Bio

I am a Digital Media researcher and maker interested in sociotechnical issues of emerging technologies and ways to appropriate and subvert their functional uses. I come from a Communication background and my research trajectory draws from interdisciplinary approaches to Media and Cultural Studies, Design, and Arts to investigate the relationships between subjectification, media technologies and society through media arts and activism.

I am primarily interested in understanding ways of becoming, of making, and of knowing through and with media technologies. My research questions adopt a materialistic lens to Communication to investigate critical, creative, and subversive meaning-making practices, forms of knowledge, and subjectification.

I have held previous academic positions in Brazil, at the Department of Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2017-2020), at the School of Design, at the State University of Minas Gerais (2016-2017), and at the College of Communication and Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, from 2007 until 2010. During this time, I also worked with the State Government of Minas Gerais as the Superintendent for Public Policy in Higher Education.

Teaching and Research Interests

My research and teaching interests include theoretical and practice-oriented courses in Digital Media, such as New Media Theory and History, Critical Making, Design for Interactive Media, Mobile Media, Media Arts, and Activism.

Publications

For a full list of publications, see my website.

Nogueira, M.A., Duarte, F. (in press). Comunicación, media y movilidad. In: Jirón, P., Giucci, Guillermo, Zunino, D. (Org). Términos clave sobre las Movilidades en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos.

Freire-Medeiros, B.; Aderaldo, G. ; Duarte, F. (2022). Borders, activisms and (i)mmobilities: aesthetic and political perspectives. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, p. 3-14.

Duarte, F. (2020). openAnalogInput(BODY): investigating data mobilities through critical making. In: Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring (Org.). Handbook on Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Duarte, F. (2020). #bhnasruas. Mobile journalism during the June Journeys. In Maria Alice Nogueira, Camila Moraes (Org). Brazilian Mobilities. New York: Routledge

Publications

• Collective Playlist , The Little Book of Joy: Tiny Ways to Infuse Delight into Teaching and Learning (2025)
• Scratch-off Quiz , The Little Book of Joy: Tiny Ways to Infuse Delight into Teaching and Learning (2025)
• Disobedient Technologies Prototypes for Critical Making , 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference (2024)
• Engaging in Marginalia Making , 2024 Design Forge (2024)
• SPARK: Critical Media Making as Interdisciplinary Activist Media Production , National Communication Association (2024)
• Techno-teaching philosophies as immersive storytelling , 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference (2024)
• Comunicación (media) y movilidad , Términos clave para los Estudios de Movilidad en América Latina (2023)
• Marginalia Making: Critical Care as Critical Making, a Workshop Series at NCSU , 2023 HASTAC Conference, Critical Making and Social Justice (2023)
• Fronteiras, ativismos e (i)mobilidades: perspectivas estético-políticas , Cadernos de arte e antropologia (2022)
• Street-smart cities: a decolonial approach to innovation through caring technologies , 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, joint with Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities (2022)

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