Researchers
General Coordination
![foto inct afonso close](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/foto-inct-afonso-close.png)
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:
Connecting the Dots: Asymmetry in Global Communication Research and Its Political Impact (CNPq)
Asymmetry in Global Communication Research and Its Political Impact (Faperj)
![jamil](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/jamil.jpg)
Jamil Marques
Ph.D. in Contemporary Communication and Culture (UFBA)
Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq)
Projects:
Digital transparency in the Brazilian state: Theory, methodology, and practical applications
Editorial journalism in a comparative perspective
Management Committee
![Raquel Recuero](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/raquel-recuero.png)
Raquel Recuero
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (UFRGS)
Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq)
Projects:
DEMOCRACY AT RISK: Combating the effects and strategies of disinformation on social media in the 2022 Election (CNPq)
DISINFORMATION PHENOMENA ON PLATFORMS: Perspectives from the Global South (INCT/CNPq)
![Thaiane Oliveira](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/thaianePrancheta-1.png)
Thaiane Oliveira
PPGCOM-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:
The spread of scientific disinformation in Health and Environment and strategies for confrontation during times of epistemic crisis (Faperj)
Amidst doubt peddlers and truth guardians: interstitial institutions’ role in advancing agendas addressing disinformation in public debate (CNPq)
![Roseli Fígaro](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/roseli-figaro-29-3-2023-pb.jpg)
Roseli Fígaro
USP
Research Productivity Fellow Level 2 by CNPq
President of the National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication (COMPOS)
Projects:
Datafication of communication activity and the labor of communicator arrangements: grappling with platform companies’ determinations
![Edson Dalmonte](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/05/edson-dalmonte.png)
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:
Mediating agents of content and issues of public interest in the age of social media
![Andrea Medrado](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/andrea-medrado.png)
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:
Citizen Communication and Politics in Times of Convergence
Sectoral Directorate Coordinators
![Diógenes Lycarião](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/diogenes.png)
Diógenes Lycarião
Scientific Communication and Dissemination
Professor in the Journalism Program (UFC) Permanent Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM/UFC)
Projects:
Political Communication in Perspective: climate change and discursive shifts in a (de)globalizing world
![Michele Goulart Massuchin](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/michelePrancheta-1.png)
Michele Goulart Massuchin
Research, Development and Innovation
Professor in the Graduate Program in Political Science (PPGCP)
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM)
Ph.D. in Political Science (UFSCAR)
Projects:
Disinformation, distrust in science, and institutional action in scientific dissemination: possibilities for university engagement in the post-pandemic context
![Andrea Medrado](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/andrea-medrado.png)
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:
Citizen Communication and Politics in Times of Convergence
![Camilla Quesada Tavares](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/camila-quesada.png)
Camilla Quesada Tavares
Financial Management and Accountability
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:
Toxic Discourse on Social Media: Definition, Characteristics, and Typologies
Disinformation and Disbelief in Science in the Context of Imperatriz/Maranhão
![Liziane Guazina](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/05/Lizianeguazina.png)
Liziane Guazina
Education and Human Resource Development
Professor at PPG-FAC-UnB and collaborating professor at PPGCOM-UFMT
Projects:
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)
From South to South: a comparative analysis on Media, Populism and Corruption in four countries
National team
![Bruno Bernardo de Araújo](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/brunoPrancheta-1.png)
Bruno Bernardo de Araújo
UFMT
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (UFMT)
Ph.D. in Communication (UnB)
Projects:
New Populisms, Media, and Democracy: populism as a communicational issue
Populist Communication, Neoconservatism, and Disinformation in Subnational Electoral Contexts
![Edemilson Paraná](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/edmilsonPrancheta-1.png)
Edemilson Paraná
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:
Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence: a comparative analysis between Brazil and the United Kingdom
![Reynaldo Aragon Gonçalves](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/reyAtivo-2.png)
Reynaldo Aragon Gonçalves
UFF
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:
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
![Edna Miola](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/edna.jpg)
Edna Miola
UTFPR
Professor in the Graduate Program in Planning and Public Governance (UTFPR)
Ph.D. in Social Communication (UFMG)
Projects:
Communication Dilemmas within the State: Conflicts between Propaganda and Public Interest
Digital Democracy and Government Communication on social media platforms
![José Cláudio Castanheira](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/Castanheira_pb.jpg)
José Cláudio Castanheira
UFF
Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Ceará – PPGCOM
Projects:
Altered Sounds: An archaeology of sound effects (2019-2022)
Portable Cinema: Relationships between the new media landscape and personal audiovisual practices (2017-2022)
Cinematic Listening: Relationships between technologies and audibilities in cinema (2010-2013)
![Marcelo Alves dos Santos](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/marceloPrancheta-1.png)
Marcelo Alves dos Santos
PUC-RIO
