DMI Summer School 2017

I have attended the 10th edition of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) Summer School at University of Amsterdam, under the theme “Get the picture – Digital Methods for Visual Research”. In this two-weeks intensive course I had the opportunity to work with incredible and

First steps with R

This is the result of a short experiment with R. The presentation was produced by myself, Camila Wohlmuth, Carla Nave and Gonçalo Barbosa. We attended the course Introduction to Digital Humanities (with Daniel Carter as instructor) at Digital Media Summer Institute, in Porto, Portugal. 

Does context matter?

This piece of work was developed in the first year of my PhD as an effort to reflect on how platforms moderate content and whether they take context into account. I look at the content moderation policy of Instagram, drawing particular attention to  the case of #belarecatadaedolar.

Instagram Data Analysis: the pros and cons of co-tag network and key actors.

A wide variety of approaches or ways of seeing social media data have been undertaken, the question is whether they are technically adequate or a simple depiction of what you get.

Potential scenarios for API research

The technological glue of the web (application programming interfaces) has not only

#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram

This is an experiment: the ideia is to visualise the most popular posts using

Ways of Thinking Technicity III

“If one wants to understand a being completely, one must study it by considering it in its entelechy, and not it its inactivity or its static states” (Simondon, 2009, p. 19).

Ways of Thinking Technicity II

 “Man is the permanent organizer of a society of technical objects”, (Simondon, 1980, p.4).

Ways of Thinking Technicity I

“There is something eternal in a technical schema…And it is that (quality) which is always present and which can be conserved in a thing”.

The Data Journalism Debate

I am pleased to announce the first data sprint organised by SMART* under the theme