Paulo Nuno Vicente

Paulo Nuno Vicente is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in Digital Media at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, where he founded and coordinates the iNOVA Media Lab. This research and development laboratory is dedicated to immersive and interactive storytelling, the social impact of Artificial Intelligence, web platforms and social networks, innovation and digital transformation, information visualization, and science communication. At NOVA FCSH, he coordinated the Master’s in New Media and Web Practices (2020-2024) and currently coordinates the PhD in Digital Media. He is a member of the Council of Europe’s expert group on Artificial Intelligence and Education. He has authored several internationally published scientific articles and book chapters, as well as the book Os Algoritmos e Nós (Algorithms and Us, 2023).

The project

Title: Decoding algocracy: A study of digital platform workers

The research is devoted to the analysis of different aspects of what Jean-Marie Vincent calls the “critique of work” from a theoretical, political and artistic point of view. The first aspect to be considered is the modern and contemporary history of the notion of work. A second aspect to consider relates to the study and comparison of critical positions that, from Marx's time to the present day, resist the primacy of work by means of arguments that have generally been undervalued from a theoretical and political point of view. A third and final aspect of the research concerns the centrality of work, understood as a fundamental value of rationality, normativity and affectivity prevailing in the subjectivities and forms of life of neoliberal societies.

Host institution : LT2D - Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires, Cergy-Pontoise

Selective Bibliography

• Lucas, M., Zhang, Y., Bem-haja, P. & Vicente, P.N. The interplay between teachers’ trust in artificial intelligence and digital competence. Educ Inf Technol (2024). Publicação científica Q1 TOP 10 SJR Scopus (Education, E-learning, Library, and Information Sciences).
• Vicente, P. N. (2024). Artificial intelligence and freedom of speech. European Journal of Communication, 0(0). Publicação científica Q1 TOP 5 SJR Scopus (Communication, Linguistics and Language).
• Vicente, P.N. (2023).  Artificial Intelligence in Portugal: News framing, tone, and sources. In Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Communication. Seungahn Nah (Ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Pérez-Seijo, S., Barbosa, S. & Vicente, P.N. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: Case study from the Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian news media systems. In Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media: New Actors, Models and Practices.  Cruz Negreira-Rey, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero y Xosé López-García (Eds). Springer (Studies in Big Data).
• Vicente, P. N., & Lucas, M. (2022). Epistemic cultures in European intersections of art-science. In Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Collaboration across Cultures and Communities (pp.187-203). Bianca Vienni-Baptista & Julie Thompson Klein (Eds.). Routledge.
• Vicente, P. N., & Dias-Trindade, S. (2021). Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Public Understanding of Science, 30(6), pp. 708–723. Publicação científica Q1 TOP 10 SJR Scopus (Communication, Arts and Humanities, Developmental and Educational Psychology).