About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, working at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, the sociology of emotions, and the politics of artificial intelligence. My doctoral research explores how European media portray AI, the emotions they invoke, the risks they emphasise, and how these representations differ across countries with distinct regulatory traditions and political cultures. I am particularly interested in what public discourse on AI reveals about deeper anxieties over algorithmic governance and its risks for democracy and citizenship. I am also a collaborator on a research project investigating how companion AI affects human relationships and social capital. As millions turn to AI for emotional support, the work investigates the impacts of these interactions for human connection.
Education
Freie Universität Berlin — 2026–Present
Freie Universität Berlin — 2022–2025
Federal University of Pernambuco — 2016–2018
Federal University of Pernambuco — 2010–2015
Publications
Research
Talks & Events
The AI Media Divide: How Global North and South News Frame Risk and Promise
06 Nov 2025 – Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting Platform Governance & Power: Between control, ethics and societal dynamics (DigiMeet 2025), Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), and Weizenbaum Institute (WI).
A Importância dos Dados Abertos (The Importance of Open Data)
2017 – Reproducibility and Transparency in the Social Sciences, MPCP-UFPE.
‘Que os Jogos Comecem’: anonimato e dissidência online na Copa do Mundo de 2014 (‘Let the Games Begin’: Anonymity and Online Dissent during the 2014 FIFA World Cup)
2016 – 40th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS 2016).
O cinema como meio na criação de novas perspectivas de expansão dos direitos culturais (Cinema as a Medium for Creating New Perspectives on the Expansion of Cultural Rights)
2015 – ProExt Program, Federal University of Pernambuco (ProExt-UFPE).
#OPHACKINGCUP – O ativismo hacker na Copa do Mundo de 2014 e a política de ninguém (#OPHACKINGCUP – Hacker Activism during the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Politics of No One)
16–19 Nov 2015 – 2nd International Congress of Net-Activism, theme “Net-Activism, Conflictuality, Participation and Autonomy in Digital Networks,” School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo (ECA-USP).
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