2019 - Data for Black Lives is a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. Since the advent of computing, big data and algorithms have penetrated virtually every aspect of our social and economic lives. These new data systems have tremendous potential to empower communities of color. Tools like statistical modeling, data visualization, and crowd-sourcing, in the right hands, are powerful instruments for fighting bias, building progressive movements, and promoting civic engagement. But history tells a different story, one in which data is too often wielded as an instrument of oppression, reinforcing inequality and perpetuating injustice. Redlining was a data-driven enterprise that resulted in the systematic exclusion of Black communities from key financial services. More recent trends like predictive policing, risk-based sentencing, and predatory lending are troubling variations on the same theme. Today, discrimination is a high-tech enterprise.

2019 - Date: Monday, February 4, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:00pm Location: 1 Brattle, Suite 470, Cambridge, MA A conversation with digital HKS senior fellow, Yasodara Córdova, and Brazilian scholar and Ph.D. candidate, Sérgio Barbosa, on lessons learned from the use of WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections. Before being used to share misinformation, WhatsApp, a tool that evokes trust and intimacy among Brazilian users, was used for civic engagement in the biggest strike Brazil has ever seen. What can we learn from these two very different use cases of WhatsApp? The "fake news" phenomenon poisoned the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, following a worldwide trend. In Brazil, the misinformation campaigns took place mainly on WhatsApp, a tool that evokes trust and intimacy among users. Before being weaponized, the chat app was used for civic engagement in the biggest strike Brazil ever saw - and other occasions of collective resistance. What can we learn from the disparity between the episodes? How the tool can be explored as an asset for privacy-enabled conversations, and at the same time protect users from misinformation campaigns? What possibilities are being leveraged?

2019 - Talk to Chat App Group Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

2018 - Digitalization and social life: Theories, concepts, methods Program for workshop in Trondheim, 13-14 December 2018 Workshop themes The focus for the workshop is the new wave of digitalization and how it challenges established theories and concepts and requires methodological and theoretical rethinking in the social sciences. The goal of the workshop is primarily to bring together researchers locally at NTNU and "nearby surroundings" interested in the topic of the interplay between digitalization and social life, share and exchange thoughts and research interests, and build a hub and a network for future activities and publications. Thursday will mainly be devoted to methodological questions while Friday will be devoted to theoretical questions and empirical case studies. The WhatsAppers' turn: new challenges of digital life (Sérgio Barbosa, Center for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal) The general objective of this paper is to investigate how the use of digital media, in particular the WhatsApp, has been presented as a central element of interplay between digitalization and political life. To that end, it will be focused on how the WhatsAppers guide collective action dynamics and organize political strategies in particular. The research method is the "netnography" of WhatsApp groups using analytical procedures of a qualitative nature. I will ensure the processing of WhatsAppers personal data and privacy rules. The comprehension over the convening role of the WhastApp as online platform for civil mobilization has three main contributions. First, it will enable to understand its own emergence, as a signal of identifying the global extension digitally of Technopolitics, at the same time it encourages and has its main motivation in ensure "digital humanities" as a certain digital way of doing humanities research. Besides this, using WhatsApp and other message app systems can serve as a tool to expand and strengthen the participation of developing countries in global governance institutions. The framework adopted is the Emancipatory Communication Technologies of the italian sociologist Stefania Milan, exploring those practices at the intersection of the social and technological dimension of human action that create alternatives to existing communication tools or patterns. I aim to answer this departure question: what is the role and space of the WhatsApper in relation to contemporary digital activism?

2018 - Social Theory and Methodology (STAM group): The STAM group is a joint forum for regular seminars and discussion related to social theory and methodology at ISS. It represents a venue for exchange, in which students and staff can become better informed about issues related to social and political theory, applied theory, and diverse methodological issues (concerning e.g., causation, ontology, and epistemology). As the research frontier unfolds across a future that is sure to include more and better data, not to mention new research questions and social challenges that we are today unable to imagine (let alone predict), there should be little doubt about the need to develop stronger deductive skills and the capacity for greater methodological reflection in our student body. Our ambition is that the STAM group can spotlight these shortcomings in a way that will allow us better equip the next generation of sociologists and political scientists with the appropriate epistemological tools. The STAM group is also the home of ongoing research projects with a more generic interest in theory and methodology development. This include Leiulfsrud and Sohlbergs NFR- project "Sociological Theory and Practice Revisited" (STPR) and Moses´ and colleagues project on "Big Data". To achieve the goals of a joint venue strengthening social theory and methodology, we envision the need for a plethora of instruments, including regular meetings, seminars, guest lectures and even new courses. Toward that end, we invite all willing hands-whether students or staff, female or male, young or old, sociologist, political scientist or sport scientist-to help in this development. Fall semester 2018 (Seminars attended): Wednesday 10. October 09.15-12.00 (D-107): Professor Richard Swedberg (Cornell University): The craft of theorizing in social sciences* Wednesday 7. November 11.30-12.30 (Meeting Room I): Associate professor Christian Imdorf (ISS): The economics of convention and pragmatic sociology of critique Wednesday 12. December 11.30-12.30 (Meeting Room I). Professor Håkon Leiulfsrud (ISS): Theory and concepts in action

2018 - Workshop 'Big Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda', Amsterdam, December 4-5 The workshop builds on the work of DATACTIVE and the Data Justice Lab in thinking the relation between data, citizenship and participation, but goes beyond engaging with a much needed debate at the intersection of feminist theory, critical theory, and decolonial thinking.

2017 - The DANDELION workshop was held on 31st of October, 2017 in Lisbon, as a side event of the Net4Society conference "Democracy and Europe. Our Common Future?". The workshop brought together 28 SSH researchers, research managers and dissemination/impact managers from all over Europe. All participants engaged in active discussions in order to generate insights for the everyday practice of SSH research, and help demonstrate and enhance its unique value.

2014 - Award: Honorable Mention at the 20th Scientific Initiation Congress of UNB and 11th Congress of Scientific Initiation of the DF (2014), Deanery of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Brasilia.

2012 - 2013 - Intern in the Coordination of Traditional Peoples and Communities - Agrarian Development Ministry of the Brazilian Government: Support activities in the process of studies and research, such as research planning, scope determination, identification of the most appropriate methodology and target public for the traditional people and communities.

2011 - 2012 - Intern in the Coordination of Administration - Justice Ministry of the Brazilian Government: Support in bilingual articulations, translate official documents and produce reports related to the administration of Justice Ministry.