About me
Hello and welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands and a fellow at the Digital Democracy Center (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where I was a postdoc (2022-2023) in the Trust and News Authenticity project. My research interests are primary data journalism and -mis and disinformation, and my current investigation is centered on gendered disinformation. News sources, audience studies, and media literacy are also topics of my interest.
Both my Ph.D. (2021) and Master’s Degree (2018) in Communication and Information were obtained at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The title of my dissertation is The Elements of Transparency in Data Journalism, and it is available (for free) in Portuguese. One year later, I launched the book version of my doctoral research, which Insular published at the end of 2022 among a collection of journalism books.
I have extensive teaching experience. Besides leading public talks about data journalism and disinformation at several universities, I regularly worked as an Assistant Professor in Political Communication at SDU and in the Data Journalism MBA graduate program at the Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino, Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (IDP), where I founded and coordinated the research group called DataJor, focused on data and computational journalism.
Originally trained as a journalist, I have worked as a news writer for broadcasting and as a multimedia reporter for a daily newspaper (2011-2016) in a mid-size Brazilian city. Recently, my hands-on experience contributed to the development of Afonte Jornalismo de Dados and its media literacy project called Post or Not to Post, written in Portuguese sponsored by Goethe-Institut. I also worked as an editor and provided pedagogical support at Escola de Dados (School of Data).
As a former practitioner turned into a scholar, I am fully aware of the relevance of knowledge dissemination and, hence, the power of dialoguing with groups and communities outside academia. In this sense, I organized Open Data Day Porto Alegre three times (2019-2021), engaged in programs for science’s popularization, such as Cerveja com Dados, and volunteered for Covid-19 data collection at Brasil.io. Among my guest lectures, I taught kids and teenagers at workshops and was invited to speak at the State Parliament of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
Research, Journalism & Data | Ph.D. in Communication 