Thiane Neves Barros

Thiane is an activist in Black and feminist movements, and works as a researcher and participant observer of communication in the Amazonia. She is part of a collective called the Transfeminist Network of Digital Care and recently finished her PhD in Communication Sciences, focusing on the appropriation of technologies and internet infrastructures in Amazonia.

Thiane is collaborating with data_labe to expand some of its work with citizen data generation in Quilombos in the North of Brasil. She is using the citizen data generation methodology combined with a new research methodology called infrastructures of affection, which respects knowledge about technologies without creating hierarchy around technical levels.