Sérgio Barbosa


Biography

Sérgio Barbosa (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Studies 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 fellow. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz University of Technology. He is also a graduate affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he was a Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, as well as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. In addition, Sérgio was awarded with a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund grant, as well as Sylff Research Abroad and Sylff Research 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.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Barbosa, Sérgio (2023), "WhatsAppers and Local Participation in Brazil", IWM post, Fall/Winter, 132, 6

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Article in Scientific journal

Barbosa, Sérgio (2021), "WhatsAppers for Social Good: Local Community Response to Covid-19 in Brazil", Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, 1, 15, 7

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Book Chapter

Barbosa, Sérgio; Back, Charlotth (2020), The Dark Side of Brazilian "WhatsAppers", in Jesús Sabriego; Augusto Jobim do Amaral; Eduardo Baldissera Carvalho Salles (org.), Algoritarismos. São Paulo, BR, Valencia, ES: Tirant lo Blanch, 454-467

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