Simone Pereira de Sá

Simone Pereira de Sá is Professor at Federal Fluminense University (UFF/Brazil). She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture Studies from Federal do Rio de Janeiro University (UFRJ/Brazil). She is Coordinator of LabCult – the Research Lab on Urban Culture and Communication Technologies; and has been a visiting researcher at McGill University, Montreal (2008) and King’s College, UK (2015/2016), sponsored by CAPES scholarship.Her research interests include pop culture in local and global contexts, Brazilian music and fandom activism on social media and platforms, mediations, and materialities of the music culture. She is the author of articles, chapters, and books such as Baiana Internacional – As mediações Culturais de Carmen Miranda (MIS Ed; 2002); and O Samba em Rede – comunidades virtuais, dinâmicas identitárias e Carnaval Carioca (E-Papers – 2015); and co-editor of  Cultura Pop (EdUFBA; 2015); Música, Som e Cultura Digital – Perspectivas comunicacionais brasileiras  E-Papers, 2016), among others.