Digital Media Winter Institute 2019

SMART Data Sprint: Beyond Visible Engagement

28 January – 1 February 2019

9:30 – 17:30  |  #SMARTdatasprint  | Research Blog |

Facebook Group: SMART Data Sprint |  @iNOVAmedialab

Universidade Nova de Lisboa | NOVA FCSH | iNOVA Media Lab

Monday	˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 28 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚	locations and rooms
9:30-10:10	Welcome by Paulo Nuno Vicente Short Talk: How to read cross-platforms digital networks? by Janna Joceli Omena (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)  Chair: Elsa Caetano	Torre B | Auditório 1 | First floor
10:10– 11:40	Keynote: Critical Analytics by Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)  Chair: Janna Joceli Omena
11:40– 12:10	Coffee break
12:15– 13:30	Practical Lab [parallel sessions] Hybrid Classification: Combining Grounded Theory and Machine Learning Bernhard Rieder Raw Graphs | Beatrice Gobbo Extracting network data from Twitter with NodeXL Pro | Harald Meier Data Extraction Tools | Cristian Ruiz	Torre B | Auditório 1 | First floor Torre B | Auditório 2 | Third floor Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
13:30– 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30– 16:00	Practical Lab [parallel sessions]
	Query Design Richard Rogers	Torre B | Auditório 2 | Third floor
	Analysing network data from Twitter with NodeXL Pro Harald Meier	Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor
	Text Analysis with Antconc  Tarcízio Silva (Cancelled)	Edifício ID | Multiusos 2 | Fourth floor
	Data Extraction Tools Cristian Ruiz	Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
16:00– 17:30	Query Design Richard Rogers	Torre B | Auditório 2 | Third floor
	Raw Graphs  Beatrice Gobbo	Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
	Analysing network data from Twitter with NodeXL Pro   Harald Meier	Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor
	Visual content analysis with Google Vision API André Mintz	Edifício ID | Multiusos 2 | Fourth floor
Tuesday	˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 29 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚	locations and rooms
9:30-10:00	Short Talk: Images as networks (and vice versa) by André Mintz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Chair: Ana Marta M. Flores	Torre B | Auditório 1| First floor
10:00– 10:30	Short Talk: Visual Models for Text Visualization. How I failed several times by Beatrice Gobbo (Politecnico di Milano) Chair: Ana Marta M. Flores
10:30– 11:10	Project Pitches and Group Formation Chair: Elsa Caetano [7 minutes per project] Journalism Apps  Dora Santos Silva (Assistant professor at NOVA FCSH) and Mariana Scalabrin Müller (Doctoral researcher at Universidade do Minho and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Health myths’ circulation on social media: the cases of detox therapies, anti-vaxxers and zika epidemics Elaine Rabello (Associate Professor at Social Medicine Institute I Rio de Janeiro State University) Interrogating Vision APIs Tarcízio Silva (Researcher at IBPAD – Brazilian Institute of Research and Data Analysis) André Mintz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil) Frugal Innovation Miguel Amaral and Elsa Caetano (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
11:10– 11:40	Meet and Greet
11:40– 12:10	Coffee break
12:15– 13:15	Practical Labs [parallel sections] Hybrid Classification: Combining Grounded Theory and Machine Learning Bernhard Rieder	Torre B | Auditório 1 | First floor
	YouTube Data Analysis Cristian Ruiz, Elsa Caetano, Ana Marta M. Flores	Torre B | Auditório 2 | Third floor
