Ilo Alexandre

Ilo Alexandre

Full Name: Ilo Aguiar Reginaldo Alexandre
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-6613

Ilo Alexandre is currently an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher for the PINBook project and an invited assistant professor at NOVA FCSH. He is also a researcher member at iNOVA Media Lab (ICNOVA) and Computational Media Lab (UT Austin). Ilo Alexandre received his PhD in Digital Media from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UT Austin Program | Portugal). His main research aims to examine how the audience interacts and evaluates data visualizations in news media. In his PhD and Master’s degree, he investigated the performance of data-driven journalism (DDJ) pieces and the state of the art of DDJ in Portugal, respectively. Alexandre has worked as editor-in-chief at G1 Ceará and as a reporter in several news organizations in Brazil, such as Portal Verdes Mares and TV Cidade. He has also worked as a web editor and social media editor in political campaigns and advertising.

In the research project Political Interest Networks in Facebook Portugal, Alexandre worked with the project database, being responsible for data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, reports, and data visualizations.