Docente
Ilo Alexandre

Resume

Ilo Alexandre is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University and holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media from NOVA University Lisbon, through the UT Austin|Portugal program. He is a Research Scientist at CICANT, where he leads communication for the Magazine Media Lab (MagLab), the first international laboratory dedicated to Magazine Studies. He also serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and has previously lectured at NOVA and Universidade Europeia. His scholarly work is underpinned by a robust professional background in journalism, having served as Editor-in-Chief at G1 Ceará and as a reporter for major outlets like Portal Verdes Mares. His expertise also extends to digital strategy, particularly in web and social media management for political and advertising campaigns.

Graus

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

Publicações

Preprint

• 2024-02-07, The Social Media Paradox or How Political Dialogue is Hard to Practice on Facebook: The Portuguese Case

Journal issue

• 2021, Habitual New Media

Journal article

• 2025-03, “Not My Team”: Analyzing Tweets About Iranian Protests During the 2022 FIFA World Cup, International Journal of Sport Communication
• 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

• 2024-06, During Protests and the World Cup: Computational Analyses of Tweets About Iranian Protests during the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
• 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

• 2025-07, Party Discourse on Environmental Issues on Social Media in Portugal, IAMCR 2025 - Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet
• 2025-06-15, Interconnected Journalism: opportunities and challenges, 75th Anual ICA Conference
• 2025-06, Interconnected Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges, 75th Annual ICA Conference
• 2025-05, From front page to FYP: The TikTok strategy of Portuguese media outlets, Journalism Studies Symposium: (Re)Inventing Journalism
• 2024-11, Da página à tela: o impacto da Covid-19 nas visualizações de dados nas newsmagazines portuguesas, VIII Congresso Internacional de Ciberjornalismo
• 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