	Querying App Stores Janna Joceli Omena	Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
	Extracting network data from Facebook with NodeXL Pro Harald Meier	Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor
13:15– 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15– 15:15	Masterclass: From Algorithms to Diagrams: How to Study Platforms? Bernhard Rieder (Amsterdam University) Chair: Paulo Nuno Vicente	Torre B | Auditório 1 | First floor
15:15– 18:30	Project work I[discuss, explore and define]	ID Building | rooms: 0.06, Mult. 2 (4th floor), 1.06 (1st floor)
	Journalism Apps	Mult. 2 (4th floor)
	Health myths’ circulation on social media	ID Building, 0.06
	Interrogating Vision APIs Frugal Innovation	ID Building, Mult. 2 (4th floor) ID Building, 1.06
Wednesday	˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 30 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚	locations and rooms
9:30-13:30	Project work II [discuss, explore and define]	ID Building, rooms: 0.06, 0.07, 1.06
	Journalism Apps	ID Building, 0.07
	Health myths’ circulation on social media	ID Building, 0.06
	Interrogating Vision APIs Frugal Innovation	ID Building, 0.07 ID Building, 1.06
13:30– 14:30	Lunch break
14:30– 16:00	Practical Lab [parallel sessions]
	Analysing network data from Facebook with NodeXL Pro Harald Meier	Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
	Visual Content Analysis with ImagePlot  Beatrice Gobbo	Edifício ID | Room 1.06 | First  floor
	Network Analysis with Gephi Inês Amaral	Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor
	Text Analysis with Antconc Tarcízio Silva (Cancelled)	iNOVA Media Lab | Edifício B1 | Room 1.09 | First floor
	Visual content analysis with Google Vision API André Mintz	Edifício ID | Multiusos 2 | Fourth floor
16:00– 17:30	Practical Lab [parallel sessions]
	Analysing network data from Facebook with NodeXL Pro Harald Meier	Edifício ID | Room 0.07 | Ground floor
	Visual Content Analysis with ImagePlot Beatrice Gobbo	Edifício ID | Room 1.06 | First  floor
	Network Analysis with Gephi Inês Amaral	Edifício ID | Room 0.06 | Ground floor
	Text Analysis with Antconc Tarcízio Silva (Cancelled)	iNOVA Media Lab | Edifício B1 | Room 1.09 | First floor
	Visual content analysis with Google Vision API André Mintz	Edifício ID | Multiusos 2 | Fourth floor
Thursday	˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 31 January ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚	locations and rooms
9:30-11:00	Project work III  [explore and discuss, analyse and report]	ID Building, rooms: 0.06, 0.07, 1.06
	Journalism Apps
	Health myths’ circulation on social media
	Interrogating Vision APIs Frugal Innovation
11:00– 11:30	coffee break
11:30– 15:30	Project work IV
12:30– 13:30	Lunch break
13:30– 15:30	Project work V
15:30– 16:00	break
16:00– 17:30	Project work VI
Friday	˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ 1 February ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚	locations and rooms
9:30-11:00	[Last day] Project work VII  [analyse and report, final discussions, get ready for presentation!]	ID Building, rooms: 0.06, 0.07, 1.06
	Journalism Apps
	Health myths’ circulation on social media
	Interrogating Vision APIs Frugal Innovation
11:00– 11:30	coffee break
11:30– 12:30	Project work VIII
12:30– 13:30	Lunch break
13:30– 15:30	Project work XI
15:30– 16:00	break
16:00– 17:30	Presentations 😉 Chair: Janna Joceli Omena Order of presentations: (17′ for each group + 5m for questions) Journalism Apps Health myths’ circulation on social media Interrogating Vision APIs Frugal Innovation	Torre B | Auditório 1 | First floor

