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Felipe Soares
@felipebsoares.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
This week, I was At #AOIR2025 in Niteroi to present my research on "The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus" (w/ @ludludlud.bsky.social and @vanessavaliati.bsky.social) and "Democracy in Brazil: Hope, Betrayal and Insurrection" (w/ Cassian Osborne-Carey)
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Amanha vou falar sobre o uso de metodos mistos e sobre a minha pesquisa na Feevale. Evento gratuito!

I'll be at Feevale tomorrow to discuss mixed methods and how I apply them to my research.

www.feevale.br/acontece/not...
Professor da University of the Arts London palestra na Feevale sobre pesquisa em mídias sociais
Evento será realizado no próximo dia 20
www.feevale.br
October 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This month I'll be at the Lines of Engagement conference as part of a panel about "the attention economy" to discuss my work on disinformation and content moderation. If you're interested, have a look at www.linesofengagement.net for more information. The event is hybrid.
September 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required — we’ll be using @Communalytic.org, a platform for analyzing social media discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
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June 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New paper with @toledobastos.bsky.social, @ovinhas.bsky.social and @raquelrecuero.bsky.social: "Reverse influence: the social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election".

Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Here is our study that offers some validation to the amplification hypothesis (Phillips 2018) and the related, but perhaps less studied, audience capture hypothesis (Weiss and Winter 2018).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🚨Final #veraAI Event is approaching

2️⃣ Half-Day Online Sessions

1️⃣7️⃣ June: Tools + Social Science Research
2️⃣4️⃣ June: Research deep dive

Join us to explore AI vs disinformation from all angles!

ℹ️ and registration form @ veraai.eu/posts/two-ve...
vera.ai presents its outcomes - and invites you all to attend two webinars!
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
veraai.eu
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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#CAISWorkingGroup on site:
This week at CAIS, we’re happy to be hosting a working group focusing on evaluating the fragility of social media platforms.
ℹ️ Learn more about their work here: www.cais-research.de/en/ags/asses...
#CAIScollege #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #Splinternet
May 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085
Abbiamo pubblicato un nuovo bando nella sezione PhD - Dottorati di Ricerca / SU. Per informazioni, clicca qui.
Avviso pubblicato il giorno 8/5/2025 con scadenza 10/6/2025
www.uniurb.it
May 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Oooh, this sounds like an exciting project:
I'm looking for a PhD student interested in analysing social media war propaganda through a historical archive from the WWI and WWII. This is a fully-funded opportunity for UK home students (partially-funded for 'overseas' students). Information on how to apply here: www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual...
UAL postgraduate research studentships
2 Postgraduate Research studentships awards available for eligible applicants.
www.arts.ac.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm looking for a PhD student interested in analysing social media war propaganda through a historical archive from the WWI and WWII. This is a fully-funded opportunity for UK home students (partially-funded for 'overseas' students). Information on how to apply here: www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual...
UAL postgraduate research studentships
2 Postgraduate Research studentships awards available for eligible applicants.
www.arts.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📢 #Callforpapers: “From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Disinformation on Social Media”

Editors:
Ramón Salaverría, University of Navarra, Spain
Lucas Graves, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.
Raquel Recuero UFPEL/UFRGS

revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co...
Call for Papers, Special Issue 2026: "From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Social Media Disinformation" | Communication & Society
revistas.unav.edu
April 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Canadians are split on GenAI’s net societal impact (39% positive, 34% negative, 27% neutral), but unite around key concerns—security and privacy (72%), reliability of information (68%), job displacement (68%), and effects on higher education (68%). socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...
[New Report] The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends - Social Media Lab
TORONTO — April 2025 — A majority of Canadians (66%) have experimented with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools less than three years after ChatGPT’s public debut, according to a new repo...
socialmedialab.ca
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Artigo novo que não tive a chance de divulgar direito, com o @felipebsoares.bsky.social - “How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
“How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
This study focuses into the dynamics of discursive othering and populist mobilization in Brazilian politics, specifically focusing on the highly contentious 2022 presidential election between Jair Bol...
link.springer.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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*AoIR 2025*. Primeira vez enviando trabalho para o congresso e esta cheio de duvidas? Nao sabe o que eles esperam de um resumo?
February 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Check out our new study on populist discursive strategies during the 2022 Brazilian presidential election campaign on Twitter (w/ @raquelrecuero.bsky.social). If you don't have access to it, send me an email or DM.
#academicsky

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
“How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
This study focuses into the dynamics of discursive othering and populist mobilization in Brazilian politics, specifically focusing on the highly contentious 2022 presidential election between Jair Bol...
link.springer.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
More evidence to confirm that Zuckerberg's decision to terminate fact-checkers on Meta was a really bad one

The full paper is available open-access at link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
January 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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12 days until the Brazil AOIR 2025 #CFP goes live! Stay tuned, it's getting real people! #ruptures
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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How do we respond to evolving disinformation threats and #FIMI campaigns?

Our new response-impact framework goes beyond individual #countermeasures and assess the broader #impact of #responses 💡

How could this framework be applied to an IO such as #Doppelganger? ⬇️
www.disinfo.eu/publications...
Beyond Disinformation Countermeasures: Building a Response-Impact Framework - EU DisinfoLab
How to effectively respond to disinformation threats and FIMI campaigns? The emphasis has been on exposure and raising awareness, but the focus is now shifting towards exploring better response strate...
www.disinfo.eu
November 29, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Building on a report released in 2022, our new 2024 study, “Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media,” examines factors that predict belief in pro-Kremlin disinfo narratives. socialmedialab.ca/2024/03/12/n...
November 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Playing with some @bsky.app data about the migration from Twitter to Bluesky using communalytic.org topic analysis. Some key topics include leaving Twitter's toxic atmosphere behind and moving to a more peaceful community.

It sure feels good to have access to data via public APIs again.
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 AM