Leopoldo Pedro Neto

Leopoldo Pedro Neto is a PhD candidate in Journalism at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. His research interests encompass critical political economy of communication, technology and labor, critical data studies, and journalism studies. His current dissertation project investigates the relationship between the datafication of journalistic work and labour alienation, focusing on how metrics, AI, and platform-mediated management reshape Brazilian newsroom workers’ professional activity and working conditions. His core research question asks: “How does technology, mediated by social relations, intensify labour alienation or, conversely, give rise to forms of resistance?”