Teamºº

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.

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.

Elsa Caetano is an Instructional Designer at NOVA Doctoral School and a PhD student in Communication Sciences at FCSH/NOVA. She expanded the communication and narrative skills in different platforms and formats when she worked as a researcher at CITI (Interactive Technology Research Center at FCSH/NOVA) and now, as a researcher at iNOVA Media Lab. Besides writing, she developed audiovisual contents (video, animation) to e-learning web2.0 platforms, websites, interactive books and webtv content.

Cristian Ruiz M.A. in Communication Sciences field of specialization in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from the Nova University of Lisbon. Currently is building his early stage researcher career. Being involved at IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, applying digital methods and network theory in dynamics industry studies. Since 2017 have collaborated with iNova Media Lab, being part of SMART. By the other side, he is interested in the relation of digital media with the election process in representative democracies, exploring approaches in critical theory applied to social media. Last interests lie in a further comprehension of network and complexity sciences.

Ana Marta Flores has a master degree in journalism from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and is currently a doctoral student in journalism at UFSC with a period of studies at Universidade de Lisboa, in Portugal. Ms. Flores researches fashion journalism in the convergent context and she is currently investigating the Trend Studies applied to consumption and innovation in journalism. Participates in the Applied Research Network in Journalism and Digital Technologies (JorTec), at SBPJor – Brazilian Association of Journalism Researchers. She is also an investigator at the Center for Studies and Production in Hypermedia applied to Journalism (Nephi-Jor), an axis of the Research Group Hypermedia and Language/ CNPq.

Speakers ˚ ˚

Richard Rogers is University Professor and holds the Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of the Digital Methods Initiative. Among other works, Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press, 2004), awarded the 2005 best book of the year by the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and Digital Methods (MIT Press, 2013), awarded the 2014 Outstanding Book of the Year by the International Communication Association (ICA). Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe, written with Natalia Sanchez and Aleksandra Kil, was published by Amsterdam University Press (2015), and Doing Digital Methods (2019) is published by Sage.

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.

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. She’s also interested in music, art, and everything that deals with the ever-increasing growth relationship between technology, humanities and social sciences.

André Mintz PhD student in Communication Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), researcher of the Intermedia Connections Research Group (NucCon) and CAPES Foundation scholarship holder.

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.

Projects Leaders ˚ ˚

André Mintz PhD student in Communication Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), researcher of the Intermedia Connections Research Group (NucCon) and CAPES Foundation scholarship holder. MA in Communication Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). MA in Media Arts Cultures, Aalborg University (Denmark), Lodz University (Poland) and Danube University Krems (Austria).

Dora Santos Silva holds a PhD in Digital Media under the UT Austin | Portugal international program and a master degree in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at FCSH – Nova University of Lisbon, where she also graduated in Communication Sciences. Media innovation, digital journalism, cultural journalism and creative industries are her main research areas. She is a founding and executive member at iNOVA Media Lab, where she coordinates DALI – Digital JournALism Initiative. She has teaching experience in the fields of journalism, cultural journalism, cyberculture and digital storytelling. She is an invited assistant professor at FCH-UCP and at FCSH – Nova University of Lisbon.

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.

Elsa Caetano is an Instructional Designer at NOVA Doctoral School and a PhD student in Communication Sciences at FCSH/NOVA.

Inês Amaral has a PhD in Communication Sciences, by the University of Minho, in 2012, through the Fellowship Programme of FCT (The Portuguese Foundation for the Science and Technology). She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho). She teaches in the field of Digital Communication. Inês works social network analysis since 2008. She has developed research on sociability in online social networks, media consumption in the digital age and social movements. (CV)

Mariana Scalabrin Müller is a PhD candidate at the University of Minho and NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities with the support of the FCT Foundation. Her thesis working title is “Cultural journalism in a digital environment: representations of Brazil and Portugal in Público and Folha de São Paulo newspapers”. She holds a Master degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) with a thesis focused in cultural journalism. Mariana also worked as an editor of a daily cultural TV show at TVE-RS. Between October 2018 and January 2019, she worked as a PhD visiting candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Miguel Amaral presently works as a tenured Assistant Professor at the Engineering and Management Department from Instituto superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa and as a member of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+/IST, where he integrates the Laboratory of Technology Policy and Management. He is also a co-founder of the Social Innovation Lab at IST. His research interests and teaching focus mainly on Sociotechnical Change and Entrepreneurial Dynamics.

Tarcízio Silva PhD student on Social Sciences and Humanities (UFABC – Brazil) and Researcher at IBPAD – Brazilian Institute of Research and Data Analysis. Since 2008, he has focused on social media data research, ranging from “social listening” services to digital agencies to controversies detection about public issues and policies. Currently, is researching racialization on digital algorithms and social media platforms.

