Events

Conference papers and presentations

2025

“Degenerative AI: slop and brainrot as creative practices”, co-written with Idil Galip. GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, Future conference, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“The Gimmick of Generative Culture: AI Slop, Brainrot, and the Aesthetics of Capitalist Contradiction”, co-written with Idil Galip. Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Media and Cultural Studies Symposium. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

“Chill vibes: wellness creep into music streaming platforms”, co-written with Raquel Campos Valverde. Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 2025. Niterói, Brazil.

“Making personalization delightful: staging power for data indulgence on Spotify”. Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 2025. Niterói, Brazil.

“The sky is bluer on the other side: fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus”, co-written with Felipe Soares and Vanessa Valiati. Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 2025. Niterói, Brazil.

“Rule #1, don’t be a dick: Vibe-check as governance of platformized violence”, co-written with Esteban Morales. AoIR 2025 Flashpoint Symposium, From Platform Governance to Generative AI. Bremen, Germany.

“The vibes are immaculate: theorising ‘staging power’ in the platformisation of atmospheres”. Media Atmospheres International Symposium – Jönköping, Sweden.

“Chill vibes: selling wellness in music streaming platforms”, co-written with Raquel Campos Valverde, as part of the panel ‘Wellness creep in popular media and culture’. International Communication Association (ICA) – Denver, USA. [withdrawn]

2024

“Mixed Feelings: on the platformisation of moods and vibes”. Global Digital Intimacies conference. Global Digital Cultures, University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“Wrap your head around it: Brazilian users’ algorithmic imaginaries of Spotify Wrapped”, co-written with Vanessa Valiati and Felipe Soares. Social Media & Society 2024 – London, UK.

“Scrolling nonsense: making sense of mobile social media in everyday life”, as part of the panel “Revitalising the concept of the everyday in internet research”. Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. AoIR 2024 – Sheffield, UK.

“Mixed Feelings: on the platformisation of moods and vibes”. Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. AoIR 2024 – Sheffield, UK.

“Wrap your head around it: Brazilian users’ algorithmic imaginaries of Spotify Wrapped”, co-written with Vanessa Valiati and Felipe Soares. Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. AoIR 2024 – Sheffield, UK.

2023

“Here for the vibes: making sense of social media’s experiential turn”. 73rd annual conference of the International Communication Association – ICA 2023.

“BeReal won’t make you waste time”:  Liveness and the temporalities of disconnection. ICA Preconference – Key concepts in digital disconnection research.

“Not like other social networks? BeReal and the remediation of liveness in the platform environment”. Association of Internet Researchers – AoIR 2023. Philadelphia, USA.

2022

“Reclaiming ‘the experience’: social media, the ‘Metaverse’, and extractive imaginaries of experiential enhancement. Association of Internet Researchers – AoiR 2022. Dublin, Ireland.

“Mediated as-if-ness: Toward a critical phenomenology of liveness in social media”*. 72nd annual conference of the International Communication Association – ICA 2022. Paris, France. *Top Student Paper Award, Philosophy, Theory and Critique division.

“Phenomenal algorhythms: The sensorial orchestration of ‘real-time’ in the social media manifold”. 72nd annual conference of the International Communication Association – ICA 2022. Paris, France.

2020

“Liveness and deadness in social media: on the perceived lack of life of the infinite stream”. Association of Internet Researchers – AoIR 2020. Virtual conference.

“Absentmindedly scrolling through nothing: liveness and continuous connectedness in social media”. 8th European Communication Conference – ECREA. University of Minho, Portugal. [Postponed due to COVID-19]

“Going with the (social media) flow: notes on doomscrolling and stream flow-breakers in viral times”. Affect & Social Media 4.5 – Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic. University of East London, Online programme.

“More than transportation, incarnation: Shifting experiences of liveness in mainstream social media”. 5th International Conference on Affect & Social Media. University of East London, United Kingdom. [Postponed due to COVID-19]

“From transportation to incarnation: Shifting claims of liveness in connective media industries”. Media Industries 2020 – Global Currents and Contradictions. King’s College London, United Kingdom. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]

“Compulsory continuous connectedness: Liveness and senses of uncertainty in mainstream social media”. Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communications – Media and Uncertainty. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.

