Research Projects & Groups

Journalism plays a key role in understanding and advancing discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals. This project, developed within the Communication Science Research Group, aims to understand journalistic practices in relation to the prevalent social and environmental crises facing the world, with a particular focus on the Global South. 

Drawing on a sample of news articles published between 2016 and 2018, the project focuses on the framing of migrants and refugees, the use of metaphors, and the citation of different actors when covering immigration issues in Brazil and the UK.

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DigiWorld is a scientific collaboration network that builts upon the work of DigiDeMo and CamforS and aims at international comparisons of election campaign strategies in digital communication channels.

As the head of the Brazilian Team, I manage the coding of the presidential electoral campaign on social media. My previous investigations have been focusing on Latin American countries, an understudied region in Political Communication.

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Our team relies on computational methods and theories to analyze today's society and culture based on digital trace data to gain a deeper understanding of societal attitudes and structure. In our current project, we use machine learning to examine visual political communication in the last presidential elections in Brazil. We analyze the visual political communication in different social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. 

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