Sérgio Barbosa (DB12-C88C-A463)

Curriculum Vitae

Sérgio Barbosa

Sérgio Barbosa is a PhD candidate in the program "Democracy in the Twenty-First Century" linked to the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra. From August 2020, he was awarded with a FCT (Science and Technology Foundation) Research Fellowship, grant reference: SFRH/BD/143495/2019. Prior to joining FCT cohort of fellows, Sérgio was a SYLFF (Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) fellow sponsored by Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. Currently, Mr. Barbosa is a visiting researcher at Utrecht University (2021) and previously at University of Amsterdam (2019-2020). He is a member of the Technopolitics - a "Latin" research network connecting Brazil and Ecuador with Spain, Portugal and Italy. He is also a member of the COST Action CA17135 'Constitution-Making and Deliberative Democracy'. 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 social interaction, focusing on WhatsAppers, Digital Sociology, Digital Activism, and Data Ethics. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Political Studies Review, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and First Monday, among others.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sérgio Barbosa

Citation names

Barbosa, Sérgio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: DB12-C88C-A463
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3862-6132

Email addresses

sergiosilva@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Social Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016 - 2022 Ongoing	Programa Doutoral em "Democracia no Século XXI" (Doutoramento) Major in Sociology Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal "Who are the WhatAppers? Reinventing Political Participation in the Twenty-First Century" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015 - 2017 Concluded	Mestrado em Sociologia Política (Master) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil "WhatsApp e política: novas formas de ciberativismo em Florianópolis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2011 - 2015 Concluded	Licenciatura em Ciências Sociais (Licence) Universidade de Brasília, Brazil "O paradoxo da democracia: a participação política dos alunos da Universidade de Brasília e a Internet" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2011 - 2014 Concluded	Sociologia (Bachelor) Universidade de Brasília, Brazil "O paradoxo da democracia: a participação política dos alunos da Universidade de Brasília e a internet" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/09/30 - Current	PhD candidate in the program "Democracy in the Twenty-First Century"	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/05 - 2021/10	Visitant Researcher	Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
	Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON), Netherlands (...)
2019 - 2020	Visitant Researcher	Universiteit van Amsterdam Departement Mediastudies, Netherlands
	Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/08 - 2024/07/31	The rise of Global South WhatsAppers SFRH/BD/143495/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2013/08/01 - 2014/07/31	O paradoxo da democracia: a participação política dos alunos da Universidade de Brasília e a internet 110040899 Scientific Initiation Fellow Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil	Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia Inovações e Comunicações Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2017/05/02 - 2017/12/31	COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in the Governance of Community Areas COMUNIX Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Concluded
2015/03/01 - 2017/02/28	WhatsApp e Política: Novas Formas de Ciberativismo em Florianopólis 201500110 Master Student Fellow Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil	Ministério da Educação Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Barbosa, Sérgio. O paradoxo da democracia: a participação política e a internet. Germany. 2017.
Book chapter	Barbosa, Sérgio; Charlotth Back. "The Dark Side of Brazilian WhatsAppers". In Algoritarismos, edited by Jesús Sabariego; Augusto Jobim do Amaral; Eduardo Baldissera Carvalho Salles, 454-467. São Paulo, Brazil: Tirant lo blanch, 2020. Published Barbosa, Sérgio. "Whatsapp e ciberativismo: novos espaços na democracia". Portugal, 2017.
Journal article	Herrada Hidalgo, Nadia; Santos, Marcelo; Barbosa, Sérgio. "Affordances-driven ethics for research on mobile instant messaging: Notes from the Global South". Mobile Media & Communication 0 0 (2024): 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20501579241247994. Published • 10.1177/20501579241247994 Barbosa, Sérgio. "COMUNIX WhatsAppers: The Community School in Portugal and Spain". Political Studies Review (2020): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929920951076. Open access • Published • 10.1177/1478929920951076 Milan, Stefania; Barbosa, Sérgio. "Enter the WhatsApper: Reinventing digital activism at the time of chat apps". First Monday 25 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i12.10414. Published • 10.5210/fm.v25i12.10414 Barbosa, Sérgio. "Do Not Harm in Private Chat Apps: Ethical Issues for Research on and with WhatsApp". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.313. 10.16997/wpcc.313 Barbosa, Sérgio. "Resistências ao golpe: o povo diz 2016 nunca mais". Astrolabio Revista Internacional de Filosofia (2018): https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Astrolabio/article/view/342190. doi: 10.1344/astrolabio2018.22.13 Barbosa, Sérgio. "É possível a internet alavancar novas formas de participação política?". Controversias y Concurrencias Lationamericanas (2016): http://sociologia-alas.org/wp-content/uploads/CyCL_13_V5.pdf.
Magazine article	Barbosa, Sérgio. "WhatsAppers and Local Participation in Brazil", IWM post, 2023, https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/whatsappers-and-local-participation-in-brazil.
Report	Barbosa, Sérgio. 2021. WhatsAppers for Social Good: Local Community Response to Covid-19 in Brazil. https://icld.se/en/publications/sergio-barbosa-2021-whatsappers-for-social-good-local-community-response-to-covid-19-in-brazil/.

Distinctions

Award

2020	Sylff Research Abroad The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Japan
2020	PhD fellowship grant SFRH/BD/143495/2019 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	Best Academic Paper: Global South WhatsAppers: Reinventing Digital Activism at the time of the chat apps Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia
2019	Sylff (Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) grant The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Japan
2018	Eramus + Doctoral Internship grant Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2014	Menção Honrosa no 20º Congresso de Iniciação Científica da UnB e 11º Congresso de Iniciação Científica do DF Universidade de Brasília, Brazil