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Dr Felipe Soares

Profession
Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media
College
London College of Communication
Person Type
Staff
Felipe  Soares

Biography

Dr. Felipe Bonow Soares is a Senior Lecturer in Social Analytics for the Communications and Media Programme at London College of Communication. Felipe earned his PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil in 2020. In his doctoral research, he focused on the emergence of the public sphere on social media, particularly looking at problematic dynamics such as polarization, disinformation and intolerance.

Before joining LCC, Felipe was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Media Lab (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada). Felipe has been working on multi-year initiatives in the area of anti-social behaviour and misinformation on social media with an international team of researchers. Broadly, his research interests include online discourse, political communication, social media, disinformation, and online anti-social behaviour. His work has appeared in highly regarded scholarly journals such as Social Media + Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Network Analysis and Mining, and the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Related area

View the BA (Hons) Advertising course page.

View the BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Cultures course page.

View the BA (Hons) Media Communications course page.

View the BA (Hons) Public Relations course page.

View the MA Advertising course page.

View the MA Media, Communications and Critical Practice course page.

View the MA Public Relations course page.

Links

Felipe's website

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