Tutors, Designers and Developers ˚ ˚

Ana Marta M. Flores has a master degree in journalism from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and is currently a doctoral student in journalism at UFSC. She researches fashion journalism in the convergent context and she is currently investigating the Trend Studies applied to consumption and innovation in journalism.

André Mintz PhD student in Communication Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), researcher of the Intermedia Connections Research Group (NucCon) and CAPES Foundation scholarship holder.

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.

Cristian Ruiz M.A. in Communication Sciences field of specialization in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from Nova University of Lisbon and SMART research member. His masters’ dissertation is on Twitter role in referendums, studying Colombian peace referendum and Brexit.

Harald Meier graduated from the Department of Geography at the University of Münster (Germany) in 2011. His diploma thesis offered a new approach to world city network research with a focus on spatial configurations of online networks. Eventually he founded the Digital Space Lab where he conducts a variety of social network analysis (SNA) on social, economic and political topics. In 2015 Harald joined Team NodeXL at the Social Media Research Foundation providing NodeXL Pro workshops and training sessions across Europe.

Inês Amaral has a PhD in Communication Sciences, by the University of Minho, in 2012, through the Fellowship Programme of FCT (The Portuguese Foundation for the Science and Technology).

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.

Tarcízio Silva PhD student on Social Sciences and Humanities (UFABC – Brazil) and Researcher at IBPAD – Brazilian Institute of Research and Data Analysis.

Participants ˚ ˚

Bia Carneiro is a PhD Sociology researcher in the programme “Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism” at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Joint Major Communication and Latin American Studies from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and a MSc Social Policy and Development from London School of Economics, UK. She is a founding member of the “Labour Relations and Society Research Group “. In between her academic pursuits, Bia has gained more than fifteen years of professional experience in communication and international development. Her current research interests are Digital Methods, social movements, and young workers.

Catarina Melo Mateus is a MSc finalist in Industrial Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico and is currently doing the master thesis entitled “Social innovation”. Throughout the academic career, has acquired competences in the areas of Engineering Sciences as well as specialty disciplines such as Management, Operations and Marketing, pillars that allow her to tackle complex issues and combine knowledge to problem solving and decision making. Research interests focus on mapping the institutions, laboratories, hubs and incubators around the world, that are dedicated to investigating and encouraging social innovation.

Cristiana Freitas Phd student in digital media (Nova de Lisboa, 2017), M.A. in Digital television: Knowledge and Information (FAAC-UNESP/SP-Brasil), and Interface Design graduated. Currently she is member of the Observatório Latinoamericano de Conteúdos Digitais (OLAIC). Also, she has worked as a Journalist and had experience in television and convergence interactive digital media, for TV Cultura, TV Brasil, TV Câmaras and TV Escola among other brazilian Media.

Daniel Ribeiro PhD fellow enrolled in the Digital Media Doctoral Program at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, in partnership with the University of Austin, Texas, USA. His PhD project studies the social phenomena of the popularity increase of pseudoscience, that is, the activities that claim to be scientific but have no supporting quality evidence of being true, such as astrology, homoeopathy and a set of “alternative medicines”.

Elena Pilipets recently earned her Ph.D. degree in Media Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (Doctoral Dissertation: “POP: Mediations. (Dis)Connecting Affect and Meaning in Digital Popular Culture”). Between 2014 and 2018 she worked as Research Assistant and Lecturer in Media Theory and Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communication Studies (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt). Her teaching areas and research interests are popular culture, internet research, cultural studies, affective turn, and actor-network theory.

Fábio Castro Gouveia Master’s in science (Microbiology) and Doctorate in Sciences (Education, Management and Diffusion in Biosciences) by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a Health Technologist at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation with researches in Information Science (Metrics Studies of Information – Scientometrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics), Data Science, Blockchain technology and Science and Health Communication (Museums and Science Centres, Internet, Multimedia and Interaction Design). He currently coordinates the SciMetrics research group: Science, Data, Networks and Metrics and is a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Network in the face of the Zika Epidemic in Brazil (Fiocruz).

