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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.
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 Peer-review
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
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
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
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
  1. Barbosa, Sérgio. O paradoxo da democracia: a participação política e a internet. Germany. 2017.
Book chapter
  1. 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
  2. Barbosa, Sérgio. "Whatsapp e ciberativismo: novos espaços na democracia". Portugal, 2017.
Journal article
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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