2019

“Experiences of liveness: theorising audiences’ engagements with connective media as sensorially perceived and discursively articulated”. Annual Conference, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Universidad Complutense de Madrid,  Spain.

“Connected Live: realtimeness and immediacy in connective platforms”. Connected Life 2019 – Data & Disorder. Oxford Internet Institute & London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

“Living with connective platforms: social media and the underlying claim of liveness”. Digital Culture Conference 2019. University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

2018

“Liveness beyond live video: immediacy and presence on Instagram Stories”. Instagram Conference: Studying Instagram beyond selfies –  Middlesex University, United Kingdom.

“Live, here and now: experiences of liveness in everyday engagements with connective media”. ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.

2017

“Uses (and disuses) of Facebook”, with Alex Primo, Vanessa Valiati and Laura Barros. 40^th Brazilian Conference of Communication Sciences – Intercom – Curitiba, Brazil.

2016

“I have so much to tell you, but with words I cannot say it: Animated GIF as an expressive resource”. 39^th Brazilian Conference of Communication Sciences – Intercom. São Paulo, Brazil.

“Fluid Conversations in Cyberculture”, with Alex Primo, Vanessa Valiati and Laura Barros. 25^th National Conference of Compós – Brazilian National Association of Fraduate Programmes in Communication. Goiânia, Brazil.

“Bitter about Glitter: Brazilians’ hatred towards sparkly animated GIFs as a manifestation of ethnocentrism”. 6^th Theorizing the Web. New York City, USA.

2015

“Sequential animated GIFs on Tumblr: boundaries between comics, fotonovelas and cyberculture”. 38^th Brazilian Conference of Communication Sciences – Intercom. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Practices of private communication on the internet ”, with Alex Primo, Vanessa Valiati and Laura Barros. 38^th Brazilian Conference of Communication Sciences – Intercom. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“#RIPorkut: how Brazilian users reacted to the death of this site we barely even knew, but respected a lot”, with Laura Barros, Vanessa Valiati and Alex Primo. 10^th National Conference of Media History – Alcar. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

2014

“How I feel when: animated GIF and the daily life in fragments”. 8^th National Symposium of Brazilian Researchers of Cyberculture – ABCiber. São Paulo, Brazil.

“The buzzfeedzation of journalism: 5 things you need to know about the Zero Hora’s case”, with Thais Sardá, Camila Cornutti, Gabriela Zago, Vanessa Valiati and Willian Araújo. 8^th National Simposium of Brazilian Researchers of Cyberculture – ABCiber. São Paulo, Brazil.

“Animated GIF and Spreadable Content: an analysis of the uses of the image format at de 2013 VMA’s”. 37^th Brazilian Conference of Communication Sciences – Intercom. Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

Guest lectures and invited talks

(2025) “The vibes are immaculate: towards a critical phenomenology of vibes”. Keynote, Tuning In: A Vibes Symposium. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

(2024) “Mixed Feelings: on the platformisation of moods and vibes”. Guest presentation, On & Off: Atmospheres of dis/connection. Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal.

(2023) “Mixed Feelings: on the platformisation of moods and vibes”. Guest presentation, seminar series  of the Warwick’s Centre for Media and Cultural Policy Studies. University of Warwick, UK.

(2023) “Orchestrated Serendipity: ambivalent experiences with and of social media platforms”. Guest lecture, module Digital Identities & Social Media. Aarhus University, Denmark.

(2023) “Serendipidade Orquestrada: a contraditória busca apela experiência imediata em plataformas digitais”. Guest lecture,  module Tópico Especial. Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, BRA.

(2022) “Reclaiming the Experience: social media, the ‘metaverse’ and extractive imaginaries of experiential enhancement”. Presentation, Media at Sussex research seminar. University of Sussex, UK.

(2021, 2022) “Digital technologies and continuous connectedness”. Guest lecture as part of the modules Technology, Power and Culture, and Digital Technology, Speed and Culture. Department of Sociology, LSE, UK.

(2020) “Continuous Connectedness”. Guest lecture, module Internet use & wellbeing. University of Zurich, Switzerland.

(2020) “Liveness & Social Media”. Invited talk for the research network Digital Consumption. Universidade Feevale, BRA.

(2016) “Linguagens da Internet”. Guest lecture on the module Comunicação Digital e Redes Sociais. Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), BRA.