The DigiMedia Dialogs#3 took place on July 9 with the talks of Raissa Sales (DigiMedia PhD Student), Vania Baldi (DigiMedia Researcher) and Lídia Oliveira (DigiMedia Researcher), followed by a participated discussion on the topic Research in times of platformization: opportunities and methodological challenges in the analysis of digital sharing economy services.
Raissa Sales is a PhD student in Information and Communication at the University of Aveiro (2016). Master in Business Administration from the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration (PPGA), Marketing line, University of Fortaleza – UNIFOR. Graduated in Social Communication – Journalism (2009) and specialist in Communication Counseling (2011) by the same Institution.
Vania Baldi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, has a degree in Sociology from La Sapienza University of Roma, has a master’s degree in “Identité et Unité de l’homme” (CETSAH/EHESS/CNRS, France) and Phd in “Ethics and Anthropology” from the University of Salento (Italia). His research interests are related with Network Society, Hypermediated Space and Civic Media, Affordance of Algorithms in Our Lives, relationship between Immediacy and Hypermediacy in Digital Culture, Culture and Imaginary of Consumption, Anthropology and Epistemology of Technique, Spreadable Media among Open Innovation and InfoWar, Engagement and Authorship in WebDoc, Analysis of Discourses on Technological Innovations.
Lídia Oliveira (full name: Lídia de Jesus Oliveira Loureiro da Silva) holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra (1990), a Master’s degree in Educational Technology from the University of Aveiro, in partnership with the University of Valenciennes (France) and Mons (Belgium) (1995), and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies from the University of Aveiro (2002).
Her research focuses on individual, collective and institutional behaviour on the internet. The areas of interest are: Social Network Analysis, Cyberculture Studies, Sociology of Communication, Science and Technologies of Communication, ICT and Education, Multimedia, Information Systems, Digital Libraries, Science Communication, Communication in the Scientific Community (theoretical and empirical studies).
Abstract:
he creation and development of digital platforms dedicated to the sharing economy have generated discussions about some economic implications in the markets where it operates and social implications within the scope of its users’ experiences. In addition to the existence of a great diversity of digital services for the sharing of goods and services, the platformization of social experience opens the way to a new set of research practices. In fact, if the functioning of some platforms can limit researchers’ knowledge about intermediation phenomena, at the same time, the researcher’s skill can make some of their functionalities profitable by combining opportune methods and techniques.
