Beatrys Rodrigues
she/her
Graduate Student, Department of Communication
Beatrys (Bya) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Field of Communication at Cornell University. She is a Brazilian qualitative researcher interested in technology and gender, focusing on creating worker and creator-led collaborative paths against harassment and labor inequality mediated by digital platforms, as well as investigating decolonial design fiction. She draws on intersectional feminisms, anti-colonial perspectives, and Latin American militant research lenses. Her academic background is rooted in a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing theoretical frameworks from Communication, Science and Technology Studies, and Gender Studies. Additionally, she explores intersections between scientific inquiry through collaborative media-making, documentary filming, and speculative design experiences.
Grants and Fellowships
- QUIRI Small Grants Program, 2024, Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute (QUIRI), Cornell University
- Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students, 2024, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
- Rural Humanities Seminar, 2024, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2022-2025, National Science Foundation
- Media Studies Graduate Grant, 2023, Cornell University
- SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship, 2020, Cornell University
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
- (November, 2023). Disconnected responses to connected vulnerabilities? Experiences of researchers facing networked harassment. Presented at the 24th Annual Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Rodrigues, B. and Hilgartner, S. (November, 2023). ELSI for AI? Emerging Visions of Governing AI in US Institutions. Presented at 4S. Online.
- 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].
- Rodrigues, B. (2024). The politics of media scarcity: by Greg Elmer and Stephen J. Neville, London, New York, Routledge, 2024, 106 pp., US $66.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9781032504681; US $24.29 (ebook), ISBN 9781003398639. Cultural Studies, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2383200
- (2023) Data Feminism - Perspectives for a Data-based Feminist Development Cooperation and Gender Transformative Impacts. Report created for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ - English: German Development Corporation).
- Documentary: FARM GRRRL MOTHERWORT FOLK PUNK (Associate Producer)
- Bazanella, L., Ferraz, I., Mathias, V., Papa, C., Rodrigues, B., Museum of the Absurd, Making and Doing Session at ESOCITE/4S 2022. Cholula, Mexico.
- Documentary: Beyond the Straight and Narrow - Queer and Trans Television in the Age of Streaming (Research Assistant and Motion Design)
- Documentary: SXSW - The Future that Didn't Happen (Script Writer and Associate Producer)
- QUIRI Small Grants Program, 2024, Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute (QUIRI), Cornell University
- Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students, 2024, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
- Rural Humanities Seminar, 2024, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2022-2025, National Science Foundation
- Media Studies Graduate Grant, 2023, Cornell University
- SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship, 2020, Cornell University
- Lourdes Benería Award, 2024, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, 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
Beatrys in the news
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Conference Presentations Research Associate Sarah Gilbert will co-deliver the paper “Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications” at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing conference. While policies...
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Check out our final COMM Updates for the 2023–2024 academic year—and what a year it’s been! We’ll be back in fall 2024. Awards Congratulations to our graduate student award winners! The Outstanding CALS Graduate Teaching Assistant recognizes...