). She is currently working on her PhD at ISCTE. Ana has a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences (Universidade da Beira Interior).
João Carlos Martins holds a master’s degree in Communication Sciences – Studies in Media and Journalism from NOVA-FCSH with a dissertation on political communication in Portuguese local government. PhD student in Communication Sciences – specialization in Strategic Communication, working on a thesis on Digital Communication in Local Government in Lisbon. He worked in journalism, press office and theater production. Investigates and publishes on political communication in local government.
Jason Chao is a technologist and human rights activist. Chao is currently a PhD student and researcher at the University of Siegen. He received an MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures from the University of Warwick and an MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London.
Saide Mobayed’s interdisciplinary work draws on the intersections between human rights, digital technologies and globalisation. Her research is concerned with how the gender-related killing of women and girls (or femicide/feminicide) is “globally” quantified and the emerging digital contestations on this matter. She current PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and holds an M.A in Global Studies from the University of Vienna and the University of Leipzig and a B.A in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Herbert Natta is PhD researcher in Comparative Studies (literature and linguistics). My main research interests concern the relationship between languages, cultures and space, with a focus on urban contexts and on mapping cultural phenomena. In parallel with an academic background in Humanities, I have developed IT skills on the collection, management, analysis and visualization of data. I have cooperated in an international and interdisciplinary research project (CNR, Spin Unit), focused on mapping urban phenomena.
Rita Sepulveda is a PhD candidate on Communication sciences at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and as a researcher at CIES – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. My work focuses on online dating and mediated intimacy through information and communication technology. Work that is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through a grant conceived in July 2017. Parallel to that, I’m a member of the research project Misinformation. My main research interests are related to personal connections through social media networks and intimacy sharing.
Paulina Sierra is a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). Usually involved with the interactive media art/music scene, she worked at different multimedia companies in Mexico City. Tired of the bi-dimensionality the screen provided, she decided to experiment with objects, space and the multiplicity of media where she graduated with honors from the MFA in Digital+Media department at Rhode Island School of Design.
Bruno Zilli is a Brazilian social anthropologist. He holds a PhD degree in Social Sciences and a Master’s in Collective Health, both from UERJ – State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is an associate researcher at CLAM – the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights, at UERJ’s Institute of Social Medicine, where he is Executive Editor of Sexuality, Health and Society – Latin American Journal. He is part of the Feminist Internet Research Network, sponsored by APC and IDRC, with the research project on Digital networks, Datafication, and Backlash in Brazil.
Daria Dergacheva is currently pursuing a PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, department of Communication Sciences and Journalism. Have been working in media for over 10 years. My research interests are political communications, critical political economy, social network analysis, social media research, big data and information society studies
German Llorca-Abad Phd in Audiovisual Communication (2007) and MA in Audiovisual Production Management (2000). I’ve been a full-time teacher in Communication at the University of Valencia since 2002. He’s worked at various media, and launched the news site aramultimedia.com. He is the author of 2 book-essays, as well as numerous articles published in national and international journals. He’s been visiting professor at the Universities of Saarlandes in Germany, the Austral, La Frontera and Playa Ancha in Chile, and the Paulista, the State University of Campinas and the Pontifical Catholic University in, Brazil. He is a member of MediaFlows Research Group.
Jeffrey S. Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Journalism, Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. He completed a B.S. in Broadcasting from the University of Florida and was an award-winning broadcast news reporter before earning both a Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He has held tenured positions at the University of Tennessee and the University of Toledo and taught over a dozen years in Hong Kong and Zhuhai, China. He has more than a decade of educational leadership experience in the United States and abroad. His research interests include international communication, media technology, journalism, and mass media effects.
Lorena Cano-Orón is a PhD in Communication and Interculturality with an International Mention (2019) from the University of Valencia. In 2013, she obtained a degree in Media Communication by the University of Valencia, qualification by which she received the Extraordinary Award of the degree. She got a collaboration grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (MECD) in the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences in the academic year 2012/2013. She has completed a Research Master in Communication and Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2014 and she earned a master’s degree in Interculturality, Communication and European Studies from the University of Valencia, in 2015. She undertook her PhD research, framed the ESTENAS project, in the University of Valencia, with a pre-doctoral fellowship of the the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FPI program grant). Also, she is a member of the research groups Mediaflows and ScienceFlows.
Márcia Malvina Alves Cavalcante, Mestre em Comunicação pela Universidade Católica de Brasília, graduada em História (Licenciatura) pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2000). Especialista em Gestão Estratégica de Marketing, pela FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2002) e Doutoranda em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Possui grande experiência nas áreas de planejamento estratégico, realização de estudos de mercado, organização de grandes eventos, gestão de relacionamento com clientes, comportamento do consumidor, comunicação empresarial, dentre outros. Atualmente é professora-tutora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas e do Sebrae, além de atuar como consultora em diversas instituições, públicas e privadas.
Nadine Strauß is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Previously she has worked as a Postdoc at the Media Innovation Lab of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include political communication, journalism studies, financial communication, sustainability and news use.
Wael Eskandar is an independent journalist, activist and creative technologist. A frequent commentator on Egyptian politics, he has written for Ahram Online, Egypt Independent, Counterpunch, and Jadaliyya, among others. Since 2018 Wael has been working as an analyst on Exposing the Invisible a programme of work by Berlin-based Tactical Technology Collective, which tells the story of released data by exploring the different techniques, tools and methods along with the individual practices of those working at the new frontiers of investigation.
Samatha North is a third year PhD candidate in computational social sciences at the University of Bath. My research focuses on tribal political conflict on social media, and its relationship to the spread of disinformation. I’m also a self-employed disinformation investigator, for clients such as the Global Disinformation Index and Nisos Inc. For the latter, I have just completed a project to monitor Chinese political interference in Taiwan’s presidential election. I am currently in the process of relocating permanently from the UK to Lisbon.