Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR)
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Gilberto Vieira holds a PhD in Urban Management from PUCPR, where he is part of the Jararaca research group – Urban Technopolitics Laboratory. With a Master’s degree in Culture and Territorialities from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), he conducts research on the centrality of urban peripheries in the era of data coloniality, with an emphasis on digital activism, data justice and urbanism in the South.
He was a visiting researcher at the Weizenbaum Institut in Germany and the Harman Writer-in-Residence Programme at the City University of New York, as well as a fellow of the Emerging Media Leaders programme at the International Centre for Journalists. He is co-founder of data_labe, a media and research organisation focused on favelas and peripheries, and serves as a visiting professor at INSPER and Casa Firjan in data literacy courses. He publishes articles and chapters on urban technopolitics, the Data Citizen Generation, and peripheral activism in national and international publishers and periodicals.