AoIR2025 Conference Committee

Adriana Amaral, Conference Chair is a full professor of the Graduate Program in Communication at the Paulista University (UNIP) and a collaborator at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Sociology Department in Boston College (USA); at the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey (UK); at the Arts, Media and Creative Technology Department at the University of Salford (UK); at the Electronic Media Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and at the Department of at the University of Potsdam (Germany). She is the leader of CULTPOP – Laboratório de Pesquisas em Cultura Pop, Tecnologias e Comunicação (Laboratory for Research Pop Culture, Technologias and Communication) and researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq. She has been conducting research in the areas of fans and fandoms, music and digital culture and qualitative methods for internet research. Author of numerous papers, chapters and books on the subject. She is also editor of the Book Series World Politics and Popular Culture from Routledge and she has also organized conferences such as MISDOOM 2022 – 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media and Fan Studies Network Conference North América 2023 and 2024.

Beatriz Brandão Polivanov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Media Studies at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), where she served as Department Head from 2016 to 2018. Permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Communication at the same institution. She was a visiting researcher at McGill University in Montreal, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, from 2019 to 2020. Researcher for CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Support Foundation). Leader of the research group MiDICom – Digital Media, Identity, and Communication – at UFF, registered in the CNPq directory. Vice-coordinator of the Sound and Music Studies Working Group at Compós.

Simone Pereira de Sá is a full professor (and former coordinator) of the Graduate Program in Communication at the Fluminense Federal University; and also teaches at the Faculty of Media Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at the Departments of Art History and Communication at McGill University (Montreal – Canada): Department of Music at King’s College (London, U.K.) and Department of Sociology at the University of Porto (Portugal).
Leader of LabCult – Laboratório de Pesquisas em Culturas Urbanas e Tecnologias da Comunicação (Laboratory for Research on Urban Cultures and Communication Technologies); and researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, she has been conducting research in the areas of Brazilian pop-peripheral music, fans and digital culture.
Author of numerous works on the subject, her latest book is entitled “Música Pop-Periférica Brasileira: videoclipes, performances e tretas na cultura digital”( “Brazilian Pop-Peripheral Music: Video Clips, Performances and Controversies on Digital Culture (Ed. Appris, 2021).

Raquel Recuero is an Associate professor in the Department of Communication and Languages at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil). She is the author of “Redes Sociais na Internet” [Internet Social Networks] (in Portuguese, Sulina, 2009), “Conversação em Rede” [Networked Conversation] (in Portuguese, Sulina, 2012), “Métodos de Pesquisa para Internet” [Internet Research Methods] (with Adriana Amaral and Suely Fragoso, in Portuguese, Sulina, 2010), “Análise de Redes Para Mídia Social”[Social Network Analysis for Social Media] (in Portuguese, Sulina, 2016), among several others. Her work focus on discourse, social media and social networks.