Resume
My research
I did my PhD in Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. I hold a BA in Journalism and an MA in Communication, both from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. I have been employed as an early-stage researcher (2019 - 2023) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where I joined the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project CLEOPATRA, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. I’ve also been a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany (2018 and 2023). During my PhD, I worked as a visiting researcher at the UK Web Archive (British Library) and VICO Research & Consulting.
Alongside my main activities as a researcher, I sporadically write news stories. My main interests as a journalist are history and the arts. I have also been engaged in translation and revisions (Portuguese-English & English-Portuguese). I have translated lessons for the Programming Historian and revised museum labels for the Ricardo Brennand Institute (Recife, Brazil).
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.
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
Thinking with Machines - Humanities Research in the Digital Age (Seminar, BA in History)
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (2025) - with Prof. Marten Düring
Concepts of Digital Humanities (Workshop)
School of Advanced Study, University of London (2021 - 2024) - with Dr. Christopher Ohge.
Born-digital data (Online course)
School of Advanced Study, University of London (2024)
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (July 2023)
Psychology of Communication (Seminar, BA in Media Studies)
Departamento de Comunicação, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2016)