Florian Lang Before joining the VUB’s EDGE research program as a PhD student, he was a project researcher for the Migration, Diversity and Justice Cluster at the Institute for European Studies, where he was involved in several FP7 and Horizon-2020 projects on societal security and violent extremism. He also worked as a freelance writer for EU Observer, where he published analytical pieces on far-right populism and democratic backsliding in Europe. He holds two master’s degrees, one in European Integration Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the other in Human Rights Studies from the University of Vienna.

Gisela Machado Canelhas is PhD candidate in Digital Media at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Nova University of Lisbon. She holds a MA in Culture Studies from the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. Also has background in Neuropsychology through the post-graduate courses attended in Mind, Brain and Education and Transculturality and Psychopathology at the Institute of Health Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. Her research interests are Digital Media and Cognition, Language and Cognitive Development, Culture and Cognition, Intercultural Communication.

Hamdan Azhar is chief data scientist at Zap.org, a founding member of Bitcoin Center NYC, and the founder of PRISMOJI. He was formerly a senior data scientist in advertising research at Facebook. Prior to that, he was the national statistician on Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign. Hamdan is a frequent writer on the intersection of technology and culture and his writings have appeared in Forbes, VICE, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other outlets. He is master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and spent one year in the Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of Chicago. His research interests lie at the intersection of data science, computational social science, and journalism.

Helen Tatiana Takamitsu Currently holds a PhD in Production Engineering
at Unesp-SP. She has experience in the area of Industrial Design, Administration, Marketing
and Project Management, working mainly on the following topics: jewelry, fashion accessories, entrepreneurship, creative economy, innovation, social media and SNA.

Ioli Campos is a Phd student in Digital Media (UT Austin-Portugal Colab & UNL) and master degree in journalism (UNL). Currently involved with iNova Media Lab.

Jan Alyne Prado has a Communication/Journalism Bachelor Degree, as well as a Master (2003) and Ph.D (2010) in Communication and Contemporary Culture at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. At the moment, she is a guest researcher at Bremen Universität, at the department of Linguistics. Her current post doc research is concerned with news design in digital/web environments under the perspectives of multimodality. More recently, researches of her concern surround journalistic processes and practices for storytelling in digital/web environments, considering many levels of reference, but mainly intersecting semiotics, linguistics, software studies and genre in journalism.

Jorge Gonçalves Assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – University of Lisbon, Portugal. Coordinator of “Urban Studies and Territorial Management” Master Program also in IST. PhD in Geography and Regional Planning –speciality in territorial management (2005) from New University of Lisbon, MSc in Human Geography and Regional and Local Development (1996) and graduate in Geography (1987), both from University of Lisbon.

Louise Knops is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels since November 2017. Her research interests go from agro-ecology to political representation and digital democracy. She held previous positions as parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament (2010-2017) and researcher (Centre for European Policy Studies 2011-2014).

Marcia Lisboa has a doctorate’s degree in Health Information and Communication, a master in in Communication and Culture and a Bachelor in Journalism. Enrolled as a researcher at the Health Communication Research Lab of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). Her work is mainly focused on investigating journalism mediation processes; evaluating the development of knowledge concerning risks to human health; studying the appropriation of journalistic products by teenagers; and digital media.

Mário Morais holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from CLSBE and a BA from NOVA SBE and. He began to teach Strategy at CLSBE in 2010, while being a Research Assistant for Professor Céline Abecassis, focusing on innovative business. Since then, he has been teaching courses of Marketing, Strategy and International Management for both undergraduate and masters courses. His non-academic career started in 2008 at BAIE and since then he was at L’Oreal, LG, McKinsey&Company, Santander’s web portal Universia. Currently he is responsible for several entrepreneurial ventures as founder or investor, such as Reach Consulting, a consulting company, the food chain Poké Bowls, a Music school & store (Lismúsica Spot) and content producer (TM Records).