Ph.D. in Communication (UFF)
Projects:
Infrastructure and financing of disinformation industries
Policies for moderating antidemocratic content on YouTube
![Rousiley C. M. Maia](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/04/rousileyPrancheta-1.png)
Rousiley C. M. Maia
UFMG
Ph.D. in Political Science (Nottingham University)
CNPq Researcher
Resident Researcher at IEAT – Institute of Transdisciplinary Advanced Studies
Projects:
Deliberative System and interconnected media
Innovations for learning deliberative capabilities - Phase II
![Liziane Guazina](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/05/Lizianeguazina.png)
Liziane Guazina
Education and Human Resource Development
Professor at PPG-FAC-UnB and collaborating professor at PPGCOM-UFMT
Projects:
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)
From South to South: a comparative analysis on Media, Populism and Corruption in four countries
![Gilvan Müller de Oliveira](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/gilvan.png)
Gilvan Müller de Oliveira
UFSC
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:
UNESCO Chair in Language Policies for Multilingualism
The Geopolitics of the Multilingual Internet
![Michely Vogel](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/06/Michely-Vogel.png)
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
Projects:
Brazilian scientific production on Agatha Christie: development of citation indicators
![Thales Vilela Lelo](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2024/02/thales.png)
Thales Vilela Lelo
UFMG
Professor at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), assigned to the Department of Social Communication (DCS)
International Team
![Alejandro Uribe Tirado](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Alejandro.png)
Alejandro Uribe Tirado
Colombia
![Cesar Jimenez-Martinez](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Cesar.png)
Cesar Jimenez-Martinez
United Kingdom
![François Barend van Schalkwyk](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Francois.png)
François Barend van Schalkwyk
South Africa
![Gabriel Velez Cuartas](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Gabriel_Velez_Cuartas.png)
Gabriel Velez Cuartas
Colombia
![Isabel Ferin Cunha](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/isabel-ferin.png)
Isabel Ferin Cunha
Portugal
![Jandhyala Prabhakar Rao](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Jandhyala-Prabhakar-Rao.png)
Jandhyala Prabhakar Rao
India
![Liriam Sponholz](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Liriam.png)
Liriam Sponholz
Germany
![Manuel Goyanes](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/manuel.png)
Manuel Goyanes
Spain
![Marco Toledo de Assis Bastos](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/marco_.png)
Marco Toledo de Assis Bastos
Ireland
![Marton Demeter](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Demeter.png)
Marton Demeter
Hungary
![Mauro Porto](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Mauro.png)
Mauro Porto
United States
![Rafael Grohmann](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/rafael.png)
Rafael Grohmann
Canada
![Rodrigo Costas](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/staff_costas.png)
Rodrigo Costas
Netherlands
![Silvio Waisbord](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Silvio.png)
Silvio Waisbord
United States
![Siva Prasad Rhambatala](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Siva-Prasad-Rambhatla.png)
Siva Prasad Rhambatala
India
![Stuart Davis](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/09/Stuart-Davis.png)
Stuart Davis
United States
Postdoctoral researchers
![Andressa Butture Kniess](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Andressa.png)
Andressa Butture Kniess
Master and PhD in Political Science (UFPR)
Supervisor: Jamil Marques
![Bruno Washington Nichols](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Bruno-.png)
Bruno Washington Nichols
Master in Communication and PhD in Political Science (UFPR)
Supervisor: Raquel Recuero
![Ébida dos Santos](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Ebida.png)
Ébida dos Santos
Master in Journalism (UFSC) and PhD in Communication (UnB)
Supervisor: Liziane Guazina
![Eleonora de Magalhães Carvalho](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Eleonora.png)
Eleonora de Magalhães Carvalho
Master and PhD in Communication (UFF)
Supervisors: Afonso de Albuquerque and Rachel Bert
![Érica Anita Baptista](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Erica.png)
Érica Anita Baptista
Master in Communication (PUC Minas) and PhD in Political Science (UFMG)
Supervisor: Liziane Guazina
![Fábio Pezzi Parode](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Fabio.png)
Fábio Pezzi Parode
Master in Semiotics (UNISINOS) and PhD in Aesthetics (Panthéon Sorbonne)
Supervisor: Diógenes Lycarião
![Giulia Sbaraini Fontes](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Giulia-Sbaraini.png)
Giulia Sbaraini Fontes
Master and PhD in Political Science (UFPR)
Supervisor: Thaiane Oliveira
![Krystal Urbano](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Kristal-Urbano.png)
Krystal Urbano
Master and PhD in Communication (UFF)
Supervisor: Thaiane Oliveira
![Mayara de Araujo](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Mayara.png)
Mayara de Araujo
Master in Communication and Culture (UERJ) and PhD in Communication (UFF)
Supervisor: Afonso de Albuquerque
![Roberta Lima](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Roberta.png)
Roberta Lima
Master in Public Policy Management (Univali) and PhD in Sociology and Law (UFF)
Supervisor: Thaiane Oliveira
![Rodrigo Nascimento Reis](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Rodrigo-Reis.png)
Rodrigo Nascimento Reis
Master in Journalism (UEPG) and PhD in Communication (UFF)
Supervisor: Camilla Tavares
![Tatiane Mendes Pinto](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/12/Tatiane.png)
Tatiane Mendes Pinto
Master in Media and Daily Life (UFF) and PhD in Communication (UERJ)
Supervisor: Thaiane Oliveira
![Daniela Mazur](http://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2024/03/daniela-1.png)
Daniela Mazur
Master and PhD in Communication (UFF)
Supervisor: Afonso de Albuquerque