Resume
My research
My main research interests lie in the fields of digital methods, Natural Language Processing (NLP), data visualisation, media studies, Olympic studies, urban studies and digital activism.
PhD research
Nationalism, internationalism and sporting identity: the London and Rio Olympics
My research explores the media coverage of the Olympic Games in a cross-cultural, cross-lingual and temporal perspective. I’m especially interested in comparing how the concept of ‘Olympic legacy’ has been approached by the Brazilian and British media considering different locations, languages and social-political contexts. This research is conducted under the supervision of Professor Jane Winters and Martin Steer.
The study was part of the CLEOPATRA project, which aimed to explore major events that influence and shape our lives and our societies through advanced cross-lingual processing of textual and visual information.
Publications
Data Scarcity and Methodological Limitations in Multilingual Analysis of News Articles Published in Brazil (book chapter)
Caio Mello. Multilingual Digital Humanities (Routledge series Digital Research in the Arts & Humanities), 2023.
Combining sentiment analysis classifiers to explore multilingual news articles covering London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics (paper)
Caio Mello, Gullal S. Cheema, Gaurish Thakkar. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 2022.
Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination (paper)
Abdul Sittar, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Dunja Mladenić, Marko Grobelnik. IEEE Access, 2022.
OEKG: The Open Event Knowledge Graph (conference paper)
Simon Gottschalk, Endri Kacupaj, Sara Abdollahi, Diego Alves, Gabriel Amaral, Elisavet Koutsiana, Tin Kuculo, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Gullal S. Cheema, Abdul Sittar, Swati, Golsa Tahmasebzadeh, Gaurish Thakkar. 2nd International Workshop on Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics, 2021.
Curated politics: A study of Black Lives Matter protests on TikTok using the digital snowball method (Summer School report)
Shuaishuai Wang, Jeroen de Vos, Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Valeria Donato, Yan Asadchy, Caio Mello et al. Digital Methods Summer School Amsterdam, 2020.
Facebook Event as a platform to promote engagement in social movements: Theory of performativity applied to social networks (paper)
Caio Mello, Carolina Figueiredo. Culturas Midiaticas, 2020.
Political Performativity in the Use of Facebook Events by Social Movements (project report)
Caio Mello. Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) fellowship report, 2019.
Performativity and Conflicts between the occupation of real and virtual spaces: analyzing the Facebook Events platform (book chapter)
Caio Mello, Carolina Figueiredo. Compós 2018: Movement, Space and Alterity. UFBA, 2018
Teaching
Concepts of Digital Humanities Workshop
School of Advanced Study, University of London (2021 - 2024) - with Dr. Christopher Ohge.
Born-digital data
School of Advanced Study, University of London (2024)
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (July 2023)
Psychology of Communication
Departamento de Comunicação, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2016)