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Vanessa Pinto, a former Visiting researcher at DigiMedia, participated in the Binational Meeting Colombia-Brazil Graduate Researchers, organized by UNIRIO and Universidade Surcolombiana.

In this event, which took place from 11th to 15th August, Vanessa Pinto presented her international mobility experience at the University of Aveiro, in a partnership between DigiMedia and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

The researcher had the opportunity to talk about the work that began during the exchange and is still ongoing. She also emphasized that international mobility offers a rich cross-cultural exchange, essential for growth both academically and personally.

Maria Clara Niemeyer, who was an invited researcher at DigiMedia, will present her PhD thesis “Ainda sobre máscaras brancas: gagueira, tecnodiversidade, fonodissidência, contracolonialidade e racismo algorítmico em ambientes virtualizados”​, on June 30th, 2025, 6PM (Portuguese time).

This research was developed in the Postgraduate Program in Health Information and Communication (PPGICS/Icict/Fiocruz), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. André de Faria Pereira Neto.

Using digital cartography combined with content analysis, it investigates how people who stutter produce other epistemologies and practices of self-determination in health in digitalized spaces, based on dissonant language experiences. Concepts such as phonodissidence, phonoresonance and technostuttering are proposed to think about critical and countercolonial communication practices.

To attend this session:

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Maria João Antunes, a DigiMedia researcher, participated in the CISTI 25 conference – 20th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (ISEG, June 16-19, 2025), with a paper entitled: “Digital Health Literacy in the Elderly: Exploratory Study in Senior Universities in Portugal”.

This paper refers to the study carried out between October 2024 and February 2025 by a PhD student and invited researcher, Vanessa Pinto, during her study period at DigiMedia. This same conference also addressed the work of the PhD student and researcher Renata Frade: “Women In Technology: A Case Study In Science Communication and Knowledge Management”. During the conference, it was possible to establish contacts with other researchers and see how the academic community is appropriating AI, in different research contexts.

María Luz Castro Pena, the coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Design, Development, and Marketing of Video Games at the University of A Coruña, visited the University of Aveiro to explore potential collaborations in the field of Digital Game Development. This initiative aimed to foster faculty and student exchanges, share best practices, and strengthen academic ties between the two institutions.

This was part of a Mobility program of ERASMUS +, organized by the DigiMedia researcher Liliana Vale Costa. This visit was an opportunity to reflect on teaching and learning practices to enhance the subject curricula on Digital Games and Consolidation of partnerships between departments of both Universities to prepare future publications and projects on digital games.

Vanessa Pinto, a visiting researcher from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) at DigiMedia, organized an activity about Artificial Intelligence for senior citizens, carried out at the Aging Laboratory on February 19, 2025.

The 2-hour session, with conceptualization and practical laboratory was the last initiative of Vanessa Pinto in Portugal, and was part of Vanessa Pinto’s PhD Sandwich Internship (PDSE-CAPES) at the UA, in the Doctoral Program in New Media, under the supervision of Prof. Maria João Antunes, from the University of Aveiro (UA), and Prof. Tania Valente, from the UNIRIO.

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Monica Divitini, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), was at DigiMedia, last week, to present Are we there yet? From papers to a finished thesis. With more than 140 participants, on a hybrid format, this presentation, addressed to students and teachers, discussed the advantages and disadvantages of collecting papers versus monographies. With a growing number of universities opening the possibility of delivering PhD thesis in the form of a collection of papers, Monica Divitini carried out a reflection on how to write a good synopsis, bringing each paper into a coherent narrative.

The session has provided food for thought and has triggered discussion among the participants, comparing different approaches, regulations, and practices across universities and countries.

Monica Divitini is a professor of Cooperation Technology at the Department of Information and Computer Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests lie primarily in the areas of cooperation technology and technology-enhanced learning, with a focus on the development and evaluation of cooperation technologies addressing issues connected to creativity, playfulness, and interaction in learning. She has worked with learning in different domain areas, currently focusing on computing education at different educational levels. She is a member of Excited, the Norwegian Centre for Excellence in IT Education (https://www.ntnu.edu/excited).

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