Viktor Chagas

Professor, PhD (Cultural and Media Studies, UFF)

Role: Professor, PhD

Research interests: Political Communication, Political Culture and Digital Culture, Digital Democracy, Digital Methods, Humor and Democracy, Disinformation and Hate Speech, Online Extremism, Political Violence on Digital Platforms, Digital Activism, Electoral Campaigns, Influence Operations, Datafication of Politics, Online Participation

Viktor Chagas is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Media Studies and a researcher in the Graduate Program in Communication at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCOM-UFF). He is an associate member of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy (INCT.DD), a CNPq Research Productivity fellow — Level C, and a Faperj “Young Scientist of Our State” fellow.

He holds a PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Assets from Cpdoc-FGV and is dedicated to investigations at the interface between the Internet and Political Cultures, Political Economy of Information, and Journalism and Politics. He is the leader of the coLAB/UFF research group and coordinator of the #MUSEUdeMEMES outreach project, and has also served as executive secretary of Compolítica (2019–2021) and editor of Revista Compolítica (2011–2021).