Researchers

General Coordination

Afonso de Albuquerque

Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Media (UFF)
Ph.D. in Communication and Culture (UFRJ)
Research Productivity Fellow I-B (CNPq)
Scientist of Our State Fellow (Faperj)

Projects:

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Connecting the Dots: Asymmetry in Global Communication Research and Its Political Impact (CNPq)

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Asymmetry in Global Communication Research and Its Political Impact (Faperj)

Jamil Marques

Professor at the Department of Political Science (UFPR)
Ph.D. in Contemporary Communication and Culture (UFBA)
Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq)

Projects:

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Digital transparency in the Brazilian state: Theory, methodology, and practical applications

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Editorial journalism in a comparative perspective

Management Committee

Raquel Recuero

Professor at the Center for Languages and Communication (UFPEL)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (UFRGS)
Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq)

Projects:

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DEMOCRACY AT RISK: Combating the effects and strategies of disinformation on social media in the 2022 Election (CNPq)

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DISINFORMATION PHENOMENA ON PLATFORMS: Perspectives from the Global South (INCT/CNPq)

Thaiane Oliveira

PPGCOM-UFF

Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Media (UFF)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (UFF)
Ph.D. in Communication (UFF)
Research Productivity Fellow 2 (CNPq)
Young Scientist of Our State Fellow (Faperj)

Projects:

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The spread of scientific disinformation in Health and Environment and strategies for confrontation during times of epistemic crisis (Faperj)

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Amidst doubt peddlers and truth guardians: interstitial institutions’ role in advancing agendas addressing disinformation in public debate (CNPq)

Roseli Fígaro

USP

Full Professor at the University of São Paulo
Research Productivity Fellow Level 2 by CNPq
President of the National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication (COMPOS)

Projects:

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Datafication of communication activity and the labor of communicator arrangements: grappling with platform companies’ determinations

Edson Dalmonte

Pós-Com-UFBA

Associate Professor at the School of Communication and in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGCOM/UFBA)

Projects:

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Mediating agents of content and issues of public interest in the age of social media

Andrea Medrado

PPGMC-UFF

Adjunct Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, working in the Graduate Program in Media and Everyday Life (PPGMC) and in the Department of Social Communication (GCO)

Projects:

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Citizen Communication and Politics in Times of Convergence

Sectoral Directorate Coordinators

Diógenes Lycarião

Scientific Communication and Dissemination

Professor in the Journalism Program (UFC) Permanent Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM/UFC)

Projects:

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Political Communication in Perspective: climate change and discursive shifts in a (de)globalizing world

Michele Goulart Massuchin

Research, Development and Innovation

Professor at the Department of Communication (UFPR)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Political Science (PPGCP)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM)
Ph.D. in Political Science (UFSCAR)

Projects:

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Disinformation, distrust in science, and institutional action in scientific dissemination: possibilities for university engagement in the post-pandemic context

Andrea Medrado

Internationalization and Institutional Relations

Adjunct Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, working in the Graduate Program in Media and Everyday Life (PPGMC) and in the Department of Social Communication (GCO)

Projects:

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Citizen Communication and Politics in Times of Convergence

Camilla Quesada Tavares

Financial Management and Accountability

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)
Permanent Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at UFMA
Collaborating Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at UFPR
Research Productivity Fellow by CNPq, Ph.D. in Communication (UFF)

Projects:

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Toxic Discourse on Social Media: Definition, Characteristics, and Typologies

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Disinformation and Disbelief in Science in the Context of Imperatriz/Maranhão

Liziane Guazina

Education and Human Resource Development

Professor at PPG-FAC-UnB and collaborating professor at PPGCOM-UFMT

Projects:

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Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War by television news in Brazil (part of the international research project The coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war by television news)

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From South to South: a comparative analysis on Media, Populism and Corruption in four countries

National team

Bruno Bernardo de Araújo

UFMT

Professor at the Department of Communication (UFMT)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (UFMT)
Ph.D. in Communication (UnB)

Projects:

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New Populisms, Media, and Democracy: populism as a communicational issue

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Populist Communication, Neoconservatism, and Disinformation in Subnational Electoral Contexts

Edemilson Paraná

UFC

Professor at the Department of Social Sciences (UFC)
Ph.D. in Sociology (UnB)
Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq)
Research Associate at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD)

Projects:

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Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence: a comparative analysis between Brazil and the United Kingdom

Reynaldo Aragon Gonçalves

UFF

Ph.D. candidate and Master’s degree holder from the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal Fluminense University
Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Informational Disputes and Sovereignties (DSI)
Member of the Strategic Studies in Communication and Cognition Center (NEECC)
Executive Coordinator of the Conecta Network on Artificial Intelligence and Scientific and Media Education.

Projects:

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Anti-science networks linked to the far-right on the web: their role in spreading fake news and constructing scientific denialism in Brazil and the US

Wagner Lara Machado

PUC-RS

Professor in undergraduate and graduate programs (Master’s and Ph.D.) in Psychology, School of Health Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Projects:

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Be well

Edna Miola

UTFPR

Professor at the Department of Language and Communication (UTFPR)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Planning and Public Governance (UTFPR)
Ph.D. in Social Communication (UFMG)

Projects:

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Communication Dilemmas within the State: Conflicts between Propaganda and Public Interest

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Digital Democracy and Government Communication on social media platforms

José Cláudio Castanheira

UFF

Professor at the Federal Fluminense University – Department of Communication
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Ceará – PPGCOM

Projects:

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Altered Sounds: An archaeology of sound effects (2019-2022)

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Portable Cinema: Relationships between the new media landscape and personal audiovisual practices (2017-2022)

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Cinematic Listening: Relationships between technologies and audibilities in cinema (2010-2013)

Marcelo Alves dos Santos

PUC-RIO

Professor at the Department of Communication (PUC-Rio)
Ph.D. in Communication (UFF)

Projects:

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Infrastructure and financing of disinformation industries

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Policies for moderating antidemocratic content on YouTube

Rousiley C. M. Maia

UFMG

Full Professor at the Department of Social Communication (UFMG)
Ph.D. in Political Science (Nottingham University)
CNPq Researcher
Resident Researcher at IEAT – Institute of Transdisciplinary Advanced Studies

Projects:

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Interconnected Media and Public Sphere System in Brazil: setbacks and democratic construction

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Deliberative System and interconnected media

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Innovations for learning deliberative capabilities - Phase II

Liziane Guazina

Education and Human Resource Development

Professor at PPG-FAC-UnB and collaborating professor at PPGCOM-UFMT

Projects:

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Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War by television news in Brazil (part of the international research project The coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war by television news)

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From South to South: a comparative analysis on Media, Populism and Corruption in four countries

Gilvan Müller de Oliveira

UFSC

Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
Researcher at the IBAS Program of the RIS Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi, India
Corresponding Member of the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language (AGLP).

Projects:

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UNESCO Chair in Language Policies for Multilingualism

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The Geopolitics of the Multilingual Internet

Michely Vogel

PPGCI

Professor at the Federal Fluminense University in the undergraduate courses of Library Science and Archival Science and in the Graduate Program in Information Science

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