Geographies of Hate: Uncovering Spaces of Misinformation, Racism, and Extremism in Brazil | A Small Group Session with Dr. David Nemer

Join us for the third installment in a series on Research Methods hosted by 2018-2019 Fellow Jasmine McNealy! This Small Group Session series focuses on the methods that researchers have used to complete their projects. At each meeting we discuss one publication – article, book chapter, etc. – and the research methods used with the author(s) of the piece. Scholars are invited from various disciplines, but particularly those relevant to the research areas of Data & Society.

This month, David Nemer (University of Kentucky transitioning to University of Virginia) will share a talk titled "Geographies of Hate: Uncovering Spaces of Misinformation, Racism, and Extremism in Brazil".

About the Speaker

David Nemer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky (Starting Fall 2019 in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia)). His research and teaching interests cover the intersection of Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS), Information Anthropology, ICT for Development (ICT4D), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Nemer is an ethnographer whose fieldworks include the Slums of Vitória, Brazil; Havana, Cuba; and Eastern Kentucky, Appalachia. Nemer is the author of Favela Digital: The other side of technology (Editora GSA, 2013). He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics (track Computing, Culture, and Society) from Indiana University and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Saarland University. Nemer has written for The Guardian, El País, and The Tribune.