Past contributions

Below is a non-exhaustive list of contributions from my time in Brazil, up through my MSc.

Theses – in Portuguese

• Classifying communities in temporal networks by text: mapping the 2013-2018 Brazilian protests on Twitter (2022). MSc. thesis. Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil. Supervisor: Prof. Cristiana Losekann. Funding: CAPES, Ministry of Education.
• Cluster analysis using Markov Cluster Algorithm and the Louvain method: a case study of Wikipedia entries (2021). PgDip. thesis. Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Supervisor: Prof. Jefferson Andrade.
• A tool for data journalism, social network analysis and cyberspace mapping (2018). BSc. thesis. Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Malini.

Conference papers – in Portuguese

• Impacts of new information and communication technologies in post-2013 Brazil (2019). IV Proceedings of the Social Sciences Seminar PGCS-Ufes, Vitória, Brazil.
• \(\dagger\) Introduction to sentiment analysis in social networks: the lexicon built in two moments of the impeachment process (2016). IX ABCiber National Symposium, São Paulo, Brazil.
• The hashtag #ThereWillBeNoCoup in light of the perspectivist social network analysis method (2016). XXXIX Congress of Communication Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil.
• \(\dagger\) Mapping the ‘Ninja Media’: an analysis of the emerging territorial collectivities on Facebook (2014). VIII ABCiber National Symposium, São Paulo, Brazil.
• \(\dagger\) Perspectives on Twitter: a quanti-qualitative technique for Social Network studies (2014). XXXVII Congress of Communication Sciences, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
• Black Block and the role of social media in brazilian demonstrations of September 7, 2013 (2014). XIX Southeastern Congress of Communication Sciences, Vila Velha, Brazil.

\(\dagger\): Co-author contribution.

Teaching experience

• Introduction to Computational Social Sciences (2022). Dept. of Social Sciences, Center of Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
• Introduction to Programming with Python (2017). Dept. of Communication, Center of Arts, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
• Workshop: Analyzing Social Life with Gephi (2013). Dept. of Communication, Center of Arts, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Research projects

• Global Education and Social Networks (2017). Commissioned by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (the Education Commission). Conducted in collaboration with the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
• Zika Virus: digital data analysis from Brazil and the world (2016). Commissioned by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Conducted in collaboration with the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Intellectual property

• PTRSO – Thematic Panel for Online Social Networks (2016). Registered computer software (INPI Brazil No. BR 51 2017 000690-3). Developed in collaboration with the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Funding: Ministry of Education, Brazil.

Talks / Interviews

• Online: Algorithms, Art, and Internet Activism (2021). Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil / Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil.
• Seminar: Transformations of Contemporary Activism (2019). Center of Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Educational material

• Gephi: an open source software for graph visualization and manipulation (2013). Student booklet distributed for a workshop at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.