Teacher
Ilo Alexandre

Resume

Ilo Alexandre is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona. He holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media, specializing in Journalism, from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UT Austin Program|Portugal). His primary research focuses on data journalism, particularly in analyzing how audiences interact with and assess data visualizations in news media. Additionally, he is actively exploring digital methods that offer innovative approaches to studying media and communication phenomena. In his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees, Alexandre investigated the performance of data-driven journalism (DDJ) pieces and the state of the art of DDJ in Portugal, respectively. Alexandre is also a visiting assistant professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Universidade Europeia. He is a research scientist at CICANT (ULusofona), and also a research member at the iNOVA Media Lab (ICNOVA) and the Computational Media Lab (UT Austin). Alexandre worked as editor-in-chief at G1 Ceará and as a reporter for several news organizations, including Portal Verdes Mares and TV Cidade. Additionally, he has worked as a web editor and social media editor for political campaigns and advertising.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Media Digitais
• Mestrado
  Novos Media e Práticas Web
• Bachelor
  Comunicação Social - Jornalismo

Publicações

Preprint

Journal issue

• Habitual New Media

Journal article

• 2021-05-11, Make Tweets Great Again: Who Are Opinion Leaders, and What Did They Tweet About Donald Trump?, Social Science Computer Review
• 2021, A future world of forgotten and decomposed barriers: an interview with Natalie Bookchin, Journal of Communication and Languages
• 2012-04, A charge como agente transformador da realidade: uma análise de sentido do humor gráfico de Henfil no livro “Diretas Já!”, Visu

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2019, PhD, Comparing and evaluating Data-driven Journalism: Data visualization performance from perspective of web analytics
• 2014, Master, Jornalismo de Dados: o estado da arte nos jornais generalistas diários em Portugal

Book chapter

• 2021, Sensacionalismo no prime-time português: O impacto da CMTV nas coberturas policiais nos telejornais da RTP1, SIC e TVI, Para uma História do Jornalismo em Portugal II, Livros ICNOVA – Instituto de Comunicação da Nova
• 2020, História Ilustrada do Jornalismo de Dados em Portugal: exemplos de reportagens pioneiras que usaram dados como fonte primária de informação, Media, informação e literacia: rumos e perspetivas, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra

Newspaper article

• 2020-05-29, DGS, divulgue os dados, Público
• 2020-04-28, A covid-19 e o jornalismo guiado por dados, Público

Conference paper

• 2019-08, Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Away: Guidelines for Spatio-Temporal Narrative Visualization
• 2016-07, Promoting Insight: A Case Study of How to Incorporate Interaction in Existing Data Visualizations

Conference abstract

• 2020-10, Sensacionalismo no prime-time português: o impacto da CMTV nas coberturas policiais nos telejornais da RTP 1, SIC e TVI, 2ª Conferência Internacional História do Jornalismo em Portugal
• 2019-10, Contando réis: histórias de jornalismo de dados na imprensa portuguesa do século XIX, Conferência Internacional História do Jornalismo em Portugal

Conference poster

• 2021-02-19, Data Journalism and Metrics: Data Visualization Performance from the Perspective of Web Analytics, Computation+Journalism 2021
• 2019-07, Comparing and evaluating data-driven journalism