Beatrys Rodrigues
Graduate Student, Department Student Representative, Department of Communication
Education
- Graduate Specialization, Consumer & Material Culture: Semiopsychanalitic Perspectives, University of Sao Paulo
- B.A., Social Communications with an emphasis in Advertising, University of São Paulo
Interests
Digital labor, gender and technology, social impacts of artificial intelligence, feminist technology studies, online harassment, design fiction, decolonial future studies
Awards & Honors
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2022-2025
- SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship, 2020, Cornell University
- Emerging Leaders of America Scholarship, 2014, Office of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada.
- Academic Merit Scholarship, 2014, University of São Paulo.
- Selective Process Best Essays, 2011, University of Sao Paulo Admissions Foundation
- Media Studies Graduate Grant
- Rodrigues, B. (March, 2023). Rejecting the Federal Brazilian AI Imaginary. Presented at Algorithms for Her 2. Online.
- Rodrigues, B and Peruzzo, A. (November, 2022). “REAL HARASSMENT, VIRTUAL ROBOTS? IMPLICATIONS OF ONLINE HARASSMENT GEARED AT VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BIA". Presented at AoIR2022: The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Dublin, Ireland.
- Rodrigues, B. (December, 2022). Artificial Affection, Real Love: Questions in Human-Robot Intimacy. Presented at ESOCITE/4S 2022. Cholula, Mexico.
- Museum of the Absurd (March, 2022) Presented at South by Southwest 2022. Austin, Texas, United States.
Rodrigues, B. (May, 2022). “Should Robots Say 'I love you?' - Investigating human-robot intimacy through Gatebox". Presented at 2022 ICA Pre-conference on Human-Machine Communication. Paris, France. - tedX Blumenau, 2019, "Diversity wanted: creating new future possibilities"
- HyperVR Festival São Paulo, 2018, "The Future of Immersive Tech"
- HACKTOWN 2018, 2018, "Technology Beyond Binarism"
- Unmaking Gender Conference at the University of São Paulo , 2018, "The hegemony of female A.I assistants"
- XV Symposium "Know More About Food" ESALQ USP, 2017, “Future Food"
- Rodrigues, B. (October, 2021). “Becoming Waifu” - Cosplayers’ commodification of digitally mediated intimacy. Presented at The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work PhD Symposium. [organized virtually].
- Rodrigues, B. & Peruzzo, A. (June, 2021). Real harassment, virtual robots? Comments on Online Harassment geared at Virtual Assistant BIA. Presented at XI ProPesq PP – Encontro Nacional de Pesquisadores em Publicidade e Propaganda. [organized virtually].