Marit Brademann is a working professional in the field of digital product development, organizational development and innovation practices. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Mannheim and an extended learning certificate in Design Thinking from the Hasso Plattner Institute’s School of Design Thinking. She develops workshop formats and curricula to train teams in agility and digital product development approaches and provides hands-on support in daily team business. She currently develops a framework to support the structural integration of ethical considerations in the process of product development especially in journalism, civil society and institutions sponsoring those. In parallel, she is an aspiring PhD candidate in Political Science.

Pedro Mendoça: is a Ph.D. in Political Studies and is doing research on how to decarbonize the Economy at IN+ Center for Innovation Technology and Policy Research. He is continuously interested in the distributive struggles of economic globalization, and in exploring the ideas of deglobalization and economic degrowth through Critical Political Economy and Critical Discourse Analysis. He has done research on themes ranging from “the right to city” and urban democracy to the interrelationship of international trade and democratization. He is the father of two and very private about his artistic endeavors (namely, his incursions into music, movies and theater).

Rajesh Sharma is Senior Research Fellow in Information Systems, joined Institute of Computer Science in 2017. From Jan 2014 to July 2017, he has held Research Fellow and postdoc positions at the University of Bristol, Queen’s University Belfast, UK and the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to that, he completed his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in December 2013. He has also worked in IT industry for about 2.5 years after completing his Masters from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. Research interests lies at the intersection of network science large-scale data analytics and, social computing.

Roli Mahajan has a Master’s in Journalism and Mass Communication from University of Lucknow and a Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila. Currently, she is a student of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Worked in the digital field for more than 8 years and over the last 4 years exclusively used social media for descriptive research as well as monitoring methods. Her fields of interests and production are research assignment on women’s economic choices and safety implications in India for Case For Space presented the same at the AME conference at Harvard in United States, as well as environmental non-violent movements, online safety for women and journalists, understanding of terrorism and extremism trends.

Taís Oliveira is a Public Relations professional. Currently, a master student in Humanities and Social Sciences at Federal University of the ABC, research member in NEAB-UFABC (Center of African and Afro-Brazilian studies) and Metrics and Social Listening Analyst at Associação Cidade Escola Aprendiz (non-governmental organization). Her research discusses social networks, ethnic economy and black entrepreneurship in Brazil.

Tânia França Is a Researcher in the field of Collective Health in the ObservaRH from the Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. She got her Master degree in Public Health in the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública and her doctorate in Collective Health by the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Nowadays is Associate Professor from the Instituto de Medicina Social in the above-mentioned University and Associate Professor from Procientista do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Moreover, she is leader of the research group “Políticas, Programas e Ações de educação na Saúde – PPAES”.

Tona Elizabeth Orifa Is a doctoral student at the University of Coimbra, intending to research on Feminist activism on Facebook in West Africa. During her fieldwork for her Master of Development Communication (M.A), she focused on crisis and resolution using Mass Media, mainly radio and television. Prior her academics studies, she went ahead with activist efforts, working as a facilitator and field worker for a NGO called Girls Power Initiative (GPI).

Vitória Albuquerque Experienced architect and urban designer with more than 15 years of experience in the design and construction industry. With strong interest in innovation, technology and data analytics and keen on using her technical expertise to tackle complex city challenges. With practical experience in large-scale, public realm and mixed-use international projects, and set of technical and analytical skills, combined with her strong educational background in Architecture (UK | ARB, RIBA, Portugal | OA) and Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (MSc) help her work across all disciplines and enable her to provide high-quality support to a wide variety of projects. Her research focus on scientific understanding of cities through modelling, simulation, data analytics, and visualisation. Interests and experience cover data science, science of cities and intelligent mobility including transport network modelling, network science, travel behaviour, and urban data analytics and visualisation.