Hashtags are not the whole message

Hashtags Studies and related research approaches are commonly explored on Twitter,however in this forthcoming article André Mintz, Elaine Rabello and myself introduce an approach for hashtag engagement research on Instagram. Our paper systematises approaches which have been explored in the context of two data

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#SMARTDataSprint Research Blog

I´m happy to share the #SMARTDataSprint research blog, which gathers the projects reports of the first and second editions of the SMART Data Sprint. There you can find very interesting projects and approaches of data analysis advanced by digital methods.

Insta Bots and the black market of social media engagement

This post attempts to address very specific questions on the black market of automated engagement on Instagram, giving special attention to applications created to support the practice of botting, and also the functioning of botted accounts.

Why look at social media APIs?

I was really glad to attend to ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference, under the them: Digital Culture Meets Data: Critical Approaches. The conference was held by University of Brighton, Mithras House on 6 – 7 November 2017. Here is a summary of my talk and the slide presentation.

Data is not a monster.

I´m very pleased to announce SMART Data Sprint 2018. Data is not a monster is the motto of the second edition of SMART Data Sprint, and the theme: Interpreters of Platforms Data. The sprint will be held in Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA FCSH,

As Universidades Portuguesas no Facebook

António Granado and I presented our ongoing work about digital methods for institutional communication and science communication at SciCom PT 2017 – Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra,

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.