Biography

Sérgio Barbosa is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, where he is part of the program "Democracy in the Twenty-First Century". Since August 2020, Sérgio has been a Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) fellow. In addition, he holds a Digital Humanism junior fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, as well as a graduate student affiliation at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, Sérgio was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany and he was awarded with a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) grant. His research interests include the emerging forms of political participation vis-à-vis the possibilities afforded by chat apps, with emphasis on WhatsApp for digital activism and everyday social interactions, focusing on Digital Sociology, Digital Activism, Digital Literacy and Global South. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Political Studies Review, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and First Monday, among others.