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Researcher; Diasporic Baiana; Associate Professor in Global Communications - University of Exeter / ♥️☀️🍻📕

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@nuqatar.bsky.social welcomed renowned communication scholar @andreamedrado.bsky.social to campus last week for engaging discussions, workshops, and the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South, hosted by #IAS_NUQ.

View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd

11.11.2025 10:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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During her visit, @andreamedrado.bsky.social met with undergraduate fellows, postdoctoral scholars, and global fellows, leading workshops that explored critical approaches to artificial intelligence and the Global South, while also mentoring students on connecting theory to practice.

11.11.2025 10:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Stay tuned for a special @iasnuq.bsky.social edition of the @nuqatar.bsky.social podcast (and vodcast) with @andreamedrado.bsky.social on #AI , favelas, empathy, Participatory Action Research, and the Global South, following her thought-provoking NUQ Lecture on the Global South yesterday

#NUQProud

06.11.2025 09:23 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks so much, Marwan a N-UQ’s stellar team, for the great conversation and exchange of ideas 😊

07.11.2025 05:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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As @andreamedrado.bsky.social offers the @iasnuq.bsky.social postdocs and @nuqatar.bsky.social faculty a workshop on critical AI research informed by Latin American theories and experiences, we are getting ready for her lecture this evening on #FavelIA

05.11.2025 13:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@andreamedrado.bsky.social delivering a thought-provoking and empirically rich @nuqatar.bsky.social Lecture on the Global South on #FavelIA @iasnuq.bsky.social a rich analysis of #AI, human agency, and social solidarity among some of the most marginal communities on earth!

05.11.2025 15:26 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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In one week!

Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”

🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social

29.10.2025 11:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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How does the favela use #AI and how can its AI practices inform more equitable AI governance from the margins?

Last few tickets available for our seminar with Andrea Medrado (@andreamedrado.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 22 October.

Register here: cghr-22oct25.eventbrite.co.uk.

18.10.2025 18:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟

Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.

Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵

10.10.2025 11:07 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>>
www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...

24.04.2025 12:06 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Really honoured to do the NUQ Lecture on the Global South in Doha. Thanks for having me 😊

08.10.2025 07:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Critical AI Centre Launch Roundtable Join us in person or online for a discussion with leading voices on AI marking the launch of CrAIC

The insightful @andreamedrado.bsky.social is launching the Critical AI Centre @exeter.ac.uk - join for the launch debate here, Oct 8 2pm GMT: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...

02.10.2025 16:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Really happy and honoured to talk about the Favel IA project at the @cghrcambridge.bsky.social . Thanks for the invite 💪🏽❤️

07.10.2025 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Critical AI Centre Launch Roundtable Join us in person or online for a discussion with leading voices on AI marking the launch of CrAIC

👋 What's the CrAIC? Come find out what we have been up to in critical AI studies at our launch event, featuring a lineup of stellar speakers, on Wednesday 8th October (University of Exeter / hybrid). Register at the link!

25.09.2025 15:21 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
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Calling all #ECRs 📣

Join @britishacademy.bsky.social ECRN to learn about getting published in social sciences, humanities and the arts with Alison Shell, @andreamedrado.bsky.social, @danmercea.bsky.social, @philippagrand.bsky.social

Fri 6th June | 13:00 - 16:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/early...

31.03.2025 07:54 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Had an absolutely fantastic time at the ‘Global Southing’ Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the @oii.ox.ac.uk got to meet some academic idols and met new ones as well. Looking forward to tomorrow’s presentations. @andreamedrado.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

25.03.2025 18:33 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Starting from the ground. @andreamedrado.bsky.social asks what participants want from our research, what kind of knowledge will further their work and address their priorities. #criticalAIstudies

25.03.2025 11:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Carnaval? Where? Aonde? London blue sky alienation. Alienação de cèu londrino azul 🩵

02.03.2025 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What a week! Grateful for the shared knowledge and also to my colleagues & students for their participation. Also wanted to thank Milly, not pictured here, but very present & a wonderful partner in crime, co-organising the Exeter-ZJUT Symposium & @neilio1979.bsky.social for leading us

20.02.2025 18:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join our next @iamcr.org webinars on 17 and 22 Jan. If you are not a member of IAMCR just add your name to a guest list via Google forms.

13.01.2025 14:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join the #IAMCR Communication, Social Justice, and Democracy Working Group for a roundtable discussion exploring the intersection of democracy and media in India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Brazil.

🗓️ Date: 22 January 2025
⏰ Time: 12:00 UTC

Register by 20 January at iamcr.org/webinars/dem...

08.01.2025 21:36 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Poster for talk at Thammasat University

Poster for talk at Thammasat University

looking forward to this - especially keen to connect with colleagues, friends and local academics! If you're in BKK I'd love to hear from you!

10.12.2024 15:45 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for this next @iamcr.org webinars. Non-members just need to complete an easy form. Thanks! iamcr.org/webinars/dig...

10.12.2024 09:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Buenos dias La Habana que aqui estoy para el evento ICOM 2024

01.12.2024 15:35 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking forward to this! 👇🏽✨

21.11.2024 10:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy & honoured about being invited as a speaker 4 @icom_cuba in La Habana ♥️ my 1st time there. Looking forward to exchanging ideas with colleagues from Cuba and other parts of the world. Thanks for inviting me and 4 allowing me to spend some days in December in an island with warmer climates 😂

16.11.2024 09:36 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Free Bahruz Samadov International Academic Community Calls for the Release of Young Azerbaijani Scholar Bahruz Samadov

Bahruz is a PhD student at Charles University, supervised by a friend. He's been detained and charged with high treason in Azerbaijan for his research and advocacy interests in peace in the South Caucasus. Please sign this letter to demand his release www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...

10.09.2024 12:55 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In cool Manchester for the MeCCSA Conference with @isabellarega.bsky.social for the Monograph of the Year Award and to present a paper on Latin American participatory action and AI (with Pieter Verdegem). We didn’t win but so happy that a book about Annemarie Jacir’s films won 🇵🇸👏🏽♥️

05.09.2024 12:46 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0