The Communication Networks & Social Change (CN&SC) Research Group of the IN3 organises a research seminar by Marcela Canavarro, Universidade do Porto (Portugal) and IN3 Visiting Scholar until next July.
The seminar will be held in Spanish and English.
Venue
Room -1A, UOC Castelldefels building (Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, B3 building)
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 5
08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Espanya
When
05/07/2017 12.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Communication Networks & Social Change Research Group (CN&SC) of the IN3
Program
This study focus on a quantitative and qualitative analysis on recent Brazilian popular uprisings in order to research digitally-enabled contagious at networks of political mobilization and its mid-term political implications. They investigate how information disseminate at networks of selected public pages on Facebook and analyze technopolitical dynamics associated to their physical and online action. The main frame is the so-called Journeys of June that took place in 2013, in Brazil, firstly motivated by the national rise on bus fares. They also look into its supposed repercussions until 2016. They rely on open social data, questionnaires and interviews as primary sources. To investigate the data sets extracted from social networking platforms, they apply data & text mining techniques associated with concepts from the Network Science. The primary sources support the theoretical analysis mainly based on Technopolitics concepts, Social Movements theories and the field of Communication.
Bio
Marcela Canavarro is journalist, researcher and media-activist. Her background in producing and/or editing news pieces - print, radio, TV and for the Web - is now applied to analysis of social media content, with a special focus on data sets extracted from political networks from Brazil on Facebook. At a Ph.D. program in Digital Media (FEUP/U.Porto, Portugal), she applies experimental computational methods to support archival documentation and political/historical analysis of the Journeys of June and later events in Brazil. Her theoretical grounds are Technopolitics, Social Movements Theory, Network Science and Communications. She is currently working on applying text mining techniques to the data sets, in a partnership with a team of researchers at Inesc-Tec (U.Porto). The main goal is achieving a deeper and consistent understanding of a fragmented narrative about the Journeys of June.
Marcela was also a media-activist along with the collective Rio Na Rua during the massive protests in Brazil in 2013. She has a M.A. degree in Communication and Culture (ECO/UFRJ, Brazil) and a specialization degree in Project Planning for Digital and Interactive Media (Senac-Rio, Brazil).