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Researcher in Digital Humanities. Beyond academia, I'm a freelancer journalist based in London
The research builds on top of two separate research questions, concerning curated politics in algorithmic governance, and appropriation of creative affordances. How do recommendation algorithms shape the political landscape of TikTok? How do TikTok ’s creative affordances affect user engagement of Black Lives Matter protests?
Project developed during the SICSS-Aachen-Graz (July 2022) investigating the variation of sentiment in news articles tweeted by @BBCBreaking - GitHub - caiocmello/news-mood: Project developed during the SICSS-Aachen-Graz (July 2022) investigating the variation of sentiment in news articles tweeted by @BBCBreaking
Spreading my research
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, which ended on Monday (8 August), marks the 10th anniversary of another international sporting event hosted in the UK: the 2012 Summer Olympics. As Birmingham prepares to return to normal, and hopefully build on the legacy of the Games, what lessons can be learned from the London experience a decade earlier?
By Caio Mello, Doctoral Researcher at the School of Advanced Study, University of London For two years, I have been studying the media coverage of London and Rio's Olympic legacies. See the previous posts, where I explained the project's main objective of understanding and conceptualizing the meaning of the word...
By Caio Mello, Doctoral Researcher at the School of Advanced Study, University of London Recently, exploring the data available in the UK Web Archive related to London's 2012 Olympic legacy, I found a very curious fact. Boris Johnson - Mayor of London during the games - told the BBC in...
By Caio Mello, Doctoral Researcher at the School of Advanced Study, University of London This blogpost is a summary of the presentation I delivered with my colleague Daniela Major in the conference Engaging with Web Archives: 'Opportunities, Challenges and Potentialities' in September 2020. This presentation is entitled 'Tracking and analysing...
By Caio Mello, Doctoral Researcher at the School of Advanced Study, University of London The Olympic Games happen every four years. This means that every four years a city has to be chosen as a host city. It is easy to think about the impact of hosting such a big...
Journalism
Acompanhe no UOL TAB reportagens, fotos e vídeos sobre tendências, comportamento, política e cultura em formatos inovadores.
Em fevereiro deste ano, assisti a uma palestra de uma brasileira no Musée d'Orsay, em Paris. Nara Galvão é pesquisadora, doutoranda em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e diretora do Museu Ricardo Brennand no Recife.
O estado do Rio de Janeiro amarga o primeiro lugar no ranking da pior letalidade do Brasil na pandemia do novo coronavírus (Sars-CoV-2). A taxa de letalidade (razão entre óbitos e casos confirmados) carioca da Covid-19 é de 8.7%. Em segundo lugar está Pernambuco, com 7.8%, seguido do Ceará, com 5%.